1 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
2 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway)
3 Flatlanders, Now Again (New West)
4 Patty Griffin, 1,000 Kisses (ATO)
5 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note/Capitol)
6 Tom Waits, Alice (Anti/Epitaph)
7 Tom Waits, Blood Money (Anti/Epitaph)
8 Los Lobos, Good Morning Aztlan (Mammoth)
9 Elvis Costello, When I Was Cruel (Island)
10 Uncle Tupelo, 89/93: An Anthology (Columbia/Legacy)
11 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite (Rounder)
12 Bonnie Raitt, Silver Lining (Capitol)
13 Paul Westerberg, Stereo (Vagrant)
14 Steve Earle, Sidetracks (E-Squared/Artemis)
15 Tift Merritt, Bramble Rose (Lost Highway)
16 Neil Young, Are You Passionate? (Reprise)
17 Ryan Adams, Gold (Lost Highway)
18 Lucinda Williams, Essence (Lost Highway)
19 Kasey Chambers, Barricades And Brickwalls (Warner Bros.)
20 Jack Ingram, Electric (Lucky Dog)
21 Willie Nelson, The Great Divide (Lost Highway)
22 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
23 Ralph Stanley, self-titled (DMZ)
24 Various Artists, Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood soundtrack (DMZ)
25 Van Morrison, Down The Road (MCA)
26 Jorma Kaukonen, Blue Country Heart (Columbia)
27 Nickel Creek, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
29 Greg Brown, Milk Of The Moon (Red House)
30 Jay Bennett & Edward Burch, The Palace At 4 AM (Undertow)
31 Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, Out In California (HighTone)
32 Jim Lauderdale & Ralph Stanley, Lost In The Lonesome Pines (Dualtone)
33 Chuck Prophet, No Other Love (New West)
34 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Capitol)
35 Blasters, Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (Rhino)
36 Todd Snider, New Connection (Oh Boy)
37 Jeff Tweedy, Chelsea Walls soundtrack (Ryko)
38 Caitlin Cary, While You Weren’t Looking (Yep Roc)
39 Jerry Douglas, Lookout For Hope (Sugar Hill)
40 The Band, The Last Waltz (Rhino)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Bloomington, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), Cactus Music (Houston, TX), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (Live Oak, TX), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenburg, Sweden), Dave’s Music Mine (Pittsburgh, PA) Discover Music (Decatur, GA), Down Home Music (El Cerrito, CA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Fingerprints CDs (Long Beach, CA), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Grass Roots Books & Music (Corvallis, OR), Great Escape (Bowling Green, KY), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Homer’s (Omaha, NE), Hoodlums New & Used Music (Tempe, AZ), Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, KY), The Landing (Seattle, WA), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Manifest Discs (Charlotte, NC), Maximum Music (San Rafael, CA), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), Park Ave. CDs (Winter Park, FL), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Record Service (Champaign, IL), Rock-A-Billys (Utica, MI), Rockin’ Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), Schoolkids (Cary, NC), Schoolkids (Chapel Hill, NC), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Texas Music Roundup (mail order), Tower Records (Fairfax, VA), Tower Records (New Orleans, LA), Tower Records (Philadelphia, PA), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Uncle Buck’s (Oxford, MS), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Waterloo (Austin, TX), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
