December 9
- JIMMY BUFFETT, Buffet Hotel (Mailboat)
- NEIL YOUNG, Dreamin’ Man Live ’92 (WEA)
- JOHN MAYALL & THE BLUESBREAKERS, Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (Decca)
- JON DEE GRAHAM & THE FIGHTING COCKS, It’s Not As Bad As It Looks (Freedom)
November 24
- IKE REILLY, Hard Luck Stories
- TOM WAITS, Glitter and Doom (live) (Anti)
- TOWNES VAN ZANDT, In The Beginning (Fat Possum)
November 17
- NORAH JONES, The Fall (Blue Note)
- PAUL McCARTNEY, Good Evening New York City (Hear Music)
- JOHN MAYER, Battle Studies (Sony)
November 10
- TORI AMOS, Midwinter Graces (Universal Republic)
- BLACK REBE MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Live (Vagrant)
- ROBYN HITCHCOCK, I Often Dream of Trains in New York (Yep Roc)
- RICKIE LEE JONES, Balm in Gilead (Fantasy)
- RAY DAVIES & THE CROUCH END FESTIVAL CHORUS, The Kinks Choral Collection (Decca)
November 3
- THE SWIMMERS, People Are Soft (Mad Dragon)
- WEEZER, Raditude (Geffen)
- MORRISSEY, Swords (Ume)
October 27
- THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, Duets (Time Life)
- ROSIE FLORES, Girl of the Century (Bloodshot)
- GOV’T MULE, By A Thread (Evil Teen)
- HEM, Twelfth Night (Nettwerk)
- JACK JOHNSON, En Concert (Brushfire)
- B.B. KING, The Four Kings of Blues Guitar (Great American Music)
- LOS LOBOS, Los Lobos Goes Disney
- MORNINGWOOD, Diamonds and Studs (Morningwood)
- THE MOTHER HIPS, Pacific Dust
- CHUCK PROPHET, Let Freedom Ring (Yep Roc)
- R.E.M., Live At The Olympia
- CARLY SIMON, Never Been Gone (Iris)
- SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS, Lost At Sea
- STEPHEN STILLS, Live At Shepherds Bush
- STING, If On A Winter’s Night… (Deutsche Grammophon)
- THE SWELL SEASON, Strict Joy by (Anti)
- TEGAN AND SARA, Sainthood
- WOLFMOTHER, Cosmic Egg by (Interscope)
- WRINKLE NECK MULES, Let The Lead Fly (Lower 40)
October 20
- SAM BUSH, Circles Around Me (Sugarhill)
- JAY FARRAR/BEN GIBBARD, One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur (Atlantic)
- LYLE LOVETT, Natural Forces (Universal Nashville)
- ELVIS PERKINS, The Doomsday (Beggars Xl)
- TIMOTHY SCHMIT, Expanded (Lost Highway)
- SNOW PATROL, Late Night Tales (LTN)
- SUFJAN STEVENS, The BQE (Asthmatic Kitty)
October 13
- BOB DYLAN, Christmas In the Heart (Sony)
- THE FLAMING LIPS, Embryonic (WEA/Reprise)
- SUGARLAND, Gold and Green (Mercury Nashville)
- NEIL DIAMOND, A Cherry Cherry Christmas (Columbia)
- JAMES MCMURTRY, Live in Europe (Lightning Rod)
- LOS LONELY BOYS, 1969 (R.E.D. Distribution)
- BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA, Songs from Lonely Avenue (Surfdog)
- ERIN MCKEOWN, Hundreds of Lions (Righteous Babe)
- GRANT LEE PHILLIPS, Little Moon (Yep Roc)
- LINDA RONSTADT, Hand Sown… Home Grown/Silk Purse (Raven)
- NICK CAVE, Nick Cave’s Jukebox (United States Of Dist./Ka)
- THAO, Know Better Learn Faster (Kill Rock Stars)
October 6
- LOU BARLOW, Goodnight Unknown (Merge)
- MIKE DOUGHTY, Sad Man Happy Man (ATO)
- DANIEL JOHNSTON, Is And Always Was
- THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, The Life of the World to Come
- NOAH AND THE WHALE, The First day Of Spring
- PORT O’BRIEN, Threadbare
- ROSANNE CASH, The List (Manhattan)
- BRANDI CARLILE, Give Up the Ghost (Sony)
- WILLIE NELSON, Souvenirs (Fuel 2000)
- SUFJAN STEVENS, Run Rabbit Run (Asthmatic Kitty)
- LUCERO, 1372 Overton Park (Republic)
September 29
- THE AVETT BROTHERS, I and Love and You (Columbia)
- LOU BARLOW, Goodnight Unknown (Merge)
- DAWES, North Hills (ATO)
- KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, Closer To The Bone (New West)
