01) Jason Molina – Pyramid Electric Co.
02) Marissa Nadler – Ballads of Living and Dying
03) Jolie Holland – Escondida
04) Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – Oh, My Girl
05) Mofro – Lochloosa
06) Wovenhand – Consider the Birds
07) Simon Joyner – Lost with the Lights On
08) Blanche – If We Can’t Trust the Doctors…
09) Angel Dean & Sue Garner – Pot Liquor
10) Nikki Sudden – Treasure Island
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11) Patti Smith – Trampin‘
12) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
13) James Yorkston & The Athletes – Just beyond the River
14) Grant-Lee Phillips – Virginia Creeper
15) Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South
16) Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
17) Ben Weaver – Stories under Nails
18) Chris Cacavas – Self Taut
19) Old Crow Medicine Show – O.C.M.S.
20) Bonnie „Prince“ Billy – Sings Greatest Palace Music
21) Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now
22) Elliott Smith – From a Basement on the Hill
23) Robyn Hitchcock – Spooked
24) Dave Alvin – Ashgrove
25) Tom Waits – Real Gone
26) Micah P. Hinson – Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress
27) Sophia – People Are Like Seasons
28) Chris Eckman – The Black Field
29) Espers – Espers
30) Giant Sand – Is All Over the Map
01) – 07) ****1/2
08) – 30) ****
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