| Bettye Lavette | It Ain't Me Babe | | Things Have Changed / Verve Music Group |
| Barbra Dane | Truck Driving Woman | | Hot Jazz,Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs / Smithsonian/Folkways |
| Janni Littlepage | When The Snow Falls On Baghdad | | Strange Angels / Groove House Records |
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| Bill Frisell | Change In The Air | | Music Is / Okeh |
| Bill Frisell | What Do You Want? | | Music Is / Okeh |
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| Artist in Focus: Kitty Wells | | | |
| Kitty Wells | It Wasn't God Who Made Honky | | Hall of Fame Series / Mca Records (Country) |
| Kitty Wells | I Heard the Jukebox Playing | | Hall of Fame Series / Mca Records (Country) |
| Kitty Wells | Making Believe | | Hall of Fame Series / Mca Records (Country) |
| Kitty Wells | I Can't Stop Loving You | | Hall of Fame Series / Mca Records (Country) |
| Kitty Wells | Heartbreak U.S.A. | | Hall of Fame Series / Mca Records (Country) |
| Kitty Wells | Will Your Lawyer Talk to God | | Hall of Fame Series / Mca Records (Country) |
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| Hiss Golden Messenger | Harder Rain | | Hallelujah Anyhow / Merge Records |
| Lucy Dacus | Yours And Mine | | Historian / Matador Records |
| Vivian Leva | Here I Am | | Time Is Everything / Free Dirt Records |
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| Feller And Hill | Little Susie | | Brothers And Heroes / Rural Rhythm Records |
| Feller And Hill | Lord Help Me Decide | | Brothers And Heroes / Rural Rhythm Records |
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| Sue Foley | Come To Me | | Ice Queen, The / Stony Plain Records |
| Ronnie Earl | Ain't That Lovin You | | Luckiest Man, The / Stony Plain Records |
| Nick Moss | Rambling On My Mind | | High Cost Of Low Living, The / Alligator |
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| David Bertrand | South 1st | | Palmyra & Other Places / Blujazz Productions |
| Living Fossil | Lessforgettable | | Never Die! / Mapl |
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| Featured Tradition: Coal mining songs | | | |
| Hazel Dickens | Coal Mining Women | | Coal Mining Women / Rounder Records |
| Phyllis Boyens | Blue Diamond Mines | | Coal Mining Women / Rounder Records |
| Hall, Tom T. | I'm A Coal Mining Man | | Coal Country Music / Heartwood |
| Kathy Mattea | West Virginia My Home | | Calling Me Home / Sugar Hill Records |
| Scott Holstein | Cold Coal Town | | Cold Coal Town / Self-Release |
| Loretta Lynn | Coal Miner's Daughter | | All Time Greatest Hits / Mca Records (Country) |
| Irene Kelley | Pennsylvania Coal | | Pennsylvania Coal / Patio Records |
| Kathy Mattea | Coal Tattoo | | Coal / Captain Potato Records |
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| Hayden Kaye | What We Will Find | | Fate / Self-Release |
| Nashville Honeymoon | Worst Waltz | | It's Nashville Honeymoon Time! / Lynk Records |
| Strings. Billy | Turmoil And Tinfoil | | Turmoil And Tinfoil / Self Release |
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| A Great American Song: Pancho and Lefty | | | |
| Townes Van Zandt | Pancho & Lefty | | Rear View Mirror / Sugar Hill Records |
| Emmylou Harris | Pancho and Lefty | | Luxury Liner / Warner Brothers Nashville |
| Hoyt Axton | Poncho And Lefty | | Snowblind Friend / Mca Records |
| Steve Earle | Pancho And Lefty | | Townes / New West Records |
| Merle Haggard | Pancho and Lefty | | Essential Merle Haggard: the E / Sony Music Nashville |
| Old & in the Gray | Pancho & Lefty | | Old & in the Gray / Acoustic Disc |
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| Mud Morganfield | 24 Hours | | They Call Me Mud / Severn Records |
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| Protest Song of the Day | | | |
| Gil Scott-Heron | The Revolution Will not ... | | Flying Groove / Bluebird Records |
| Thompsonia | Golden Chain Tree | | Nothing But Rain / Self Release |
