Born in the USA ... tell us your favourite songs about America. Photograph: Hector Mata/AFP
So Roy Ayers was right. Everybody does love the sunshine. Last week's blog produced a whopping 350 suggestions. Especial thanks to everyone who endorsed The Adult Net's Waking Up in the Sun. I'd never heard it before and I've been playing it to death all week.
With July 4 around the corner, the theme is America. I think we have at least one reader with a vested interest - am I right, Linsel? - but the rest of us can chip in from this side of the Atlantic. I want songs about the country as a whole, whether literal or metaphorical: its culture, its history and its relationship with the rest of the world.
What I don't want is songs named after specific cities or states, so no California Girls or Wichita Lineman, please. Titles that refer to America or Americans speak for themselves but there are more tangential options. Brian Wilson's Smile is basically a concept album about the country and U2 during their big-hats-in-their-desert phase would also fit the bill. As, no doubt, would more country singers than I could ever imagine.
Deadline for recommendations is Monday 1pm. The archive of previous columns is accessible here, and you can also see an A-Z of every single song that has appeared in the weekly playlists.
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