1 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury)
2 Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain (E-Squared)
3 Harris/Ronstadt/Parton, Trio II (Asylum)
4 Ani DiFranco, Up Up Up Up Up Up (Righteous Babe)
5 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)
6 Lyle Lovett, Step Inside This House (Curb/MCA)
7 Kelly Willis, What I Deserve (Rykodisc)
8 Beck, Mutations (Bongload/DGC/Geffen)
9 Paul Westerberg, Suicaine Gratification (Capitol)
10 Bob Dylan, Live 1966: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert (Columbia/Legacy)
11 Willie Nelson, Teatro (Island)
12 Golden Smog, Weird Tales (Rykodisc)
13 Son Volt, Wide Swing Tremolo (Warner Bros.)
14 Various Artists, Pearls In The Snow: The Songs Of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)
15 Sheryl Crow, The Globe Sessions (A&M)
16 Ricky Skaggs, Ancient Tones (Skaggs Family)
17 Cesar Rosas, Soul Disguise (Ryko)
18 Shawn Mullins, Soul’s Core (SMG/Columbia)
19 Vic Chesnutt, The Salesman And Bernadette (Capricorn)
20 Bonnie Prince Billy, I See A Darkness (Palace Records)
21 Lucinda Williams, self-titled (Koch)
22 Chris Isaak, Speak Of The Devil (Reprise)
23 Gillian Welch, Hell Among The Yearlings (Almo)
24 Sparklehorse, Good Morning Spider (Capitol)
25 Black Crowes, By Your Side (American)
26 Robert Earl Keen, Walking Distance (Arista)
27 Various Artists, Real: The Tom T. Hall Project (Sire/Delmore)
28 Keb’ Mo’, Slow Down (Okeh)
29 Los Super Seven, self-titled (RCA)
30 Bottle Rockets, Leftovers (Doolittle)
31 Chieftains, Tears Of Stone (RCA)
32 V-Roys, All About Town (E-Squared)
33 Waco Brothers, WacoWorld (Bloodshot)
34 Del McCoury Band, The Family (Ceili)
35 Williams/Kaplansky/Shindell, Cry Cry Cry (Razor & Tie)
36 Lucinda Williams, Sweet Old World (Elektra/Chameleon)
37 Lone Justice, This World Is Not My Home (Geffen)
38 Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Salute The Majesty Of Bob Wills (Bloodshot)
39 Camp Black Dog, Rock & Roll Summer Camp ’98 (Black Dog)
40 David Zollo, Uneasy Street (Trailer)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark (Bloomington, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s (Los Angeles, CA), Bibelot Music Dept. (Timonium, MD), 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), Ernie November (Sioux Falls, SD), Horizon (Greenville, SC), House Of Records (Eugene, OR), The Last Unicorn (New Hartford, NY), Local Flavor (Austin, TX), Lou’s Records (Encinitas, CA), 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 Ave. CD (Winter Park, FL), Periscope (Champaign, IL), Phil’s Records (Ft. Thomas, KY), Plan 9 ( Richmond, Charlottsville, Harrisonburg, VA), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Rebop (Ithaca, NY), Record Archive (Rochester, NY), Rock-A-Billy’s (Shelby Township, MI), Rockin’ Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), 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), Switched-On CDs (Novi, MI), Toons (Colorado Springs, CO), Uncle Buck’s (Oxford, MS), Vintage Vinyl (Fords, NJ), Virgin (Denver, CO), Wildman Steve’s Records (Auburn, AL), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