- LANGHORNE SLIM, Be Set Free (Kemado)
- CORB LUND, Losin’ Lately Gambler (New West)
- 7 WORLDS COLLIDE, The Sun Came Out (Sin UK)
- BOB SCHNEIDER, Lovely Creatures (Kirtland)
- ROBERT EARL KEEN, The Rose Hotel (Lost Highway)
- MIRANDA LAMBERT, Revolution (Sony)
- PATTY LOVELESS, Mountain Soul II (Saguaro Road)
- CHRIS SMITHER, Time Stands Still (Signature Sounds)
- WILL HOGE, Wreckage (Rykodisc)
- MICHAEL MCDONALD, This Christmas (Razor & Tie)
- DRIVIN N’ CRYIN, Great American Bubble Factory (Thirty Tigers)
- RICHMOND FONTAINE, We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River (Arena Rock)
September 22
- VIC CHESNUTT, At The Cut (Constellation)
- GUY CLARK, Somedays The Songs Writes You
- DAVID GRAY, Draw the Line (Downtown)
- MONSTERS OF FOLK, Monsters of Folk
- NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS, White Lunar (Mute)
- JOSHUA JAMES, Build Me This (Intelligent Noise)
September 15
- THE DYNAMITES, Burn It Down (Outta Sight)
- GORDON GANO AND THE RYANS, Under The Sun (Yep Roc)
- BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS, Levitate (Verve Forecast)
- MASON JENNINGS, Blood Of Man (Universal Republic)
- CHRIS KNIGHT, Trailer II (Drifters Church)
- OR, THE WHALE, Or, The Whale (Seany)
- SCOTLAND YARD GOSPEL CHOIR, …And The Horse You Rode In On (Bloodshot)
- MARK KNOPFLER, Get Lucky (Warner Bros.)
- PORCUPINE TREE, The Incident (Roadrunner)
- PETE YORN & SCARLETT JOHANSSON, Break Up (Rhino / Wea)
- BIG STAR, Keep An Eye On The Sky [Box Set] (Rhino)
- LIVING COLOUR, The Chair in the Doorway (Megaforce)
- UNCLE KRACKER, Happy Hour (Atlantic)
- JOHN MAYALL, Tough (Eagle)
- TOM WAITS, The Document (United States Of Dist./Ka)
- THE BAND OF HEATHENS, One Foot in the Ether (Boh)
September 8
- THE BEATLES, Remastered / Rediscovere(various remastered classics!) (Capitol Records)
- STEPHEN KELLOGG AND THE SIXERS, The Bear (Vanguard)
- SIMPLE MINDS, Graffiti Soul (Decca Label Group W14 Music/Decca)
- J. TILLMAN, Year In The Kingdom (Western Vinyl)
- PHISH, Joy (Jemp)
- YO LA TENGO, Popular Songs (Matador)
- HOWIE DAY, Sound The Alarm (Sony)
- FRANK TURNER, Poetry of the Deed (Epitaph)
- PROCLAIMERS, Notes & Rhymes by (429)
September 1
- APPLES IN STEREO, #1 Hits Explosion (Yep Roc)
- SAM BAKER, Cotton (Music Road)
- A.A. BONDY, When The Devil’s Loose (Fat Possum)
- BLACK CROWES, Before the Frost…Until the Freeze (Red Distribution)
- CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED, Happiness and All The Other Things [15th Anniversary Deluxe Limited Edition] (Universal South)
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The Fine Print ( A Collection of Oddities and Rarities) (New West)
- LIAM FINN AND ELIZA JANE, Champagne In Seashells (Yep Roc)
- JOHN FOGERTY, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again (Verve)
- RADNEY FOSTER & THE CONFESSIONS, Revival (New West)
- JULIETTE LEWIS, Terra Incognita (The End)
- LADYHAWKE, Ladyhawke (Modular)
- CHUCK RAGAN, Gold Country (Side One Dummy)
- REVEREND HORTON HEAT, Laughin’ And Cryin’ With The Reverend Horton Heat (Yep Roc)
- THESE UNITED STATES, Everything Touches Everything (United Interests)
- ALLEN TOUSSAINT, Saint of New Orleans (GREAT AMERICAN)
- YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, The Show
August 25
- BEASTIE BOYS, Hello Nasty (Remaster) (Capitol)
- TIM BUCKLEY, Live at the Folklore Center, NYC – March 6, 1967 (Tomkins Square)
- WOODY GUTHRIE, My Dusty Road (Rounder)
- WILLIE NELSON, American Classic (Blue Note)
- DOLORES O’RIORDAN, No Baggage (Rounder)
- THE SUBDUDES, Flower Petals (429)
August 18
