| Kate Wolf | Across the Great Divide | Close To You | Kaleidoscope |
| Rootless Cosmopolitans | Ain't No Republican | NA | NA |
| The Beach Boys | Shut It Down | Endless Summer | Capitol |
| Bob Dylan | Everything Is Broken | Oh Mercy | Columbia |
| Toots and the Maytals | Pressure Drop | True Love | V2 Records |
| Bruce Cockburn | Wake Up Jonah | The Charity of Night | Rykodisc |
| James McMurtry | We Can't Make It Here | NA | NA |
| Slaid Cleaves | Rust Belt Fields | Still Fighting the War | Music Road |
| Jody Stecher | Weasels and Snakes | Wonders and Signs | Vegitaboy |
| Ricky Scaggs and Bruce Hornsby | The Way It Is | Cluck Ol' Hen | Fontana |
| Garth Brooks | We Shall Be Free | The Chase | Liberty Records |
| Keb' Mo' | People Got To Be Free | Peace... Back By Popular Demand | Okeh |
| Luther Allison | You Can't Always Get What You Want | Paint It Blue | House of Blues |
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| Buddy Miller | With God On Our Side | Universal United House of Prayer | New West |
| John Gorka | Where No Monuments Stand | So Dark You See | Red House |
| Paul Brady | You're the One | Spirits Colliding | Mercury |
| John McCutcheon | Somos El Barco | Mail Myself to You | Rounder |
| Pat Humphries | Swimming to the Other Side | Same Rain | Moving Forward |
| Cris Williamson | Waterfall | The Best of Cris Williamson | Olivia |
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| Gary Lapow | Wheel in a Wheel | Walking Down Life's Highway | Springboard Records |
| Cris Webster and Nina Gerber | Sitting Here In Limbo | Apple Blossom Lane | Tootsie Roll Records |
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| Ry Cooder | Crazy 'Bout an Automobile | Corridos Famosos | Nonesuch |
| Jackson Browne and David Lindley | Mercury Blues | Love is Strange | Inside Recordings |
