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Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History
2001

CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 The Struggle 0:22
2 Field Call 1:19
3 Complaint Call 0:44
4 Intro and Kneebone Band 2:56
5 Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas 2:01
6 Jack and Mary and Three Dogs 5:55
7 Buck Dance 1:22
8 I'm Goin up North 1:27
9 Pharaoh's Host Got Lost 1:36
10 Lucy Terry: Bars Fight 1:27
11 Phillis Wheatley: Earl of Dartmouth 0:52
12 I Wonder Where My Brother Gone 1:21
13 Harriet Tubman: Narrative 1:03
14 Sojourner Truth: Speech at Akron Convention 2:09
15 Frederick Douglass: Singing Slaves 1:04
16 Steal Away to Jesus 1:54
17 Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? 2:40
18 Sarah Parker Remond: Why Slavery Is Still Rampant 1:50
19 Free at Last 1:38
20 Paul Laurence Dunbar: When Malindy Sings 3:50
21 There's a Great Camp Meeting 2:06
22 Atlanta Exposition Address 1:17
23 John Henry 4:07
24 Fenton Johnson: Banjo Player 0:45
25 Boatman Dance 1:48
26 Shine 1:07
27 Chopping in the New Ground 1:41
28 Ida B Wells-Barnett: Lynching, Our National Crime 3:48
29 A Recorded Autobiography 2:38
30 James Weldon Johnson: Listen Lord, a Prayer 2:57
31 My Heart Is Fixed 2:08
32 The Titanic 4:08
33 Heritage 2:59
34 Jungle Drums 2:33
Total time 71:32
CD 2
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 No More Auction Block 2:14
2 The Negro Speaks of Rivers 0:47
3 If We Must Die 1:02
4 Ma Rainey 2:06
5 Backwater Blues 2:51
6 Married Man Blues 5:15
7 For My People 5:45
8 The Children of the Poor, Sonnet 2 0:51
9 Body and Soul 3:51
10 How He Delivered Me 2:43
11 Long Distance Call 7:00
12 Cry to Me 2:17
13 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around 2:35
14 Birmingham 1963: Keep Moving 3:46
15 Black Panther Party Platform 3:03
16 Interview (excerpt) 1:06
17 Together to the Tune of Coltrane's "Equinox" 1:42
18 Nikki-Rosa 1:17
19 Liberation/poem 0:39
20 Dope 4:49
21 The Village of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059 3:35
22 For the Poets 3:58
23 Shotgun Joe 5:23
24 St. Louis Woman 1:27
25 People Everyday 3:27
Total time 73:31



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