Country. American roots music theme (Ricky Skaggs, Earl Scruggs, James Cotton and Marc & Ann Savoy) ; Waiting for a train (Jimmie Rodgers) ; Wildwood flower (the Carter Family) ; Take me back to my old Carolina home (Uncle Dave Macon) ; Wabash Cannonball (Roy Acuff) ; That silver haired daddy of mine (Gene Autry) ; Sitting on top of the world (Bob Wills) ; Uncle Pen (Bill Monroe) ; Salty dog blues (Flatt and Scruggs) ; Nine-pound hammer (Merle Travis) ; Walking the floor over you (Ernest Tubb) ; You've got the money, I've got the time (Lefty Frizzell) ; Cold cold heart (Hank Williams) ; It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels (Kitty Wells) ; Black Mountain rag (Doc Watson) ; Earl's breakdown (Earl Scruggs) ; Little Maggie (Ralph Stanley) ; Where shades of love lie deep (Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver) ; Stomping grounds (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones)
Blues. The King Biscuit time theme (James Cotton) ; Crazy blues (Mamie Smith) ; St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith) ; Black snake moan (Blind Lemon Jefferson) ; Screamin' and hollerin' the blues (Charley Patton) ; Cross road blues (Robert Johnson) ; Death letter blues (Son House) ; Another night to cry (Lonnie Johnson) ; Foldin' bed (Whistler's Jug Band) ; Boogie woogie dream (Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson) ; Bye bye bird (Sonny Boy Williamson) ; Shake for me (Howlin' Wolf) ; Got my mojo working (Muddy Waters) ; The thrill is gone (B.B. King) ; Take a little walk with me (Robert Lockwood Jr.) ; Henry (Keb' Mo')
Gospel. Joshua fit de battle (Fisk Jubilee Singers) ; Precious Lord, take my hand (Thomas A. Dorsey) ; Blind Barnabus (the Golden Gate Quartet) ; Down by the riverside (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) ; Move on up a little higher (Mahalia Jackson) ; Sit down servant (the Staple Singers) ; Oh happy day (Edwin Hawkins)
Folk. This land is your land (Woody Guthrie) ; Goodnight Irene (Lead Belly) ; So long it's been good to know yuh (the Weavers) ; The soldier and the lady (the New Lost City Ramblers) ; John Henry (Mississippi John Hurt) ; If I had a hammer (The hammer song) (Peter, Paul and Mary) ; We shall overcome (SNCC Freedom Singers with Pete Seeger) ; The times they are a-changin' (Bob Dylan)
Cajun/Zydeco. Allons à Lafayette (Joe Falcon and Cleoma Breaux) ; Madame Atchen (Amédé Ardoin and Dennis McGee) ; Port Arthur blues (Dewey Balfa) ; I'm a hog for you (Clifton Chenier) ; Dans la Louisianne (Marc and Ann Savoy) ; Ossun two-step (Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys)
Tejano. Mal hombre (Lydia Mendoza) ; Muchacha bonita (Narciso Martínez) ; Rosalito (Valerio Longoria) ; Las nubes (Little Joe y la Familia) ; Ring of fire (Mingo Saldívar) ; Sorry boy (Flaco Jiménez)
Native American. Yeibichei song (unidentified performers) ; Traditional powwow (Renzel Last Horse and Kiyaska) ; Jesus loves me (Everette Red Bear and Sandor Iron Rope of the Native American Church) ; Wounded Knee (Floyd Westerman) ; Enchantment song (R. Carlos Nakai) ; The dance (Robert Mirabal).