1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway)
2 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite (Rounder)
3 Kasey Chambers, Barricades And Brickwalls (Warner Bros.)
4 Ryan Adams, Gold (Lost Highway)
5 Bob Dylan, Love And Theft (Columbia)
6 Willie Nelson, The Great Divide (Lost Highway)
7 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
8 Hank Williams III, Lovesick, Broke & Driftin’ (Curb)
9 Lucinda Williams, Essence (Lost Highway)
10 Nickel Creek, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
11 Various Artists, O Sister! The Women’s Bluegrass Collection (Rounder)
12 Various Artists, Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt (Pedernales/Freefalls)
13 Various Artists, Down From The Mountain soundtrack (Lost Highway)
14 Bottle Rockets, Songs Of Sahm (Bloodshot)
15 Johnny Cash, The Essential (Sony Legacy)
16 Josh Rouse, Under Cold Blue Stars (Slow River)
17 Jay Farrar, Sebastopol (Artemis)
18 Earl Scruggs & Friends, self-titled (MCA)
19 Pat Green, Three Days (Universal)
20 Buddy & Julie Miller, self-titled (HighTone)
21 Be Good Tanyas, Blue Train (Nettwerk)
22 Lambchop, Is A Woman (Merge)
23 Chris Isaak, Always Got Tonight (Reprise)
24 Various Artists, Caught In The Webb: A Tribute To The Legendary Webb Pierce (Audium/Little Chickadee)
25 Robert Earl Keen, Gravitational Forces (Lost Highway)
26 Various Artists, I Am Sam soundtrack (V2)
27 Various Artists, Timeless: A Tribute To Hank Williams (Lost Highway)
28 Cory Morrow, Outside The Lines (Write On)
29 John Hiatt, The Tiki Bar Is Open (Vanguard)
30 HEM, Rabbit Songs (Waveland)
31 Drive-By Truckers, Southern Rock Opera (Soul Dump)
32 Robert Earl Keen, No. 2 Live Dinner (Rosetta)
33 Alan Jackson, Drive (Arista)
34 Bellwether, Home Late (Rust Belt)
35 Lyle Lovett, Anthology Vol. 1 (Curb)
36 John Hartford, Steam Powered Aereo-Takes (Rounder)
37 Pogues, Streams Of Whiskey: Live (Castle von Buhler, import)
38 Steve Earle/Townes Van Zandt/Guy Clark, Together At The Bluebird Cafe (American Originals)
39 Bruce Cockburn, Anything, Anytime, Anywhere (Rounder)
40 Chris Thile, Not All Who Wander Are Lost (Sugar Hill)
Reporting Stores: Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), Cactus Music (Houston, TX), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (San Antonio, TX), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenburg, Sweden), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Encore Records (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Grassroots Books & Music (Corvallis, OR), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Horizon (Greenville, SC), Laser’s Edge (Birmingham, AL), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Main Street Music (Philadelphia, PA), Maximum Music (San Rafael, CA), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), Park Ave. CD (Winter Park, FL), Plan 9 (Richmond, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, VA), Premiere CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Rock-A-Billys (Utica, MI), Rockin’ Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), Sal’s Music Emporium (Iowa City, IA), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Street Corner Music (Beverly Hills, MI), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Wherehouse Music #8016 (Houston, TX), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
