26 bluesowych, folkowych i country’owych utworów, które inspirowały Boba Dylana w pierwszym okresie jego kariery.
Ten pierwszy okres obejmuje – według autorów kompilacji – lata między ukazaniem się albumów „Bob Dylan” i „Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” a „Planet Waves”.

The House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley / Ramblin' Blues - Woody Guthrie / Baby Please Don't Go - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers / Louisiana Blues - Muddy Waters / (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle –Hank Williams / Milkcow'scalf Blues#1 - Robert Johnson / That's All Right (Mama) -Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup / Worried Blues – Leadbelly / Take Rocks And Gravel To Make A Solid Road - Railroad Blues - Horace Sprott / Alabama Woman Blues - Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell / The Twa Sisters (The Two Sisters) – Paul Clayton / A Fool Such As I - Jo Stafford / Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies - Herta Marshall / Little Moses - The Carter Family / Railroad Bill - Cisco Houston / Spanish Isthe Loving Tongue - Bob Ross / Matchbox - Carl Perkins / Your True Love - Carl Perkins / Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas / Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance? - Henry Thomas / I Forgot To Remember To Forget - Charlie Feathers / Jamaica Farewell - Harry Belafonte / Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell / The Lily Of The West - Joan O'bryant / Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson / The House Of The Rising Sun - Josh White.