Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History

Various Artists

Smithsonian 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