- BRENDAN BENSON, My Old, Familiar Friend (ATO)
- PAUL BURCH, Still Your Man (Ramseur)
- CHEAP TRICK, Sgt. Pepper Live (Big3)
- HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN, Wishful Thinking (Gold Strike)
- JONES STREET STATION, In Verses (Smith Street)
- MADNESS, The Liberty Of Norton Folgate (Yep Roc)
- DELBERT MCCLINTON, Aquired Taste (New West)
- SISTER HAZEL, Release (Rock Ridge)
- RICHARD THOMPSON, Walking on a Wire: Richard Thompson (1968-2009) (Shout Factory)
- JOE HENRY, Blood from Stars (Anti)
- LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (2nd Story Sound)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets (Justice)
- THE CAVE SINGERS, Welcome Joy (Matador)
- TWO TONS OF STEEL, Two Tons of Steel: Not That Lucky (SMITH ENTERTAINMENT)
August 11
- BOTTLE ROCKETS, Lean Forward (Bloodshot)
- TOMMY CASTRO, Hard Believer (Alligator)
- ROBERT CRAY BAND, This Time (Vanguard)
- ROBERT POLLARD, Elephant Jokes
- MINDY SMITH, Stupid Love (Vanguard)
- THE WAILIN’ JENNYS, Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House (Red House)
- WILLIE NELSON, Lost Highway (Lost Highway)
- SAM & RUBY, Here & The Now (Rykodisc)
- HOT TUNA, First Pull Up, Then Pull Down (Wounded Bird)
August 4
- THE DUKE AND THE KING, Nothing Gold Can Stay (Ramseur)
- GRANT LANGSTON, Stand Up Man (MSG)
- MAC MACANALLY, Down By The River (Show Dog Nashville)
- MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD , Radiolarians III (Indirecto)
- MODEST MOUSE, No One’s First, and You’re Next (Sony)
- HANK WILLIAMS III AND ASSJACK, AssJack (Curb)
- YIM YAMES (Jim James alias), Tribute to George Harrison (ATO)
July 28
- GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS, The Dirty Dozen (Capitol)
- KIERAN KANE, Somewhere Beyond the Roses (Compass)
July 21
- TREVOR GUILIANI, Subcontrario (Dovecote)
- IAN HUNTER, Man Overboard (New West)
- MATTHEW SWEET AND SUSANNA HOFFS, Under The Covers Vol. 2 (Shout! Factory)
- WHEAT, White Ink, Black Ink (The Rebel Group)
- DELBERT MCCLINTON, Honky Tonkin’ All Night (GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC)
- MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO., Josephine (Secretly Canadian)
- BETTYE LAVETTE, Change Is Gonna Come Sessions (Anti-)
July 14
- BEASTIE BOYS, Ill Communication (Remastered) (Capitol)
- BLEU, A Watched Pot (Artist Garage)
- DAVID BOWIE, VH1 Storytellers (CD/DVD) (Capitol)
- DANDY WARHOLS, Dandy Warhols Are Sound (BTW)
- THE DEAD WEATHER, Horehound (WEA/Reprise)
- PEARL JAM, The Lowdown (SEXY INTELLECTUAL)
- GINA VILLALOBOS, Days On Their Side (Face West)
July 7
- THE MINUS FIVE, Killingsworth (Yep Roc)
- SON VOLT, American Central Dust (Rounder Records)
- STELLASTARR, Civilized (Warner)
- THOSE DARLINS, Those Darlins (Thirty Tigers)
- CASS MCCOMBS, Catacombs (Domino)
- LOVELL SISTERS, Time To Grow (self)
- YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, I Think This Is (Yep Roc)
- DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Live from Austin Texas (CD/DVD COMBO) (New West)
- THE JAYHAWKS, Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology (Sony Legacy)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt (Fat Possum)
June 30
- LEVON HELM, Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records)
- WILCO, Wilco (the Album) (Nonesuch)
- AMY SPEACE, The Killer In Me (Wildflower)
June 23
- DEER TICK, Born On Flag Day (Partisan)
- PATTERSON HOOD, Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (Bloodshot)
- LEMONHEADS, Varshons (The End)
- JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO, Live In Toronto ’69 (Shout!)
