Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

Various Artists
Smithsonian/Folkways
Spoken Word | Mar 2001

Recent airplay

Why Slavery Is Still Rampant, What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?, Steal Away To Jesus, Singing Slaves, Speech at Akron Convention, Narrative, I Wonder Where My Brother Gone, Earl of Dartmouth
The Struggle
Black Panther Party Platform
Birmingham 1963, Keep Moving

Track listing

1. The Struggle
2. Field Call
3. Complaint Call
4. Intro And Kneebone Bend
5. Brother Terrapin, Slow Train To Arkansas - Amerson, Richard Ma
6. Jack and Mary and Three Dogs
7. Buck Dance
8. I'm Goin' Up North
9. Pharaoh's Host Got Lost
10. Bars Fight
11. Earl of Dartmouth
12. I Wonder Where My Brother Gone
13. Narrative
14. Speech at Akron Convention
15. Singing Slaves
16. Steal Away To Jesus
17. What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?
18. Why Slavery Is Still Rampant
19. Free at Last
20. When Malindy Sings
21. There's a Great Camp Meeting
22. Atlanta Exposition Address
23. John Henry
24. Banjo Player
25. Boatman Dance
26. Shine
27. Chopping in the New Ground
28. Lynching, Our National Crime
29. A Recorded Autobiography
30. Listen Lord, a Prayer
31. My Heart Is Fixed
32. The Titanic
33. Heritage
34. Jungle Drums
35. No More Auction Block
36. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
37. If We Must Die
38. Ma Rainey
39. Backwater Blues
40. Married Man Blues
41. For My People
42. The Children of the Poor
43. Body and Soul
44. How He Delivered Me
45. Long Distance Call
46. Cry to Me
47. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn
48. Birmingham 1963-KEEP Moving
49. Black Panther Party Platform
50. Interview
51. Together to the Tune of Colt
52. Nikki-Rosa
53. Liberation/Poem
54. Dope
55. The Village of Brooklyn, Ill
56. For the Poets
57. Shotgun Joe
58. St. Louis Woman
59. People Everyday