1 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note)
2 Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (Lost Highway/American)
3 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Live (Rounder)
4 Dixie Chicks, Home (Wide Open/Monument/Sony)
5 Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 5, Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue (Sony Legacy)
6 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Lost Highway/Mercury)
7 Beck, Sea Change (Geffen)
8 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
9 Steve Earle, Jerusalem (E-Squared/Artemis)
10 Ryan Adams, Demolition (Lost Highway)
11 Nickel Creek, This Side (Sugar Hill)
12 Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses (ATO)
13 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 3 (Capitol/EMI)
14 Willie Nelson & Friends, Stars & Guitars (Lost Highway)
15 Delbert McClinton, Room To Breathe (New West)
16 Neko Case, Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
17 Mark Knopfler, The Ragpicker’s Dream (Warner Bros.)
18 Bruce Springsteen, The Rising (Columbia)
19 George Harrison, Brainwashed (Capitol)
20 Susan Tedeschi, Wait For Me (Artemis)
21 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
22 Jorma Kaukonen, Blue Country Heart (Columbia)
23 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Last DJ (Warner Bros.)
24 Buddy Miller, Midnight & Lonesome (HighTone)
25 Iron & Wine, The Creek Drank The Cradle (Sub Pop)
26 Aimee Mann, Lost In Space (Superego)
27 Billy Joe Shaver, Freedom’s Child (Compadre)
28 Beth Orton, Daybreaker (Astralwerks)
29 Blind Boys Of Alabama, Higher Ground (Realworld)
30 Chieftains, Down The Old Plank Road (RCA)
31 Richard Buckner, Impasse (Overcoat)
32 Various Artists, Making Singles, Drinking Doubles (Bloodshot)
33 Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon, Clone (RCA/Private)
34 Various Artists, Going Driftless: A Tribute To Greg Brown (Red House)
35 Rhett Miller, The Instigator (Elektra)
36 Various Artists, Kindred Spirits: Songs Of Johnny Cash (Lucky Dog)
37 Tift Merritt, Bramble Rose (Lost Highway)
38 Solomon Burke, Don’t Give Up On Me (Fat Possum)
39 Old & In The Gray, self-titled (Acoustic Disc)
40 Two Dollar Pistols, You Ruined Everything (Yep Roc)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Bloomington, MN), Amoeba Music (Hollywood, CA), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (Live Oak, TX), Cheapo Discs (Minneapolis, MN), Country Rock Specialisten (Gothenberg, Sweden), Dave’s Music Mine (Pittsburgh, PA), Disc Exchange (Knoxville, TN), Discover Music (Decatur, GA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Encore (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada), Fingerprints (Long Beach, CA), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Hoodlums Music (Tempe, AZ), Horizon Records (Greenville, SC), House Of Records (Eugene, OR), Joseph-Beth (Lexington, KY), The Landing (Seattle, WA), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Main Street Music (Philadelphia, PA), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Narragansett Disc (Narragansett, RI), Premier CDs (Pittsburgh, PA), Rock-A-Billys (Utica, MI), Schoolkids Records (Cary, NC), Schoolkids Records (Chapel Hill, NC), Shake It (Cincinnati, OH), Texas Music Round-Up (mail order), Tower #822 (Fairfax, VA), Treehouse Records (Minneapolis, MN), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Virgin Megastore (Denver, CO), Waterloo Records (Austin, TX), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
