Tracklist
CD1:
- I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
- Worrying Blues - Macon Ed & Tampa Joe
- Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
- Murder's Gonna Be My Crime - Sippie Wallace
- The Murder Of The Lawson Family - The Carolina Buddies
- Lord Randall My Son - Josh White
- Duncan and Brady - Dave Van Ronk
- Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash
- I'm Gonna Kill That Woman - Texas Slim
- I'm Gonna Cut Your Head Mama - Homer Harris
- Your Funeral and My Trial - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
- Down in the Willow Garden - The Everly Brothers
- Knoxville Girl - The Louvin Brothers
- Henry Lee - Dick Justice
- Dying Crapshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- John Hardy - Lead Belly
- Star Bootlegger - Arthur Big Boy Crudup
- Down On the Banks of the Ohio - The Blue Sky Boys
- The Killer - Cisco Houston
- Gangster's Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
- Prison Bound Blues - Leroy Carr
- High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
- Sometimes I Feel Like Motherless Child - Paul Robeson
- Strange Fruit - Billie Holliday
CD2:
- How I Got In The Penitentiary - Bama
- Early in the Mornin' - 22
- Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
- DeKalb Chain Gang - Fred McMullen
- Buggy Jail House Blues - Lillie Mae
- Murder in the First Degree - Victoria Spivey
- Workhouse Blues - Mattie May Thomas
- He's In the Jailhouse Now - The Memphis Sheiks
- I Fought The Law - The Crickets
- Okie's in the Pokie - Jimmie Patton
- The Last Meal - Hurricane Harry
- It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad - 22
- Jail House Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Penitentiary Moan Blues - Texas Alexander
- Shelby County Workhouse Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern
- Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Ball and Chain Blues - Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill
- Kenny Wagner's Surrender - Ernest Stoneman
- Tom Dooley - New Lost City Ramblers
- The Gallows Pole - Odetta
- Slip Know - Woody Guthrie
- Old Dollar Mamie - 22
- Tangle Eye Blues - Tangle Eye
- Big Mac Fro Macamere - Mattle May Thomas
- Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
