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Various Artists
Every Tone a Testimony
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Special Interest, Pop, R&B

Track Listings (33) - Disc #1
1. Field Call
2. Complaint Call
3. Intro and Kneebone Bend
4. Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas - Amerson, Richard Ma
5. Jack and Mary and Three Dogs
6. Buck Dance - Tucker, Joe
7. I'm Going up North
8. Pharaoh's Host Got Lost
9. Bars Fight - Terry, Lucy
10. Earl of Dartmouth - Wheatley, Phillis
11. I Wonder Where My Brother Gone
12. Narrative - Tubman, Harriet
13. Speech at Akron Convention - Truth, Sojourner
14. Singing Slaves - Douglas, Frederick
15. Steal Away to Jesus
16. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? - Douglas, Frederick
17. Why Slavery Is Still Rampant - Remond, Sarah Parke
18. Free at Last
19. When Malindy Sings - Dunbar, Paul Lauren
20. There's a Great Camp Meeting
21. Atlanta Exposition Address - Washington, Booker
22. John Henry - Traditional
23. Banjo Player - Johnson, Fenton
24. Boatman Dance - Traditional
25. Shine
26. Chopping in the New Ground
27. Lynching, Our National Crime - Wells-Barnett, Ida
28. A Recorded Autobiography
29. Listen Lord, a Prayer - Johnson, James Weld
30. My Heart Is Fixed - Davis, Gary [1]
31. The Titanic - Leadbelly
32. Heritage - Cullen, Countee
33. Jungle Drums
Track Listings (25) - Disc #2
1. No More Auction Block - Traditional
2. The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Hughes, Langston
3. If We Must Die - McKay, Claude
4. Ma Rainey - Brown, Sterling A.
5. Backwater Blues (I Got up One Mornin' Blues) - Broonzy, Big Bill
6. Married Man Blues
7. For My People - Walker, Margaret
8. The Children of the Poor, Sonnet 2 - Brooks, Gwendolyn
9. Body and Soul - Eyton, Frank
10. How He Delivered Me
11. Long Distance Call - Waters, Muddy
12. Cry to Me [Live] - Russell, Bert
13. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
14. Birmingham 1963-Keep Moving
15. Black Panther Party Platform
16. Interview [Excerpt]
17. Together to the Tune of Coltrane's "Equinox"
18. Nikki Rosa
19. Liberation/Poem
20. Dope
21. The Village of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059 - Bluiett, Hamiet
22. For the Poets
23. Shotgun Joe - Golden Eagles
24. St. Louis Woman
25. People Everyday - Arrested Developmen

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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Every Tone a Testimony
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 2/27/2001
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Special Interest, Pop, R&B
Styles: Classic Country, Delta Blues, Traditional Blues, Acoustic Blues, Traditional Folk, Africa, Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews, Soul
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 093074700327

Synopsis

Album Description

This double CD draws upon the collection at the Smithsonian Folkways archive to create a history of African American life and culture in sound- an aural history. Encompassing both the African American oral and literary traditions, these 59 tracks feature an unparalleled assembly of voices in music, oratory, poetry, and prose by historically renowned African American musicians, writers, and activists. The sounds collected here are testimony to the power, creativity, and resilience of Black expressive forms that have received recognition throughout the world. 59 tracks run 2 hours, 27 minutes, 40-page booklet.

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