God Bless America (charity album) performed a new arrangement of "God Bless America" on the telethon "". The recorded version of this, done the day before the telethon in the event something happened and Dion could not appear, became the title track of this compilation. It, along with a live acoustic performance by John Mellencamp, were the only tracks on the album not to have been previously released. The selections ranged over many decades, with recordings being used going back to 1945. The span of material was quite large; the album included "This Land Is Your Land", which Woody Guthrie had written in annoyed reaction
God Bless Miss Black America produced by Julia Kidd and Daisy Metz. Five tracks from the album were released as single, they were; All five were included in two of John Peel's Festive Fiftys. ""Don't Speak My Mind"" and ""Human Punk"" were included in the 2001 list, placed at number 42 and number 14 respectively, while ""Infinite Chinese Box"", ""Miss Black America"" and ""Talk Hard"" were placed at 45, 11 and 3 respectively in the 2002 list. The album has been described as a ""fast 'n' hard sonic pummelling"", and that ""much of God Bless sounds like the more mature Manic Street Preachers playing U2's