| Big Mama Thornton | Hound Dog | IN EUROPE | Arhoolie |
| Billie Holiday | Fine And Mellow | Ken Burns Jazz | Verve |
| Marie Knight | You've Got To Move | Let Us Get Together | MC Records |
| Ruth Brown | Good Day for the Blues | American Blues | Putumayo |
| Joan Osborne & Holmes Brothers | Nobody's Fault But Mine | Shout Sister Shout | MC Records |
| Gil Scott Heron | On Coming From A Broken Home | I'm New Here | XL Recordings |
| Mahalia Jackson | I Will Move Up A Little Higher | Gospel Sound | Columbia |
| Eric Bibb | Wayfaring Stranger | Booker's Guitar | Telarc |
| Ali Farka Toure | Machengoidi | Ali and Toumani | World Circuit Nonesuch |
| Al Green | Lets Stay Together | Greatest Hits | Hi/Right Stuff/Capitol |
| Bholoja | Mbombela | South Africa | Putumayo |
| Laura Izibor | MMM... | Let The Truth Be Told | Atlantic |
| Ben Harper | Waiting On An Angel | Welcome To The Cruel World | Virgin |
| Kante Manfila | Agne Anko | African Troubadours | Shanachie |
| Lightning Hopkins | Whiskey Blues | Best of Lightning Hopkins | Arhoolie |
| Jean Bosco Mwenda Wa Bayeke | Bombalaka | African Guitar Legend | Rounder |
| Olu Dara | Okra | In The World From Natchez to New York | Atlantic |
| Baaba Maal | Tindo Quando | Television | Palin Pictures |
| Persuasions | Hymn # 9 | Spread The Word | Collectables |
| Samuel James | Wooden Tombstone | For Rosa Maeve & Noreen | Northern Blues |
| Abdullah Ibrahim | Eleventh Hour | Unwired Africa | World Music Network |
| Bobby McFerrin | Brief Eternity | Vocabularies | Universal Emarcy |
| Cesaria Evora | Sodade | Telling Stories To The Sea | Luaka Bop-Warner Bros |
| Bola Sete | Ocean Waves (O Mar) | Ocean Memories | Samba Moon |
| Salif Keita | Gaffou | La Difference | Universal Emarcy |
| Sweet Honey In The Rock | Sometime | Breaths | Flying Fish |
| Charles Mingus | Goodbye Pork Pie Hat | Ah Um | Columbia Legacy |
| Luisa Mata | Amor e Paz | Lero Lero | Cumbacha |
| Cyrus Chestnut | Lift Every Voice and Sing | Spirit | Jazz Legacy Productions |
| Tracy Chapman | If Not Now | Tracy Chapman | Elektra |
| Andy Palacio | Ygane My Canoe | Watina | Cumbancha |
| Michael Franti | Firefly | Songs From The Front Porch | Boo Boo Wax |
