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| Leadbelly's lessons | |
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| What kind of soul has man? | |
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| Sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn | |
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| John wesley ledbetter | |
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| Colt protection special | |
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| Fannin street signifies | |
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| Mistress stella speaks | |
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| 1912: Blind lemon jefferson explaining to leadbelly | |
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| What you gonna do when the world's on fire? | |
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| Caddo born | |
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| Blind lemon taught me | |
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| Misfire | |
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| Harris county chain gang | |
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| Alias: walter boyd | |
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| Lethe on leadbelly | |
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| The blood done signed your name | |
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| For trouble's sake | |
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| Bud russel, louisiana prison transfer man, 1920 | |
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| Father | |
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| Leadbelly: runagate | |
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| Leadbelly: from sugarland | |
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| Sing out | |
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| Governor Pat Neff | |
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| Freedom | |
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| Home | |
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| Loving era | |
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| Era washington on leadbelly's stella | |
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| Black girl, black girl... | |
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| Mary on martha... | |
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| Martha promise: grown summer | |
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| Will you take this load... | |
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| Martha promise: what i knew | |
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| Yes, i was standing at the bottom | |
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| Mooringsport moan | |
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| Leadbelly in angola prison: down again | |
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| Leadbelly sings to his #1 crew | |
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| July, 1933: leadbelly receives lomax at angola prison | |
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| Out | |
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| Home again | |
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| Martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935 | |
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| Martha promise: keeping peace | |
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| Man plowing with mules | |
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| John Lomax's Recording Machine, 1933 | |
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| Ethnographer John Lomax Speaks of His Vocation | |
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| John Lomax: I Work With Negroes | |
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| John Lomax: On Seeking Song | |
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| John Lomax Visits Leadbelly in Angola Prison: July, 1933 | |
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| Leadbelly's role | |
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| Leadbelly: mythology | |
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| Five year sentence | |
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| Leadbelly's labor on the lomax trail, 1934 | |
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| Prisoner #489235 | |
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| The song speaks | |
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| You don't know my mind... | |
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| Lead Belly: Bad Nigger Makes Good Minstrel | |
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| Leadbelly v. lomax: song hunting, 1934 | |
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| John Lomax writes home, 1934 | |
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| Leadbelly writes home, 1934 | |
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| Leadbelly v. lomax at the modern language association conference, 1934 | |
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| Lomax v. leadbelly in new york: letters to home, 1934 | |
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| Lomax v. leadbelly: on the road, 1935 | |
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| Lomax v. leadbelly: dreams | |
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| Good morning babe, how do you do? | |
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| Leadbelly & martha: return to new york, 1936 | |
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| Jimmy goodwin, age 9 | |
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| Leadbelly's big city hustle | |
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| Brownie and leadbelly: stipulations and apprenticeship | |
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| Martha: life's work | |
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| To: Haywood Patterson #386j49 | |
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| Leadbelly: one thing | |
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| John Lomax writes home, 1937 | |
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| Martha: weight | |
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| Josh white writes home, 1941 | |
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| Cab calloway on leadbelly | |
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| Stella: diminuendo | |
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| Martha: vigil | |
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| Leadbelly: christened | |
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| Notes | |
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| Leadbelly's Timeline | |
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| References | |
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| Acknowledgments | |