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Ossie Davis: A Voice Ringing O'er the Gale! The Oratory of Frederick Douglass *

1 CD / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 2009-06-30

Tracks: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July; What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July; If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress; Plea for Freedom of Speech, A; Why I Became a Women's Rights Man
Artists: Ossie Davis

Audio Remasterers: Pete Reiniger; Will Chase.

Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Introduction by: Robert H. Cataliotti.

Photographer: Ruby Dee.

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Various Artists: Cowboy Poetry Classics

1 CD / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 2005-08-16

Tracks: Epilogue - Baxter Black; Sierry Petes, The - Gail Steiger/Various Artists; Cowboy's Soliloquy, A - Wallace McRae; Smell of Rain, The - Virginia Bennett; Corrido de Kiansas, El - Various Artists; Cowb...
Artists: Various Artists

Recording information: Baxter Black Home Studio; Chase Home Museum Of Utah Folk Art, Salt Lake City; Gail Steiger Home Studio; KLGT, Buffalo, Wy; Makoche Recording Co., Bismark, ND; Red Stegall Home S...continue...

Various Artists: Songs and Stories from the Grand Canyon [Digipak]

1 CD / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 2005-08-16

Tracks: Deep Canyon, Deep Voices - Hal Cannon; Walk to the Precipice - K. Greer Price/L. Greer Price; Canyon Reflections - Gordon Burt; Grand Canyon Song - Christa Sadler; Songs of the Humpback Chub - Larry ...
Artists: Various Artists

Audio Mixer: Taki Telonidis.

Liner Note Author: Hal Cannon.

Editor: Carla Borden.

Photographers: Susan Alzner; Kevin Martini-Fuller; Hal Cannon; Gustave Baumann; George A. Grant; ...continue...

Sterling A. Brown: The Poetry of Sterling A. Brown

1 CD / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1995-01-25

Tracks: Long Gone; Ma Rainey; Sharecroppers; Slim in Hell; Old King Cotton; Old Lem; Break of Day; Long Track Blues; Transfer; Sporting Beasley; Sam Smiley; After Winter; Conjured; Children's Children; Clote...
Artists: Sterling A. Brown

Solo performer: Sterling A. Brown (spoken vocals).

Producers: Moses Asch, Frederic Ramsey.

Compilation producer: Yusef Jones.

Includes liner notes by Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin and Yuse...continue...

Langston Hughes: The Voice of Langston Hughes *

1 CD / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1995-01-25

Tracks: Negro Speaks of Rivers, The; I, Too; Weary Blues, The; Homesick Blues; Story of the Blues, The; Night and Morn; Breath of a Spiritual; Prayer; Prayer Meeting; Ma Lord; I'm Gonna Testify; Albert; Moth...
Artists: Langston Hughes

Personnel: Langston Hughes (spoken vocals).

The Porter Singers with Reverend Ernest Cook: Ernest Cook, Audrey Ryan, Ellen Courts, Florence Strachen (vocals), Yvonne Cumberbatch (guitar), Carl M...continue...