disc 1 (1947-1952). Lollypop Mama / Clarence Samuels (2:49) --
Bilbo is dead / Tom Archia, Arieta, Leonard Chess, (Andrew Tibbs) (2:57) --
Johnson machine gun / Albert Luandrew, (Sunnyland Slim) (2:52) --
Fly right, little girl / Albert Luandrew, (Sunnyland Slim) (2:36) --
Little Anna Mae / McKinley Morganfield, (Muddy Waters) (2:33) --
I can't be satisfied / McKinley Morganfield, (Muddy Waters) (2:43) --
My sweet lovin' woman / Robert McCollum, (Robert Nighthawk) (2:52) --
I feel like going home / McKinley Morganfield, (Muddy Waters) (3:11) --
She ain't nowhere / Albert Luandrew, (Sunnyland Slim) (2:47) --
Florida hurricane / (St. Louis Jimmy) (2:56) --
Memory of Sonny Boy / (Forest City Joe) (3:17) --
Tonky boogie / (Forrest Sykes) (3:10) --
Cryin' the blues / (Laura Rucker) (2:42) --
My head can't rest anymore / (Baby Face Leroy) (3:12) --
Big town playboy / Eddie Taylor, (Little Johnny Jones) (2:57) --
Sweet black angel / Robert McCollum, (Robert Nighthawk) (3:04) --
Rollin' stone / McKinley Morganfield, (Muddy Waters) (3:08) --
Luedella / James A. Lane, (Jimmy Rogers) (2:53) --
Mother earth / Peter Chatman, Lewis Simkins, (Memphis Slim) (2:43) --
Dr. Ross' boogie / Isaiah Ross (2:38) --
Joliet blues / Johnny Shines (2:41) --
Moanin' at midnight / Chester Burnett, (Howlin' Wolf) (2:57) --
All night long / McKinley Morganfield, (Muddy Waters) (3:49) --
Mr. Commissioner / Arbee Stidham (3:14) --
Gettin' old and grey / Chester Burnett, (Howlin' Wolf) (2:37).
disc 2 (1952-1954). Walkin' the boogie / John Lee Hooker (2:34) --
Juke / Walter Jacobs, (Little Walter) (2:48) --
Conjur man / (Memphis Minnie) (2:59) --
Who's gonna be your sweet man when I'm gone / McKinley Morganfield, (Muddy Waters) (3:05) --
Broken heart / (Memphis Minnie) (2:59) --
Truckin' little woman / (Willie Nix) (2:40) --
Funeral hearse at my door / (Rocky Fuller) (3:16) --
Hard time gettin' started / (Eddie Boyd) (2:32) --
Don't need no horse / (Little Walter) (3:19) --
Eight ball / (Gus Jenkins) (3:13) --
Fast boogie / (Little Walter) (2:49) --
I'm mad / Willie Mabon (2:39) --
Ice cream man / John Brim (2:48) --
Whose muddy shoes / Elmore James (3:19) --
Got to have it / Willie Mabon (3:07) --
I declare that ain't right / (Henry Gray) (3:07) --
Remember / (Alberta Adams) (2:54) --
Untitled instrumental / (Henry Gray, Morris Pejoe) (2:22) --
Blues with a feeling / Walter Jacobs, (Little Walter) (3:08) --
Hoochie coochie man / Willie Dixon, (Muddy Waters) (2:53) --
Forty four / Chester Burnett, (Howlin' Wolf) (2:50) --
Got to find my baby / Willie Dixon, (Little Walter) (3:08) --
Evil / Willie Dixon, (Howlin' Wolf) (2:56) --
Reconsider baby / Lowell Fulson (3:11) --
Mama talk to your daughter / J. B. Lenoir, Alex Atkins (2:19).
