| Kate Wolf | Across the Great Divide | Gold in California | Kaleidoscope |
| Uncle Dave Macon | Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train | Uncle Dave Macon | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Ry Cooder | No Banker Left Behind | Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down | Nonesuch |
| John Hartford | Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie | Aereo-Plain | Rounder |
| David Wilcox | A Little Piece at a Time | Big Times in a Small Town | Philo |
| Jim Infantino | Stress | Strawman | Melville Park |
| Bruce Hornsby | Another Day | A Night on the Town | RCA |
| Peter Mayer | Waking Up | Bountiful | Silent Planet |
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| Sourdough Slim | Big Rock Candy Mountain | Contagious Fun | Roundup Records |
| Bruce Hornsby | Big Rock Candy Mountain | Bride of the Noisemakers | Savoy Label Group |
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| Tom Lehrer | Pollution | That Was the Year That Was | Reprise/WEA |
| John McCutcheon | Black Sea | Live at Wolf Trap | Rounder Select |
| Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer | Gentle Arms of Eden | Drum Hat Buddha | Signature Sounds |
| Jackson Browne | Before the Deluge | No Nukes | Elektra/Asylum |
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| Utah Phillips | The Origin of the Hiring Hall | Making Speech Free | No Guff Records |
| Utah Phillips | The Preacher and the Slave | Making Speech Free | No Guff Records |
| Sweet Honey in the Rock | Oughta Be A Woman | Breaths | Flying Fish |
| Judy Collins | Bread and Roses | Bread and Roses | Collectors Choice |
| Becky Hobbs | Mama Was a Working Man | Best of the Beckaroo | Beckaroo Records |
| Robert Earl Keen | Mariano | No.2 Live Dinner | Sugar Hill |
| Richard Shindell | Fishing | Courier | Signature Sounds |
| Indigo Girls | Shame on You | Shame on You | Epic |
| Jon Fromer | We Do the Work | We Do the Work | BMI |
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| Les Barker | Chronology | Arovertherapy | Dog |
| Lou and Peter Berryman | An Hour Away | House Concert | Cornbelt Records |
| Grandpa Jones | I'm My Own Grandpa | Grandpa Jones' 28 Greatest Hits | King |
| Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott | Walk Beside Me | Real Time | Howdy Skies Records |
