Cd1
01. Margaret Carter / I want plenty grease in my frying pan (0:02:44.84)
02. Margaret Carter / Come get me papa, before I faint (0:02:50.42)
03. Margaret Johnson / Mama, papa don't wanna come home (0:03:18.09)
04. Margaret Johnson / Who'll chop your Suey (0:03:24.53)
05. Mamie Smith / Crazy blues (0:03:27.66)
06. Buddy Boy Hawkins / Snatch it back blues (0:03:04.04)
07. Ora Brown / Twe twa twa blues (0:02:56.14)
08. Ethel Ridley / Memphis Tennessee (0:03:08.84)
09. Ora Alexander / You've got something to save that thing (0:03:13.24)
10. Jed Davenport & his Beale Street Jug Band / Save me some (0:02:50.14)
11. Big Bill Broonzy & Memphis Slim / Conversation with the blues (0:02:36.48)
12. Lucille Bogan / Kind Stella blues (0:02:42.78)
13. Lucille Bogan / Chirpin' the blues (0:02:44.84)
14. Alberta Hunter / Chirping the blues (0:03:05.57)
15. Charley Patton / Pea vine blues (0:03:05.02)
16. Charley Patton / Magnolia blues (0:03:04.28)
17. Viola McCoy / Chirpin' the blues (0:03:05.02)
18. Bessie Smith / Sorrowful blues (0:03:21.66)
19. Charlie Manson / Nineteen women blues (0:03:06.97)
20. Mamie Smith & her Jazz Hounds / Fare thee honey blues (0:02:44.76)
21. Robert Johnson / Walkin' blues (0:02:31.05)
22. Goodbye rider (0:03:06.94)
23. Luke Jordan / My gal's done quit me (0:03:01.22)
24. Luella Miller / Frisco blues (0:02:49.78)
25. Alberta Hunter / He's a darn good man (0:02:54.85)
26. Willie Brown / Future blues (0:03:00.76)
Cd2
01. Flo Bert / Don't take away those blues (0:03:28.85)
02. Julia Moody / Good man Sam (0:03:18.36)
03. Robert Wilkins / Rolling stone part 1 (0:02:54.36)
04. Anna Meyers & the original Memphis Five / 'Taint nobody's biz-iness if I do (0:03:08.53)
05. Mississippi John Hurt / nobody's dirty business (0:02:54.81)
06. Bert Williams / It's nobody's dirty business bu my own (0:02:49.17)
07. Martha Copeland / The penetrating blues (0:03:24.66)
08. Fanny May Goosby / Grievous blues (0:03:12.93)
09. Blind Willie McTell / Broke down engine blues (0:03:07.86)
10. Leona Williams / Uncle Bud (Bugle Blues) (0:03:10.62)
11. Tampa Red / Uncle Bud (dog-gone him) (0:02:40.68)
12. Texas Alexander / Penitentiary moan blues (0:03:08.42)
13. Mamie Smith & The Harlem Trio / Kansas City man Blues (0:03:20.93)
14. Clara Smith / Kansas City man Blues (0:03:24.61)
15. Texas Alexander / Levee camp moan blues (0:03:08.97)
16. Leadbelly / I'm all out and down (0:05:23.60)
17. Edna Winston / I got a mule to ride (0:03:14.28)
18. Kokomo Arnold / The mule laid down and died (0:02:55.44)
19. Clara Smith / For sale (Hannah Johnson's jack-ass (0:03:02.62)
20. Bertha 'Chippie' Hill / Low land blues (0:02:49.62)
21. Charley Lincoln / Jealous hearted blues (0:03:37.72)
22. Ma Rainey & her Georgia Jazz Band / Jealous hearted blues (0:03:12.66)
23. Lena Wislon & The Jazz Masters / The wicked fives blues (0:02:59.70)
24. Ma Stafford & her jazz band / Strut miss Lizzie (0:02:40.74)
25. Whistler & his jug band / Vamps of '28' (0:02:45.93)
Cd3
01. Papa Charlie Jackson / Salty dog blues (0:03:06.56)
02. Clara Smith / Salty dog blues (0:03:25.50)
