Roots And Blues, Retrospective

1. 1 Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers / Whitehouse Blues 3:28
2. 2 Aiken County String Band / High Sheriff 2:55
3. 3 Frank Hutchinson / The Last Scene of The Titanic 3:32
4. 4 Hersal Thomas / Suitcase Blues 2:37
5. 5 Reverend J.M. Gates / Death's Black Train Is Coming 3:13
6. 6 Dora Carr / Cow-Cow Blues 2:51
7. 7 Vance's Tennessee Breakdowners / Washington County Fox Chase 2:59
8. 8 Fiddlin' John Carson / I'm Going To Take The Train To Charlotte 3:07
9. 9 Ernest V. Stoneman's Trio / Untitled 3:03
10. 10 Whistler and His Jug Band / Low Down Blues 2:58
11. 11 Washington Phillips / Paul & Silas In Jail 2:40
12. 12 Barbecue Bob / Blind Pig Blues 3:04
13. 13 Austin & Lee Allen / Chattanooga Blues 3:06
14. 14 Sherman Tedder / Untitled 2:58
15. 15 Dallas String Band with Coley Jones / Hokum Blues 3:27
16. 16 Gladys Bentley / Worried Blues 2:47
17. 17 Elizabeth Johnson / Empty Bed Blues - Part 1 3:04
18. 18 Elizabeth Johnson / Empty Bed Blues - Part 2 3:24
19. 19 South Georgia Highballers / Blue Grass Twist 2:49
20. 20 Charlie Bowman and His Brothers / Moonshiner and His Money 3:12
21. 21 Clarence Green / Johnson City Blues 2:59
22. 22 Reverend Johnny Blakey, assisted by The Sanctified Singers / Warming By The Devil's Fire 3:27
23. 23 Papa Too Sweet and Harry Jones / (Honey) It's Tight Like That 2:38
24. 24 Mississippi John Hurt / Big Leg Blues 2:53
25. 25 Daniels Deason Sacred Harp Singers / Hallelujah 2:57

1. 1 Hershel Brown and His Happy Five / Liberty 2:56
2. 2 Mamie Smith / My Sportin' Man 2:58
3. 3 Blues Birdhead / Mean Low Blues 3:17
4. 4 Pink Anderson and Simmine Dooley / C.C. & O. Blues 3:06
5. 5 The OKeh Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers / Ortonville 3:12
6. 6 Slim Doucet / Dear Black Eyes (Chere Yeux Noirs) 3:01
7. 7 Roosevelt Sykes / Roosevelt Blues 2:49
8. 8 The Hokum Boys / Gin Mill Blues 3:28
9. 9 Joe Falcon, accompanied by Clemo & Ophy Breaux / Osson 2:58
10. 10 W.T. Narmour and S. W. Smith / Sweet Milk and Peaches (Breakdown) 3:12
11. 11 Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, with Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen / Soldier's Joy 2:56
12. 12 Whistlin' Alex Moore / They May Not be My Toes 3:04
13. 13 Mississippi Sheiks / The Jazz Fiddler 3:14
14. 14 Lonnie Johnson / I Have To Do My Time 3:11
15. 15 Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton / Lonesome Frisco Line 3:20
16. 16 Roy Harvey and Leonard Copeland / Back to the Blue Ridge 2:57
17. 17 Buster Carter and Preston Young / Darn Good Girl 2:53
18. 18 Bo Carter / West Jackson Blues 3:20
19. 19 Lonnie Johnson and Clara Smith (as Violet Green) / You Had Too Much 3:21
20. 20 Silver Leaf Quarter / Oh! Glory Glory 3:16
21. 21 Freeny's Barn Dance Band / Don't You Remember the Time 3:19
22. 22 Pelican Wildcats / Walkin' Georgia Rose 2:58
23. 23 Peetie Wheatstraw (The Devil's Son In Law) / Police Station Blues 3:05
24. 24 Tindley Quaker City Gospel Singers / Hallelujah Side 3:18
25. 25 Will Batts / Highway #61 Blues 2:42

