| # | Artist | Track | Album / Comment |
|---|
| 1 | London Symphony Orchestra, dir Michael Tilson Thomas | The Star Spangled Banner (arr. I. Stravinsky) | Stravinsky in America |
| 2 | Radiohead | The National Anthem | Kid A |
| 3 | Kronos Quartet | Charles Ives: "They Are There! (Fighting for the People's New Free World)" | Black Angels |
| 4 | Darcy James Argue's Secret Society | The Perils of Empire | Live (7/6/06) |
| 5 | Anti-Social Music | John Wriggle: "...Hero Cops and Olympic Gold" (SymphonASM No. 1) | ...Sings the Great American Songbook |
| 6 | Gutbucket | Dry Humping the American Dream | Dry Humping the American Dream |
| 7 | Marylin Cooper, Chita Rivera, et al. | West Side Story: "America" | West Side Story: Original Broadway Cast Recording |
| 8 | Sufjan Stevens | The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders | Come On, Feel the Illinoise! |
| 9 | Joe Hisaishi & The New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra | Gershwin: "American in Paris" | American in Paris |
| 10 | Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong | The Real Ambassador | Ken Burns' Jazz: Dave Brubeck |
| 11 | Royal Scottish National Orchestra, dir Marin Alsop | Michael Torke: "An American Abroad" | Naxos Records |
| 12 | New York Philharmonic, dir Leonard Bernstein | Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 3, Mvmt 4 | Bernstein Century |
| 13 | Mingus Big Band | Meditations for a Pair of Wirecutters | Blues & Politics |
| 14 | Columbia Symphony Orchestra, dir Leonard Bernstein | Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue | Bernstein Century |
