This collection is the companion to ALC1256 (‘Very Best of /Ol’ Man River’) and focuses more on his ‘Songs of struggle’ and on Spirituals and Lullabies.  Paul Robeson once said: ‘The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery’.

Tracklisting:
1. Summertime (Porgy and Bess)
- New Mayfair Orchestra / Greenwood
2. Carry me Back to Green Pastures (Pepper)
- Orchestra / Ray Noble
3. Were You There when they Crucified my Lord? (trad. spritual)
4. By and By (trad. spritual)   
5. John Henry (trad., arr. Johnson)
- Lawrence Brown (piano)
6. Joe Hill (Robinson, Hayes)
- Lawrence Brown (piano)
7. The Peat-Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten, arr. Eisler)
- Lawrence Brown
8. Kevin Barry (anon. Irish)
9. Native Land  (Donayevsky)
- Lawrence Brown (piano)
10. The Four Insurgent Generals (anon. Spanish Civil War)
11. Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don (Dzerzhinsky)
- Lawrence Brown
12. Killing Song (Sanders of the River) (Spoliansky, Wimperis)
13. Congo Lullaby (Sanders of the River) (Spoliansky, Wimperis)
14. At Dawning (Cadman)
15. Didn’t my Lord Deliver Daniel? (trad. spiritual)
16. Steal Away to Jesus (trad. spiritual)
17. St. Louis Blues (Handy)
- Orchestra / Ray Noble
18. Mah Lindy Lou (Strickland)
- Orchestra / Ray Noble
19. Cradle Song (Gretchaninov)
- Lawrence Brown (piano)
20. Passing By (Purcell, Herrick)
- Lawrence Brown, piano
21. Lazin’ (from Big Fella)
- Orchestra / Eric Ansell
22. Thora (Weatherley, Adams)
- Orchestra / Walter Goehr
23. Love At My Heart (Graves, arr.Wood)
- Orchestra / Walter Goehr
24. Encantadora Maria (Kilyeni)
- Orchestra / Ronnie Munro
25. Ebenezer (The Proud Valley)
- with male chorus
26. All Men are Brothers / Ode to Joy (Beethoven, Schiller)
27. Song of the Plains (Red Army Song) (arr.Knipper)
- Lawrence Brown
28.  The Soviet Anthem (edited)
- with chorus
29. Jerusalem (Blake)