1 Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
2 Los Lonely Boys, self-titled (Or)
3 Various Artists, Por Vida: A Tribute To The Songs Of Alejandro Escovedo (Or)
4 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
5 Modest Mouse, Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Epic)
6 Old 97’s, Drag It Up (New West)
7 Steve Earle, The Revolution Starts…Now (Artemis)
8 Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South (New West)
9 Patty Griffin, Impossible Dream (ATO)
10 k.d. lang, Hymns Of The 49th Parallel (Nonesuch)
11 Los Lobos, The Ride (Hollywood)
12 Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
13 Todd Snider, East Nashville Skyline (Oh Boy)
14 Mindy Smith, One Moment More (Vanguard)
15 Mark Lanegan, Bubblegum (Beggars Banquet)
16 Tift Merritt, Tambourine (Lost Highway)
17 Joanna Newsom, Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
18 Dave Alvin, Ashgrove (Yep Roc)
19 Nick Drake, Made To Love Magic (Island)
20 Jay Farrar, Stone, Steel & Bright Lights (Transmit Sound)
21 Jolie Holland, Escondida (Anti)
22 Los Lobos, Ride This: The Covers EP (Hollywood)
23 Various Artists, This Is Americana (NARM)
24 Tres Chicas, Sweetwater (Yep Roc)
25 Old Crow Medicine Show, OCMS (Nettwerk)
26 J.J. Cale, To Tulsa And Back (Sanctuary)
27 Jesse Malin, The Heat (Artemis)
28 Reverend Horton Heat, Revival (Yep Roc)
29 Devendra Banhart, Rejoicing In The Hands (Young God)
30 Marah, 20,000 Streets Under The Sky (Yep Roc)
31 Cowboy Junkies, One Soul Now (Zoe/Rounder)
32 Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (American/Lost Highway)
33 Calexico, Convict Pool (Quarterstick)
34 BoDeans, Resolution (Zoe/Rounder)
35 Various Artists, Garden State soundtrack (Epic)
36 Rilo Kiley, More Adventures (Warner Bros.)
37 Various Artists, Future Soundtrack For America (Barsuk)
38 Polyphonic Spree, Together We’re Heavy (Hollywood)
39 Jon Dee Graham, The Great Battle (New West)
40 Norah Jones, Feels Like Home (Blue Note/Capitol)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Minneapolis, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (Hollywood, 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), Easy Street (Seattle, WA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Future Legend (New York City, NY), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Hoodlums Music (Tucson, AZ), Horizon (Greenville, SC), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Plan 9 (Richmond, VA), Record Exchange (Boise, ID), Reveal Records (Derby, UK), Rock-A-Billy’s (Utica, MI), Scoolkids (Raleigh, NC), Soundscapes (Toronto, Ontario), Tower Records #822 (Fairfax, VA), Treehouse Records (Minneapolis, MN), Waterloo Records (Austin, TX), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
