| Kate Wolf | Across the Great Divide | Gold in California | Rhino |
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| Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips | Unless You Are Free | Fellow Workers | Righteous Babe |
| Phil Ochs | I'm Going to Say It Now | Phil Ochs in Concert | Elektra |
| Ronnie Gilbert | They All Sang Bread and Roses | Love Will Find A Way | Abbe Alice Music |
| Bruce Springsteen | No Surrender | Live 1975-85 | Columbia |
| Mavis Staples | We Shall Not Be Moved | We'll Never Turn Back | ANTI |
| Various | Up Above My Head | Sing For Freedom | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Various | This Little Light of Mine | Sing For Freedom | Smithsonian Folkways |
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| Charlie King and Karen Brandow | You Can't Buy Me | Higher Ground | Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds |
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| Richard Shindell | Darkness, Darkness | Reunion Hill | Shanachie |
| Lyle Lovett | Highway Kind | Step Inside This House | MCA |
| Jimmy LaFave | One Too Many Mornings | Trail | Bohemia Beat |
| Jimmy LaFave | Not Dark Yet | A Nod To Bob 2 | Red House |
| Bonnie Raitt | The Dimming of the Day | Longing in Their Hearts | Capitol |
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| Don Henley | Everybody Knows | Tower of Song | A&M |
| David Wilcox | Show The Way | Big Horizon | A&M |
| Jackson Browne | For Everyman | Love is Strange | Inside Recordings |
| Ruthie Foster | Truth! | The Truth According to Ruthie Foster | Blue Corn Music |
| Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott | Walk Beside Me | Real Time | Howdy Skys |
| Dire Straits | Walk of Life | On The Night | Warner Bros. |
| Mary Chapin Carpenter | Why Walk When You Can Fly | Stones in the Road | Columbia |
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| John Hartford | Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie | Aereo-Plain | Rounder |
| Ry Cooder | Pinko Boogie | I, Flathead | Nonesuch |
| Albert Ammons | Boogie Woogie Stomp | The Boogie Woogie Masters | Classic Jazz |
| The Staple Singers | I'll Take You There | | |
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| John McCutcheon | This Land is Your Land | This Land | Appalsongs |
