In der Breite relativ starker Jahrgang:
01) Songs: Ohia – The Magnolia Electric Co.
02) The Be Good Tanyas – Chinatown
03) Warren Zevon – The Wind
04) June Tabor – An Echo of Hooves
05) (Smog) – Supper
06) Knife in the Water – Cut the Cord
07) Bonnie ‚Prince‘ Billy – Master and Everyone
08) Nina Nastasia – Run to Ruin
09) Cat Power – You Are Free
10) Alasdair Roberts – Farewell Sorrow
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11) Gillian Welch – Soul Journey
12) John Mellencamp – Trouble No More
13) Jolie Holland – Catalpa
14) The Innocence Mission – Befriended
15) Willard Grant Conspiracy – Regard the End
16) Midnight Choir – Waiting for the Bricks to Fall
17) Martin Simpson – Righteousness & Humidity
18) Drive-By Truckers – Decoration Day
19) Janet Bean and The Concertina Wire – Dragging Wonder Lake
20) The Go-Betweens – Bright Yellow Bright Orange
21) Richard Thompson – The Old Kit Bag
22) Cracker / Leftover Salmon – O‘ Cracker Where Art Thou?
23) The Jayhawks – Rainy Day Music
24) Tex Perkins‘ Dark Horses – Sweet Nothing
25) The Transmissionary Six – Spooked
26) Bart Davenport – Game Preserve
27) Shack – …Here’s Tom with the Weather
28) Laura Veirs – Troubled by the Fire
29) Richmond Fontaine – Post to Wire
30) Eels – Shootenanny!
01) *****
02) – 04) ****1/2
05) – 28) ****
29) – 30) ***1/2
Danach (in alphabetical order, alle im Bereich ***1/2):
The American Analog Set – Promise of Love
The Band of Blacky Ranchette – Still Lookin‘ Good to Me
Vic Chesnutt – Silver Lake
Howe Gelb – The Listener
Buddy Guy – Blues Singer
Joe Henry – Tiny Voices
Jeffrey Lewis with Jack Lewis and Anders Griffen – It’s the Ones Who’ve Cracked That the Light Shines Through
Eleni Mandell – Country for True Lovers
William Elliott Whitmore – Hymns for the Hopeless
Lucinda Williams – World without Tears
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