1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway)
2 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
3 Kasey Chambers, Barricades And Brickwalls (Warner Bros.)
4 Uncle Tupelo, 89/93 Anthology (Sony Legacy)
5 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite (Rounder)
6 Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses (ATO)
7 Ryan Adams, Gold (Lost Highway)
8 Willie Nelson, The Great Divide (Lost Highway)
9 Bob Dylan, Love & Theft (Columbia)
10 Neil Young, Are You Passionate? (Reprise)
11 Steve Earle, Sidetracks (Artemis/E-Squared)
12 Nickel Creek, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
13 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
14 Lucinda Williams, Essence (Lost Highway)
15 Various Artists, Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt (Pedernales/Freefalls)
16 Paul Westerberg, Stereo (Vagrant)
17 Chris Isaak, Always Got Tonight (Reprise)
18 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note/Capitol)
19 Various Artists, Down From The Mountain soundtrack (Lost Highway)
20 Various Artists, O Sister! The Women’s Bluegrass Collection (Rounder)
21 Lyle Lovett, Anthology Vol. 1: Cowboy (Curb)
22 Greg Brown, Milk Of The Moon (Red House)
23 Caitlin Cary, While You Weren’t Looking (Yep Roc)
24 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Capitol)
25 Various Artists, Timeless: A Tribute To Hank Williams (Lost Highway)
26 Hank Williams III, Lovesick, Broke & Driftin’ (Curb)
27 Bonnie Raitt, Silver Lining (Capitol)
28 Johnny Cash, Essential (Sony Legacy)
29 Blasters, Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (Rhino)
30 Josh Rouse, Under Cold Blue Stars (Ryko/Slow River)
31 Pine Valley Cosmonauts, The Executioner’s Last Songs (Bloodshot)
32 Bottle Rockets, Songs Of Sahm (Bloodshot)
33 Tom Waits, Alice (Anti)
34 Tom Waits, Blood Money (Anti)
35 Jay Bennett & Edward Burch, The Palace At 4 AM (Pt. 1) (Undertow)
36 Be Good Tanyas, Blue Train (Nettwerk)
37 Various Artists, Evangeline Made (Vanguard)
38 Jeff Tweedy, Chelsea Walls soundtrack (Rykodisc)
39 Various Artists, I Am Sam soundtrack (V2)
40 Elvis Costello, When I Was Cruel (Island)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Bloomington, MN), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Borders #0455 (Camp Hill, PA), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (San Antonio, TX), CD Spectrum (Conifer, CO), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenburg, Sweden), Discover Music (Decatur, GA), Encore Records (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada), The Exclusive Company (Appleton, WI), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Grass Roots Books & Music (Corvallis, OR), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Horizon Records (Greenville, SC), Joseph-Beth (Lexington, KY), Laser’s Edge (Birmingham, AL), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Main Street Music (Philadelphia, PA), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Maximum Music (San Rafael, CA), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), Plan 9 (Richmond, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, VA), Phil’s Records (Ft. Thomas, KY), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Record Archive (Rochester, NY), Record Emporium (Chicago, IL), Rock-A-Billy’s (Utica, MI), Rockin’ Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), Sal’s Music Emporium (Iowa City, IA), Soundscapes (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Treehouse Records (Minneapolis, MN), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Waterloo (Austin, TX).
