1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury)
2 Dolly Parton, Little Sparrow (Sugar Hill)
3 Emmylou Harris, Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch)
4 Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man (American/Columbia)
5 Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne (Mercury)
6 Steve Earle, Transcendental Blues (E-Squared/Artemis)
7 B.B. King & Eric Clapton, Riding With The King (Reprise)
8 Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker (Bloodshot)
9 Rodney Crowell, The Houston Kid (Sugar Hill)
10 Bob Dylan, The Essential (Columbia)
11 Tim Easton, The Truth About Us (New West)
12 John Hiatt, Crossing Muddy Waters (Vanguard)
13 Keb’ Mo’, The Door (550)
14 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (Elektra)
15 Kasey Chambers, The Captain (Asylum)
16 Merle Haggard, If I Could Only Fly (Anti/Epitaph)
17 Neko Case & Her Boyfriends, Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot)
18 Greg Brown, Over And Under (Trailer)
19 Honeydogs, Here’s Luck (Palm)
20 Ralph Stanley, Man Of Constant Sorrow (Rebel)
21 Willie Nelson, Milk Cow Blues (Island)
22 Gram Parsons, Another Side Of This Life (Sundazed)
23 John Prine, Souvenirs (Oh Boy)
24 Blue Mountain, Roots (Blue Mountain Music)
25 Tony Rice Unit, Unit Of Measure (Rounder)
26 Greg Brown, Covenant (Red House)
27 Various Artists, Badlands: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska (Sub Pop)
28 North Mississippi All Stars, Shake Hands With Shorty (Tone-Cool)
29 Dave Alvin, Public Domain (HighTone)
30 Jim White, No Such Place (Luaka Bop)
31 Richard Buckner, The Hill (Overcoat)
32 Jeb Loy Nichols, Just What Time It Is (Ryko)
33 Neil Young, Silver & Gold (Reprise)
34 Garcia/Grisman/Rice, The Pizza Tapes (Acoustic Disc)
35 Eliza Carthy, Angels & Cigarettes (Warner Bros.)
36 Elizabeth Cook, self-titled (Sis & Bro)
37 Various Artists, Rockin’ At The Barn Vol. 2 (Dusty)
38 Johnny Cash, Complete Live At San Quentin (Sony Legacy)
39 Dwight Yoakam, Tomorrow’s Sounds Today (Reprise)
40 Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison (Sony Legacy)
40 Red Meat, Alameda County Line (Ranchero)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Bloomington, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenberg, Sweden), Dave’s Music Mine (Pittsburgh, PA), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Django’s Cellophane Square (Seattle, Bellevue, Bellingham, WA), Down Home Music (El Cerrito, CA), Encore Records (Kitchener, Ontario), The Exclusive Co. (Appleton, WI), Great Escape (Bowling Green, KY), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Horizon (Greenville, SC), Laser’s Edge (Birmingham, AL), Local Flavor (mail order), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Main Street Music (Philadelphia, PA), Maximum Music (San Rafael, CA), Miles Of Music (mail order), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), Olsson’s Books & Records (Rockville, MD), Plan 9 (Richmond, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, VA), Planet Of Sound (Chicago, IL), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Record Emporium (Chicago, IL), Recordsmith (Richmond, KY), 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), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Uncle Buck’s (Oxford, MS), Village Records (Shawnee, KS), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
