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Africa: Drum, Chant & Instrumental Music ©Elektra/Asylum, 1990


1. "Hausa Street Music"
2. "Bounkam Solo"
3. "Kountougi Solo"
4. "Djerma Dundun Drummer"
5. "Tuareg Medicinal Chant"
6. "Lodagaa Wiiks and Gulu"
7. "Songhay Kombi and Ettebel"
8. "Kouco Solo"
9. "Songhay Gulu Drummer"

African Chants and Harmonies ©Rerooted, 2003


1. "Hlabelela"
2. "Thula Baba"
3. "Siya Vuma"
4. "Shango"
5. "Ngongonyana"
6. "Meropa"
7. "Khulumani"
8. "I Hear the Sound"
9. "Silaphanje"
10. "Tshaka Boom Boom"

Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs & Ballads ©Rounder, 1998


1. "Trouble So Hard"
2. "Choose Your Seat and Set Down"
3. "Handwriting on the Wall"
4. "The New Burying Ground"
5. "Lead Me to the Rock"
6. "The Blood-Stained Banders"
7. "Run, Old Jeremiah"
8. "Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos"
9. "Long Hot Summer Days"
10. "Long John"
11. "Jumpin' Judy"
12. "Rosie"
13. "I'm Going to Leland"
14. "Jumping Judy"
15. "Look Down That long, Lonesome Road"
16. "The Grey Goose"
17. "John Henry"

Atlanta Blues ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1966


1. "Motherless Child"
2. "She's Gone Blues"
3. "Easy Rider, Don't You Deny My Name"
4. "Old Rock Island Blues"
5. "Boogie Woogie Blues"
6. "Death Cell Blues"
7. "Broke Down Engine"
8. "Country Breakdown"
9. "Mojo Blues"
10. "Please Ma'am"
11. "Beaver Slide Rag"
12. "Sundown Blues"
13. "Hard Road Blues"
14. "Daddy Don't Care"

Before the Blues, Vol. 1 ©Yazoo, 1996


1. "Bamalong Blues"
2. "Run, Mollie, Run"
3. "Lonesome Road Blues"
4. "Jackson Stomp"
5. "On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand"
6. "Mississippi Jail House Groan"
7. "Forked Deer"
8. "Bye Bye Baby Blues"
9. "Pretty Polly"
10. "Soft Steel Piston"
11. "Two White Horse in a Line"
12. "Jamestown Exhibition [Instrumental]"
13. "Dupree Blues"
14. "France Blues"
15. "Dying Mother and Her Child"
16. "John Hardy"
17. "Wayward Girl Blues"
18. "Newport Blues"
19. "Tom Sherman's Barroom"
20. "Stack O'Lee Blues"
21. "Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues"
22. "I'll Go With Her Blues"
23. "Christian Soldiers"

Before the Blues, Vol. 2 ©Yazoo, 1996


1. "Dallas Rag"
2. "How Long"
3. "Skin Game Blues"
4. "K.C. Moan"
5. "Just a Spoonful"
6. "Doggone My Good Luck"
7. "There's a Brown Skin Girl Down the road Somewhere"
8. "You're Going to Leave the Old Home, Jim"
9. "Deep Blue Sea Blues"
10. "Cold Morning Shout"
11. "Been Listening All the Day"
12. "Mississippi Boweavil Blues"
13. "I'll Lead a Christian Life"
14. "The Old Folks Started It"
15. "Vine Street Drag"
16. "Nobody's Fault But Mine"
17. "Last Kind Words Blues"
18. "Guitar Stomp"
19. "Jakc O'Diamond Blues"
20. "Reuben Oh Reuben"
21. "Memphis Stomp"
22. "On the Wall"
23. "Roving Cowboy"

