Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: Rage Against the Machine -- Blues -- Various Artists: Falling Into Place -- Leadbelly -- Bessie Smith -- Country -- Jimmy Martin -- Early History -- Blind Tom Wiggins -- Emmett Miller -- Rock & Roll/Pop -- My Morning Jacket -- Janis Joplin -- Chris Bell -- Jim White -- Jazz -- Eartha Kitt -- Henry "Red" Allen -- Folk/Bluegrass -- Doc Watson -- Fred Neil -- Iris DeMent -- R&B/Soul -- Ray Charles -- Dusty Springfield -- Joe Tex -- Ike Turner -- Family -- My Mother's Blues -- About a Girl -- Rockabilly -- Jerry Lee Lewis -- Southern Rock -- The Allman Brothers -- Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Southern Heavy Metal -- An Ode -- Blues: Dept. of R.L.Burnside -- Authenticity Be Damned! -- Why I Wear My Mojo Hand -- Walking After Midnight -- Homage to a Juke Joint -- Rock & Roll II -- Captain Beefheart -- The Sex Pistols -- R&B: Dept. of Al Green -- Raw and Born Again -- Only His Voice Made Us Feel This Way -- Dept. of Elvis -- Bill Haney -- Rock& Roll/Pop III -- R.E.M. -- Bobbie Gentry -- Randy Newman -- 1967 -- Drivin' N' Cryin' -- Jazz II -- King Pleasure -- Bob Dorough -- Blues II -- Hunting for Old Records: A True Story -- Portrait of the Artist as an Aging Lightnin' Hopkins Enthusiast -- Rockabilly II -- Carl Perkins -- Dale Hawkins -- Playing -- Notes From the Underground (Twang Tour) -- Lucinda Williams -- Guitar Lessons -- Classical/Avant-Garde -- Moondog -- A Love Set to Music -- At the Young Composers' Concert -- Playing II -- The Song of a Sad Café -- Banjo -- The Most Human Sound -- Contributors -- Credits.