These Library of Congress field recordings done by Alan Lomax from 1941-1942 feature Muddy with Percy Thomas on guitar, Louis Ford on mandolin, and Henry Sims on violin. Capturing Muddy in a string-band context playing his earliest repertoire, this is a major historical document.

Track Listing
1 Country Blues #1
2 I Be's Troubled
3 Burr Clover Farm Blues
4 Ramblin' Kid Blues
5 Rosalie
6 Joe Turner
7 Pearlie May Blues
8 Take a Walk With Me
9 Burr Clover Blues
10 I Be Bound to Write to You [First Version]
11 You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone #1
12 You Got to Take Sick and Die Some of These Days
13 Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You?
14 Country Blues #2
15 You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone #2
16 32-20 Blues