Five Great Anthems

The pros and amateurs who turned "The Star-Spangled Banner" to gold.

Chris Stapleton sang the best National Anthem in living memory for many people on Sunday. The Super Bowl performance was stripped down, soulful, and as far as we can tell, completely live. There is a long and sordid history of lip-synced Super Bowl performances—even, tragically, that performance by Whitney Houston. (To all my followers who didn’t know T…