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Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers

Track List

Disk 1.
1.Listen  The Negro Speaks of Rivers 0:56
2.Listen  I, Too 0:37
3.Listen  The Atlanta Years Excerpt 3:17
4.Listen  If We Must Die 1:07
5.Listen  St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd 1:00
6.Listen  The Tropics in New York 0:52
7.Listen  The Creation previously unreleased 4:23
8.Listen  We to America previously unreleased 0:38
9.Listen  Nocturne at Bethesda 3:31
10.Listen  Heritage 3:25
11.Listen  Dark Symphony previously unreleased 4:51
12.Listen  Ma Rainey previously unreleased 3:06
13.Listen  Strong Men previously unreleased 3:01
14.Listen  For My People 4:24
15.Listen  Kissie Lee 2:22
16.Listen  The Mother previously unreleased 2:28
17.Listen  Dream Montage: Tell Me, Good Morning; Harlem; Same in Blues; Commen 3:33
18.   We Real Cool (Continued) previously unreleased 0:25
19.Listen  Those Winter Sundays previously unreleased 0:52
20.Listen  Fredrick Douglass previously unreleased 0:56
21.Listen  Sepia Fashion Show 0:49
22.Listen  To a Man 1:03
23.Listen  Freedon Suite previously unreleased / For Sonny Rollins and Franz Kline 2:32
24.Listen  Crusoe's Island previously unreleased 4:51
25.Listen  Dahomey previously unreleased 2:08
26.Listen  In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. previously unreleased 1:33
27.Listen  Run Nigger 1:12
28.Listen  Admonitions 1:06
29.Listen  Nikki Rosa previously unreleased 1:01
30.Listen  A Dance for Militant Dilettantes 1:28
31.Listen  Dear John, Dear Coltrane previously unreleased 2:33
32.Listen  Rueben, Rueben previously unreleased 1:15
33.Listen  My House previously unreleased 0:36
34.Listen  Flight to Canada previously unreleased 1:12
35.Listen  Betty's Ball Blues previously unreleased 2:32
36.Listen  Wounded in the House of a Friend previously unreleased / Set No. 2 1:48
37.Listen  Song No. 2 previously unreleased 0:45
38.Listen  A Poem for Players previously unreleased 1:50
Disk 2.
1.Listen  Muhammad Ali at the Ringside, 1985 previously unreleased 6:09
2.Listen  Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane 2:16
3.Listen  The Idea of Ancestry 3:08
4.Listen  Bang, Bang Outishly 1:28
5.   Rhythim Blues 0:23
6.Listen  Shazam Doowah 0:50
7.Listen  The End of Civilization as We Know It previously unreleased 3:22
8.Listen  Cruelty (Continued) 0:40
9.Listen  Lucy (Pt. 6) (Continued) 1:46
10.Listen  Endangered Species List Blues With the Firespitter Band 2:53
11.Listen  I Live for My Car 2:48
12.Listen  Nigger Rhythm Rhymes from the Blues Part of Town, Pt. 4 1:10
13.Listen  Lester Leaps In (Continued) 1:07
14.Listen  Poem for Magic 2:25
15.   I Am She previously unreleased 0:24
16.Listen  Tuskegee Airfield previously unreleased 2:14
17.Listen  Facing It previously unreleased 1:09
18.Listen  Venus's-Flytraps previously unreleased 1:37
19.Listen  Rise up Fallen Fighters (Okra Takes up With a Rastafari Man/She ...) 2:47
20.Listen  A Poem to Thrill the Naacp, or a Black Family Moves to the Suburbs previously unreleased 1:13
21.Listen  The Near-Johannesburg Boy (Continued) 3:00
22.Listen  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 3:06
23.Listen  Helen previously unreleased 0:34
24.Listen  Helen and Martha previously unreleased 0:38
25.   Martha and Helen previously unreleased 0:25
26.Listen  1962: My Brother Richard Returns from the Monastery previously unreleased 0:35
27.Listen  Shakespeare Say previously unreleased 1:43
28.Listen  After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time ... 1:31
29.Listen  Jamal's Lamentation previously unreleased 0:40
30.Listen  Self Portrait, 1988 previously unreleased 0:31
31.Listen  Barbie's Little Sister previously unreleased 2:17
32.Listen  The Slaughter previously unreleased 2:16
33.Listen  Nocturne previously unreleased 1:06
34.Listen  Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos 6:25
35.Listen  Project Princess previously unreleased 2:03
36.Listen  Ohm 1:05
37.Listen  No Black Male Show 7:41