Before the Blues, Vol. 3 ©Yazoo, 1996


1. "Frisco Town"
2. "Spike Driver Blues"
3. "Feather Blues"
4. "Fox and the Hound"
5. "A Lazy Farmer Boy"
6. "Pick Poor Robin Clean"
7. "Nappy Head Blues"
8. "Sourwood Mountain"
9. "Levee Camp Moan Blues"
10. "John Henry Blues"
11. "Coming to Christ"
12. "House Carpenter"
13. "Furniture Man"
14. "Alabama Strut"
15. "Kassie Jones, Pt. 1"
16. "Thousands Woman Blues"
17. "Champaign Charlie Is My Name"
18. "Molly Man"
19. "Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon"
20. "Little Birdie"
21. "Black Skunk Blues"
22. "Drunkard's Special"
23. "Easy Winner"

Black American Religious Music From S.E. Georgia ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1983


1. "Sweet Jesus"
2. "Gospel"
3. "Lord is Blessing Me Right Now"
4. "Jesus, I'm Thankful"
5. "Looking for a Home"
6. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"
7. "Balm in Gilead"
8. "Steal Away to Jesus"
9. "Precious Lord, Take My Hand"
10. "Something Within"
11. "My Father Watches Over Me"
12. "I Heard The Voices of Jesus Say"
13. "Come and Go with Me to My Father's House"

Blues - Music from the Documentary Film by Sam Charters ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1967


1. "Alone in the Evening Blues"
2. "Slidin' Delta"
3. "Old Cotton Fields of Home"
4. "John Henry"
5. "Bad Blues"
6. "Sitting Here Thinking"
7. "Lonesome Ground"
8. "If I Could Holler Like a Mountain Jack"
9. "When I First Started Hoboing"
10. "Weeping Willow Blues"

The Bluesville Years, Vol. 6- Blues Sweet Carolina Blues ©Prestige, 1996


1. "Meet Me in the Bottom"
2. "Baby I'm Going Away"
3. "Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night?"
4. "Baby Please Don't Go"
5. "See What You Done Done?"
6. "Baby, You Just Don't Know"
7. "Hey Mama, Hey Pretty Girl"
8. "What Have I Done to You?"
9. "Callin' My Mama"
10. "Ida Mae"
11. "Trucking Them Blues Away"
12. "Lonesome Over There"
13. "Dupree Blues"
14. "That's No Way to Do"
15. "Weeping Willow Blues"
16. "My Baby Left Me This Morning"
17. "Ain't Nobody Home But Me"
18. "The Boy Was Kissing the Girl (And Playing the Guitar at the Same Time)"
19. "Candy Man"
20. "Tell You Women 'Bout Me"
21. "Whiskey Store Blues"
22. "Take These Blues Off My Mind"
23. "One Thing for Sure"

Carolina Blues & Gospel ©Document, 1998


1. "South West Pacific Blues (Hot Cornbread and Blackeyed Peas)"
2. "Wiggle Round Me Baby (Quincey Avenue Boogie/Can't Go On)"
3. "My Baby Blues (Bad and Evil Blues)"
4. "The Wide Boogie (House of Love)"
5. "I'll Water You Every Day"
6. "Bigheaded Woman"
7. "Big Moose Blues (Double Crossin' Blues)"
8. "Talking Boogie (Talkin' Blues/Release Me Baby)"
9. "I Wonder Who's Holding You"
10. "Mama Blues"
11. "I Got What My Daddy Likes"
12. "Let's Do the Boogie Woogie"
13. "Straighten Them Out"
14. "Another Woman's Man"
15. "I'll Ride on a Cloud With My Lord"
16. "Our Father Loves His son"
17. "Beer Bottle Boogie"
18. "Uneasy Blues"
19. "I Want to Die Easy"
20. "I Really Believe"
21. "The New Gospel Street"
22. "If You Only Knew"
23. "Mother Dear"
24. "The Lord's Gospel Train"
25. "Rumors of War"
26. "Life Was a Burden"

