1 Norah Jones, Feels Like Home (Blue Note/EMI)
2 Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (American/Lost Highway)
3 Flatlanders, Wheels Of Fortune (New West)
4 Mindy Smith, One Moment More (Vanguard)
5 Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
6 Ryan Adams, Love Is Hell Part 2 (Lost Highway)
7 Ryan Adams, Rock N Roll (Lost Highway)
8 Various Artists, Cold Mountain soundtrack (DMZ/Columbia)
9 Ryan Adams, Love Is Hell Part 1 (Lost Highway)
10 Greg Brown, Honey In The Lion’s Head (Trailer)
11 Ani DiFranco, Educated Guess (Righteous Babe)
12 Damien Rice, O (Vector)
12 My Morning Jacket, It Still Moves (ATO)
14 Emmylou Harris, Stumble Into Grace (Nonesuch)
15 Southern Culture On The Skids, Mojo Box (Yep Roc)
16 Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears (Lost Highway)
17 Johnny Cash, Unearthed (American/Lost Highway)
18 Grant Lee Phillips, Virginia Creeper (Zoe/Rounder)
19 Los Lonely Boys, self-titled (Or)
20 Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Unclassified (Warner Bros.)
20 Lyle Lovett, My Baby Don’t Tolerate (Curb/Lost Highway)
22 Jayhawks, Rainy Day Music (American/Lost Highway)
23 Lambchop, Aw C’mon (Merge)
24 Natalie Merchant, The House Carpenter’s Daughter (Myth America)
25 Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, Streetcore (Hellcat)
26 Eddie Spaghetti, Sauce (Mid-Fi)
27 Warren Zevon, The Wind (Artemis)
28 Lambchop, No You C’mon (Merge)
29 Sheryl Crow, The Very Best Of (A&M)
30 Sun Kil Moon, Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Jetset)
31 Bottle Rockets, Blue Sky (Sanctuary)
32 Indigo Girls, All That We Let In (Epic)
33 Califone, Heron King Blues (Thrill Jockey)
33 Neil Young, Greendale (Reprise)
35 Gillian Welch, Soul Journey (Acony)
36 Thrills, So Much For The City (Virgin)
37 Various Artists, Just Because I’m A Woman: Songs Of Dolly Parton (Sugar Hill)
38 Jolie Holland, Catalpa (Anti/Epitaph)
39 Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)
40 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Live (Rounder)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark Records (Minneapolis, MN), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Aron’s (Los Angeles, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (Live Oak, TX), Dave’s Music Mine (Pittsburgh, PA), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Future Legend (New York, NY), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Groovacious (Cedar City, UT), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Horizon Records (Greenville, SC), Hoodlum’s (Tempe, AZ), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Record Emporium (Chicago, IL), Record Exchange (Boise, ID), Rock-A-Billys (Utica, MI), Schoolkids (Chapel Hill, NC), Tower #822 (Fairfax, VA), Treehouse (Minneapolis, MN), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
