1 Steve Earle, El Corazon (E-Squared)
2 Bob Dylan, Time Out Of Mind (Columbia)
3 Old & In The Way, Breakdown (Acoustic Disc)
4 Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac (Outpost)
5 Robbie Fulks, South Mouth (Bloodshot)
6 Greg Brown, Slant 6 Mind (Red House)
7 Delbert McClinton, One Of The Fortunate Few (Rising Tide)
8 Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers, self-titled (self-released)
9 Ricky Skaggs, Bluegrass Rules (Skaggs Family/Rounder)
10 Derailers, Reverb Deluxe (Sire/Watermelon)
11 Various Artists, Anthology of American Folk Music (Folkways)
12 Will Oldham, Joya (Drag City)
13 Old 97’s, Too Far To Care (Elektra)
14 Buddy Miller, Poison Love (HighTone)
15 Donnie Fritts, Everybody’s Got A Song (Oh Boy)
16 B.B. King, Deuces Wild (MCA)
17 Slobberbone, Barrel Chested (Doolittle)
18 Reckless Kelly, The Way Things Are (CSR)
19 Kelly Joe Phelps, Roll Away (Rykodisc)
20 Bottle Rockets, 24 Hours A Day (Atlantic)
21 Lonesome Bob, Things Fall Apart (Checkered Past)
22 Wayne Hancock, That’s What Daddy Wants (Ark 21)
23 Fred Eaglesmith, Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline (Razor & Tie)
24 Blasters, American Music (HighTone)
25 Robert Earl Keen, Picnic (Arista Austin)
26 Ray Wylie Hubbard, Dangerous Spirits (Philo)
27 John Fogerty, Blue Moon Swamp (Warner Bros.)
28 Southern Culture On The Skids, Plastic Seat Sweat (DGC)
29 David Grisman & Doc Watson, Doc & Dawg (Acoustic Disc)
30 James McMurtry, It Had To Happen (Sugar Hill)
31 6 String Drag, High Hat (E-Squared)
32 Ray Condo & The Ricochets, Door To Door Maniac (Joaquin)
33 Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, Feelin’ Kinda Lucky (HighTone)
34 Waco Brosthers, Do You Think About Me? (Bloodshot)
35 Will Oldham, Western Music EP (Domino-Spain)
36 Blue Mountain, Homegrown (Roadrunner)
37 Whiskeytown, Rural Free Delivery (Mood Food)
38 Allison Krauss & Union Station, So Long So Wrong (Rounder)
39 Dar Williams, The End Of The Summer (Razor & Tie)
40 Wilco, Being There (Reprise)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark (Bloomington, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s (Los Angeles, CA), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), Borders (Evanston, IL), Cactus (Houston, TX), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD World (Dallas, TX), Cellophane Square (Seattle, Bellevue, Bellingham, WA), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Disc Go Round (Huntsville, AL), Down Home Music (El Cerrito, CA), Ear X-tacy (Louisville, KY), Frontiers (mail order), Green Noise (Eugene, OR), Horizon (Greenville, SC), House of Records (Eugene, OR), Love Garden (Lawrence, KS), Madcity Music (Madison, WI), Main Street Music (Philadelphia, PA), Maximum Music (San Rafael, CA), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Oarfolkjokeopus (Minneapolis, MN), Park Ave. CD (Winter Park, FL), Periscope (Champaign, IL), Poindexters (Durham, NC), Premiere CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Rino Records (Claremont, CA), Roadrunner (Minneapolis, MN), Roundhere Records (Alton, IL), Sal’s Music Emporium (Iowa City, IA), Salt Of The Earth (Columbia, MO), Spy Records (Lexington, KY), Toon’s (Colorado Springs, CO), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Uncle Buck’s (Oxford, MS), Underdog Records (Clemson, SC), Village Records (Shawnee, KS), Vintage Vinyl (Fords, NJ), Wildman Steve’s Records (Auburn, AL), Wuxtry (Decatur, GA).
