1 Tom Waits, Mule Variations (Epitaph)
2 Old 97’s, Fight Songs (Elektra)
3 Wilco, Summer Teeth (Reprise)
4 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury)
5 Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain (E-Squared)
6 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Echo (Warner Bros.)
7 Kelly Willis, What I Deserve (Ryko)
8 Mike Ness, Cheating At Solitaire (Time Bomb)
9 Alejandro Escovedo, Bourbonitis Blues (Bloodshot)
10 Van Morrison, Back On Top (Point Blank)
11 Beth Orton, Central Reservation (Arista)
12 Radney Foster, See What You Want To See (Arista-Austin)
13 Dwight Yoakam, Last Chance For A Thousand Years: Greatest Hits From The ’90s (Reprise)
14 Backsliders, Southern Lines (Mammoth)
15 Susan Tedeschi, Just Won’t Burn (Tone-Cool)
16 Harris/Ronstadt/Parton, Trio II (Asylum)
17 Lyle Lovett, Live In Texas (Curb)
18 Phillips/DiFranco, Fellow Workers (Righteous Babe)
19 Mary Chapin Carpenter, Party Doll (Columbia)
20 Shaver, Electric Shaver (New West)
21 Bela Fleck & Friends, The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.)
22 Ani DiFranco, Up Up Up Up Up Up (Righteous Babe)
23 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue (Elekta)
24 Richard Buckner, Bloomed (Slow River)
25 Tim O’Brien, The Crossing (Alula)
26 Ron Sexsmith, Whereabouts (Interscope)
27 Waco Brothers, WacoWorld (Bloodshot)
28 Doc & Richard Watson, Third Generation Blues (Sugar Hill)
29 Joe Henry, Fuse (Mammoth)
30 Townes Van Zandt, A Far Cry From Dead (Arista-Austin)
31 Lucinda Williams, self-titled (Koch)
32 Toni Price, Low Down & Up (Antone’s)
33 Damnations TX, Half Mad Moon (Sire)
34 Taj Mahal, Blue Light Boogie (Private)
35 Amazing Rhythm Aces, Chock Full Of Country Goodness (Breaker)
36 Lyle Lovett, Step Inside This House (Curb)
37 Johnny Dilks & His Visitacion Valley Boys, Acres Of Heartache (HMG)
38 Various Artists, Swing West Vol. 2 (Razor & Tie)
39 Marty Stuart, The Pilgrim (MCA)
40 Stacey Earle, Simple Gearle (Gearle)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Bloomington, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s Records (Los Angeles, CA), Bibelot Music (Baltimore, MD), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), Borders (Oklahoma City, OK), Cactus Music & Video (Houston, TX), Camelot Music (Texas City, TX), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Cellophane Square (Seattle, Bellevue, Bellingham, WA), Country Trock Specialisten (Gothenberg, Sweden), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), 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), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Maximum Music (San Rafael, CA), Miles Of Music (mail order), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Park Ave. CDs (Winter Park, FL), Periscope (Champaign, IL), Phil’s CDs (Ft. Thomas, KY), Plan 9 (Richmond, Charlottsville, Harrisonburg, VA), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Record Archive (Rochester, NY), Repeat The Beat (Royal Oak, MI), Rockabillys (Shelby Township, MI), Rockin’ Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), Sal’s Music Emporium (Iowa City, IA), Salt City CDs (Salt Lake City, UT), Sounds Familiar (Mytrle Beach, SC), Spinning Mule Records (Clemson, SC), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Uncle Buck’s Records (Oxford, MS), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Wherehouse (Friendswood, TX), Waterloo Records (Austin, TX), Wildman Steve’s Records (Auburn, AL), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
