1 Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (Saddle Creek)
2 Bright Eyes, Digital Ash In A Digital Urn (Saddle Creek)
3 Arcade Fire, Funeral (Merge)
4 Ani DiFranco, Knuckle Down (Righteous Babe)
5 Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love (Rounder)
6 Elliott Smith, From A Basement On The Hill (Anti-)
7 Ray LaMontagne, Trouble (RCA)
8 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Lonely Runs Both Ways (Rounder)
9 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
10 Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy, Superwolf (Drag City)
11 Iron & Wine, Woman King EP (Sub Pop)
12 Low, The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop)
13 Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
14 Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
15 Joanna Newsom, Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
16 Neko Case, The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti-)
17 Josh Rouse, Nashville (Ryko)
18 Old Crow Medicine Show, O.C.M.S. (Nettwerk)
19 Nanci Griffith, Hearts In Mind (New Door/Universal)
20 Ray Charles, Genius Loves Company (Concord)
21 Ben Harper & the Blind Boys Of Alabama, There Is A Light (Virgin)
18 Marianne Faithfull, Before The Poison (Anti-)
19 M. Ward, Transistor Radio (Merge)
20 Various Artists, Garden State soundtrack (Epic)
21 Tom Waits, Real Gone (Anti-)
22 Tift Merritt, Tambourine (Lost Highway)
23 Sonny Landreth, Grant Street (Sugar Hill)
24 Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South (New West)
25 Magnolia Electric Co., Trials & Errors (Secretly Canadian)
26 Various Artists, This Is Americana (NARM)
27 Lou Barlow, Emoh (Merge)
28 Mary Gauthier, Mercy Now (Lost Highway)
29 Kings Of Leon, Aha Shake Heart Break (RCA)
30 Kathleen Edwards, Back To Me (Zoe/Rounder)
31 Drive-By Truckers, Pizza Deliverance (New West)
32 Drive-By Truckers, Gangstabilly (New West)
33 Iris DeMent, Lifeline (Flariella)
34 Steve Earle, The Revolution Starts…Now (E-Squared/Artemis)
35 Nick Cave, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (Anti-)
36 Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
37 Elvis Costello, The Delivery Man deluxe (Lost Highway)
38 Tori Amos, The Beekeeper (Epic)
39 Shins, Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)
40 Duhks, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Minneapolis, MN), Amoeba Music (Los Angeles, CA), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Warehouse (Cedar Rapids, IA), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), Easy Street Records (Seattle, WA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Fingerprints CDs (Long Beach, CA), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Future Legend (New York, NY), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Hoodlums (Tempe, AZ), Horizon Records (Greenville, SC), Laser’s Edge (Birmngham, AL), Laurie’s Planet Of Sound (Chicago, IL), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Manifest (Charlotte, NC), Miles of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Plan 9 (Richmond, VA), Record Emporium (Chicago, IL), Record Exchange (Boise, ID), Rock-A-Billy’s (Utica, MI), Sounds Familiar (Asheville, NC), Tower #822 (Fairfax, VA), Treehouse Records (Minneapolis, MN), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Vinyl Fever (Tampa, FL), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
