Disc One. Ballads: Henry Lee / Dick Justice (3:26) -- Fatal flower garden / Nelstone's Hawaiians (2:55) -- House carpenter / Clarence Ashley (3:14) -- Drunkard's special / Coley Jones (3:16) -- Old lady and the devil / Bill Reed, Belle Reed (3:02) -- The butcher's boy / Buell Kazee (3:02) -- The wagoner's lad / Buell Kazee (3:02) -- King kong kitchie kitchie ki-me-o / Chubby Parker (3:08) -- Old shoes and leggins / Uncle Eck Dunford (2:59) -- Willie Moore / Richard Burnett, Leonard Rutherford (3:13) -- Lazy farmer boy / Buster Carter, Preston Young (2:57) -- Peg and awl / Carolina Tar Heels (2:57) -- Ommie Wise / Gilliam Banmon Grayson (3:09) -- My name is John Johanna / Kelly Harrell and the Virginia String Band (3:12) -- Disc Two. Ballads: Bandit Cole Younger / Edward L. Crain (2:54) -- Charles Giteau / Kelly Harrell and the Virginia String Band (3:03) -- John Hardy was a desperate little man / Carter Family (2:55) -- Gonna die with my hammer in my hand / Williamson Brothers and Curry (3:24) -- Stackalee / Frank Hutchison (2:58) -- White House blues / Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers (3:31) -- Frankie / Mississippii John Hurt (3:25) -- When that great ship went down / William Smith, Versey Smith (2:55) -- Engine 143 / Carter Family (3:16) -- Kassie Jones / Furry Lewis (6:13) -- Down on Penny's farm / Bently Boys (2:47) -- Mississippi boweavil (boll weevil) blues / Charley Patton (3:07) -- Got the farm land blues / Carolina Tar Heels (3:16) -- Disc Three. Social music: Sail away lady / "Uncle Bunt" Stephens (2:56) -- The wild wagoner / Jilson Setters (3:14) -- Wake up Jacob / Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers (2:52) -- La danseuse / Delma Lachney, Blind Uncle Gaspard (2:54) -- Georgia stomp / Andrew Baxter, Jim Baxter (2:44) -- Brilliancy medley / Eck Robertson and Family (2:59) -- Indian war whoop / Hoyt "Floyd" Ming and his Pep-Steppers (3:10) -- Old country stomp / Henry Thomas (2:52) -- Old dog blue / Jim Jackson (3:01) -- Saut crapaud / Columbus Fruge (2:47) -- Acadian one-step / Joseph Falcon (2:57) -- Home sweet home / Breaux Freres (3:00) -- Newport blues / Cincinnati Jug Band (2:55) -- Moonshiner's dance, part one / Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra (2:39) -- Disc Four. Social music: Must be born again / Rev. J.M. Gates (1:28) -- Oh death where is thy sting / Rev. J.M. Gates (1:26) -- Rocky road / Alabama Sacred Harp Singers (2:42) -- Present joys / Alabama Sacred Harp Singers (2:50) -- This song of love / Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1 (2:56) -- Judgement [sic] / Rev. Sister Mary Nelson (2:23) -- He got better things for you / Memphis Sanctified Singers (2:52) -- Since I laid my burden down / Elders McIntorsh and Edwards' Sanctified Singers (3:16) -- John the Baptist / Rev. Moses Mason (3:02) -- Dry bones / Bascom Lamar Lunsford (2:58) -- John the revelator / Blind Willie Johnson (3:18) -- Little Moses / Carter Family (3:11) -- Shine on me / Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers (3:01) -- Fifty miles of elbow room / Rev. F.M. McGee (2:40) -- I'm in the battlefield for my Lord / Rev. D.C. Rice and His Sanctified Congregation (3:19) -- Disc Five. Songs: The coo coo bird / Clarence "Tom" Ashley (2:54) -- East Virginia / Buell Kazee (2:58) -- Minglewood blues / Cannon's Jug Stompers with Noah Lewis (3:41) -- I woke up one morning in May / Didier Hébert (3:01) -- James Alley blues / Richard "Rabbit" Brown (3:05) -- Sugar baby / Dock Boggs (2:56) -- I wish I was a mole in the ground / Bascom Lamar Lunsford (3:19) -- The mountaineer's courtship / Hattie Stoneman, Ernest V. Stoneman (2:42) -- The Spanish merchant's daughter / Stoneman Family (3:15) -- Bob Lee Junior blues / Memphis Jug Band (3:08) -- Single girl, married girl / Carter Family (2:44) -- Le vieux soulard et sa femme / Cleoma Breaux, Joseph Falcon (3:08) -- Rabbit foot blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson (2:55) -- Expressman blues / Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell (3:01) -- Disc Six. Songs: Poor boy blues / Ramblin' Thomas (2:22) -- Feather bed / Cannon's Jug Stompers (3:13) -- Country blues / Dock Boggs (2:56) -- 99 year blues / Julius Daniels (3:04) -- Prison cell blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson (2:44) -- See that my grave is kept clean / Blind Lemon Jefferson (2:52) -- C'est si triste sans lui / Cleoma Breaux, Joseph Falcon (2:59) -- Way down the old plank road / Uncle Dave Macon (2:58) -- Buddy won't you roll down the line / Uncle Dave Macon (3:15) -- Spike driver blues / Mississippi John Hurt (3:14) -- K.C. moan / Memphis Jug Band (2:31) -- Train on the island / J.P. Nestor (2:57) -- The Lone Star Trail / Ken Maynard (3:12) -- Fishing blues / Henry Thomas (2:44).

Essays: The old, weird America / Greil Marcus -- The brotherhood of the anthology / Jon Pankake -- West Coast record collector / Luis Kemnitzer -- The birth and growth of the Anthology of American folk music / as told to Moses Asch -- Notes on Harry Smith's Anthology / Neil V. Rosenberg -- Supplemental notes on the selections / Jeff Place.