1 John Prine, In Spite Of Ourselves (Oh Boy)
2 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury)
3 Ani DiFranco, To The Teeth (Righteous Babe)
4 Dolly Parton, The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill)
5 Kelly Willis, What I Deserve (Rykodisc)
6 Various Artists, Return Of The Grievous Angel: A Tribute To Gram Parsons (Almo)
7 Guy Clark, Cold Dog Soup (Sugar Hill)
8 Alison Krauss, Forget About It (Rounder)
9 Tom Waits, Mule Variations (Epitaph)
10 Ronstadt/Harris, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (Asylum)
11 The Derailers, Full Western Dress (Sire)
12 Lyle Lovett, Live In Texas (Curb)
13 Buddy Miller, Cruel Moon (HighTone)
14 Mike Ness, Under The Influences (Time Bomb)
15 Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison (Columbia/Legacy)
16 Bela Fleck & Friends, The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.)
17 Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain (E-Squared)
18 Wilco, Summer Teeth (Elektra)
19 Leftover Salmon, The Nashville Sessions (Hollywood)
20 Old 97’s, Fight Songs (Elektra)
21 Richard Thompson, Mock Tudor (Capitol)
22 Gomez, Liquid Skin (Virgin)
23 Blue Mountain, Tales Of A Traveler (Roadrunner)
24 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)
25 Bruce Cockburn, Breakfast In New Orleans… (Rykodisc)
26 Dixie Chicks, Fly (Monument)
27 Julie Miller, Broken Things (HighTone)
28 Sally Timms, Cowboy Sally’s Twilight Laments (Bloodshot)
29 Ry Cooder, Buena Vista Social Club (Nonesuch)
30 Blaze Foley, Live At The Austin Outhouse (Lost Art)
31 George Jones, Cold Hard Truth (Asylum)
32 Cowboy Junkies, Rarities, B-Sides And Slow, Sad Waltzes (Valley)
33 Beth Orton, Central Reservation (Arista)
34 Townes Van Zandt, A Far Cry From Dead (Arista-Austin)
35 Bottle Rockets, Brand New Year (Doolittle)
36 Alejandro Escovedo, Bourbonitis Blues (Bloodshot)
37 Johnny Dowd, Pictures From Life’s Other Side (Koch)
38 Freakwater, End Time (Thrilljockey)
39 Asleep At The Wheel, Ride With Bob (DreamWorks)
40 Radney Foster, See What You Want To (Arista-Austin)
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), Cactus Music & Video (Houston, TX), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Cellophane Square (Seattle, Bellingham, Bellevue, WA), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenburg, Sweden), Horizon (Greenville, SC), The Last Unicorn (New Hartford, NY), Local Flavor (Austin, TX), Lou’s Records (Encinitas, CA), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Main Street Music (Philadelphia, PA), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Oar Folkjokeopus (Minneapolis, MN), Open Mind Music (San Francisco, CA), Pac Rats (Bowling Green, KY), Park Ave. CDs (Winter Park, FL), Phil’s CDs (Ft. Thomas, KY), Plan 9 (Richmond, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, VA), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Rebop (Ithaca, NY), Record Archive (Rochester, NY), Record Emporium (Chicago, IL), Repeat The Beat (Royal Oak, MI), Rock-A-Billys (Shelby Township, MI), Sal’s Music Emporium (Iowa City, IA), Salt City CDs (Salt Lake City, UT), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Spinning Mule Records & Books (Clemson, SC), Spy Records (Lexington, KY), Streetside (St. Louis, MO), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Uncle Buck’s Records (Oxford, MS), Village (Shawnee, KS), Vintage Vinyl (Fords, NJ), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Waterloo Records (Austin, TX), Wildman Steve’s (Auburn, AL), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