Carolina Gospel Quartets ©Document, 1996


1. "Lily of the Valley (I Want You To Move) - Spartanburg Famous Four"
2. "Go Where I Send Thee - Spartanburg Famous Four"
3. "I Know My Time Ain't Long - Spartanburg Famous Four"
4. "Satan, Your Kingdon Must Come Down - Spartanburg Famous Four"
5. "John, Don't You Write No More - Spartanburg Famous Four"
6. "Can You Make I to the City - Spartanburg Famous Four"
7. "Do You Call that Religion - Spartanburg Famous Four"
8. "John Wrote the Revelations - Spartanburg Famous Four"
9. "How Can You Talk About Other People? - Spartanburg Famous Four"
10. "The Graveyard Is Waiting on Poor Me - Spartanburg Famous Four"
11. "Anybody in Heaven that You Know - Spartanburg Famous Four"
12. "When that First Trumpet Sounds - Spartanburg Famous Four"
13. "New Burying Ground - Shelby Gospel Four"
14. "How About You? - Shelby Gospel Four"
15. "Lord Have Mercy - Shelby Gospel Four"
16. "Take Your Burden to the Lord - Shelby Gospel Four"
17. "What are They Doing in Heaven, Today? - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
18. "I Can Tell the World About This - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
19. "You Better Run on - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
20. "Go Where I Send Thee - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
21. "My Good Lord Done Been Here - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
22. "Sit Down Child - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
23. "I Am in His Care - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
24. "Take My Hand and Lead Me on - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"

Carolina Gospel Quartets, Vol. 2 ©Document, 1997


1. "Good News, the Chariot is Coming"
2. "Lord Send Thee"
3. "Is Your Name Signed Down?"
4. "You're Going to Need That Pure Religion"
5. "I See the Sign of Judgement"
6. "Lord, I'm Goin' Through"
7. "Dying Gambler (O Save Me Lord)"
8. "You Can't Go Wrong and Get Bye"
9. "Let the Church Roll On"
10. "Be Ready when He Comes"
11. "Fire Down Yonder"
12. "That's What's the Matter With the Church"
13. "Leanin' on the Lord"
14. "Climbing Up All Day"
15. "Nicodemus"
16. "Hezekiah"
17. "Moses"
18. "The Kings"
19. "Satan"
20. "Noah"

Earliest Negro Vocal Groups, Vol. 3 ©Document, 1995


1. "Anticipatin' Blues"
2. "He took It Away from Me"
3. "I'm Wild About Moonshine"
4. "I Ain't Giving' Nothin' Away"
5. "I'll Be Good, But I'll Be Lonesome"
6. "Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad)"
7. "Hard Trials and Great Tribulation"
8. "My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race"
9. "Hampton Road Blues"
10. "Lullaby Blues"
11. "Gonna Raise Ruckus Tonight"
12. "My Man Rocks Me"
13. "Hey Hey and Hee Hee (I'm Charleston Crazy)"
14. "Moanin' Groanin' Blues"
15. "Dis Train"
16. "The Welcome Table"
17. "The Tree"
18. "Oh! My Soul is a Witness"
19. "Mother's Religion"
20. "The Old Account was Settled"
21. "God Gonna Set This World on Fire"
22. "Shine for Jesus"
23. "Do You Want to Go There?"
24. "Lord, I Want to Be a Christian"

Earliest Negro Vocal Groups, Vol. 4 ©Document, 1997


1. "My Lord's Writing All the Time"
2. "Shout All Over God's Heaven"
3. "We're Walking in the Light"
4. "Little David, Play on Your Harp"
5. "Great Camp Meeting"
6. "My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race"
7. "Oh Mary. Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
8. "Revival Day - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
9. "The Old Arks a Movering - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
10. "Lover of the Jesus - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
11. "King Jesus is a Listening - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
12. "When Jesus Christ was Born - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
13. "I've Been a Sinner All My Life - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
14. "Wait Until I Get on the Road, Oh Yes! Oh Yes! - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
15. "Go Down Moses Way Down in Egypt Land - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
16. "My Time Ain't Long - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
17. "Baseball Blues"
18. "Sweet Mamma (Papa's Getting Mad)"
19. "Norfolk Religion"
20. "Home Again Blues"
21. "Old Pal Why Don't You Answer Me"
22. "'U' Need Some Loving"
23. "My Jazz Girl"
24. "Happy Boy Blues"
25. "Alabama Blues"

