Arkansas Traveler, Sid Hemphill and Lucious Smith, on Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia, Rounder Select, 1999

Bill Bailey, on Collected Works of Arthur Collins, www.archive.org

Come Here Dog and Get Your Bone, Jim Henry, on Deep River of Song: Mississippi Saints and Sinners, Rounder Select, 1999

Crazy Blues, Mamie Smith, on Jazz the World Forgot Volume 1, Yazoo, 1996

De Ole Jawbone, on The Early Minstrel Show, New World Records, 1998

Diamond Joe, Big Charlie Butler, on Mississippi Saints and Sinners, above.

Gulf Coast Blues, on WC Handy’s Memphis Blues Band, Memphis Archives, 1994

Hail to the Spirit of Freedom, on WC Handy: Father of the Blues, Handy Brothers Music, 2003

Hooking Cow Blues, on WC Handy’s Memphis Blues Band, above

Instrumental Medley, on The Early Minstrel Show, above

Joe Turner, Big Bill Broonzy, on Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook, Rounder Select, 2003

Joe Turner, on WC Handy: Father of the Blues, above

Joe Turner’s Blues, Nat King Cole on Father of the Blues , Jazz Portraits, n.d.

Luz Verde, Miguel Villasboas, on Bailemos Tango!, Rhino, 2000

Memphis Blues, Louis Armstrong, on Louis Armstrong Plays WC Handy, Sony, 1997

Memphis Blues, Eubie Blake, on Memories of You, Shout Factory, 2003

Memphis Blues, Don Byron, on Bug Music, Nonesuch Records, 1996

Memphis Blues, WC Handy, on Father of the Blues, above

Memphis Blues, WC Handy on WC Handy’s Memphis Blues Band, above

Memphis Blues, Mae West, on WC Handy, WC Handy Birthplace Museum, n.d.

Mr. Crump, on WC Handy: Father of the Blues, above

Old Uncle Ned, on The Early Minstrel Show, above

Ole Miss Rag, on WC Handy’s Memphis Blues Band, above

Purcell Trumpet Sonata, Wynton Marsalis, In Gabriel’s Garden, Sony, 1996

St. Louis Blues, Louis Armstrong on Louis Armstrong Plays WC Handy, above

St. Louis Blues, Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith, on The Essential Bessie Smith, Sony, 1997

St. Louis Blues, Louis Armstrong, on Satchmo the Great, Sony, 2000

St. Louis Blues, Ray Bryant, on Somewhere in France, Label M, 2003

St. Louis Blues, Bing Crosby, on That’s Jazz, Pearl, 1993

St. Louis Blues, James Reese Europe, on James Reese Europe’s 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band, Memphis Archives, 1996

St. Louis Blues, Marion Harris, on www.archive.org

St. Louis Blues, on Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics 1927-38, Arhoolie, 1993

St. Louis Blues, WC Handy’s Memphis Blues Band, above

St. Louis Blues, WC Handy: Father of the Blues, above

St. Louis Blues March, Glenn Miller, on Jazz Portraits, above

Staggerlee, Lucious Curtis and Willie Ford, on Mississippi Saints and Sinners, above

Staggerlee, Lucious Curtis, on Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook, above

Steel Layin’ Holler, John Gibson, on Black Appalachia, above

Trouble in Mind (It’s Better to be Born Lucky), Big Charlie Butler, on Mississippi Saints and Sinners, above

Walkin’ Billy, Thomas Jaybird Jones, on Mississippi Saints and Sinners, above

Wayfaring Stranger, Almeda Riddle, on Black Appalachia, above

Wild Ox Moan, Rollie Johnson, on Virginia and the Piedmont, above

Wish I was in Heaven Sitting Down, Fred McDowell, on Southern Journey Volume 1, Rounder Select, 1997

Working on the Levee, Sleeping on the Ground, Jim Henry and Jeff Webster, on Mississippi Saints and Sinners, above

Yellow Dog Blues, Sam Collins, on www.emusic.com

Yellow Dog Blues, Lizzie Miles, on WC Handy, WC Handy Birthplace Museum, above