1.  Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road  (Mercury)
2.  Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue  (Elektra)
3.  Gillian Welch – Hell Among the Yearlings  (Geffen)
4.  Mike Ireland & Holler – Learning How to Live  (SubPop/Sire)
5.  Richard Buckner – Since  (MCA)
6.  Bad Livers – Industry and Thrift  (Sugar Hill)
7.  Lyle Lovett – Step Inside This House  (MCA/Curb)
8.  Dave Alvin – Blackjack David  (Hightone)
9.  Paul Burch & the WPA Ballclub – Wire to Wire  (Checkered Past)
10. Hot Club of Cowtown – Swingin’ Stampede  (Hightone)
11. Neko Case and Her Boyfriends – The Virginian  (Bloodshot/Mint)
12. Ralph Stanley & Friends – Clinch Mountain Country  (Rebel)
13. Dwight Yoakam – A Long Way Home  (Reprise)
14. Chris Whitley – Dirt Floor  (Messenger)
15. Johnny Dowd – Wrong Side of Memphis  (Checkered Past)
16. Son Volt – Wide Swing Tremolo  (Warner Brothers)
17. Various Artists – The Horse Whisperer  (MCA)
18. BR5-49 – Big Backyard Beat Show  (Arista Austin)
19. The V-Roys – All About Town  (E-Squared)
20. Emmylou Harris – Spyboy  (Eminent)
21. The Gourds – Stadium Blitzer  (Watermelon/Sire)
22. Mac, Doc & Del – Mac, Doc & Del  (Sugar Hill)
23. Mark Lanegan – Scraps at Midnight  (SubPop)
24. Flat Duo Jets – Lucky Eye  (Outpost)
25. Jason & The Scorchers – Midnight Roads and Stages Seen  (Mammoth)
26. The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - ...Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills  (Bloodshot)
27. Brian Setzer Orchestra – The Dirty Boogie  (Interscope)
28. Dale Watson – The Truckin’ Sessions  (Koch)
29. Bobby Hicks – Fiddle Patch  (Rounder)
30. Chris Mills – Every Night Fight For Your Life  (Sugar Free)
31. The Hollisters – The Land of Rhythm & Pleasure  (Freedom)
32. Robert Earl Keen – Walking Distance  (Arista Austin)
33. Cheri Knight – The Northeast Kingdom  (E-Squared)
34. Devil in a Woodpile – Self-Titled  (Bloodshot)
35. The Hangdogs – East of Yesterday  (Crazyhead)
36. The Freight Hoppers – Waiting on the Gravy Train  (Rounder)
37. Willie Nelson – Teatro  (Island)
38. Chris Knight – Self-Titled  (Decca)
39. The Wandering Eyes – Songs of Forbidden Love  (Lazy SOB)
40. Duane Jarvis – Far From Perfect  (Watermelon)
41. Junior Brown – Long Walk Back  (Curb)
42. Chris Wall – Tainted Angel  (Cold Spring)
43. Alejandro Escovedo – More Miles Than Money: Live ‘94-’96
44. The Mavericks – Trampoline  (MCA)
45. Split-Lip Rayfield – Self-Titled  (Bloodshot)

Best of the Rest:
 

Don Walser - Down At The Sky-Vue Drive-In (Watermelon-Sire)
The Gibson Brothers - Another Night Of Waiting
(Hay Holler)
Shaver - Victory (New West)
Blue Highway - Midnight Storm (Rebel)
Bottle Rockets - Leftovers (Doolittle)
Los Super Seven – Self-Titled  (RCA)
16 Horsepower – Low Estate  (A&M)
Jon Langford - Skull Orchard (Sugar Free)
Bap Kennedy -Domestic Blues  (E-Squared)
The Stanley Gospel Tradition - Songs About Our Saviour (Doobie Shea)
Johnny Bush - Talk To My Heart  (Watermelon)
Robbie Fulks - Let's Kill Saturday Night  (Geffen)
Nanci Griffith - Other Voices,  Too  (Elektra)
Katy Moffatt - Angel Town  (HMG)
Jones & Leva - Journey Home  (Rounder)
Josh Rouse - Dressed Up Like Nebraska  (Slow River)
Jim Roll - Ready To Hang  (One Man Clapping)
Dolly Parton - Hungry Again (Decca)
Chris Buhalis – Kenai Dreams  (One Man Clapping)
Peter Case - Full Service, No Waiting  (Vanguard)
Nick Lowe - Dig my Mood  (Upstart)
Jim Lauderdale –Whisper  (RCA)
Jerry Douglas - Restless on the Farm  (Sugar Hill)
Farmer Not So John - Receiver (Compass)
Allison Moorer – Alabama Song  (MCA)
Bare Jr. - Boo-TAY  (Epic)
Big Sandy - Dedicated To You  (Hightone)
Big Sandy Presents the Fly-Rite Boys  (Hightone)
Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson:  VH1 Storytellers  (Sony)
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - Gospel Radio Gems  (Sugar Hill)
Greg Trooper - Popular Demons  (Koch)
Grievous Angels – Miles on the Rail  (Bloodshot)
Heather Myles - Highways and Honkytonks  (Rounder)
Freakwater – Springtime  (Thrill Jockey)
The Gourds – Gogitchyershinebox  (Watermelon/Sire)
Cordelia’s Dad – Spine  (Appleseed)
Cigar Store Indians - el Baile de la Cobra  (Deep South)
Tommy Womack - Positively Na-Na  (Checkered Past)
Golden Smog – Weird Tales (Rykodisc)
The Sadies - Precious Moments  (Bloodshot)
Connie Smith – Self-Titled  (Warner Bros)
Calexico - The Black Light (Quarterstick)
Drive By Truckers - Gangstabilly (Soul Dump)
Various Artists - Will Sing For Food: The Songs of Dwight Yoakam  (Little Dog)
Angry Johnny & The Killbillies - What's So Funny (Tar Hut)
Paul Burch – Pan-American Flash (Checkered Past)
Randy Scruggs - Crown Of Jewels (Reprise)
Lonesome River Band - Finding The Way (Sugar Hill)
Bruce Robison - Wrapped (Lucky Dog)
Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Friends Of Mine (Hightone)
 
 

Reissues:
Hank Williams - The Complete Hank Williams (Mercury)
Bob Dylan - Live 1966 (Columbia)
Lucinda Williams – Self-Titled  (Koch)
Charlie Feathers –  Get With It (Revenant)
Ray Charles – The Complete Country & Western Recordings (Rhino)
Dock Boggs - Country Blues (Revenant)
Tom Waits - Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years (Island)
Dock Boggs - His Folkways Years 1963-1968 (Smithsonian/Folkways)
Various Artists - My Rough and Rowdy Ways (Yazoo)
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Self-Titled
(Rounder)
Woody Guthrie - Hard Travellin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3  (Smithsonian/Folkways)
Stoney Edwards - Poor Folks Stick Together
(Razor & Tie)
Various Artists - Mississippi String Bands Vol. I & II (County)
Dick Curless – The Drag 'Em Off The Interstate, Sock It To 'Em Hits of Dick Curless  (Razor & Tie)
Flatt & Scruggs -  At Carnegie Hall (Columbia)
Ray Price - The Other Woman (Koch)
Leadbelly – Shout On  (Smithsonian/Folkways)