- CHARLIE ROBISON, Beautiful Day (Dualtone)
- PETE YORN, Back & Forth (Columbia)
- CHRISTINA COURTIN, self-titled (Nonesuch)
- LARRY JON WILSON, self-titled (Drag City)
- OTIS TAYLOR, Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs (Telarc/Concord)
June 16
- HA HA TONKA, Novel Sounds Of The Nouveau South (Bloodshot)
- AMONG THE OAK & ASH, self-titled (Verve Forecast)
- HOLLY WILLIAMS, Here With Me (Mercury Nashville)
- MAURA O’CONNELL, Naked With Friends (Sugar Hill)
- RHONDA VINCENT, Destination Life (Rounder)
- SARAH JAROSZ, Song Up In Her Head (Sugar Hill)
- SWEETBACK SISTERS, Chicken Ain’t Chicken (Signature Sounds)
June 9
- BRITISH SEA POWER, Man Of Aran (Rough Trade)
- RHETT MILLER, Rhett Miller (Shout Factory!)
- ROADSIDE GRAVES, My Son’s Home (Autumn Tone)
- TODD SNIDER, The Excitement Plan (Yep Roc)
- SONIC YOUTH, The Eternal (Matador)
- BROTHERS OF THE SOUTHLAND, self-titled (Zoho Roots)
- CHARLIE MARS, Like A Bird, Like A Plane (Thirty Tigers)
- COSMOS, Jar Of Jam Ton Of Bricks (Happy Jack Rock)
- JOHN ANDERSON, Bigger Hands (Country Crossing/Stroudavarious)
- LOW ANTHEM, Oh My God Charlie Darwin (Nonesuch)
- PETER HOLSAPPLE & CHRIS STAMEY, Here And Now (Bar/None)
June 2
- JEFF BUCKLEY, Grace – Around The World (Legacy)
- ELVIS COSTELLO, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Hear Music)
- MARSHALL CRENSHAW, Jaggedland (429 Records)
- EELS, Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire (Vagrant)
- DAVE MATTHEWS, Big Whiskey & the Groo Grux King (RMG / RCA)
- IGGY POP, Preliminaires (Astralwerks)
- ASTRID WILLIAMSON, Here Come The Vikings (One Little Indian)
- CATHERINE MACLELLAN, Water In The Ground (True North)
- HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH, The Holy Open Secret (Mad Dragon)
- MELISSA MCCLELLAND, Victoria Day (Six Shooter)
- RYAN BINGHAM, Road House Sun (Lost Highway)
- TANYA TUCKER, My Turn (Saguaro Road)
May 26
- CHRIS GAFFNEY TRIBUTE, The Man Of Somebody’s Dreams (Yep Roc)
- DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN, self-titled (Yep Roc)
- DAVID BERKELEY, Strange Light (Thirty Tigers)
- DAVID SERBY, Hony Tonk And Vine (Harbor Grove)
- GRIZZLY BEAR, Veckatimest (Warp)
- JOHNNY WINTER, The Johnny Winter Anthology (Shout! Factory)
- MARY BRAGG, Sugar (self)
- RED HEART THE TICKER, Oh My! Mountains Below (Auger Down)
- SARAH SISKIND, Say It Louder (Red Direct/Thirty Tigers)
- SIR RICHARD BISHOP, The Freak Of Araby (Drag City)
May 19
- TORI AMOS, Abnormally Attracted to Sin (Universal Republic)
- ASHLEY CLEVELAND, God Don’t Never Change (Koch)
- CARBON LEAF, Nothing Rhymes With Woman (Vanguard)
- CEDAR HILL REFUGEES, Pale Imperfect Diamond (Effigy)
- COLIN LINDEN, From The Water (True North)
- DIANA JONES, Better Times Will Come (Proper American)
- IRON & WINE, Around The Well (Sub Pop)
- JASON LYTLE, Yours Truly, The Commuter (Anti-)
- MONAHANS, Dim the Aurora (Misra)
- RED STICK RAMBLERS, My Suitcase Is Always Packed (Sugar Hill)
- SCOTT H. BIRAM, Something’s Wrong/Lost Forever (Bloodshot)
- ZEE AVI, self-titled (Brushfire)
May 12
- BELLEVILLE OUTFIT, Time to Stand (Belleville)
- STEVE EARLE, Townes (New West)
- MEAT PUPPETS, Sewn Together (Megaforce)
- ROMAN CANDLE, Oh Tall Tree In The Ear (Carnival Recording Company)
