1 Sufjan Stevens, Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
2 White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan (Third Man/V2)
3 Son Volt, Okemah & The Melody Of Riot (Transmit Sound/Legacy)
4 Beck, Guero (Interscope)
5 Nickel Creek, Why Should The Fire Die? (Sugar Hill)
6 Willie Nelson, Countryman (Lost Highway)
7 Ry Cooder, Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch)
8 Del McCoury Band, The Company We Keep (McCoury Family/Sugar Hill)
9 John Prine, Fair & Square (Oh Boy)
10 New Pornographers, Twin Cinema (Matador)
11 Ryan Adams, Cold Roses (Lost Highway)
12 John Hiatt, Master Of Disaster (New West)
13 Knitters, The Modern Sounds Of The Knitters (Zoe/Rounder)
14 Rodney Crowell, The Outsider (Epic)
15 Bob Dylan, No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (Columbia)
16 Decemberists, Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
17 Richard Thompson, Front Parlour Ballads (Cooking Vinyl)
18 Lucinda Williams, Live At The Fillmore (Lost Highway)
19 Dwight Yoakam, Blame The Vain (New West)
20 Various Artists, This Is Americana, Vol. 2 (AMA)
21 Antony & the Johnsons, I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
22 Son Volt, Afterglow 61 EP (Transmit Sound/Legacy)
23 Arcade Fire, Funeral (Merge)
24 Emmylou Harris, Heartaches And Highways: The Very Best Of (Rhino)
25 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, self-titled (self)
26 Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell, Begonias (Yep Roc)
27 Ray LaMontagne, Trouble (RCA)
28 Frank Black, Honeycomb (Back Porch)
29 Kings Of Leon, Aha Shake Heartbreak (RCA)
30 Lizz Wright, Dreaming Wide Awake (Verve)
31 Bruce Springsteen, Devils & Dust (Columbia)
32 Delbert McClinton, Cost Of Living (New West)
33 Carole King, The Living Room Tour (Concord/Hear)
34 Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (Saddle Creek)
35 Daniel Lanois, Belladonna (Anti-)
36 Iron & Wine, Woman King EP (Sub Pop)
37 Mindy Smith, One Moment More (Vanguard)
38 Blue Highway, Marbletown (Sugar Hill)
39 Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (Lost Highway)
40 Joanna Newsom, The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Minneapolis, MN), Amoeba Music (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Warehouse (Cedar Rapids, IA), Decatur CD (Decatur, GA), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Hoodlums (Tempe, AZ), Laurie’s Planet Of Sound (Chicago, IL), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Rock-A-Billy’s (Utica, MI), Sounds Familiar (Asheville, NC), Tower #822 (Fairfax, VA).
Top 10 DVDs
1 Jerry Garcia Band, Live At Shoreline (Rhino)
2 Grateful Dead, Truckin’ Up To Buffalo (Monterey Video)
3 Various Artists, Return To Sin City: A Tribute To Gram Parsons (Image)
4 Various Artists, Telluride Bluegrass Festival (Rounder)
5 Woody Guthrie, This Machine Kills Fascists (Snapper-UK)
6 Lucinda Williams, Live From Austin TX (New West)
7 Flaming Lips, Void: Video Overview In Deceleration, 1992-2005 (Warner Bros.)
8 Various Artists, Spend An Evening With Saddle Creek (Saddle Creek)
9 Richard Thompson, Live From Austin TX (New West)
10 Son Volt, Live From Austin TX (New West)
Reporting Stores: Amoeba Music (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Warehouse (Cedar Rapids, IA), Decatur CD (Decatur, GA), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Laurie’s Planet Of Sound (Chicago, IL), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Sounds Familiar (Asheville, NC).
