1 Beck, Guero (Interscope)
2 Iron & Wine, Woman King EP (Sub Pop)
3 Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (Saddle Creek)
4 Kings Of Leon, Aha Shake Heartbreak (RCA)
5 Bruce Springsteen, Devils & Dust (Columbia)
6 Decemberists, Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
7 John Prine, Fair & Square (Oh Boy)
8 Kathleen Edwards, Back To Me (Zoe/Rounder)
9 Arcade Fire, Funeral (Merge)
10 M. Ward, Transistor Radio (Merge)
11 Ray LaMontagne, Trouble (RCA)
12 Josh Rouse, Nashville (Ryko)
13 Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love (Rounder)
14 Death Cab For Cutie, John Byrd EP (Barsuk)
15 Mary Gauthier, Mercy Now (Lost Highway)
16 John Doe, Forever Hasn’t Happened Yet (Yep Roc)
17 Bright Eyes, Digital Ash In A Digital Urn (Saddle Creek)
18 Sonny Landreth, Grant Street (Sugar Hill)
19 Shooter Jennings, Put The O Back In Country (Universal South)
20 Martha Wainwright, self-titled (Zoe/Rounder)
21 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
22 Duhks, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
23 Los Super Seven, Heard It On The X (Telarc)
24 Magnolia Electric Co., What Comes After The Blues (Secretly Canadian)
25 Ani DiFranco, Knuckle Down (Righteous Babe)
26 Amos Lee, self-titled (Blue Note)
27 Ryan Adams, Cold Roses (Lost Highway)
28 Andrew Bird, The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
29 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Lonely Runs Both Ways (Rounder)
30 Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, Exploration (New West)
31 Reckless Kelly, Wicked Twisted Road (Sugar Hill)
32 Antony & The Johnsons, I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
33 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, B-Sides & Rarities (Mute)
34 John Butler Trio, Sunrise Over Sea (Lava/Atlantic)
35 Damien Jurado, On My Way To Absence (Secretly Canadian)
36 Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
37 Tom Russell, Hotwalker (HighTone)
38 Eels, Blinking Lights & Other Revolutions (Vagrant)
39 Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
40 Neko Case, The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti-)
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), CD Warehouse (Cedar Rapids, IA), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), Easy Street (Seattle, WA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Executive Surf Club (Corpus Christi, TX), Fingerprints CDs (Long Beach, CA), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Future Legend (New York, NY), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Hoodlums (Tempe, AZ), Horizon Records (Greenville, SC), Laurie’s Planet Of Sound (Chicago, IL), Madcity Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Manifest (Charlotte, NC), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Record Exchange (Boise, ID), Rock-A-Billys (Utica, MI), Sounds Familiar (Asheville, NC), Texas Music Round-Up (mail order).
