1 Neil Young, Prairie Wind (Reprise)
2 My Morning Jacket, Z (ATO)
3 Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Jacksonville City Nights (Lost Highway)
4 Iron & Wine/Calexico, In The Reins EP (Overcoat)
5 Bob Dylan, No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (Columbia/Legacy)
6 Sufjan Stevens, Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
7 Devendra Banhart, Cripple Crow (XL)
8 New Pornographers, Twin Cinema (Matador)
9 Nickel Creek, Why Should The Fire Die? (Sugar Hill)
10 Various Artists, This Is Americana 2 (AMA)
11 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Howl (RCA)
12 David Gray, Life In Slow Motion (ATO)
13 Son Volt, Okemah & The Melody Of Riot (Transmit Sound/Legacy)
14 North Mississippi Allstars, Electric Blue Watermelon (ATO)
15 Bettye Lavette, I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise (Anti-)
16 Silver Jews, Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
17 Arcade Fire, Funeral (Merge)
18 James McMurtry, Childish Things (Compadre)
19 Bonnie Raitt, Souls Alike (Capitol)
20 Rodney Crowell, The Outsider (Epic)
21 John Prine, Fair & Square (Oh Boy)
22 Various Artists, Elizabethtown soundtrack (RCA)
23 Tracy Chapman, Where You Live (Elektra)
24 Sheryl Crow, Wildflower (A&M)
25 Dar Williams, My Better Self (Razor & Tie)
26 Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon, Sixty Six Steps (RCA)
27 Antony & the Johnsons, I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
28 White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
29 Beck, Guero (Interscope)
30 Delbert McClinton, Cost Of Living (New West)
31 Old 97s, Alive & Wired (New West)
32 Billy Joe Shaver, The Real Deal (Compadre)
33 Knitters, The Modern Sounds Of The Knitters (Yep Roc)
34 Ry Cooder, Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch)
35 Susan Tedeschi, Hope And Desire (Verve Forecast)
36 Jackson Browne, Solo Acoustic 1 (Inside)
37 Del McCoury Band, The Company We Keep (McCoury Music/Sugar Hill)
38 Mary Gauthier, Mercy Now (Lost Highway)
39 Junior Brown, The Austin Experience: Recorded Live At The Continental Club (TelArc)
40 Ryan Adams, Cold Roses (Lost Highway)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Minnesota, MN), Amoeba Music (Hollywood, CA), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Warehouse (Cedar Rapids, IA), Cheapo Disc (St. Paul, MN), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Ear X-Tacy (Louisville, KY), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Fingerprints CDs (Long Beach, CA), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Grass Roots Music & Books (Corvallis, OR), Grimey’s New & Preloved Music (Nashville, TN), Hoodlums (Tucson, 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), Record Exchange (Boise, ID), Rock-A-Billy’s (Utica, MI), Shake It Records (Cincinnati, OH), Surf Club Records (Corpus Christi, TX), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO).
Top 10 DVDs
1 Bob Dylan, No Direction Home (Paramount)
2 Cream, Royal Albert Hall: London May 2-3-5-6 2005 (WSM)
3 George Harrison & Friends, The Concert For Bangladesh (Rhino)
4 Pixies, Sellout: 2004 Reunion Tour (Rhino)
5 Elvis Costello, The Right Spectacle: The Very Best Of (Rhino)
6 Jerry Garcia Band, Live At Shoreline (Rhino)
7 Flaming Lips, Void: Video Overview In Deceleration, 1992-2005 (Warner Bros.)
8 The Black Keys, Live (Fat Possum)
9 Various Artists, Newport Folk Festival (Eagle Eye)
10 Woody Guthrie, This Machine Kills Fascists (Snapper)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Minneapolis, MN), Amoeba Music (Hollywood, CA), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Warehouse (Cedar Rapids, IA), Fingerprints CDs (Long Beach, CA), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Grass Roots Books & Music (Corvallis, OR), Grimey’s New & Preloved Music (Nashville, TN), Hoodlums (Tucson, AZ), Laser’s Edge (Birmingham, AL), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Record Exchange (Boise, ID), Shake It Records (Cincinnati, OH), Surf Club Records (Chorpus Christi, TX), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO).
