1 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Lonely Runs Both Ways (Rounder)
2 Elliott Smith, From A Basement On The Hill (Anti-)
3 Tom Waits, Real Gone (Anti-)
4 Neko Case, The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti-)
5 Ray LaMontagne, Trouble (RCA)
6 Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
7 Nick Cave, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (Anti-)
8 Arcade Fire, Funeral (Merge)
9 Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love (Rounder)
10 Neil Young, Greatest Hits (Warner Bros.)
11 Brian Wilson, Smile (Nonesuch)
12 Various Artists, This Is Americana (NARM)
13 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
14 Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
15 Ray Charles, Genius Loves Company (Concord)
16 Leonard Cohen, Dear Heather (Columbia)
17 Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama, There Is A Light (Virgin)
18 Mindy Smith, One More Moment (Vanguard)
19 Iris DeMent, Lifeline (Flariella)
20 Steve Earle, The Revolution Starts…Now (E-Squared/Artemis)
21 Old Crow Medicine Show, O.C.M.S. (Nettwerk)
22 Joanna Newsom, The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
23 Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South (New West)
24 Willie Nelson, It Always Will Be (Lost Highway)
25 Black Keys, Rubber Factory (Fat Possum/Epitaph)
26 Tift Merritt, Tambourine (Lost Highway)
27 Mark Knopfler, Shangri-La (Warner Bros.)
28 Jolie Holland, Escondida (Anti-)
29 Kasey Chambers, Wayward Angel (Warner Bros.)
30 k.d. lang, Hymns From The 49th Parallel (Nonesuch)
31 Elvis Costello, The Delivery Man (Lost Highway)
32 Buddy Miller, Universal United House Of Prayer (New West)
33 John Lennon, Acoustic (Capitol)
34 Iron & Wine, Passing Afternoon (Sub Pop)
35 Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
36 Los Lonely Boys, self-titled (Or/Sony)
37 Devendra Banhart, Nino Rojo (Young God)
38 Richard Buckner, Dents & Shells (Merge)
39 R.E.M., Around The Sun (Warner Bros.)
40 Various Artists, Garden State soundtrack (Epic)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Minneapolis, MN), Amoeba Music (Hollywood, CA), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), Easy Street (Seattle, WA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Future Record (New York, NY), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Hoodlums (Tempe, AZ), Horizon Records (Greenville, SC), Laser’s Edge (Birmingham, AL), Laurie’s Planet Of Sound (Chicago, IL), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Plan 9 (Richmond, VA), Record Exchange (Boise, ID), Rock-A-Billys (Utica, MI), Shake It Records (Cincinnati, OH), Schoolkids (Raleigh, NC), Treehouse Records (Minneapolis, MN), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
