Best Music CDs of the Year

Best of 2007

1.           Mark Olson - Salvation Blues

2.           Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

3.           Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond

4.           Son Volt - The Search

5.           Glossary - The Better Angels of Our Nature

6.           Two Cow Garage - III

7.           David Bromberg -  Try Me One More Time

8.           Dolorean - You Can't Win

9.           Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II

10.      Dwight Yoakam - Dwight Sings Buck

Best of 2006

1.           Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse

2.           Chris Knight - Enough Rope

3.           The Deadstring Brothers - Starving Winter Report

4.           Centro-matic - Fort Recovery

5.           Frog Holler - Haywire

6.           Gob Iron - Death Songs For The Living

7.           Todd Snider -  The Devil You Know

8.           Glossary - For What I Don't Become

9.           National Grain - National Grain

10.      The Gourds - Heavy Ornamentals

Best of 2005

1.            Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights

2.          Son Volt - Okemah & The Melody of Riot

3.          Kathleen Edwards - Back to Me

4.          Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy

5.          Ryan Adams - Cold Roses

6.          Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust

7.          Robbie Fulks - Georgia Hard

8.          Neil Young - Prairie Wind

9.          Lucinda Williams - Live @ The Fillmore

10.     Wilco - Kicking Television

Best of 2004

1.      Dolorean - Violence in the Snowy Fields

2.      Jay Farrar - Stone, Steel & Bright Lights

3.      Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose

4.      Will Johnson - Vultures Await

5.      Various Musicians - Touch My Heart: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck

6.      Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts ... Now

7.      Graham Parker - Your Country

8.      Jon Langford - All the Fame of Lofty Deeds

9.      Paul Westerberg - Folker

10.  Tift Merritt - Tambourine

Best of 2003

1. Paul Westerberg - Come Feel Me Tremble
2. Jay Farrar - Terrior Blues
3. Ryan Adams - Love is Hell, Parts 1 & 2 (EP)
4. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
5. Frog Holler - Railings
6. Kathleen Edwards - Failer
7. Centro-Matic - Love You Just the Same
8. The Derailers - Genuine
9. Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Executioner’s Last Songs, vols. 2 and 3
10. Damien Jurado - Where Shall You Take Me

Best of 2002

1.             Mike Ireland & Holler - Try Again

2.             Steve Earle - Jerusalem

3.             Paul Westerberg - Stereo

4.             The Gourds - Cow, Fish, Fowl or Pig

5.             Jay Farrar - thirdshiftgrottoslack (EP)

6.             Waco Brothers - New Deal

7.             Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Executioner’s Last Songs

8.             Ryan Adams - Demolition

9.             Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel

10.         Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Best of 2001

1.         Jay Farrar - Sebastopol

2.         The Derailers - Here Come The Derailers

3.         Bob Dylan - Love and Theft

4.         Whiskeytown - Pneumonia

5.         Ryan Adams - Gold

6.         The Yayhoos - Fear Not The Obvious

7.         Hadacol - All in Your Head

8.         Frog Holler - Idiots

9.         Lucinda Williams - Essence

10.    The Honeydogs - Here’s Luck

Best of 2000

1.                  Neil Young - Silver & Black

2.                  Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

3.                  Dwight Yoakam - dwightyoakamacoustic.net

4.                  Marah - Kids in Philly

5.                  Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues

6.                  Slobberbone - Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today

7.                  The Gourds - Bolsa de Agua

8.                  Waco Brothers - Electric Waco Chair

9.                  Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue 2

10.             Mary Karlzen - Dim the Watershed

Best of 1999

1.         The Gourds - Ghosts of Hallelujah

2.         Damnations TX - Half Mad Moon

3.         Waco Brothers - Waco World

4.         Various Musicians - Return of the Grievous Angel - Tribute to Gram Parsons

5.         John Prine - In Spite of Ourselves

6.         Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band - The Mountain

7.         The Derailers - Full Western Dress

8.         Hadacol - Better Than This

9.         Drive-By Truckers - Pizza Deliverance

10.     Wilco - Summerteeth