ARTIST, "Song"  (Label)
LITTLE MILTON, "Walkin' the Back Streets & Crying" (Stax)
ARISTOCRATS, "Blues After Hours" (Empire Musicwerks)
TEXAS TORNADOS, "Baby What You Want Me To Do" (New West)
LOS LOBOS, "Shakin' Shakin' Shakes" (Slash/WB)

WAYLON JENNINGS, "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" (RCA Nashville/Legacy)
BILL KIRCHEN, "Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods" (Proper)
RODNEY CROWELL, "Ain't Living Long Like This" (WB)
MORELLS, "Home In My Hand" (Slewfoot)
MOISE & ALIDA VIATOR & EH LAS BAS!, "A Certain Girl" (Eh La Bas)
ELVIS COSTELLO & ALLEN TOUSSAINT, "Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further"
(Verve)

BONNIE RIATT, "Trinkets" (Capitol)
ERIN McKEOWN, "Paper Moon" (Nettwerk)
JULIA LEE, "If It's Good" (Mercury)
ILLINOIS JACQUET & HIS ORCHESTRA, "Hot Rod" (RCA)
DARRELL LEONARD/JOE SUBLETT, "Lonely Bull" (New Light Entertainment)

HOLMES BROTHERS, "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding"
(Alligator)
ROY ZIMMERMAN, "Chickenhawk" (Metaphor)
BOBBY LOUNGE, "If I Had Been Elvis (Abitian)
IMPERIAL CROWNS, "You Don't Miss Your Water" (Triple J)
DORIS ALLEN, "A Shell of a Woman" (Sundazed)
TOWER OF POWER, "Soul Vaccination" (550 Music/Legacy)

PHILLIP WALKER, "Walking with Frankie" (Delta Groove)
TAJ MAHAL, "Senor Blues" (Private Music)
ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND, "Deliver Me" (WB)

MEMPHIS SLIM & WILLIE DIXON, "Stewball" (Smithsonian/Folkways)
ANSON FUNDERBURGH & THE ROCKETS featuring SAM MYERS, "Happy Man" (Black Top)