03. Kokomo Arnold / Salty dog blues (0:02:50.32)
04. Papa Charlie Jackson / Mister man part 2 (0:02:45.90)
05. Daisy Martin & Five Jazz Bell Hops / Spread yo' stuff (0:02:50.85)
06. Furry Lewis / Black gypsy blues (0:02:49.76)
07. Sara Martin & Clarence Williams Blue Five / Eagle rock me papa (0:02:51.14)
08. Virginia Liston / Sally Long blues (0:03:01.22)
09. Essie Whitman & The Jazz Masters / If you don't believe I love you (0:02:56.60)
10. Henry Thomas / Bull-doze blues (0:03:26.13)
11. Ishmon Bracey / Trouble hearted blues (0:03:23.96)
12. Memphis Jug Band / Stealin' stealin ' (0:02:58.13)
13. Edna Hicks / Squawkin' the blues (0:03:12.25)
14. Edna Hicks & Porter Grainger's Sawin' Three / Hard luck blues (0:02:44.76)
15. Sleepy John Estes / Drop down mama (0:03:11.34)
16. Monette Moore / Gulf coast blues (0:03:07.34)
17. Edna Hicks & Porter Grainger's Sawing Three / Poor me blues (0:03:13.78)
18. Hound Head Henry / Cryin' blues (0:03:00.89)
19. Charley Patton / Poor me (0:03:00.16)
20. Walter Davis / M&O blues no. 3 (My baby called the police) (0:02:50.32)
21. Ma Rainey & her Georgia Jazz Band / Booze & blues (0:03:10.54)
22. Charley Patton / Tom Rushen blues (0:03:08.08)
23. George Williams / A woman gets tired of one man all the time (0:03:08.30)
24. Stovepipe no. 1 / A woman gets tired of one man all the time (0:03:15.06)
25. Ida Cox w. Lovie Austin & her Blues Serenaders / Blues ain't nothin' else (0:03:12.78)
26. Robert Johnson / Preachin' blues (0:02:52.48)
Cd4
01. 'Jackson' Jow Williams / Haven't seen no whiskey (0:03:26.65)
02. Bessie Tucker / Mean old master blues (0:03:05.60)
03. Esther Bigeou / Stingaree blues (A down home blues) (0:03:04.41)
04. Mary H. Bradford / Waco Texas blues (0:02:48.10)
05. Papa Harvey Hull / Hey lawdy mama - the France blues (0:03:01.74)
06. Coot Grant & Wesley Wilson / Find me at the Greasy Spoon (0:02:59.70)
07. Grant & Wilson / Scoop it (0:02:44.82)
08. Blind Willie McTell / Mama let me scoop for you (0:03:09.28)
09. Butterbeans & Susie / Bow legged papa (0:03:08.53)
10. Ida Cox w. Lovie Austin & her Blues Serenaders / How can I miss you when I've got dead aim (0:02:43.16)
11. Will Bennett / Railroad Bill (0:02:59.41)
12. Martha Copeland / Hard headed mama (0:03:06.84)
13. Viola McCoy / 'Git' going (0:02:39.61)
14. Lucille Hegamin & her Blue Flame Syncopators / He may be your man (but he comes to see me sometimes) (0:03:10.82)
15. Sam Collins / Devil in the lion's den (0:02:43.68)
16. Edna Hicks / Uncle Sam blues (0:02:57.70)
17. Alberta Hunter / Everybody mess around (0:03:19.62)
18. Barbecue Bob / Twistin' your stuff (0:03:12.78)
19. Trixie Smith / Don't shake it nomore (0:03:02.68)
20. Memphis Jug Band / Fourth Street mess around (0:03:19.06)
21. Rosa Henderson / How come you do me like you do (0:03:17.50)
22. Clifford Gibson / Beat your doing it (0:03:10.56)
23. Viola McCoy / Slow up papa (0:02:27.14)
24. Barbecue Bob / Honey you're going too fast (0:03:02.56)
25. Rosa Henderson / Penitentiary bound blues (0:02:59.00)
26. Blind Willie McTell / Death cell blues (0:03:08.93)