For the fourth of July

Paddlers' Place
#1

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=whitney+houston+sings+the+star+spangled+banner&view=detail&mid=BD7BB2BECEB60340ADC9BD7BB2BECEB60340ADC9&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dwhitney%2Bhouston%2Bsings%2Bthe%2Bstar%2Bspangled%2Bbanner%26form%3DANSPH1%26refig%3D92d6c1428b284afb9bb84b4d60beb890%26pc%3DU531

#2

A special day for John Philip Sousa

#3

You’re reminding me of a uniquely American musician to be remembered on the fourth…

#4

He could definitely play the guitar.
I wonder if Lester Flatt or Earl Scruggs ever recorded something like that?

#5

Not to my knowledge. Tommy Emmanuel does Yankee Doodle and Dixie simultaneously - perhaps learned from Chet Atkins - which might be good music for the fourth, but I don’t know of a good clean recording of it. Just didn’t want to go too far down the rabbit hole looking. Simon & Garfunkel’s Central Park " American Tune" might have a place also…