| John McCutcheon | All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir | Howjadoo | Rounder |
| Angela Strehli | C.O.D. | Blue Highway | M.C.Records |
| Chris Webster | Get Rhythm | Something in the Water | Dig Music |
| Patricia Barber | My Girl | A Distortion of Love | Antilles |
| Les Amazones de Guinea | Wamato | Wamato | Syllart/Stern's |
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| Shweta Jhaveri | To the Spring | Anahita | Intuition |
| Claudia Schmidt | You Must Believe in Spring | Big Earful | Red House |
| Alice Coltrane (duet with Charlie Haden) | Triloka | Translinear Light | Impulse |
| Regina Carter and Kenny Barron | Softly as in a Morning Sunrise | Freefall | Verve |
| Art Lande | I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face | The Eccentricities of Earl Dant | 1750 Arch Records |
| Art Lande | Get Me to the Church on Time | Eccentricities of Earl Dant | 1750 Arch Records |
| Rory Block | Big Road Blues | Gone Woman Blues | Rounder |
| Ronnie Montrose (salute, he died at 64) | Leo Rising | Open Fire | Warner Bros |
| Disney Chorus (Salute to Sherman Brothers, Robert Sherman died on Monday) | It's a Small World | The Music of Disney (box) | Walt Disney |
| Louis Prima & Phil Harris (another Sherman Bros. Tune) | I Want to Be Like You | Disney's The Jungle Book | Walt Disney |
| Ronnie Montrose | Town without Pity | Open Fire | Warner Bros. |
| Michael Tilson Thomas/San Francisco Symphony | Copland: Orchestral Variations | Aaron Copland: The Modernist | RCA Red Seal |
| Creole Belles | Hee Haw / Scott Playboy Special | Creole Belles | Arhoolie |
| Diana Krall | Simple Twist of Fate | Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan | Amnesty International |
| Rex Allen | There's a GREAT Big Beautiful Tomorrow | Music of Disney | Walt Disney |
