| Kate Wolf | Across the Great Divide | Close to You | Kaleidoscope |
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| Ry Cooder | Vigilante Man | Corridos Famosos | Nonesuch |
| Bruce Springsteen | American Skin | High Hopes | Columbia |
| Sweet Honey in the Rock | Ella's Song | Breaths | Flying Fish |
| Brian Joseph | Blacklist | We're Gonna Laugh | Frog Songs |
| John Gorka | Ignorance and Privilege | So Dark You See | Red House |
| Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman & Youssou N'Dour | Chimes of Freedom | Released | Amnesty International |
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| Cormac McCarthy | Solid Ground | Collateral | Rakish Tilt |
| Charlie King and Karen Brandow | If Loving You Were a Dangerous Thing | Higher Ground | Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds |
| Toots and the Maytals | Sweet and Dandy | True Love | V2 Records |
| Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen | Double Yodel | Berrymania | Compass Rose Music |
| Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris | This Is Us | All the Roadrunning | Warner |
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| Bruce Cockburn | Get Up Jonah | The Charity of Night | Rycodisc |
| The New Lost City Ramblers | The Old Fish Song | The Early Years | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Jonah | Singing in My Soul | Proper Records |
| Tim O'Brien | Jonah and the Whale | Rock in My Shoe | |
| Bruce Cockburn | Waiting For a Miracle | Waiting For a Miracle | True North |
| Jackson Browne | The Next Voice You Hear | Love is Strange | Inside Recordings |
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| Lucy Kaplansky | I'm Looking Through You | Reunion | Red House |
| Taj Mahal | Come Together | | |
| Mary McCaslin | Things We Said Today | The Best of Mary McCaslin | |
| Ray Charles | Yesterday | Georgia On My Mind | |
| Phil Vassar | Lady Madonna | Let Us In | Reviver Music |
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| Marc Cohn | New Speedway Boogie | Listening Booth 1970 | |
