| 1. Pat Hare - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby |
| 2. Macon Ed & Tampa Joe - Worrying Blues |
| 3. Frank Hutchison - Stackalee |
| 4. Sippie Wallace - Murder's Gonna Be My Crime |
| 5. The Carolina Buddies - The Murder of the Lawson Family |
| 6. Josh White - Lord Randall, My Son |
| 7. Dave Van Ronk - Duncan and Brady |
| 8. Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns to Town |
| 9. John Lee Hooker (as Texas Slim) - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman |
| 10. Homer Harris - I'm Gonna Cut Your Head Mama |
| 11. Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral and My Trial |
| 12. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie |
| 13. The Everly Brothers - Down in the Willow Garden |
| 14. The Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl |
| 15. Dick Justice - Henry Lee |
| 16. Blind Willie McTell - Dying Crapshooter's Blues |
| 17. Lead Belly - John Hardy |
| 18. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Star Bootlegger |
| 19. The Blue Sky Boys - Down On the Banks of the Ohio |
| 20. Cisco Houston - The Killer |
| 21. Peetie Wheatstraw - Gangster's Blues |
| 22. Leroy Carr - Prison Bound Blues |
| 23. Charley Patton - High Sheriff Blues |
| 24. Paul Robeson - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child |
| 25. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit |
| 26. Bama - How I Got in the Penitentiary |
| 27. 22, Little Red, Tangle Eye & Hard Hair - Early in the Mornin' |
| 28. Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues |
| 29. Fred McMullen - DeKalb Chain Gang |
| 30. Lillie Mae - Buggy Jail House Blues |
| 31. Victoria Spivey - Murder in the First Degree |
| 32. Mattie May Thomas - Workhouse Blues |
| 33. Memphis Jug Band (as The Memphis Sheiks) - He's in the Jailhouse Now |
| 34. The Crickets - I Fought the Law |
| 35. Jimmie Patton - Okie's in the Pokie |
| 36. Hurricane Harry - The Last Meal |
| 37. 22 & Group - It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad |
| 38. Lightnin' Hopkins - Jail House Blues |
| 39. Texas Alexander - Penitentiary Moan Blues |
| 40. Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Workhouse Blues |
| 41. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Prison Cell Blues |
| 42. Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill - Ball and Chain Blues |
| 43. Ernest Stoneman - Kenny Wagner's Surrender |
| 44. The New Lost City Ramblers - Tom Dooley |
| 45. Odetta - The Gallows Pole |
| 46. Woody Guthrie - Slip Knot |
| 47. 22 & Group - Old Dollar Mamie |
| 48. Tangle Eye - Tangle Eye Blues |
| 49. Mattie May Thomas - Big Mac from Macamere |
| 50. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground |
