100 recordings drawn from the Folk, Blues, Country, Gospel and Rock 'N' Roll traditions which would inspire popular music's greatest troubadour who transformed the template for the modern song
001 - Davis Sisters - I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know (03:00)
002 - Tampa Red - It Hurts Me Too (02:29)
003 - Bo Carter - Corrina, Corrina (03:18)
004 - Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (02:52)
005 - Bob Ross - Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (01:07)
006 - Don Gibson - Oh Lonesome Me (02:33)
007 - Bessie Smith - Backwater Blues (03:19)
008 - Reverend Gary Davis - Cocaine Blues (02:23)
009 - Sleepy John Estes - Someday Baby Blues (03:00)
010 - Bukka White - Fixin' to Die Blues (02:50)
011 - Leroy Carr, Scrapper Blackwell - Alabama Woman Blues (02:53)
012 - Robert Johnson - 32-20 Blues (02:54)
013 - Charley Patton - Pony Blues (03:04)
014 - Leadbelly - Worried Blues (03:09)
015 - Richard Rabbit Brown - James Alley Blues (03:08)
016 - Charlie Poole, The North Carolina Ramblers - White House Blues (03:25)
017 - Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues (02:46)
018 - Blind Blake - You Gonna Quit Me Blues (02:44)
019 - Prairie Ramblers - Deep Elem Blues (03:20)
020 - Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (02:45)
021 - Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues (02:57)
022 - Woody Guthrie - Ramblin' Blues (01:57)
023 - The Stanley Brothers - I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow (02:57)
024 - The Stanley Brothers - Highway of Regret (00:41)
025 - The Stanley Brothers - Little Maggie (02:20)
026 - The Delmore Brothers - Blues Stay Away from Me (02:49)
027 - The Louvin Brothers - Mary of the Wild Moor (03:11)
028 - Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line (02:45)
029 - Hank Snow - I'm Movin' On (02:53)
030 - Hank Williams - I Can't Get You off My Mind (02:50)
031 - Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart (02:46)
032 - Hank Williams - Lost Highway (02:43)
033 - Hank Williams - Half as Much (02:43)
034 - Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil (03:24)
035 - Merle Travis - Dark as a Dungeon (02:46)
036 - Kitty Wells - Making Believe (02:53)
037 - Mississippi Sheiks - Sittin' on Top of the World (03:14)
038 - Mississippi Sheiks - I've Got Blood in My Eyes for You (03:15)
039 - Mississippi Sheiks - The World Is Going Wrong (03:25)
040 - Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie (And Albert) (03:22)
041 - Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd (03:06)
042 - Woody Guthrie - Grand Coulee Dam (02:56)
043 - Woody Guthrie With Pete Seeger - Gypsy Davey (02:53)
044 - Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home (02:46)
045 - Blind Willie McTell - Broken Down Engine (03:06)
046 - Blind Willie McTell - Delia (02:33)
047 - Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks (03:11)
048 - Memphis Minnie - Ma Rainey (02:46)
049 - Elizabeth Cotten - Shake Sugaree (04:58)
050 - Herta Marshall - Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies (02:31)
051 - Joan O'Bryant - The Lily of the West (03:19)
052 - Elvis Presley - That's All Right Mama (01:55)
053 - Gene Vincent - You Belong to Me (02:31)
054 - Gene Vincent - Baby Blue (02:37)
055 - The Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do Is Dream (02:21)
056 - Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town (02:14)
057 - Lonnie Johnson - Tomorrow Night (03:02)
058 - The Ink Spots - We Three (03:19)
059 - Frankie Laine - That Lucky Old Sun (02:56)
060 - Clyde McPhatter - Without Love (There Is Nothing) (02:57)
061 - Harold Dorman - Mountain of Love (02:20)
062 - Al Bowlly - Soon (03:10)
063 - Jimmie Rodgers - My Blue Eyed Jane (02:47)
064 - Doc Pomus - Blues for Sale (02:52)
065 - Robert Johnson - Come on in My Kitchen #1 (02:53)
066 - Leadbelly - Frankie and Albert (04:06)
067 - Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (03:24)
068 - Sleepy John Estes - Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too (03:19)
069 - Blind Boy Fuller - Mama Let Me Lay It on You (02:56)
070 - Blind Boy Fuller - Step It up and Go (02:57)
071 - Brownie McGhee - Step It up and Go (02:33)
072 - Henry Thomas - Honey Won't You Allow Me One More Chance (02:51)
073 - Lightnin' Hopkins - Automobile (02:50)
074 - Muddy Waters - Rollin' and Tumblin' Part 1 (02:59)
075 - William Brown - Ragged and Dirty (04:50)
076 - Dick Justice - Henry Lee (03:25)
077 - Logan English - Love Henry (02:29)
078 - Bently Boys - Down on Penny's Farm (02:50)
079 - The Carter Family - Blackjack David (02:41)
080 - The Carter Family - Little Moses (03:14)
081 - The Carter Family - Hello Stranger (02:44)
082 - Riley Puckett, The Skillet Lickers - Dixie (03:13)
083 - Mornoe Gevedon - The Two Soldiers (03:16)
084 - Kelly Harrell - My Name Is John Jo Hannah (03:16)
085 - Clarence Ashley - The House Carpenter (03:16)
086 - GB Grayson - Omie Wise (03:09)
087 - Horace Sprott - Take Rocks and Gravel to Make a Solid Road - Railroad Blues (02:44)
088 - The Memphis Jug Band - Stealin' Stealin' (02:55)
089 - Frank Hutchison - Stackalee (03:01)
090 - Tennessee Ernie Ford - Stack-O-Lee (02:49)
091 - Alan Mills - A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (Froggie Went A-Courtin') (03:13)
092 - A.L. Lloyd - Jim Jones at Botany Bay (03:08)
093 - Paul Clayton - The Twa Sisters (The Two Sisters) (06:55)
094 - Pete Seeger - O Susanna (01:15)
095 - Josh White - The House of the Rising Sun (03:00)
096 - Cisco Houston - Diamond Joe (02:29)
097 - Cisco Houston - Railroad Bill (01:47)
098 - The Highway Q.C.'S - Working on the Building (02:22)
099 - The Staple Singers - Uncloudy Day (02:57)
100 - L.M. Hilton - Hard Times Come Again No More (02:21)