1 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury)
2 Lyle Lovett, Step Inside This House (Curb/MCA)
3 Bob Dylan, Live 1966: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert (Columbia/Legacy)
4 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)
5 Beck, Mutations (Bong Load/DGC/Geffen)
6 Son Volt, Wide Swing Tremolo (Warner Bros.)
7 Robert Earl Keen, Walking Distance (Arista Austin)
8 Willie Nelson, Teatro (Island)
9 Golden Smog, Weird Tales (Rykodisc)
10 Emmylou Harris, Spyboy (Eminent)
11 Gillian Welch, Hell Among The Yearlings (Almo)
12 Chris Isaak, Speak Of The Devil (Reprise)
13 Los Super Seven, self-titled (RCA)
14 Bottle Rockets, Leftovers (Doolittle)
15 Sheryl Crow, The Globe Sessions (A&M)
16 V-Roys, All About Town (E-Squared)
17 Keb’ Mo’, Slow Down (Okeh)
18 Lucinda Williams, self-titled (Koch)
19 John Mellencamp, self-titled (Columbia)
20 Williams/Kaplansky/Shindell, Cry Cry Cry (Razor & Tie)
21 Various Artists, Real: The Tom T. Hall Project (Sire/Delmore)
22 Deke Dickerson And The Ecco-Fonics, Number One Hit Record (HMG)
23 Robbie Fulks, Let’s Kill Saturday Night (Geffen)
24 Vic Chesnutt, The Salesman And Bernadette (Capricorn)
25 Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Salute The Majesty Of Bob Wills (Bloodshot)
26 Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers, Pacific Coast Rambler (self-released)
27 Shawn Mullins, Soul’s Core (SMG/Columbia)
28 Nanci Griffith, Other Voices Too (Elektra)
29 Ani DiFranco, Little Plastic Castle (Righteous Babe)
30 Whiskeytown, Faithless Street (Outpost)
31 Bruce Springsteen, Tracks (Columbia)
32 Martin Sexton, The American (Atlantic)
33 Richard Buckner, Since (MCA)
34 Pearls In The Snow: The Songs Of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)
35 Shawn Colvin, Holiday Songs & Lullabies (Columbia)
36 Dave Alvin, Blackjack David (HighTone)
37 Bellwether, Turnstiles (Rustbelt)
38 McCoury/Watson/Wiseman, Mac, Doc & Del (Sugar Hill)
39 Elliott Smith, XO (Dreamworks)
40 James McMurtry, Walk Between The Raindrops (Sugar Hill)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark (Bloomington, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s Records (Los Angeles, CA), Bibelot (Woodholme, Canton, Timonium, MD), Blockbuster #98020 (Friendswood, TX), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), Cactus Music & Video (Houston, TX), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Cellophane Square (Seattle, Bellevue, Bellingham, WA), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenburg, Sweden), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), Ernie November (Sioux Falls, SD), Horizon (Greenville, SC), House Of Records (Eugene, OR), Lakeshore Record Exchange (Rochester, NY), Locals Only (Portland, OR), Lou’s Records (Encinitas, CA), Mad City 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), Oar Folkjokeopus (Minneapolis, MN), Park Ave. CD (Winter Park, FL), Periscope Records (Champaign, IL), Plan 9 (Richmond, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, VA), Phil’s CDs (Ft. Thomas, KY), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Rebop (Ithaca, NY), Record Archive (Rochester, NY), Roadrunner (Minneapolis, MN), Rockabillys (Shelby Township, MI), Sal’s Music Emporium (Iowa City, IA), Salt City CDs (Salt Lake City, UT), Salt Of The Earth (Columbia, MO), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Spinning Mule Records & Books (Clemson, SC), Streetside (St. Louis, MO), Toon’s (Colorado Springs, CO), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Uncle Buck’s (Oxford, MS), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Wildman Steve’s Records (Auburn, AL), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