Earliest Negro Vocal Groups, Vol. 5 ©Document, 2000


1. "Shout All Over God's Heaven"
2. "Roll Jordan Roll"
3. "All Over This World"
4. "The Great Campmeeting"
5. "Swing Low Sweet Chariot"
6. "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray"
7. "Shout All Over God's Heaven"
8. "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray"
9. "River Over Jordan"
10. "Were You There?"
11. "In'a That Mornin' Oh My Lord"
12. "I Done Done What You Told Me to Do"
13. "You May Carry Me, YouBury Me in the Comin' Day"
14. "Good News, Chariot's Comin'"
15. "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray"
16. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
17. "Shout All Over God's Heaven"
18. "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
19. "My Way is Clouded"
20. "Everytime I Feel the Spirit"
21. "Keep A'Inchin' Along"

The Earliest Negro Vocal Quartets (1894-1928) ©Document, 2000


1. "Keep Movin'"
2. "Down on the Old"
3. "Poor Mourner"
4. "Steal Away"
5. "Gabriel's Trumpet"
6. "We'll Anchor Bye and Bye"
7. "The Camp Meeting Jubilee"
8. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
9. "Shout All Over God's Heaven"
10. "The Bonnie Blues Flag"
11. "Laughing Song"
12. "What a Time"
13. "The Watermelon Party"
14. "Rise and Shine"
15. "The Old Time Religion"
16. "Jerusalem Mornin'"
17. "Oh What He's Done for Me"
18. "Watermelon Party"
19. "Bohunkus and Josephus"
20. "Oyster and Wine at 2 A.M."
21. "Pussy Cat Rag"
22. "When the Corn Pone's Hot"
23. "No Hiding Place"

Field Recordings, Vol. 1- Virginia (1936-1941) ©Document, 1998


1. ""Twas on a Monday"
2. "Oh Lawd, Don't 'Low Me to Beat 'Em"
5. "Can't You Line 'Em"
6. "Laying Rail Chant, Pts. 1 & 2"
10. "Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers)"
12. "John Henry"
13. "Freight Train Blues"
14. "Keep Away from the Bloodstained Banner"
15. "Tennessee Dog"
20. "Corn - Shucking Time"
24. "House Done Built Without Hands"
27. "Do, Lord, Remember Me"
28. "Poontang Little, Poontang Small"
30. "I'll Go On"
31. "Rise, Run Along, Mourner (The Man was Burning)"
32. "Oh Jesus, Let Me Ride"
34. "Blues"

Field Recordings, Vol. 2- North Carolina And South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas (1926-1943) ©Document, 1998


1. "Prison Blues"
2. "Let's Go to Bury"
3. "Do You Call That Religion"
4. "Travelin' to That New Buryin' Ground"
5. "Look Down That Lonesome Road"
6. "Blackberries Flowers"
7. "Deep Down in My Heart"
9. "Finger Ring"
11. "Glory to God, My Son Come Home"
16. "John Henry"
17. "Fandango"
22. "Bottle it Up and Go"
25. "Smithy Rag"
26. "Jumpin' Judy"
27. "Track-Linging Song"
29. "Jumpin' Judy"
30. "Rock Island Line"

Field Recordings, Vol. 3- Mississippi (1936-1942) ©Document, 1998


1. "Calling Trains"
2. "Lead Me to the Rock"
3. "Rosie (Big Leg Rosie)"
4. "Mississippi Sounding Calls [A-1]"
5. "Mississippi Sounding Calls [B-1]"
6. "Arwhoolie (Cornfield Holler)"
7. "Oh, the Sun's Goin' Down and I Won't Be Here Long (Quittin' Time Song)"
9. "Heaving the Lead Line (Calls and Song to Pilot)"
10. "Little Girl, Little Girl"
11. "(Jes' A) Pullin' the Skiff"
13. "The Keghouse Blues"
14. "Interview: How Long, Pts. 1 & 2"
15. "The Worried Life Blues"
23. "Angel Child"