Besides cameos by Del Rey and Diawara, the LP samples the voices of Gil Scott-Heron and Womack's former boss, Sam Cooke.
Now comes a new opportunity to sample the voice of Mr. Licitra (pronounced lee-CHEE-tra).
One of the standout tracks from Work Songs is "For Mama Lucy," which features a sample of the voice of Leroy Grant, a man who was incarcerated in Mississippi's Parchman Farm prison in the 50s.
That bittersweet piece, which samples the indelible voice of contralto Kathleen Ferrier singing the first line of the folk song "Blow the Wind Southerly," could not be more perfectly matched to the show.
Among the sounds Lighter Shade of Brown sampled in its heyday was the voice of Huggy Boy.
There's also the odd poke at a piano, countless blasts of horns and the voice of Peter Fonda sampled from the biker movie The Wild Angels.
Before you buy or rent the book, see if you can listen to a sample to make sure you like the voice of the person who is reading.
If you have fewer voice actors than characters, you can change the voice of one character simply by adjusting the attributes of the voice sample you already gathered.
It took a community approach to sampling, and thus the voices of a diverse range of community members were heard, including 'hard to reach' groups such as young men.
