English-American colonial era popular song. From the album Music for the Colonial Band. Colonial Band of Boston. Recorded in 1976. Folkways records.

Track 2: "My Dolly Was The Fairest Thing." by Colonial Band of Boston.

From the album A Colonial Christmas by Early Music New York. 2009

Track 3: "Portuguese Hymn" by Early Music New York

Liberian traditional song by St. Peter's Lutheran Kpelle Chior of Monrovia, Liberia. (1989) From the CD accompanying the book "Music in West Africa."

Track 4: "Ku Kelee Be Li (We All Are Going)" by St. Peter's Lutheran Kpelle Chior. Monrovia, Liberia

Recorded from YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aq66E7aX2w  A wonderful filmed performance of unknown origin.

Track 1: "I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive." by John Lee Hooker

From the album "Tallahassee Ceremonial Ground of the Mvskoke Nation."

Track 7: "Stomp Dance" led by John Proctor (Mvskoke)

Track 8: "Stomp Dance" led by Thomas Yahola (Mvskoke)

Track 9: "Shotgun" by Junior Walker and the All Stars

Excerpt from YouTube. The late Jim Pepper was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and singer of Native American (Kaw and Mvskoke) ancestry. 

Track 10: "Goin' Down to Muscogee Town" by Jim Pepper

From the album "Give My Poor Heart Ease." A William Ferris compilation of recordings.

Track 11: "One Drop." by Reverend Isaac Thomas

"Thank you for coming" speech, representative of the kind of speech given at a traditional ceremonial event. Andrew Alexander, speaker, October 24, 2002. English translation included. From the CD accompanying the book Beginning Creek, by Innes, Alexander, and Tilkens. U of Ok. Press. 2004.

Track 12:"Thank you for coming." by Andrew Alexander (Mvskoke)

From the book Beginning Creek, by Innes, Alexander, and Tilkens. U of Ok. Press. 2004

Mvskoke Christian Song by Linda Alexander

Christian Mvskoke hymn "Hesaketvmeset Likes." Egachatee Films. Accessed from Youtube on 02/06/2013 at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DFruKoLdik Uploaded Feb. 7, 2007.

Track 13: "Hesaketvmeset Likes." by Hutchee Chubba Indian Baptist Church (Mvskoke)

Hosianna Moravian Harmonists. 1999 recording. Uploaded December 27, 2010. Accessed from YouTube, 02/06/2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb1ATiFHB-k

Track 14: "Hosianna." by Buudingen Children's Choir

Recorded September 12, 1959 in Fyffe, Alabama. From the CD "Southern Journey: Brethren, We Meet Again." Southern White Spirituals: Volume 4. Rounder Records.

Track 15: "Sardinia (No. 296)" by the Alabama Sacred Heart Singers, led by Jesse Dryden.

Recorded by Pete and Toshi Seeger in the late 1950's. 

Track 16: "Singing Fishermen of Ghana"

Track 17: "Spanish Ladies." 18th Century English Sea Shanty.

Recorded by Pete and Toshi Seger. "Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison."  

Track 18: "Let Your Hammer Ring." Unknown Prisoners.

Cherokee harvest song from North Carolina.

Track 19: "Corn Dance Song." by Walker Calhoun

This page functions to present musical samples supporting the theory that Native American music of the Southeastern U.S. influenced African-American slave music and it's descendants. It is the creation of James (Jimi) Del Duca, a graduate student of Native American Studies/American Studies, at Montana State University in Bozeman Montana.

NativeAm-AfroAmMusicRoots

Popular tracks