Essa coletânea reúne as primeiras gravações de McDowell feitas pelo pesquisador Alan Lomax. McDowell tinha cinquenta anos então, e gravava após colher algodão na sua pequena fazenda. O remaster foi caprichado.
CD 1:
Miles Pratcher -guitarra
Fannie Davis -percussão
Annie Mae McDowell -vocal
James Shorty -vocal
Sidney Carter -vocal
Rose Hemphill -vocal
1. When You Get Home, Write Me a Few Little Lines
2. Drop Down Mama
3. Shake 'Em on Down
4. Fred McDowell's Blues
5. Goin' Down to the River
6. You Gonna Be Sorry
7. You Done Tol' Everybody
8. Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Jesus
9. Soon One Mornin'
10. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
11. Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
12. Germany Blues
13. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
14. Freight Train Blues
15. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
16. Been Drinkin' Water Out of a Hollow Log
17. I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
18. 61 Highway Blues
19. Lord Have Mercy
20. Worried Mind
21. What's the Matter Now
22. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning [Instrumental]
CD 2:
1. Shake 'Em on Down [Alternate Take]
com John Dudley
2. Cool Water Blues
3. Po' Boy Blues
4. Clarksdale Mill Blues
com Ed Young; G.D. Young; Lonnie Young
5. Jim and John
6. Hen Duck
7. Chevrolet
8. Oree
9. Sittin' on Top of the World
com Bob Pratcher; Miles Pratcher
10. All Night Long
11. I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'til I Die
12. Buttermilk
com Forrest City Joe
13. Levee Camp Reminiscence
14. Train Time
15. Red Cross Store
16. You Gotta Cut That Out
17. Stop Breaking Down
18. Drink on Little Girl
19. She Lived Her Life Too Fast
20. She Don't Love Me That Way
21. Forrest City Jump
com Boy Blue
22. Boogie Children
23. Joe Lee's Rock
24. You Got Dimples in Your Jaw
