1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury)
2 Old 97’s, Satellite Rides (Elektra)
3 Rodney Crowell , The Houston Kid (Sugar Hill)
4 Dolly Parton, Little Sparrow (Sugar Hill)
5 Jimmy LaFave, Texoma (Bohemia Beat)
6 Delbert McClinton, Nothing Personal (New West)
7 Emmylou Harris, Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch)
8 Nickel Creek, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
9 John Hammond, Wicked Grin: Songs Of Tom Waits (Point Blank/Virgin)
10 Charlie Robison, Step Right Up (Lucky Dog)
11 Shawn Colvin, Whole New You (Columbia)
12 Kasey Chambers, The Captain (Asylum)
13 Alejandro Escovedo, A Man Under The Influence (Bloodshot)
14 Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man (American/Columbia)
15 Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker (Bloodshot)
16 Ani DiFranco, Revelling/Reckoning (Righteous Babe)
17 Shaver, The Earth Rolls On (New West)
18 B.B. King & Eric Clapton, Riding With The King (Reprise)
19 Steve Earle, Transcendental Blues (E-Squared/Artemis)
20 Bonnie Prince Billy, Ease Down The Road (Palace)
21 John Hiatt, Crossing Muddy Waters (Vanguard)
22 Bob Dylan, The Essential (Columbia)
23 Greg Brown, Over And Under (Trailer)
24 Tim Easton, The Truth About Us (New West)
25 Jim White, No Such Place (Luaka Bop/Virgin)
26 Blue Mountain, Roots (self)
27 Red House Painters, Old Ramon (Sub Pop)
28 Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne (Mercury)
29 John Gorka, The Company You Keep (Red House)
30 Tom Russell, Borderland (HighTone)
31 Keb’ Mo’, The Door (550)
32 Swag, Catch-All (Yep Roc)
33 Merle Haggard, If I Could Only Fly (Anti/Epitaph)
34 Shuggie Otis, Inspiration Information (Luaka Bop)
35 Gram Parsons, Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels (Rhino)
36 Honeydogs, Here’s Luck (Palm)
37 Scott Miller, Are You With Me? (self)
38 Neil Young, Silver & Gold (Reprise)
39 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue II (Elektra)
40 Roger Wallace, That Kind Of Lonely (Texas Round-Up)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Bloomington, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s Records (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), Cactus Music & Video (Houston, TX), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenberg, Sweden), Dave’s Music Mine (Pittsburgh, PA), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Encore Records (Kitchener, Ontario), Exclusive Co. (Appleton, WI), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Horizon (Greenville, SC), The Landing (Seattle, WA), Laser’s Edge (Birmingham, AL), Local Flavor (mail order), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Main Street Music (Philadelphia, PA), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Maximum Music (San Rafael, CA), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Phil’s CDs (Ft. Thomas, KY), Plan 9 (Richmond, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, VA), Planet Of Sound (Chicago, IL), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Recordsmith (Berea, KY), Rock-A-Billys (Shelby Township, MI), Rockin’ Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), Salt City CDs (Salt Lake City, UT), Sonic Boom (Seattle, WA), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Texas Music Round-Up (mail order), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Waterloo Records (Austin, TX).
