| 1. Tracklist |
| 2. 01. Defense Factory Blues - |
| 3. 02. Uncle Sam Says - |
| 4. 03. Million Lonesome Women - Brownie Mcghee |
| 5. 04. You Better Be Ready to Go - Tampa Red |
| 6. 05. Uncle Sam Came and Get It - Wee Bea Booze |
| 7. 06. The Number of Mine - Big Bill Bronzy |
| 8. 07. Get Back - Big Bill Bronzy |
| 9. 08. Cell No.13 Blues - Big Bill Bronzy |
| 10. 09. County Jail Blues - Big Maceo |
| 11. 10. No Job Blues - Ramblin' Thomas |
| 12. 11. There Is No Justice - Jimmy Jordan |
| 13. 12. Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White |
| 14. 13. I'm Prison Bound - Lowell Fulson |
| 15. 14. Penitentiary Blues - Lightin' Hopkins |
| 16. 15. The Bourgeois Blues - Huddie Ledbetter |
| 17. 16. Jim Crow - Lead Belly |
| 18. 17. Jim Crow Train - |
| 19. 18. Back-Water Blues - Bessie Smith |
| 20. 19. When the Levee Breaks - Joe McCoy |
| 21. 20. Mean Old Twister - Kokomo Arnold |
| 22. 21. Florida Hurricane - Saint Louis Jimmy |
| 23. 22. Income Tax Blues - Ralph Willis |
| 24. 23. Collector Man Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson |
| 25. 24. It's Hard Time - Joe Stone |
| 26. 01. President Roosevelt - Big Joe Williams |
| 27. 02. Don't Take Away My P.W.A. Jimmie Gordon |
| 28. 03. W.P.A. Blues - Casey Bill Weldon |
| 29. 04. Working on the Project - Peetie Wheatstraw |
| 30. 05. Let's Have a New Deal - Carl Martin |
| 31. 06. Welfare Store Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson |
| 32. 07. Warehouse Man Blues - Champion Jack Dupree |
| 33. 08. F.D.R. Blues - Champion Jack Dupree |
| 34. 09. God Bless Our New President - Champion Jack Dupree |
| 35. 10. President's Blues - Ray Herman |
| 36. 11. Eisenhower Blues - J.B. Lenoir |
| 37. 12. Korea Blues - J.B. Lenoir |
| 38. 13. Back to Korea Blues - Sunnyland Slim |
| 39. 14. Crazy World - Julia Lee |
| 40. 15. The World Is in a Tangle - Jimmy Rogers |
| 41. 16. Hard Times Blues - Ida Cox |
| 42. 17. Hard Times - Charles Brown |
| 43. 18. No Shoes - Eddie Kirkland |
| 44. 19. Lonesome Cabin Blues - Baby Roy Warren |
| 45. 20. Poor Boy Blues - Brownie Mcghee |
| 46. 21. Pawnshop Blues - Brownie Mcghee |
| 47. 22. The Alabama Bus, Pts..1 & 2 - Brother Will Hairston |
| 48. 23. Democrat Man - John Lee Hooker |
| 49. 24. The Big Race - Memphis Slim |
| 50. States, and bore witness to the reactions of Afro-Americans to racism, poverty, hunger, unemployment, prison… Beginning with the Depression up to the Civil Rights struggle, Jean Buzelin and Jacques Demêtre have put together a series of themes touching on the New Deal, wars, natural catastrophes, elections and all the daily problems confronting the black community which has still not found its rightful place within American white society |