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