1 Ryan Adams, Demolition (Lost Highway)
2 Steve Earle, Jerusalem (E-Squared/Artemis)
3 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway)
4 Beck, Sea Change (DGC)
5 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note)
6 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
7 Dixie Chicks, Home (Open Wide/Monument/Columbia)
8 Kelly Willis, Easy (Ryko)
9 Nickel Creek, This Side (Sugar Hill)
10 Rhett Miller, The Instigator (Elektra)
11 Neko Case, Blacklisted (Mint/Bloodshot)
12 Buddy Miller, Midnight And Lonesome (HighTone)
13 Delbert McClinton, Room To Breathe (New West)
14 Bruce Springsteen, The Rising (Columbia)
15 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 3 (Capitol/EMI)
16 The Gourds, Cow, Fish, Fowl Or Pig (Sugar Hill)
17 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite (Rounder)
18 Patty Griffin, 1,000 Kisses (ATO)
19 Nickel Creek, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
20 Blind Boys Of Alabama, Higher Ground (Real World)
21 Mark Knopfler, The Ragpicker’s Dream (Warner Bros.)
22 Richard Buckner, Impasse (Overcoat)
23 Chieftains, Down The Old Plank Road (RCA)
24 Various Artists, Going Driftless: Songs Of Greg Brown (Red House)
25 Slobberbone, Slippage (New West)
26 Aimee Mann, Lost In Space (Superego)
27 Kim Richey, Rise (Lost Highway)
28 Tift Merritt, Bramble Rose (Lost Highway)
29 Jorma Kaukonen, Blue Country Heart (Columbia)
30 Guy Clark, The Dark (Sugar Hill)
31 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
32 Various Artists, Kindred Spirits: Tribute To Johnny Cash (Lucky Dog)
33 Beth Orton, Daybreaker (Astralwerks)
34 Allison Moorer, Miss Fortune (Universal South)
35 Dolly Parton, Halos & Horns (Sugar Hill)
36 Flatlanders, Now Again (New West)
37 Various Artists, O Sister 2: A Women’s Bluegrass Collection (Rounder)
38 Linda Thompson, Fashionably Late (Rounder)
39 John Doe, Dim Stars Bright Sky (Artist Direct)
40 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Last DJ (Warner Bros.)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark (Bloomington, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (Los Angeles, CA), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s Records (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar, Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (Live Oak, TX), Cheapo Discs (Minneapolis, MN), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Ear X-tacy (Louisville, KY), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Encore Records (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada), The Exclusive Co. (Appleton, WI), Fingerprints CDs (Long Beach, CA), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Joseph-Beth (Lexington, KY), The Landing (Seattle, WA), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Record Archive (Rochester, NY), Rock-A-Billy’s (Utica, MI), Rockin’ Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), Schoolkids Records (Cary, NC), Schoolkids Records (Chapel Hill, NC), Shake It Records (Cincinnati, OH), Tower Records (Fairfax, VA), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Waterloo Records (Austin, TX), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
