1 Steve Earle, El Corazon (E-Squared/Warner Bros.)
2 Bob Dylan, Time Out of Mind (Columbia)
3 Wayne Hancock, That’s What Daddy Wants (Ark 21)
4 The Blasters, American Music (HighTone)
5 Fred Eaglesmith, Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline (Razor & Tie)
6 Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac (Outpost)
7 Buddy Miller, Poison Love (HighTone)
8 Paul Burlison, Train Kept a Rollin (Sweetfish)
9 Bottle Rockets, 24 Hours a Day (Atlantic)
10 Old 97’s, Too Far To Care (Elektra)
11 Wilco, Being There (Reprise)
12 Bo Ramsey, In The Weeds (Trailer)
13 Southern Culture On The Skids, Plastic Seat Sweat (DGC)
14 Greg Brown, Slant 6 Mind (Red House)
15 Two Dollar Pistols, On Down the Track (Scrimshaw)
16 Dave Grisman/Doc Watson, Doc & Dawg (Acoustic Disc)
17 Six String Drag, High Hat (E-Squared)
18 James McMurtry, It Had To Happen (Sugar Hill)
19 Tom Russell, Song of the West (HighTone) 180 + 6 = 186
20 Various Artists, The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute (Egyptian/Columbia)
21 Robbie Fulks, South Mouth (Bloodshot)
22 John Fogerty, Blue Moon Swamp (Warner Bros.)
23 Robert Earl Keen, Picnic (Arista Austin)
24 Son Volt, Straightaways (Warner Bros.)
25 The Billy’s, Another Winner (Red Shirt)
26 Gimmecaps, Gimmecaps (Black Dog)
27 V-Roys, Just Add Ice (E-Squared)
28 Whiskeytown, Rural Free Delivery (Mood Food)
29 Delbert McClinton, One of the Fortunate Few (Rising Tide)
30 Kevin Gordon, Illinois 5 AM (Motherlode)
31 Blue Mountain, Homegrown (Roadrunner)
32 Ricky Skaggs, Bluegrass Rules (Skaggs Family/Rounder)
33 Will Oldham, Joya (Drag City)
34 Alison Krauss, So Long So Wrong (Rounder)
35 Big Sandy & the Fly-Rite Boys, Feelin’ Kinda Lucky (HighTone)
36 Will Oldham, Western Music (Spanish Import)
37 Kelly Joe Phelps, Roll Away (RykoDisc)
38 Steve Earle & The Supersuckers, self-titled (Sub Pop)
39 Patty Larkin, Perishable Fruit (label?)
40 Various Artists, Anthology of American Folk Music (Folkways)
Reporting Stores: Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Apollo Compact Disc (Iowa City, IA), Aquarius (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s Records (Los Angeles, CA), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), Cactus Records (Houston, TX), Cellophane Square (Seattle, Bellevue, Bellingham), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD World (Dallas, TX), Disc Connection (Bensalem, PA), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Down Home Music (El Cerrito, CA), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), Ernie November (Sioux Falls, SD), Green Noise (Eugene, OR), Horizon (Greenville, SC), House of Records (Eugene, OR), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Maximum Music (San Rafael, CA), Miles of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Park Avenue CD (Winter Park, FL), Periscope (Champaign, IL), Phil’s CDs (Ft. Thomas, KY), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Poindexters (Durham, NC), Rino Records (Claremont, CA), Rockin’ Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), Roundhere (Alton, IL), Sal’s Music Emporium (Iowa City, IA), Salt Lake City CDs (Salt Lake City, UT), Spy Records (Lexington, KY), Toon’s (Colorado Springs, CO), Twist and Shout (Denver, CO), Uncle Buck’s Records (Oxford, MI), Underdog Records (Clemson, SC), Village Records (Shawnee, KS), Vintage Vinyl (Fords, N.J.), Wuxtry (Decatur, GA).
