A carefully well done cover with a complete informative booklet and very good photographs too The cd presents 23 songs, most of them previously unissued that can now be heard for the first time, thanks to the valuable researching work of Smithsonian Folways John Cohen’s photographs give his particular vision and a new creative dimension of a group of people directly related with old time popular music This cd becomes indispensable to any blues collector, ethnomusicologist or history researcher, but also to any blues lover, because you can find such great artists like Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Woodie Guthrie, Alan Lomax, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Elizabeth Cotten, or Rev Gary Davis among the 23 musicians who perform in these historical recordings