- MICHELLE SHOCKED, Soul of my Soul (Megaforce)
- PASSION PIT, Manners (French Kiss)
- CASEY DRIESSEN, Oog (Red Shoe)
- CHUCK MEAD, Journeyman’s Wager (self)
- HANNE HUKKELBERG, Blood From A Stone (Nettwerk)
- OPERATION ALOHA, self-titled (self)
- WOODEN BIRDS, Magnolia (Barsuk)
- DEXATEENS, Singlewide (Skybucket/Cornelius Chapel)
- HILL COUNTRY REVUE, Make A Move (Razor & Tie)
May 5
- CRACKER, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey (429)
- BEN HARPER AND THE RELENTLESS 7, White Lies for Dark Times (Virgin)
- NEW YORK DOLLS, Cause I Sez So (Atco)
- JACK OBLIVIAN AND THE TENNESSEE TEARJERKERS, Disco Outlaw (Sympathy For the Record Industry/Goner Records)
- THE ROLLING STONES, Goat’s Head Soup (Re-issue) (UME)
- THE ROLLING STONES, It’s Only Rock N’ Roll (Re-issue) (UME)
- THE ROLLING STONES, Sticky Fingers (Re-Issue) (UME)
- ST VINCENT, Actor (4AD)
- DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER, Lonely Street (Rounder)
- ZIGGY MARLEY, Family Time (Tuff Gong)
- ALASDAIR ROBERTS, Spoils (Drag City)
April 28
- A CAMP, Colonia (Nettwerk)
- BLACK CROWES, Warpaint Live (Eagle)
- SAMANTHA CRAIN AND THE MIDNIGHT SHIVERS, Songs in the Night (Ramseur Records)
- BOB DYLAN, Together Through Life (Columbia)
- TIM EASTON, Porcupine (New West)
- BEN FOLDS, Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella! (Epic)
- BEN LEE, The Rebirth of Venus (New West)
- PALEFACE, The Show is on the Road (Ramseur Records)
- DISCIPLINES, Smoking Kills (Second Motion)
- DEBRA COWAN, Fond Desire Farewell (Falling Mountain)
- SLAID CLEAVES, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away (Music Road)
- NEWFOUND ROAD, Same Old Place (Rounder)
- LOS STRAITJACKETS, The Further Adventures Of (Yep Roc)
- ZERA MARVEL, Birds And Bullets Fly (In Spades)
- KING WILKIE, The Wilkie Family Singers (Casa Nueva)
April 21
- WAYNE HANCOCK, Viper Melody (Bloodshot)
- BOOKER T. JONES (With the Drive-By Truckers and Neil Young), Potato Hole (Anti-)
- EILEN JEWELL, Sea Of Tears (Signature Sounds)
- THE GREENCARDS, Fascination (Sugar Hill)
- TIM BRANTLEY, Goldtop Heights (Blackledge)
- WUSSY, self-titled (Shake It)
- BOXMASTERS, Modbilly (Vanguard)
- BRIAN BLADE, Mama Rosa (Verve Forecast)
- WEBB WILDER, More Like Me (BlindPig)
- ROY ROGERS, Split Decision (Blind Pig)
- COMMANDER CODY, Dopers, Drunks, And Everyday Losers (BlindPig)
- JESSE WINCHESTER, Love Filling Station (Appleseed)
- ALLEN TOUSSAINT, The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
- CHRISTOPHER REES, Devil’s Bridge (Red Eye)
- KATIE HERZIG, Apple Tree (Marion-Lorraine)
- TINTED WINDOWS, Tinted Windows (S-Curve)
April 14
- JOHN DOE AND THE SADIES, Country Club (Yep Roc)
- EVERYDAY VISUALS, The Everyday Visuals (Self-Released)
- MIKE FARRIS & THE ROSELAND RHYTHM REVIEW, Shout! Live (INO)
- MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD, Radiolarians II (Indirecto/Megaforce)
- JILL SOBULE, The California Years (Pinko)
- MOONALICE, self-titled (self)
- PAPERCUTS, You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong)
- HANDSOME FAMILY, Honey Moon (Carrot Top)
- WILLIE NILE, House Of A Thousand Guitars (River House/GB)
- SCOTT MILLER, For Crying Out Loud (F.A.Y.)
