1 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note)
2 Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (Lost Highway/American)
3 Beck, Sea Change (Geffen)
4 Kathleen Edwards, Failer (Zoe/Rounder)
5 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Live (Rounder)
6 Dixie Chicks, Home (Wide Open/Monument/Sony)
7 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
8 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Lost Highway/Mercury)
9 Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban, Mambo Sinuendo (Nonesuch/Perro Verde)
10 Loose Fur, self-titled (Drag City)
11 Neko Case, Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
12 Cat Power, You Are Free (Ole/Matador)
13 Ryan Adams, Demolition (Lost Highway)
14 Minus 5, Down With Wilco (Yep Roc)
15 Nickel Creek, This Side (Sugar Hill)
16 Bonnie Prince Billy, Master And Everyone (Palace/Drag City)
17 Calexico, Feast Of Wire (Quarterstick)
18 Tim Easton, Break Your Mother’s Heart (New West)
29 Dar Williams, The Beauty Of The Rain (Razor & Tie)
20 Jesse Malin, The Fine Art Of Self-Destruction (Artemis)
21 Iron & Wine, The Creek Drank The Cradle (Sub Pop)
22 Nick Cave, Nocturama (Anti)
23 Steve Earle, Jerusalem (E-Squared/Artemis)
24 Susan Tedeschi, Wait For Me (Artemis)
25 Bruce Springsteen, The Rising (Columbia)
26 Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 5, Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue (Sony Legacy)
27 Joseph Arthur, Redemption’s Son (Realworld)
28 Paul Weller, Illumination (Yep Roc)
29 Mark Knopfler, The Ragpicker’s Dream (Warner Bros.)
30 Willie Nelson, Crazy: The Demo Sessions (Sugar Hill)
31 Delbert McClinton, Room To Breathe (New West)
32 John Hammond, Ready For Love (Back Porch)
33 Mark O’Connor, In Full Swing (Sony)
34 Nickel Creek, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
35 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
36 Jorma Kaukonen, Blue Country Heart (Columbia)
37 George Harrison, Brainwashed (Capitol)
38 Various Artists, Making Singles, Drinking Doubles (Bloodshot)
39 Lucero, Tennessee (Madjack)
40 David Gray, New Day (ATO)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Minneapolis, MN), Amoeba Music (Los Angeles, CA), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (Live Oak, TX), Dave’s Music Mine (Pittsburgh, PA), Discover Music (Decatur, GA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), The Exclusive Co. (Appleton, WI), Fingerprints CDs (Long Beach, CA), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Homer’s Old Market (Omaha, NE), Hoodlums (Tempe, AZ), Joseph-Beth (Lexington, KY), The Landing (Seattle, WA), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Manifest Discs (Charlotte, NC), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), Rock-A-Billys (Utica, MI), Schoolkids Records (Cary, NC), Schoolkids Records (Chapel Hill, NC), Shake It Records (Cincinnati, OH), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Texas Music Round-Up (mail order), Tower Records (Philadelphia, PA), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Wherehouse Music #8016 (Houston, TX).