1. 1 W. Lee O'Daniel and His Light Crust Doughboys / Doughboys Theme Song #1 0:43
2. 2 W. Lee O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys / Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider) 3:11
3. 3 W. Lee O'Daniel and His Light Crust Doughboys / Doughboys Theme Song #2 0:30
4. 4 Blind Willie (McTell) & Partner / Bell Street Lightnin' 2:54
5. 5 Charlie Patton / Jersey Bull Blues 3:07
6. 6 Walter Roland / Every Morning Blues 2:46
7. 7 Blue Ridge Ramblers / D Blues 2:50
8. 8 Breaux Freres / La Valse Des Yeux Bleu (Blue Eyes Waltz) 3:13
9. 9 Lucille Bogan (as Bessie Jackson) / Skin Game Blues 2:59
10. 10 Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell / Good Woman Blues 2:59
11. 11 Josh White (as Pinewood Tom) / Sissy Man 2:51
12. 12 The Rhythm Wreckers / Blue Yodel #2 (My Lovin' Gal Lucille) 2:48
13. 13 The Anglin Twins (Jack and Jim) / Just Inside The Pearly Gates 2:27
14. 14 Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton) / Hard Rocks In My Bed 2:42
15. 15 The Two Charles / Tired Feelin' Blues 3:05
16. 16 Eidon Baker and His Brown County Revellers / One Eyed Sam 2:53
17. 17 A'nt Idy Harper and The Coon Creek Girls / Poor Naomi Wise 2:38
18. 18 (Kid) Prince Moore / South Bound Blues 3:04
19. 19 Big Bill Broonzy / C & A Blues 3:00
20. 20 George Curry / My Last Five Dollars 2:38
21. 21 The Nite Owls / Memphis Blues 2:36
22. 22 The Alley Boys of Abberville / Pourquoi Tu M'aime Pas 2:48
23. 23 Reverend Benny Campbell (Meetin' House In Dixie) / Have Mercy On Me 2:34
24. 24 Albert Ammons / Shout For Joy 2:27
25. 25 Jack Kelly / Flower Blues 2:32
26. 26 Cliff Carlisle (as Bob Clifford) / Onion Eating Mama 2:56
27. 27 Callahan Bros. / Brown's Ferry Blues #2 3:08
28. 28 Little Buddy Doyle / Slick Capers Blues 2:38
29. 29 Bill "Jazz" Gillum (as Bill McKinley) / Poor Boy Blues 2:54

1. 1 Frank Edwards / We Got To Get Together 2:38
2. 2 Sweet Violet Boys / You Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama At All) 2:51
3. 3 The Humbard Family / I'll Fly Away 2:51
4. 4 Tony Hollins / Cross Cut Saw Blues 2:52
5. 5 Peter Cleighton / Black Snake Blues 2:53
6. 6 Black Cats and The Kitten / Step It Up And Go 2:50
7. 7 Bob and Randall Atcher / Papa's Going Crazy, Mama's Going Mad 2:40
8. 8 Adolf Hofner and His San Antonians / Cotton-Eyed Joe 2:31
9. 9 Poor Boy Burke / Old Vets Blues 2:55
10. 10 Little Son Joe / Black Rat Swing 2:54
11. 11 Big Maceo Merriweather / Macy Special 2:43
12. 12 Light Crust Doughboys, with J.B. Brinkley / It's Funny What Love WillMake You Do 2:50
13. 13 Hank Penny and His Radio Cowboys / Army Blues 2:39
14. 14 James (Beale Street) Clark / Who But You 2:40
15. 15 Homer Harris / Tomorrow May Be Too Late 3:07
16. 16 Muddy Waters (as McKinley Morganfield) / Burying Ground blues 2:33
17. 17 Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys / Goodbye Old Pal 2:25
18. 18 Gene Autry / Dixie Cannonball 2:42
19. 19 Bill Landford and The Landfordaires / Run On For A Long Time 2:37
20. 20 Joe Williams / Baby, Please Don't Go 2:49
21. 21 Sister Myrtle Fields, accompanied by Austin McCoy Trio / I'm Toiling 2:45
22. 22 Willie (Boodle It) Right / Two By Four Blues 2:58
23. 23 Bailes Bros. / You Can't Go Halfway (And Get In) 2:48
24. 24 Molly O'Day and The Cumberland Mountain Folks / Heaven's Radio 2:52
25. 25 Rosetta Howard / Plow Hand Blues 2:49
26. 26 Memphis Seven / Grunt Meat Blues 2:50
27. 27 Deep South Boys / Until I Found The Lord 2:26
28. 28 Brother Porter and Brother Cook / I Know My Jesus Won't Deny Me 2:40