VOL. 1: Beginnings-1925 cover: prison camp work gang

VOL. 2: 1925-27 cover: Jelly Roll Morton

VOL. 3: 1927 cover: The Carter Family

1. Jali Nyama Suso (Gambia 1974) - Kedo 2. Mandingo Griots (Gambia 1974) - Tutu Jara 3. Fula Flutist (Gambia 1976) - Bengsimbe 4. Ethel Perkins & Equila Hall (1954) - My           Soul Will Be Saved 5. Rich Amerson (1950) - Black Woman 6. Texas Prison Camp Work Gang (1951) - Go            Down Old Hannah 7. Mamie Smith (1920) - Crazy Blues 8. King Oliver's Creole Jazzband (with Louis           Armstrong) (1923) - Canal Street Blues 9. Bessie Smith (1923) - Downhearted Blues 10. King Oliver's Creole Jazzband  (1923) -           High Society Rag 11. Ma Rainey (1924) - See See Rider 12. Alberta Hunter (1924) - Nobody Knows            the Way I Feel This Morning 13. Bessie Smith (1924) - St. Louis Blues 14. King Oliver's Creole Jazzband (1924) -            Working Man Blues 15. Papa Charlie Jackson (1925) - All I Want            Is a Spoonful

1. James Johnson - Charleston (South         Carolina) 2. Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues 3. Lonnie Johnson - Mr. Johnson's Blues 4. Jelly Roll Morton - Original Jelly Roll Blues 5. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - Heebie         Jeebies 6. Jelly Roll Morton - Dead Man Blues 7. Blind Lemon Jefferson - I Want to Be Like         Jesus in My Haert 8. Blind Blake - West Coast Blues 9. Lonnie Johnson  - Steppin' on the Blues 10. Lonnie Johnson - To Do This You Got to         Know How 11. Ernest Stoneman, Miss I. Frost & E.          Dunford - The Mountaineer's Courtship 12. The Carter Family - Bury Me Under the          Weeping Willow 13. The Johnson Brothers - The Jealous          Sweetheart 14. Blind Willie Johnson - Motherless          Children Have a Hard Time 15. Bessie Smith - Muddy Water (A          Mississippi Moan) 16. Alfred G. Karnes - When They Ring the          Golden Bells 17. Jimmie Rodgers - The Soldier's Sweetheart 18. Blind Alfred Reed - Walking in the Way          with Jesus 19. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Black Snake         Moan

1. The Allen Brothers - Ain't That Skippin'         and Flyin' 2. The Carter Family - Single Girl, Married Girl 3. The Alcoa Quartet - I'm Redeemed 4. The Shelor Family - Billy Grimes, the Rover 5. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Rabbit Foot Blues 6. Luke Jordan - Church Bell Blues 7. Barbecue Bob - It Won't Be Long Now 8. Jimmie Rodgers - Sleep Baby Sleep 9. Henry Whitter - Henry Whitter's Fox         Chase 10. Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Quartet -         I Want to Go Where JEsus Is 11. Alfred G. Karnes - Called to the Foreign         Field 12. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five -         West End Blues 13. Blind Blake - That Will Never Happen No         More 14. Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My         Dying Bed 15. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Corinna Blues 16. The Tenneva Ramblers - The Longest          Train I Ever Saw 17. Ernest Stoneman & His Dixie         Mountaineers - Are You Washed in the         Blood? 18. The Carter Family - The Storms Are on         the Ocean

 

VOL. 4: 1927 cover: Blind Lemon Jefferson

VOL. 5: 1927-28 cover: Blind Alfred Reed

VOL. 6: 1928 cover: Tommy Johnson

1. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night,         Cold Was the Ground 2. Bessie Smith - Empty Bed Blues 3. The West Virginia Coon Hunters - Greasy         String 4. The Johnson Brothers - A Passing          Policeman 5. The Carter Family - The Wandering Boy 6. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues 7. Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues 8. W. M. Stepp - The Ways of the World 9. B. F. Shelton - O Molly Dear 10. Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for          Texas) 11. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven -         Potato Head Blues 12. Blind Blake - Southern Rag 13. Barbecue Bob - Motherless Child Blues 14. Blind Lemon Jefferson - He Arose from         the Dead 15. El Watson - Pot Licker Blues 16. The Carter Family - Little Log Cabin by         the Sea 17. The Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers - Old Time         Corn Shuckin' 18. Ernest Stoneman, Miss I. Frost & E.          Dunford - Midnight on the Stormy Deep

1. The Carter Family - Keep on the Sunny         Side 2. Alfred G. Karnes - I Am Bound for the         Promised Land 3. The Bull Mountain Moonshiners - Johnny         Goodwin 4. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Dry Southern         Blues 5. Blind Willie Johnson - I Know His Blood         Can Make Me Whole 6. Ernest Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers         - The Resurrection 7. Blind Alfred Reed - The Wreck of the          Virginian 8. The Carter Family - The Poor Orphan Child 9. Jimmie Rodgers - The Brakeman's Blues 10. Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues 11. Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues 12. Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones, Pt. 2 13. Lonnie Johnson - Playing with the Strings 14. Frank Stokes - It Won't Be Long 15. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues 16. The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower 17. Jimmie Rodgers - In the Jailhouse Now

1. Barbecue Bob - Going Up the Country 2. Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues 3. Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink of Water          Blues 4. Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My          Grave's Kept Clean 5. The Pickard Family - Get Away from That          Window 6. The Carter Family - John Hardy Was a          Desperate Little Man 7. Jimmie Rodgers - My Old Pal 8. The Memphis Jug Band - Kansas City         Blues 9. Ethel Waters - Handy man Blues 10. Pine Top Smith - Pine Top's Boogie          Woogie 11. Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey -          Furniture Man Blues, Pt. 1 12. Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues 13. Frank Stokes - What's the Matter Blues 14. Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp 15. Jimmie Rodgers - My Carolina Sunshine          Girl 16. The Carter Family - My Clinch Mountain          Home 17. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie and          Johnny 18. Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run to          the City of Refuge

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