1 Tom Waits, Real Gone (Anti-)
2 Elliott Smith, From A Basement On The Hill (Anti-)
3 Steve Earle, The Revolution Starts…Now (E-Squared/Artemis)
4 Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South (New West)
5 Various Artists, This Is Americana (NARM)
6 Elvis Costello, The Delivery Man (Lost Highway)
7 Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
8 Tift Merritt, Tambourine (Lost Highway)
9 Buddy Miller, Universal United House Of Prayer (New West)
10 k.d. lang, Hymns Of The 49th Parallel (Nonesuch)
11 Brian Wilson, Smile (Nonesuch)
12 John Fogerty, Deja Vu All Over Again (Geffen)
13 Black Keys, Rubber Factory (Fat Possum)
14 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Abbatoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus (Anti-)
15 Rilo Kiley, More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute/Warner Bros.)
16 Mindy Smith, One Moment More (Vanguard)
17 Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama, There Will Be A Light (Virgin)
18 Old Crow Medicine Show, O.C.M.S. (Nettwerk)
19 Paul Westerberg, Folker (Vagrant)
20 Ray Charles, Genius Loves Company (Concord)
21 Ray LaMontagne, Trouble (RCA)
22 Mark Lanegan, Bubblegum (Beggar’s Banquet)
23 Kasey Chambers, Wayward Angel (Warner Bros.)
24 R.E.M., Around The Sun (Warner Bros.)
25 Various Artists, Por Vida: A Tribute To The Songs Of Alejandro Escovedo (Or)
26 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
27 Mark Knopfler, Shangri-La (Warner Bros.)
28 Los Lonely Boys, self-titled (Or/Sony)
29 Greg Brown, In The Hills Of California (Red House)
30 Richard Buckner, Dents And Shells (Merge)
31 Devendra Banhart, Nino Rojo (Young God)
32 Dave Alvin, Ashgrove (Yep Roc)
33 Leonard Cohen, Dear Heather (Columbia)
34 Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
35 Old 97’s, Drag It Up (New West)
36 Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love (Rounder)
37 Jolie Holland, Escondida (Anti-)
38 Willie Nelson, It Will Always Be (Lost Highway)
40 Thrills, Let’s Bottle Bohemia (Virgin)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Minneapolis, MN), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Live Oak, TX), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), Easy Street (Seattle, WA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Fingerprints (Long Beach, CA), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Future Legend (New York, NY), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Horizon Records (Greenville, SC), The Landing (Seattle, WA), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Phil’s Music Books & More (Latonia, KY), Rock-A-Billy’s (Utica, MI), Schoolkids (Raleigh, NC), Texas Music Round-Up (mail order), Tower Records #822 (Fairfax, VA), Treehouse Records (Minneapolis, MN), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
