| CD1 : CRIME | ||
| 1-1 | –Pat Hare | I'm Gonna Murder My Baby |
| 1-2 | –Macon Ed & Tampa Joe | Worrying Blues |
| 1-3 | –Frank Hutchison | Stackalee |
| 1-4 | –Sippie Wallace | Murder's Gonna Be My Crime |
| 1-5 | –The Carolina Buddies* | Murder Of The Lawson Family |
| 1-6 | –Josh White | Lord Randall, My Son |
| 1-7 | –Dave Van Ronk | Duncan And Brady |
| 1-8 | –Johnny Cash | Don't Take Your Guns To Town |
| 1-9 | –John Lee Hooker | I'm Gonna Kill That Woman |
| 1-10 | –Homer Harris | I'm Gonna Cut Your Head Mama |
| 1-11 | –Sonny Boy Williamson | Your Funeral And My Trial |
| 1-12 | –Mississippi John Hurt | Frankie |
| 1-13 | –Everly Brothers | Down In The Willow Garden |
| 1-14 | –The Louvin Brothers | Knoxville Girl |
| 1-15 | –Dick Justice | Henry Lee |
| 1-16 | –Blind Willie McTell | Dying Crapshooter's Blues |
| 1-17 | –Leadbelly | John Hardy |
| 1-18 | –Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup | Star Bootlegger |
| 1-19 | –Blue Sky Boys | Down On The Banks Of The Ohio |
| 1-20 | –Cisco Houston | The Killer |
| 1-21 | –Peetie Wheatstraw | Gangster's Blues |
| 1-22 | –Leroy Carr | Prison Bound Blues |
| 1-23 | –Charley Patton | High Sheriff Blues |
| 1-24 | –Paul Robeson | Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child |
| 1-25 | –Billie Holiday | Strange Fruit |
| CD2: PUNISHMENT | ||
| 2-1 | –Bama | How I Got In The Penitentiary |
| 2-2 | –22 , Little Red, Tangle Eye & Hard Hair | Early In The Mornin' |
| 2-3 | –Bukka White | Parchman Farm Blues |
| 2-4 | –Fred McMullen | Dekalb Chain Gang |
| 2-5 | –Lillie Mae | Buggy Jail House Blues |
| 2-6 | –Victoria Spivey | Murder In The First Degree |
| 2-7 | –Mattie May Thomas | Workhouse Blues |
| 2-8 | –Memphis Jug Band | He's In The Jailhouse Now |
| 2-9 | –The Crickets | I Fought The Law |
| 2-10 | –Jimmie Patton | Okie's In The Pokie |
| 2-11 | –Hurricane Harry | The Last Meal |
| 2-12 | –22 | It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad |
| 2-13 | –Lightnin' Hopkins | Jail House Blues |
| 2-14 | –Texas Alexander | Penitentiary Moan Blues |
| 2-15 | –Hambone Willie Newbern | Shelby County Workhouse Blues |
| 2-16 | –Blind Lemon Jefferson | Prison Cell Blues |
| 2-17 | –Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill | Ball And Chain Blues |
| 2-18 | –Ernest Stoneman | Kenny Wagner's Surrender |
| 2-19 | –The New Lost City Ramblers | Tom Dooley |
| 2-20 | –Odetta | The Gallows Pole |
| 2-21 | –Woody Guthrie | Slip Knot |
| 2-22 | –22 | Old Dollar Mamie |
| 2-23 | –Tangle Eye | Tangle Eye Blues |
| 2-24 | –Mattie May Thomas | Big Mac From Macamere |
| 2-25 | –Blind Willie Johnson | Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground |