1 John Prine, In Spite Of Ourselves (Oh Boy)
2 Dolly Parton, The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill)
3 Ani DiFranco, To The Teeth (Righteous Babe)
4 Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne (Island)
5 Dixie Chicks, Fly (Monument)
6 Jimmie Dale Gilmore, One Endless Night (Windcharger/Rounder)
7 Kelly Willis, What I Deserve (Rykodisc)
8 Tom Waits, Mule Variations (Epitaph)
9 Guy Clark, Cold Dog Soup (Sugar Hill)
10 Alison Krauss, Forget About It (Rounder)
11 Leftover Salmon, The Nashville Sessions (Hollywood)
12 Warren Zevon, Life’ll Kill Ya (Artemis)
13 Robbie Fulks, The Very Best Of Robbie Fulks (Bloodshot)
14 Hank Williams III, Risin’ Outlaw (Curb)
15 Buena Vista Social Club, self-titled (Nonesuch)
16 Various Artists, Return Of The Grievous Angel: A Tribute To Gram Parsons (Almo)
17 Lyle Lovett, Live In Texas (Curb)
18 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury)
19 Slaid Cleaves, Broke Down (Philo/Rounder)
20 Asleep At The Wheel, Ride With Bob (Dreamworks)
21 Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison (Sony/Legacy)
22 Chappaquiddick Skyline, self-titled (Sub Pop)
23 Bruce Cockburn, Breakfast In New Orleans (Rykodisc)
24 Wilco, Summer Teeth (Reprise)
25 Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain (E-Squared)
26 Buddy Miller, Cruel Moon (HighTone)
27 Blue Mountain, Tales Of A Traveler (Roadrunner)
28 The Derailers, Full Western Dress (Sire)
29 Neko Case, Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot)
30 Lambchop, Nixon (Merge)
31 Will Oldham, Guarapero: Lost Blues 2 (Drag City)
32 Gomez, Liquid Skin (Virgin)
33 Tracy Chapman, Telling Stories (Elektra)
34 Bela Fleck & Friends, The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.)
35 Blaze Foley, Live At The Austin Outhouse (Lost Art)
36 Morphine, The Night (Dreamworks)
37 Kim Richey, Glimmer (Mercury)
38 Chuck Prophet, The Hurting Business (HighTone)
39 Mike Ness, Under The Influences (Time Bomb)
40 Blue Rodeo, Days In Between (WEA-Canada)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Bloomington, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Cellophane Square (Seattle, Bellevue, Bellingham, WA), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenburg, Sweden), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), Encore (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada), Ernie November #1 (Sioux Falls, SD), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Groovacious Platters (Keizer, OR), Horizon (Greeneville, SC), Laser’s Edge (Birmingham, AL), Local Flavor (Corpus Christi, TX), Lou’s Records (Encinitas, CA), Love Garden (Lawrence, KS), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Main Street Music (Philadelphia, PA), Maximum Music (San Rafael, CA), Miles Of Music (mail order) Music Millennium (Portland, OR), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Pac-Rats (Bowling Green, KY), Park Ave. CDs (Winter Park, FL), Plan 9 (Richmond, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, VA), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Record Archive (Rochester, NY), Rock-A-Billy’s (Shelby Township, MI), Rockin Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), Sal’s Music Emporium (Iowa City, IA), Salt City CDs (Salt Lake City, UT), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Streetside (St. Louis, MO), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Uncle Buck’s (Oxford, MS), Village Records (Shawnee, KS), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Waterloo (Austin, TX), Wildman Steve’s (Auburn, AL), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
