Foreword / Peggy A. Bulger and Anna Lomax Wood
Alan Lomax : the long journey / William R. Ferris
Alan Lomax : the found world / Tom Piazza
The southern journey / captions by Todd Harvey, Aimee Hess Nash, and Hicks Wogan
Selected sources / Todd Harvey
Music CD track list and track notes / Nathan Salsburg
Southern journey discography / Todd Harvey and Hicks Wogan
Compact disc: Church, I know we got another building (not made with hands) (Young Bros.) ; Dollar Mamie (Floyd Batts & prisoners) ; Lonely tombs (Texas Gladden, Hobart Smith & Preston Smith) ; Didn't old Pharoah get lost (Union Choir of the Church of God and Saints of Christ) ; Rainbow mid life's willows (Almeda Riddle) ; I'm going down that gravel (Fred McDowell) ; The girl I left behind (Spencer Moore) ; Riding in a buggy/Candy gal (Vera Ward Hall) ; Cumberland gap (Wade Ward) ; Reg'lar, reg'lar, rolling under (Bessie Jones & group) ; Poor pilgrim of sorrow (I.D. Back) ; I'm gonna live anyhow until I die (Miles & Bob Pratcher).
CD contents: Church, I know we got another building (not made with hands) / (Ed Young, fife ; Lonnie Young, Sr., bass drum ; G.D. Young, snare drum) (Como, Mississippi, September 21, 1959)
Dollar Mamie / (Floyd Batts and prisoners, vocals and axes) (Camp 11, Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary), September 16, 1959)
Lonely tombs / (Texas Gladden, vocal ; Hobart Smith, vocal and guitar ; Preston Smith, vocal) (Bluefield, Virginia, August 24, 1959)
Didn't old Pharaoh get lost / (Caleb Garris, lead vocal ; with the Union Choir of the Church of God and Saints of Christ) (Belleville, Virginia)
Rainbow mid life's willows / (Almeda Riddle, vocal) (Greers Ferry, Arkansas, early October, 1959)
I'm going down that gravel / (Fred McDowell, vocal and guitar ; Fanny Davis, comb ; Miles Pratcher, guitar) (Como, Mississippi, September 22, 1959)
The girl I left behind / (Spencer Moore, vocal and guitar ; Roy Everett Blevins, mandolin) (Chlhowie, Virginia, September 3, 1959)
Riding in a buggy ; Candy gal / (Vera Ward Hall, vocal) (Livingston, Alabama, October 10, 1959)
Cumberland Gap / (Wade Ward, banjo) (Galax, Virginia, August 31, 1959)
Reg'lar, reg'lar, rolling under / (Bessie Jones, lead vocal ; with Nat Rahmings, drum ; Hobart Smith, banjo ; Ed Young, fife ; John Davis, Henry Morrison, Albert Ramsay, Emma Ramsay, vocals) (Williamsburg, Virginia, April 28, 1960)
Poor pilgrim of sorrow / (Elder I.D. Back, vocal) (Mount Olivet Old Regular Baptist Church, Blackey, Kentucky, September 5, 1959)
I'm gonna live anyhow until I die / (Miles Pratgcher, vocal and guitar ; Bob Pratcher, fiddle) (Como, Mississippi, September 22, 1959).