01:01

Black Encyclopedia of the Air 06: The First Africans (1969)

01:10

Black Encyclopedia of the Air 05: The Big Black Continent (1969)

01:12

Black Encyclopedia of the Air 04: The Founder of Chicago (1969)

01:16

Black Encyclopedia of the Air 03: The Roots of the Blues (1969)

01:41

Black Encyclopedia of the Air 02: A Black History of Pop (1969)

01:09

Black Encyclopedia of the Air 01: The Roots of Ray Charles (1969)

01:56

Ballinakill Ceili Band: The Ashplant / The Geese In the Bog (1951)

03:39

Andros Island fishermen: Blow Liza Blow (1935)

01:05

Big John Davis, Henry Morrison and group: Hop Along, Let's Get Her (1959)

01:14

Walter Roberts and group: Bear Away Yankee, Bear Away Boy (1962)

02:19

Jean Glaud and group: Hooray Irena (1962)

04:08

Rocco Cannovino and fishermen: U Leva Leva (tuna-fishing chantey) (1954)

04:19

Neal Morris: Corn Dodgers (1959)

02:12

Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers: Yonder Come Day (1959)

02:09

Alice Gibbs and friends: Carol, Sweetly Carol (1969)

03:15

Almeda Riddle: Froggie Went A Courtin' (1983)

02:10

Blind Willie McTell: Amazing Grace (1940)

02:01

Caroline Joyner and Mount Ararat M.B. Baptist Church congregation: I Am No Ways Worried (1941)

14:34

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: We Are Not Ashamed (V.D. Radio Project, 1949)

00:46

Katherine Trusty: We Shall Not Be Moved (1937)

02:03

Railroad section gang: Doggin' steel (1959)

03:46

Sonny Boy Nelson and friends: It's Tight Like That (1978)

06:56

Lonnie Pitchford plays one-string guitar in Lexington, Mississippi (1978)

02:52

Orazio Strano: Ciuri di pipi Messinesi (Messina Pepper Flowers) (1954)

02:21

Roxie Threadgill and Mary Johnson: Sorry, Sorry for to Leave You (1942)

01:49

Mike Maybank and group: Right Down Here (1937)

02:28

Bessie Jones: No Hiding Place Down Here (1961)

02:20

Big Bill Broonzy: Black, Brown and White Blues (1947)

01:07

Floyd Batts: Dangerous Blues (1959)

05:40

Bukka White with Howlin' Wolf: World Boogie (1966)

06:39

Bright Light Quartet: Menhaden fishermen's chantey medley (1960)

04:12

Jean Ritchie: Afflictions Though They Seem Severe (1949)

03:20

The Wootten family: Wondrous Love (#159) (1982)

01:45

Dick Devall: Sitting At My Window, Sad and Lonely (1946)

03:41

Unidentified Parchman Farm prisoners: I Shall Not Be Moved (1936)

03:12

Blind Willie McTell: Just As Well Get Ready, You Got to Die (1940)

03:48

The Shelton Family: Family Circle (1982)

02:41

Turner Junior Johnson: Sitting On Top of the World (1942)

05:29

Holly Springs Sacred Harp singing: Love At Home, #492, 5th ed. (1982)

01:04

Nimrod Workman: Oh Death (1983)

02:11

Dock Reed, Jesse Allison, and Vera Ward Hall: Job, Job (1939)

02:27

Memphis Jug Band: But I'll Get A Break (1959)

02:56

Aunt Molly Jackson: Roll On Buddy (1939)

02:40

Grant Rogers: When A Fellow Is Out of A Job (1966)

02:52

Walter Watson and group: Working My Way Back Home (1936)

04:49

Jilson Setters: The Blind Man's Lament (1937)

08:09

Indian Bottom Association of Old Regular Baptists: And Must This Body Die (1959)

06:41

Peerless Four: Trouble In My Way (1960)

01:14

Texas Gladden: Cold Mountains (1959)

02:57

Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy, and Sonny Boy Williamson (#1): Life Is Like That (1947)

02:25

John Davis with Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers: Moses, Don't Get Lost (1959)

02:20

Mary Johnston and group: two waulking songs (1951)

02:22

Stanley & Hattie Hicks: Fox Chase (1982)

01:40

Imanol Lertxundi and chorus: Udaberrian Txoriak (Like the Birds In Spring) (1953)

02:47

Celeste Cappeli and group: Ol Carneàl El Va El Vé / Caro 'L Me Tone (1954)

10:00

Napoleon Strickland and kids: fife-and-drum picnic preparation (1978)

01:06:17

11 - "Making It In Hell": Parchman Farm, 1933–1969

02:16

Big Charlie Butler: Diamond Joe (1937)

02:24

Sonny Boy Nelson: 61 Highway Blues (1978)

07:44

Vicksburg section crew: calling and lining track (1978)