1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway)
2 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
3 Bruce Springsteen, The Rising (Columbia)
4 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note/Capitol)
5 Dixie Chicks, Home (Open Wide/Monument/Columbia)
6 Flatlanders, Now Again (New West)
7 Kelly Willis, Easy (Rykodisc)
8 Nickel Creek, This Side (Sugar Hill)
9 Dolly Parton, Halos And Horns (Sugar Hill)
10 Los Lobos, Good Morning Aztlan (Mammoth)
11 Tift Merritt, Bramble Rose (Lost Highway)
12 Neko Case, Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
13 Solomon Burke, Don’t Give Up On Me (Fat Possum)
14 Allison Moorer, Miss Fortune (Universal South)
15 Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses (ATO)
16 Beth Orton, Daybreaker (Astralwerks)
17 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite (Rounder)
18 Linda Thompson, Fashionably Late (Philo/Rounder)
19 Nickel Creek, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
20 Ryan Adams, Gold (Lost Highway)
21 Jorma Kaukonen, Blue Country Heart (Columbia)
22 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
23 Uncle Tupelo, 89/93: An Anthology (Columbia/Legacy)
24 Ralph Stanley, self-titled (DMZ/Columbia)
25 Willie Nelson, The Great Divide (Lost Highway)
26 Tom Waits, Alice (Anti/Epitaph)
27 Aimee Mann, Lost In Space (Superego)
28 Chuck Prophet, No Other Love (New West)
29 Drive-By Truckers, Southern Rock Opera (Lost Highway)
30 Jay Farrar, ThirdShiftGrottoSlack EP (Artemis)
31 Bonnie Raitt, Silver Lining (Capitol)
32 James Taylor, October Road (Columbia)
33 Tom Waits, Blood Money (Anti/Epitaph)
34 Two Dollar Pistols, You Ruined Everything (Yep Roc)
35 Bobby Bare Jr., Young Criminals Starvation League (Bloodshot)
36 Mark Olson & The Creekdippers, December’s Child (Dualtone)
37 Bob Dylan, “Love & Theft” (Columbia)
38 Jack Ingram, Electric (Lucky Dog)
39 Elvis Costello, When I Was Cruel (Island)
40 Various Artists, Down From The Mountain soundtrack (Lost Highway)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Bloomington, MN), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Cactus Music & Video (Houston, TX), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (Live Oak, TX), Dave’s Music Mine (Pittsburgh, PA), Discover Music (Decatur, GA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Encore Records (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada), Fingerprints (Long Beach, CA), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Grassroots Books & Music (Corvallis, OR), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Hoodlums Music (Tempe, AZ), Horizon (Greenville, SC), Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, KY), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Manifest (Charlotte, NC), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), Phil’s CDs (Ft. Thomas, KY), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Record Emporium (Chicago, IL), Rock-A-Billy’s (Utica, MI), Schoolkids Records (Cary, NC), Schoolkids Records (Chapel Hill, NC), Sonic Boom (Seattle, WA), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Soundscapes (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Texas Music Round-Up (mail order), Tower Records (Fairfax, VA), Tower Records (Nashville, TN), Treehouse Records (Minneapolis, MN), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Virgin (Denver, CO), Waterloo (Austin, TX).