- JAKE SHIMABUKURO, Live (Hitchhike)
April 7
- THE TRAGICALLY HIP, We Are The Same (Rounder Records)
- SARA WATKINS, Sara Watkins (Nonesuch)
- HALLOWEEN, ALASKA, Champagne Downtown (East Side Digital)
- BOB MOULD, Life And Times (Anti-)
- SINGLE FILE, Common Struggles (Reprise)
- RAY CHARLES, Genius: The Ultimate Collection (Concord)
- MARIA TAYLOR, LadyLuck (Nettwerk)
- VIENNA TENG, Inland Territory (Zoe/Rounder)
- RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT, A Stranger Here (Anti-)
- THERMALS, Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
- RICHARD SHINDELL, Not Far Now (Signature Sounds)
- ALEXIS HARTE, Big Red Sun (self)
- CAROLINE WEEKS, Songs For Edna (Manimal)
- CHRIS VELAN, Solidago (NewSong)
- GREATER CALIFORNIA, All The Colors (Subtitled)
- MANDA MOSHER, Everything You Need (Red Parlor)
- CASSANDRA WILSON, Closer To You: The Pop Side (Blue Note/EMI)
- WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS The Sparrow And The Crow (Mercer Street)
- GLEN TILBROOK & THE FLUFFERS, Pandemonium Ensues (E1)
- NAKIA, Water To Wine (self)
- FELICE BROTHERS, Yonder Is The Clock (Team Love)
- OLD CALIFORNIO, Westering Again (self)
- NEIL YOUNG, Fork In The Road (Reprise)
March 31
- PETER BJORN AND JOHN, Living Thing (Almost Gold)
- THE FLATLANDERS, Hills and Valleys (New West)
- A BROKEN CONSORT, Box Of Birch (Tompkins Square)
- DIANA KRALL, Quiet Nights (Verve)
- GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS, Lost Channels (Nettwerk)
- GOMEZ, A New Tide (ATO)
- MARCUS ROBERTS, New Orleans Meets Harlem, Vol. 1 (J-Master)
- BOBBY OSBORNE, Bluegrass & Beyond (Rounder)
- MICHELLE MALONE, Debris (SBS)
- DAILEY & VINCENT, Brothers From Different Mothers (Rounder)
- BRUCE COCKBURN, Slice O Life: Live Solo (Rounder)
- VENICE IS SINKING, Azar (One Percent Press)
- PAUL WESLEY, When I Let Go (self)
March 24
- SARAH BORGES, The Stars are Out (Sugar Hill)
- DECEMBERISTS, Hazards of Love (Capitol)
- JJ CALE, Roll On (Rounder)
- PETER DOHERTY, Grace / Wastelands (Astralwerks)
- INDIGO GIRLS, Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (Welk)
- PEARL JAM, Ten (Reissue) (Legacy)
- PET SHOP BOYS, Yes (Astralwerks)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm (Vanguard)
- IAN TYSON, Yellowhead To Yellowstone (Stony Plain)
- SUNNY & HER JOY BOYS, Introducing… (Stony Plain)
- JULIAN LAGE, Sounding Point (Emarcy)
- OBITS, I Blame You (Sub Pop)
- ALECIA NUGENT, Hillbilly Goddess (Rounder)
- SPECIAL CONSENSUS, Signs (Pinecastle)
- DAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS, Tangled Tales (Surfdog)
- ERIC LINDELL, Gulf Coast Highway (Alligator)
- STRANGE BOYS, …And Girls Club (In The Red)
- RED RED MEAT, Bunny Gets Paid (Sub Pop)
- JOSH FREESE, Since 1972 (self)
Winter 2009
March 17
- BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Beware (Drag City)
- BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS, Industry Giants (Superdrag Sound Labratories/Thirty Tigers)
- JOHN WESLEY HARDING, Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is (Lost Highway)
- NICK LOWE, Quiet Please: The New Best of Nick Lowe (Yep Roc)
- MGMT, Time To Pretend (Cantora/ Megaforce)
- SUPERDRAG, Industry Giants (Superdrag Sound Labratories/Thirty Tigers)
- WILLIE NELSON, Naked Willie (RCA/Legacy)
- TOO SLIM & THE TAILDRAGGERS, Free Your Mind (Underworld)