disc 3 (1954-1960). Mellow down easy / Willie Dixon, (Little Walter) (2:44) --
My eyes (keep me in trouble) / Hap Walker, (Muddy Waters) (3:13) --
My babe / Willie Dixon, (Little Walter) (2:43) --
You got to love me / William Arnold, (Billy Boy Arnold) (2:27) --
Walking the blues / Willie Dixon (3:05) --
Don't start me to talkin' / Sonny Boy Williamson (2:36) --
Smokestack lightnin' / Chester Burnett, (Howlin' Wolf) (3:09) --
29 ways / Willie Dixon (2:11) --
Right to love you / James Shaw, (Paul Gayten with Myrtle Jones (2:39) --
Ain't nobody's business / Jimmy Witherspoon, Porter Grainger, Robert Graham Prince, Clarence Williams (2:43) --
I'm leaving you / (Otis Spann) (2:42) --
Break of day / (Howlin' Wolf) (2:47) --
Please don't go / Lowell Fulson, (Floyd Dixon) (3:33) --
Keep it to yourself / Sonny Boy Williamson (2:51) --
Walking by myself / James A. Lane, (Jimmy Rogers) (2:49) --
Got my mojo working / Preston Foster, (Muddy Waters) (2:53) --
Fattening frogs for snakes / Sonny Boy Williamson (2:42) --
Slow leake / (Lafayette Leake) (3:04) --
Sitting on top of the world / Chester Burnett, (Howlin' Wolf) (2:35) --
She don't know / J. B. Lenoir (2:24) --
Your funeral and my trial / Sonny Boy Williamson (2:30) --
Key to the highway / William Broonzy, Charles Segar, (Little Walter) (2:49) --
Double trouble / Harriet Melka, (Muddy Waters) (3:31) --
Come on home / (Eddie Boyd) (2:39) --
The goat / Sonny Boy Williamson (2:23) --
So many roads, so many trains / Marshall Paul, (Otis Rush) (3:10).
disc 4 (1960-1967). First time I met the blues / Eurreal Montgomery, (Buddy Guy) (2:20) --
Too poor / Emery Williams, Jr., (Detroit Jr.) (2:17) --
Blue shadows / Lloyd Glenn, (Lowell Fulson) (2:27) --
The shakedown / Lloyd Glenn (2:28) --
The sun is shining / Elmore James (2:42) --
Calling on my darling / Chester Burnett, Willie Dixon, (Albert King) (3:06) --
The red rooster / Willie Dixon, (Howlin' Wolf) (2:28) --
Nine below zero / Sonny Boy Williamson (3:29) --
Goin' down slow / James B. Oden, (Howlin' Wolf) (4:04) --
Satisfied / Milton Campbell, (Little Milton) (2:18) --
Something's got a hold on me / Pearl Woods, Leroy Kirkland, Etta James (2:49) --
Wrinkles / Lafayette Leake, (Big Three Trio) (2:38) --
Bring it on home / Willie Dixon, (Sonny Boy Williamson) (2:37) --
Good moanin' blues / Willie Dixon, (Walter "Shakey" Horton) (4:14) --
Killing floor / Chester Burnett, (Howlin' Wolf) (2:51) --
What kind of man is that? / Koko Taylor (3:05) --
We're gonna make it / Billy Davis, Carl Smith, Raynard Miner, Gene Barge, (Little Milton) (2:41) --
Wang dang doodle / Willie Dixon, (Koko Taylor) (3:02) --
Dirty work goin' on / Ferdinand "Fats" Washington, (Little Joe Blue) (2:47) --
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer / John Lee Hooker (3:00) --
Jinglin' baby / Eddie Burns (2:06) --
That's why I don't mind / McKinley Morganfield, (Muddy Waters) (2:58) --
Keep it to myself / Sonny Boy Williamson, (Buddy Guy) (2:31) --
Sitting here alone / Theodore "Hound Dog" Taylor (3:45) --
I'd rather go blind / Ellington Jordan, Billy Foster, (Etta James) (2:34).