"Barbara Allen" / Dave Marsh
"The water is wide" / Ann Powers
"Pretty Polly" / Rennie Sparks
Music, when soft voices die / Sharyn McCrumb
Naomie Wise, 1807 / Anna Domino
John Brown's body / S. Vowell
"When you go a courtin'" / R. Crumb
Little Maggie: a mystery / Joyce Carol Oates
We did them wrong: the ballad of Frankie and Albert / Cecil Brown
The sad song of Delia Green and Cooney Houston / Sean Wilentz
Destiny in my right hand: "The wreck of old 97" and "Dead man's curve" / David Thomas
I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say / Luc Sante
"See Willy fly by" and "The cuckoo" / Jon Langford
Mariachi reverie / Paul Berman
"The foggy, foggy dew" / John Rockwell
"Come Sunday" / Stanley Crouch
"Trial of Mary Maguire" / Ed Ward
Love, lore, celebrity, and dead babies: Dolly Parton's "Down from Dover" / Eric Weisbard
"Sail away" and "Louisiana 1927" / Steve Erickson
Dancing with Dylan / Wendy Lesser
"Nebraska" / Howard Hampton
"Blackwatertown" / Paul Muldoon
