1 Ryan Adams, Cold Roses (Lost Highway)
2 John Prine, Fair & Square (Oh Boy)
3 White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
4 Lucinda Williams, Live At The Fillmore (Lost Highway)
5 Bruce Springsteen, Devils & Dust (Columbia)
6 Robert Earl Keen, What I Really Mean (Koch)
7 Beck, Guero (Interscope)
8 Lucero, Nobody’s Darlings (Liberty & Lament)
9 Ry Cooder, Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch)
10 Dwight Yoakam, Blame The Vain (New West)
11 Aimee Mann, Forgotten Arm (Superego)
12 Decemberists, Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
13 Ray LaMontagne, Trouble (RCA)
14 John Hiatt, Master Of Disaster (New West)
15 Stephen Malkmus, Face The Truth (Matador)
16 Van Morrison, Magic Time (Geffen)
17 Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (Saddle Creek)
18 Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, Red Dog Tracks (Back Porch)
19 Mary Gauthier, Mercy Now ( Lost Highway)
20 Son Volt, A Retrospective: 1995-2000 (Rhino)
21 Martha Wainwright, self-titled (Zoe/Rounder)
22 Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love (Rounder)
23 Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell, Begonias (Yep Roc)
24 Old Crow Medicine Show, O.C.M.S. (Nettwerk)
25 Shelby Lynne, Suit Yourself (Capitol)
26 Eels, Blinking Lights (Vagrant)
27 Kathleen Edwards, Back To Me (Zoe/Rounder)
28 Pernice Brothers, Discover A Lovelier You (Ashmont)
29 Smog, A River Ain’t Too Much To Love (Drag City)
30 Robbie Fulks, Georgia Hard (Yep Roc)
31 Willie Nelson & various artists, Songs For Tsunami Relief (Lost Highway)
32 Shooter Jennings, Put The O Back In Country (Universal South)
33 Kings Of Leon, Aha Shake Heartbreak (RCA)
34 Ben Folds, Songs For Silverman (Epic)
35 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Lonely Runs Both Ways (Rounder)
36 Duhks, self-titled (Sugar Hill)
37 Iron & Wine, Woman King EP (Sub Pop)
38 Grey DeLisle, Iron Flowers (Sugar Hill)
39 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
40 Antony & the Johnsons, I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Minneapolis, MN), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s Record Shop (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (Live Oak, TX), CD Warehouse (Cedar Rapids, IA), Decatur CD (Decatur, GA), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Future Legend (New York, NY), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Horizon (Greenville, SC), 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), Rock-A-Billys (Utica, MI), Schoolkids Records (Raleigh, NC), Sounds Familiar (Asheville, NC), Tower #822 (Fairfax, VA), Treehouse Records (Minneapolis, MN), Watermelon (Austin, TX), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
Top 10 DVDs
1 Son Volt, Live From Austin TX (New West)
2 Lucinda Williams, Live From Austin TX (New West)
3 Richard Thompson, Live From Austin TX (New West)
4 various artists, Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2003 (Rounder)
5 various artists, Return To Sin City (Image)
6 Flaming Lips, Fearless Freaks (Sony)
7 Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South: Live At The 40 Watt (New West)
8 various artists, Live From Bonnaroo 2004 (BMG)
9 The Band, The Last Waltz (MGM)
10 Ramones, End Of The Century (Warner)
Reporting Stores: Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Warehouse (Cedar Rapids, IA), Decatur CD (Decatur, GA), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Horizon (Greenville, SC), Laurie’s Planet Of Sound (Chicago, IL), Madcity Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Schoolkids Records (Raleigh, NC), Sounds Familiar (Asheville, NC), Treehouse Records (Minneapolis, MN).