- KELLY JOE PHELPS, Western Bell (Black Hen)
March 10
- MARK O’CONNOR, Americana Symphony (OMAC)
- SOMETYMES WHY, Your Heart Is A Glorious Machine (Signature Sounds)
- MADELEINE PEYROUX, Bare Bones (Rounder)
- JOHN WESLEY HARDING, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead (Popover Corps)
- DM STITH, Heavy Ghost (Asthmatic Kitty)
- PETULA CLARK, Open Your Heart: The Love Song Collection (Collectors’ Choice)
- BODEANS, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, Collector’s Edition (Rhino)
- RONNIE MILSAP, Then Sings My Soul: 24 Favorite Hymns & Gospel Songs (EMG CMG)
- TOUBAB KREWE, Live At The Orange Peel (Upstream)
- OREN LAVIE, The Opposite Side Of The Sea (Quarter Past Wonderful)
- PRONTO, All Is Golden (Contraphonic)
- ROCCO DELUCA, Mercy (Ironworks)
- ROMI MAYES, Achin’ In Yer Bones (self)
- WILLIE HEATH NEAL, Out Of Highway (Chicken Ranch)
- ARI HEST, Twelve Mondays (self)
- HANDSOME FURS, Face Control (Sub Pop)
- DANNY SCHMIDT, Instead The Forest Rose To Sing (Red House)
- LUKA BLOOM, Eleven Songs (Bar/None)
- COURTNEY FAIRCHILD, 11 Chances (Stanley)
March 3
- NEKO CASE, Middle Cyclone (-Anti)
- JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Midnight at the Movies (Bloodshot)
- RAUL MALO, Lucky One (Fantasy)
- JULIE AND BUDDY MILLER, Written in Chalk (New West)
- U2, No Line on the Horizon (Island)
- JESSE HARRIS, Watching The Sky (Mercer Street)
- SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Communion (Yep Roc)
- CLARENCE BUCARO, ‘Til Spring (Twenty Twenty)
- ANGUS AND JULIA STONE, A Book Like This (Nettwerk)
- LAURA GIBSON, Beasts Of Seasons (Hush)
- CHRIS DARROW, self-titled/Under My Own Disguise (Everloving)
- MOLLY JENSON, Maybe Tomorrow (Nettwerk)
- BOSQUE BROWN, Baby (Burnt Toast)
- MARTY WILLSON-PIPER, Nightjar (Second Motion)
- BELL X1, Blue Lights On The Runway (Yep Roc)
- SETH WALKER, Leap Of Faith (Hyena)
- IAN MCLAGAN, Never Say Never (00:02:59)
- DANNY O’KEEFE, In Time (Bicameral)
- BELA FLECK, Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 – Africa Sessions (Rounder)
February 24
- RANDY WEEKS, Going My Way (Certifiable)
- NEIL YOUNG, Archives (Reprise)
- TOM RUSH, What I Know (Appleseed)
- ALTERNATE ROUTES, A Sucker’s Dream (Vanguard)
- OLD CEREMONY, Walk On Thin Air (Alyosha)
- SHEMEKIA COPELAND, Never Going Back (Telarc)
- JJ CALE, Roll On (Rounder)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Singing Through The Hard Times: A Tribute To Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)
- VAN MORRISON, Astral Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (Listen To The Lion/EMI)
February 17
- ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE VENUS 3, Goodnight Oslo (Yep Roc)
- JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Lightning Rod)
- GURF MORLIX, Last Exit to Happyland (Rootball)
- M. WARD, Hold Time (Merge)
- ELENI MANDELL, Artificial Fire (Zedtone)
- WILLIAM ELLIOT WHITMORE, Animals In The Dark (Anti-)
- BRIGITTE DEMEYER, Red River Flower (BDM)
- JEFFREY FOUCAULT, Shoot The Moon Right Between The Eyes (Signature Sounds)
- MICKEY CLARK, Winding Highways (Ear X-Tacy)
- VETIVER, Tight Knit (Sub Pop)
- JOHN LEE HOOKER, 50 Years: The John Lee Hooker Anthology (Shout! Factory)
- TOMMY KEENE, In The Late Bright (Second Motion)
