Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural HistoryVarious ArtistsInitial release : 2001Smithsonian Folkways A double CD release. One track was recorded by Mike Seeger.
Tracks / Musicians
- The Struggle - Langston Hughes
- Field Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson
- Complaint Call - Enoch Brown
- Intro and Knee Bend - Lawrence McKiver and Doretha Skipper
- Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas - Rich Amerson
- Jack and Mary and Three Dogs - Janie Hunter
- Buck Dance (excerpt) - Joe Tucker and Scott Dunbar
- I'm Goin' Up North - Children of East York School
- Pharaoh's Host Got Lost - Lawrence McKiver
- Bars Fight - Arna Bontemps
- Earl of Dartmouth (excerpt) - Dorothy E. Washington
- I Wonder Where My Brother Gone - Annie Grace Horn Dodson
- Narrative (excerpt) - Dorothy F. Washington
- Speech at Akron Convention - Ruby Dee
- Singing Slaves - Ossie Davis
- Steal Away to Jesus - Kinsey West
- What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (excerpt) - Ossie Davis
- Why Slavery is Still Rampant (excerpt) - Ruby Dee
- Free At Last - Dock Reed and Vera Hall
- When Malindy Sings - Margaret Walker
- There's A Great Camp Meeting - Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Atlanta Exposition Address - Booker T. Washington
- John Henry - Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
- Banjo Player - Arna Bontemps
- Boatman Dance - Elizabeth Cotten
- Shine - Percy Randolph
- Chopping in the New Ground - Inmates of Ramsey or Retrieve State Farms
- Lynching, Our National Crime - Ruby Dee
- A Recorded Autobiography - W.E.B. DuBois and Moses Asch
- Listen Lord, A Prayer - Margaret Walker
- My Heart is Fixed - Reverend Gary Davis
- The Titanic - Lead Belly
- Heritage - Countee Cullen
- Jungle Drums - James P. Johnson
- No More Auction Block - Paul Robeson
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Langston Hughes
- If We Must Die - Claude McKay
- Ma Rainey - Sterling A. Brown
- Backwater Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
- Married Man Blues - Billie and De De Pierce
- For My People - Margaret Walker
- The Children of the Poor, Sonnet 2 - Gwendolyn Brooks
- Body and Soul - George "Big Nick" Nicholas, John Miller, and Dave Jackson
- How He Delivered Me - Juanita Johnson and the Gospel Tones
- Long Distance Calls - Muddy Waters and Otis Spann
- Cry To Me - Solomon Burke, Marc Ribot, and the Realtones
- Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around - The Freedom Singers
- Birmingham 1963 - Keep Moving - Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Black Panther Party Platform - Bobby Seale
- Interview (excerpt) - Angela Davis
- Together to the Tune of Coltrane's "Equinox" (excerpt) - Sarah Webster Fabio, Wayne Wallace, and Ronald Fabio
- Nikki-Rosa - Nikki Giovanni
- liberation/poem - Sonia Sanchez
- Dope - Imamu Amiri Baraka
- The Village of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059 (excerpt) - Hamiet Bluiett
- For the Poets - Jayne Cortez
- Shotgun Joe - The Golden Eagles
- St. Louis Woman - Ishmael Reed
- People Everyday - Arrested Development
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