1 Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears (Lost Highway)
2 Gillian Welch, Soul Journey (Acony)
3 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note)
4 Jayhawks, Rainy Day Music (American/Lost Highway)
5 Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (American/Lost Highway)
6 Grandaddy, Sumday (V2)
7 White Stripes, Elephant (V2/Third Man)
8 Jay Farrar, Terroir Blues (Act/Resist/Artemis)
9 John Hiatt & the Goners, Beneath This Gruff Exterior (New West)
10 Thorns, self-titled (Aware/Columbia)
11 Beck, Sea Change (Geffen)
12 Ben Harper, Diamonds On The Inside (Virgin)
13 Richard Thompson, The Old Kit Bag (Cooking Vinyl/SpinArt)
14 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
15 Be Good Tanyas, Chinatown (Nettwerk)
16 Drive-By Truckers, Decoration Day (New West)
17 Neko Case, Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
18 Cat Power, You Are Free (Ole/Matador)
19 Reckless Kelly, Under The Table & Above The Sun (Sugar Hill)
20 Dixie Chicks, Home (Open Wide/Monument/Columbia)
21 Scott Miller, Upside/Downside (Sugar Hill)
22 Nickel Creek, This Side (Sugar Hill)
23 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Live (Rounder)
24 Todd Snider, Near Truths And Hotel Rooms (Oh Boy)
25 New Pornographers, Electric Version (Ole/Matador)
26 Pernice Brothers, Yours Mine & Ours (Ashmont)
27 Pete Yorn, Day I Forgot (Columbia)
28 Dar Williams, The Beauty Of The Rain (Razor & Tie)
29 Kathleen Edwards, Failer (Zoe/Rounder)
30 Bruce Cockburn, You’ve Never Seen Everything (Rounder)
31 Calexico, Feast Of Wire (Quarterstick)
32 Dwight Yoakam, Population Me (Electrodisc/Audium)
33 Rosanne Cash, Rules Of Travel (Capitol)
34 Ani DiFranco, Evolve (Righteous Babe)
35 John Mellencamp, Trouble No More (Columbia)
36 Caitlin Cary, I’m Staying Out (Yep Roc)
37 Daniel Lanois, Shine (Anti/Epitaph)
38 Various Artists, Lonesome On’ry & Mean: A Tribute To Waylon Jennings (Dualtone)
39 Willie Nelson & Friends, Live & Kickin’ (Lost Highway)
40 Uncle Tupelo, No Depression (Columbia/Legacy)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark (Minneapolis, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Discs (Los Angeles, CA), Amoeba Discs (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s Records (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), Cactus Music (Houston, TX), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (Live Oak, TX), Cheapo Discs (St. Paul, MN), Down Home Music (El Cerrito, CA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Fingerprints (Long Beach, CA), The Exclusive Co. (Appleton, WI), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Great Escape (Bowling Green, KY), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Hoodlums Music (Tempe, AZ), Joseph-Beth (Lexington, KY), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), The Record Exchange (Boise, ID), Rock-A-Billy’s (Utica, MI), Rockin’ Rudy’s (Missoula, MT), Sounds Familiar (Myrtle Beach, SC), Tower #822 (Fairfax, VA), Tower #153 (Nashville, TN), Tower #848 (Philadelphia, PA), Treehouse Records (Minneapolis, MN), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Wherehouse Music #8016 (Houston, TX)
