| Rank |
Artist |
Album |
| 1 |
Bob Dylan |
Modern Times |
| 2 |
Gnarls Barkley |
St. Elsewhere |
| 3 |
KT Tunstall |
Eye to the Telescope |
| 4 |
Beck |
The Information |
| 5 |
The Decemberists |
The Crane Wife |
| 6 |
Bruce Springsteen |
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions |
| 7 |
Ray Lamontagne |
Till the Sun Turns Black |
| 8 |
Citizen Cope |
Every Waking Moment |
| 9 |
The Raconteurs |
Broken Boy Soldiers |
| 10 |
Amos Lee |
Supply and Demand |
| 11 |
Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler |
All the Roadrunning |
| 12 |
John Mayer |
Continuum |
| 13 |
Josh Ritter |
Animal Years |
| 14 |
Thom Yorke |
The Eraser |
| 15 |
Snow Patrol |
Eyes Open |
| 16 |
Corinne Bailey Rae |
Corinne Bailey Rae |
| 17 |
Tom Petty |
Highway Companion |
| 18 |
The Killers |
Sam's Town |
| 19 |
Pete Yorn |
Nightcrawler |
| 20 |
James Hunter |
People Gonna Talk |
| 21 |
Dixie Chicks |
Taking the Long Way |
| 22 |
Rosanne Cash |
Black Cadillac |
| 23 |
Los Lobos |
The Town and The City |
| 24 |
Flaming Lips |
At War with the Mystics |
| 25 |
My Morning Jacket |
Okonokos |
| 26 |
Tom Waits |
Orphans, Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards |
| 27 |
Eric Clapton & JJ Cale |
The Road to Escondido |
| 28 |
Rodrigo y Gabriela |
Rodrigo y Gabriela |
| 29 |
Neko Case |
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood |
| 30 |
TV on the Radio |
Return to Cookie Mountain |
| 31 |
Paul Simon |
Surprise |
| 32 |
Madeleine Peyroux |
Half the Perfect World |
| 33 |
Johnny Cash |
American V: A Hundred Highways |
| 34 |
Alexi Murdoch |
Time without Consequence |
| 35 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers |
Stadium Arcadium |
| 36 |
Arctic Monkeys |
Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not |
| 37 |
David Gilmour |
On an Island |
| 38 |
Beth Orton |
The Comfort of Strangers |
| 39 |
The Hold Steady |
Boys and Girls in America |
| 40 |
Damien Rice |
9 |
| 41 |
Slo Mo feat. Mic Wrecka |
My Buzz Comes Back |
| 42 |
Neil Young and Crazy Horse |
Live at The Fillmore East |
| 43 |
Los Lonely Boys |
Sacred |
| 44 |
Pearl Jam |
Pearl Jam |
| 45 |
Neil Young |
Living with War |
| 46 |
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint |
The River In Reverse |
| 47 |
M Ward |
Post War |
| 48 |
Joan Osborne |
Pretty Little Stranger |
| 49 |
Alejandro Escovedo |
Boxing Mirror |
| 50 |
Rhett Miller |
The Believer |