- SAM ROBERTS, Love At The End Of The World (Rounder)
- STEVE KILBEY, Painkiller (Second Motion)
- WATSON TWINS, Live At Fingerprints EP (Vanguard)
February 10
- BEN LEE, The Rebirth of Venus (New West)
- GUY DAVIS, Sweetheart Like You (Red House)
- DAN AUERBACH, Keep It Hid (Nonesuch)
- JORMA KAUKONEN, River Of Time (Red House)
- DEX ROMWEBER DUO, Ruins Of Berlin (Bloodshot)
- MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS, Light Of X (Nettwerk)
- MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY, Buckaroo Blue Grass (Rural Rhythm)
- MEGAN MUNROE, One More Broken String (Diamond)
- VAN MORRISON, Astral Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (Listen To The Lion/EMI)
February 3
- BEN KWELLER, Changing Horses (ATO)
- DENT MAY, And His Magnificent Ukulele (Car Park)
- MORRISSEY, Southpaw Grammer (Rhino)
- THE YOUNG DUBLINERS, Saints and Sinners (429)
- MARYKATE O’NEIL, Underground (Nettwerk)
- ROBERT EARL KEEN TRIBUTE, Undone (Right Ave)
- LISA HANNIGAN, Sea Sew (ATO)
- NIGHTHAWKS, American Landscape (Powerhouse)
- RUTHIE FOSTER, The Truth According To Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn)
- PINE LEAF BOYS, Homage Au Passe (Lionsgate)
- HEARTLESS BASTARDS, The Mountain (Fat Possum)
- WILLIE NELSON & ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux)
January 27
- ANDY FRIEDMAN & THE OTHER FAILURES, Weary Things (Self)
- ASA, self-titled (Mercer Street)
- AUDIE BLAYLOCK, self-titled (Rural Rhythm)
- BOB WILLS & THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS, The Tiffany Transcriptions (Collectors’ Choice (10-CD set))
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Working on a Dream (Columbia)
- DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD, Echoes Of The Mountains (Rounder)
- DUNCAN SHEIK, Whisper House (SMG/Victor)
- ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER, You Don’t Have To Like Them Both (Red Beet)
- JAMES BROWN, Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968 (Shout!Factory)
- MARK OLSON AND GARY LOURIS, Ready for the Flood (New West)
- MICKEYS, Walk Along (Riverbeat/Select-O-Hit)
- PAT GREEN, What I’m For (SBMG)
- ODDS, Cheerleader (Second Motion)
- RAN BLAKE, Driftwoods (Tompkins Square)
- RHYTHM ANGELS, Girls Like Us (High Horse)
- SAFFIRE – THE UPPITY BLUES WOMEN, Havin’ The Last Word (Alligator)
- STRAND OF OAKS, Leave Ruin (La Societe Expeditionnaire)
- TRADITIONIST, Season To Season (Better Looking)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS, Johnny Cash Remixed (Compadre)
- VOLCANO SUNS, All Night Lotus Party / The Bright Orange Years (Merge)
January 20
- ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
- ANDREW BIRD, Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
- CALEXICO, Live from Austin TX (New West)
- OTIS GIBBS, Grandpa Walked A Picketline (Wanamaker)
- A.C. NEWMAN, Get Guilty (Matador)
- BEN NICHOLS, The Last Pale Light In The West (Liberty And Lament)
- NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, Do It Like We Used To (NMA)
- WIDEAWAKE, Something That We Can’t Let Go (Artists Garage)
January 13
- BANG CAMARO, Bang Camaro II (8th Impression)
- BEE GEES, Odessa: Deluxe Edition (Rhino)
- DEREK TRUCKS BAND, Already Free (SMG/Victor)
January 6
- GLASVEGAS, Glasvegas (Sony)
- GOURDS, Haymaker (Yep Roc)
- BIG SHANTY, Sold Out… (King Mojo)