1 Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
2 Norah Jones, Feels Like Home (Blue Note/EMI)
3 Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live ’64 Concert At Philharmonic Hall (Sony Legacy)
4 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
5 Modest Mouse, Good News For People Who Like Bad News (Epic)
6 Bonnie Prince Billy, Sings Greatest Palace Music (Drag City)
7 Mindy Smith, One Moment More (Vanguard)
8 Los Lonely Boys, self-titled (Or)
9 Patty Griffin, Impossible Dream (ATO)
10 Slaid Cleaves, Wishbones (Philo/Rounder)
11 Calexico, Convict Pool (Quarterstick)
12 James McMurtry, Live In Aught-Three (Compadre)
13 Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (American/Lost Highway)
13 Damien Rice, O (Vector)
15 Sufjan Stevens, Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre)
16 Flatlanders, Wheels Of Fortune (New West)
17 Sam Bush, King Of My World (Sugar Hill)
18 Old Crow Medicine Show, OCMS (Nettwerk)
19 Sun Kil Moon, Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Jetset)
20 Eric Clapton, Me & Mr. Johnson (Reprise)
21 Allison Moorer, The Duel (Sugar Hill)
22 Neil Young, Greendale (Reprise)
23 Los Lobos, The Ride (Hollywood)
24 Johnny Cash, My Mother’s Hymn Book (American/Lost Highway)
25 Gillian Welch, Soul Journey (Acony)
26 Subdudes, Miracle Mule (Back Porch)
27 Indigo Girls, All That We Let In (Epic)
28 Ani DiFranco, Educated Guess (Righteous Babe)
28 Ryan Adams, Rock N Roll (Lost Highway)
29 Graham Parker, Your Country (Bloodshot)
30 Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
31 My Morning Jacket, It Still Moves (ATO)
32 Johnny Cash, Unearthed (American/Lost Highway)
33 Sam Phillips, A Boot And A Shoe (Nonesuch)
34 Lambchop, Aw C’Mon (Merge)
35 Ron Sexsmith, Retriever (Nettwerk)
36 Cross Canadian Ragweed, Soul Gravy (Universal South)
37 Sarah Harmer, All Of Our Names (Rounder)
38 Ryan Adams, Love Is Hell Part 1 (Lost Highway)
39 Tom Russell, Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)
40 Ryan Adams, Love Is Hell Part 2 (Lost Highway)
Reporting Stores: Aardvark (Minneapolis, MN), Almost Blue (Asheville, NC), Amoeba Music (Hollywood, CA), Amoeba Music (San Francisco, CA), Basement Discs (Melbourne, Australia), Book Cellar (Waupaca, WI), Cactus Music (Houston, TX), CD Central (Lexington, KY), CD Exchange (Live Oak, TX), Electric Fetus (Duluth, MN), Fingerprints (Long Beach, CA), For The Record (Amherst, MA), Future Legend (New York, NY), Gem City Records (Dayton, OH), Hear’s Music (Tucson, AZ), Horizon Records (Greenville, SC), Laser’s Edge (Birmingham, AL), Mad City Music (Madison, WI), Malmo Skivhandel (Malmo, Sweden), Manifest (Charlotte, NC), Miles Of Music (mail order), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), New World Record (Buffalo, NY), Record Exchange (Boise, ID), Soundscapes (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Schoolkids (Chapel Hill, NC), Schoolkids (Raleigh, NC), Surf Club Records (Corpus Christi, TX), Twist & Shout (Denver, CO), Wuxtry Records (Decatur, GA).
