| Kate Wolf | Across the Great Divide | Close to You | Kaleidoscope |
| Dick Gaughan | A Different Kind of Love Song | A Different Kind of Love Song | Folk Freak |
| Talk | | | |
| Lou and Peter Berryman | Weirder than Sunlight | Love is the Weirdest of All | Cornbelt |
| Jimmy LaFave | Buckets of Rain | Road Novel | Bohemian Beat |
| Barbara Keith | The Bramble and the Rose | Barbara Keith | Warner Bros. |
| Claudia Schmidt | Hard Love | Out of the Dark | Flying Fish |
| Bonnie Raitt | One Belief Away | Fundamental | Capitol |
| Bruce Cockburn | All the Ways I Want You | Dart to the Heart | Columbia |
| Janis Ian | Ride Me Like a Wave | Breaking Silence | Morgan Creek |
| Peter Keane | I Want You | Walkin' Around | Flying Fish |
| Ferron | Our Purpose Here | Not a Still Life | Cherrywood Station |
| Mark Knopfler | Golden Heart | Golden Heart | Warner Bros. |
| Eliza Gilkyson | Love Minus Zero/ No Limit | A Nod to Bob | Red House |
| Karen Savoka | Two Little Feat | Going Driftless | Red House |
| Paul Simon | Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes | Live in New York City | Hear Music |
| Steve Earle | Sparkle and Shine | Washington Square Serenade | |
| Jim Infantino | You Rule | Titanic | Gadfly |
| Brian Joseph | We're Gonna Laugh | We're Gonna Laugh | Frog Songs |
| Cris Williamson | Soulful Days | Country Blessed | Second Wave |
| Stan Rogers | Lock-Keeper | The Very Best of Stan Rogers | Fogerty's Cove Music |
| Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott | Long Time Gone | We're Usually a Lot Better Than This | Full Light Records |
| Mark Knopfler and Emmy Lou Harris | This is Us | All the Roadrunning | Warner Bros. |
| Kate Wolf | Give Yourself to Love | Give Yourself to Love | Kaleidoscope |
| Malvina Reynolds | Magic Penny | Ear to the Ground | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Talk | | | |
| Grateful Dead | Iko Iko | | |
| The Wild Tchoupitulas | Brother John | | |
| Charmane Neville | Iko Iko | | |
