H E A V Y

1 ralph stanley & friends :clinch moutain country:

  rebel [bg/c, gr]

2 mike ireland & holler :learning how to live:

  sub pop [c, gr]

3 calexico :the black light: quarterstick [f/r, y]

4 the gourds :stadium blitzer: watermelon/munich

  usa [p/f, gr]

5 cornell hurd band :texas fruit shack: behemoth

  [c, gr]

6 nick lowe :dig my mood: upstart [p/f, y]

7 don walser :down at the sky-vue drive in:

  sire/watermelon [c, gr]

8 george jones :it donUt get any better than this:

  mca nashville [c, gr]

9 ost :the horse whisperer: mca [c/f, bg]

10 bap kennedy :domestic blues: e-sqared [f/r, gr]



M E D I U M

11 kate campbell :visions of plenty: compass

   [f/p, gr]

12 pernice brothers :overcome by happiness:

   sub pop [r, y]

13 john hartford :the speed of the old long bow:

   rounder [f/ot, gr]

14 johnny bush :talk to my heart: watermelon [c, gr]

15 jim roll :ready to hang: one man clapping

   [f/r, gr}

16 the fly-rite boys :big sandy presents: hightone

   [c/ws, gr]

17 sue foley :ten days in november: shanachie [b, gr]

18 gene vincent & his blue caps :the lost dallas 

   sessions: dragon street [rb, gr]

19 country gentlemen :early rebel recordings,

   1962-1971: rebel [bg, gr]

20 jason & the scorchers :midnight roads & 

   stages seen: mammoth [r, y]

21 cordeliaUs dad :spine: appleseed [f, gr]

22 johnny dowd :wrong side of memphis: 

   checkered past [f/b, gr]

23 joe ely :twistinU in the wind: mca nashville

   [c/r, gr]

24 redd volkaert :telewacker: hmg/hightone

   [c/b, gr]

25 the schramms :dizzy spell: checkered past [p, y]

26 sam bush :howlin' at the moon: sugar hill

   [f/bg, gr]



LITE

27 waylon jennings :closing in on the fire:

   ark21 [c. gr]

28 jerry douglass :restless on the farm:

   sugar hill [f, gr]

29 josh rouse :dressed up like nebraska:

   rykodisc [r, y]

30 laurie lewis :seeing things: rounder [f/bg, gr]

31 trailer bride :smelling salts: bloodshot [nd, y]

32 the original harmony ridge creek dippers

   CD ohrcd [p/f, gr]

33 kieran kane :six months, no sun: [f, gr]

34 chris buhalis :kenai dreams: thursday/one

   man clapping [f/c, gr]

35 woody guthrie :hard travellin, the asch recordings,

   vol. 3: smithsonian folkways [f, gr]

36 bill fox :transit byzantium: spinart/cherry

   pop [p, y]

37 chris mills :every night fight for your life:

   sugar free [f/r, gr]

38 alejandro escovedo :more miles than money: live

   1994-96: bloodshot [p,y]

39 v/a :uprooted: the best of roots country 

   singer-songwriters: shanachie [c/f, gr]

40 moonshine willy :bastard child: bloodshot [nd, gr]



THE ADDS

dick curless :the drag em off the interstate, 

   sock it to em hits of...: razor n tie [c, gr]

dave alvin :blackjack david: hightone [f/p, gr]

the stanley gospel tradition :songs about our

   saviour: doobie shea [bg,gr]

stoney edwards :poor folks stick together:

   razor n tie [c, gr]

unlimited tradition :sheUs gone: doobie shea [bg, gr]



RE-CURRENT

chris knight CD decca [c/p, gr]

chris whitley :dirt floor: messenger [p/b, y]

paul burch & the wpa ball club :pan-american flash:

   checkered past [c,gr]

kim lenz and her jaguars CD hmg [rb, gr]

IIIrd tyme out :live at the mac: rounder [bg, gr]