1 Emmylou Harris, Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch)
2 John Hiatt, Crossing Muddy Waters (Vanguard)
3 Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man (American)
4 Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker (Bloodshot)
5 Willie Nelson, Milk Cow Blues (Island)
6 Merle Haggard, If I Could Only Fly (Anti/Epitaph)
7 Allison Moorer, The Hardest Part (MCA Nashville)
8 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue II (Elektra)
9 Steve Earle, Transcendental Blues (E-Squared/Artemis)
10 Greg Brown, Covenant (Red House)
11 Keb’ Mo’, The Door (Okeh)
12 Richard Buckner, The Hill (Overcoat)
13 Dar Williams, The Green World (Razor & Tie)
14 Ricky Skaggs & Friends, Big Mon: The Songs Of Bill Monroe (Skaggs Family)
15 Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis, You Win Again (Point Blank/Virgin)
16 Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Outbound (Columbia)
17 Neil Young, Silver & Gold (Reprise)
18 Sam Bush, Ice Caps: Peaks Of Telluride (Sugar Hill)
19 Neko Case & Her Boyfriends, Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot)
20 Dave Alvin, Public Domain (HighTone)
21 John Prine, Souvenirs (Oh Boy)
22 Mark Olson & the Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers, My Own Jo Ellen (HighTone)
23 Jayhawks, Smile (Columbia)
24 Garcia/Grisman/Rice, The Pizza Tapes (Acoustic Disc)
25 Waco Brothers, Electric Waco Chair (Bloodshot)
26 Martin Sexton, Wonder Bar (Atlantic)
27 Kevin Gordon, Down To The Well (Shanachie)
28 Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne (Mercury)
29 Beaver Nelson, Little Brother (Black Dog)
30 B.B. King & Eric Clapton, Riding With The King (Reprise)
31 Badly Drawn Boy, Hour Of Bewilderbeast (XL)
32 Gourds, Bolsa De Agua (Sugar Hill)
33 16 Horsepower, Secret Self (Razor & Tie)
34 Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys, The Spectacular Sadness Of… (Bloodshot)
35 Jim Roll, Lunette (New West)
36 Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, Beatin’ The Heat (Surfdog)
37 Various Artists, Down To The Promised Land (Bloodshot)
38 Deke Dickerson, Rhythm, Rhyme & Truth (HMG)
39 Joe Ely, Live At Antone’s (Rounder)
40 David Grisman, Tone Poems III (Acoustic Disc)
Reporting Stores: Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s Records (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenburg, Sweden), Discover Music (Lilburn, GA), Django’s Cellophane Square (Seattle, Bellevue, Bellingham, WA), Ernie November (Sioux Falls, SD), Exclusive Company (Appleton, WI), Gem City (Dayton, OH), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Horizon (Greenville, SC), House Of Records (Eugene, OR), Local Flavor (mail order), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Maximum Music (San Rafael, CA), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Park Ave. CDs (Winter Park, FL), Plan 9 (Richmond, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, VA), Planet Of Sound (Chicago, IL), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Record Archive (Rochester, NY), Record Emporium (Chicago, IL), Recordsmith (Richmond, KY), 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), Tower (Nashville, TN), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO).
