1 Steve Earle, Transcendental Blues (E-Squared/Artemis)
2 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (Elektra)
3 Neil Young, Silver & Gold (Reprise)
4 Jayhawks, Smile (Columbia)
5 Garcia/Grisman/Rice, The Pizza Tapes (Acoustic Disc)
6 B.B.King/Eric Clapton, Ridin’ With The King (Reprise)
7 Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne (Mercury)
8 Jimmie Dale Gilmore, One Endless Night (Windcharger/Rounder)
9 Dwight Yoakam, dwightyoakamacoustic.net (Warner Bros.)
10 Johnny Cash, Love, God, Murder (Sony Legacy)
11 Calexico, Hot Rail (Quarterstick)
12 Lee Ann Womack, I Hope You Dance (MCA)
13 Old 97’s, Early Tracks (Bloodshot)
14 Elliott Smith, Figure 8 (Dreamworks)
15 Various Artists, Down To The Promised Land: Five Years Of Bloodshot Records (Bloodshot)
16 Neko Case & Her Boyfriends, Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot)
17 Various Artists, ‘Til We Outnumber ‘Em: Songs And Stories Of Woody Guthrie (Righteous Babe)
18 Gurf Morlix, Toad Of Titicaca (Catamount)
19 Ani DiFranco, To The Teeth (Righteous Babe)
20 Todd Snider, Happy To Be Here (Oh Boy)
21 Joe Ely, Live At Antone’s (Rounder)
22 Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now (Reprise)
23 Stacey Earle, Dancin’ With Them That Brung Me (Gearle)
24 Flying Burrito Brothers, Hot Burritos: The Flying Burrito Brothers Anthology 1969-1972 (A&M)
25 John Prine, In Spite Of Ourselves (Oh Boy)
26 Slaid Cleaves, Broke Down (Philo)
27 Peter Case, Flying Saucer Blues (Vanguard)
28 North Mississippi All Stars, Shake Hands With Shorty (Tone-Cool)
29 Nickel Creek, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
30 Bellwether, self-titled (Rust Belt)
31 Johnny Staats, Wires & Wood (Giant)
32 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury)
33 Kelly Hogan & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Beneath The Country Underdog (Bloodshot)
34 Various Artists, Harry Smith Anthology Vol. 4 (Revenant)
35 Various Artists, The I-10 Chronicles (Back Porch)
35 Alison Krauss, Forget About It (Rounder)
37 Jim Roll, Lunette (New West)
38 Dolly Parton, The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill)
39 Belle & Sebastian, Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant (Matador)
40 Beachwood Sparks, self-titled (Sub Pop)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Bloomington, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s Records (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenburg, Sweden), Django’s Cellophane Square (Seattle, Bellevue, Bellingham, WA), Encore Records (Kitchener, Ontario), Ernie November (Sioux Falls, SD), Flipside Records (Kalamazoo, MI), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Great Escape (Bowling Green, KY), Groovacious Platters (Keizer, OR), Horizon (Greeneville, SC), Local Flavor (mail order), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Park Ave. CDs (Winter Park, FL), Phil’s CDs (Ft. Thomas, KY), Plan 9 (Richmond, Charlottsville, Harrisonburg, VA), Planet Of Sound (Chicago, IL), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Rock-A-Billy’s (Shelby Township, MI), Rockin’ Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), Sal’s Music Emporium (Iowa City, IA), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Streetside (St. Louis, MO), Tower Records (Nashville, TN), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Uncle Buck’s (Oxford, MS), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Waterloo Records (Austin, TX), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
