Table of Contents:
  • Book contents: Schooled in jazz and funk. Kinston area
  • Our roots are here. Goldsboro area
  • Singing in the church house, dancing in the warehouse. Wilson area
  • "O Lord, I'm strivin'." Rocky Mount, Princeville, Tarboro
  • Hear the horns blow. Greenville area
  • The land still sings, an epilogue.
  • CD contents: Monk's dream (6:29) / Thelonious Monk
  • I wish I knew how it would feel to be free (6:34) / Billy Taylor Trio
  • Rueben (4:05) / George Higgs
  • Freedom in the blues (5:45) / Brian Horton Trio
  • RE:born (3:17) / Kam Moye (aka Supastition)
  • My poor mother died a'shoutin' (2:19) / Mitchell's Christian Singers
  • There's nobody else like him (7:21) / Luther Barnes and the Red Budd Gospel Choir
  • America the beautiful (2:50) / arranged by Carroll V. Dashiell, Jr., for the East Carolina University Jazz Ensemble
  • Somerset theme, the children (3:45) / Jeffrey Littlejohn
  • When God is in the building (4:48) / The Anointed Jackson Sisters
  • The love knot (2:22) / Chuck Wells
  • To be or not to be (5:21) / Maceo Parker
  • I will praise him (3:02)
  • Rev. Mal Williams and the United Voices
  • The force (5:31) / The Monitors
  • All in his control (5:17) / Darius Shackleford
  • Dangerous (2:55) / Shirlette Ammons
  • Rough side of the mountain (5:24) / The Reverend F.C. Barnes and Sister Janice Brown.