Top album: Mohawk by Lee Harvey Osmond
- = Albertan
- = Canadian
- Lee Harvey Osmond: Mohawk (Latent)
- Hayes Carll: What It Is (Dualtone)
- Tedeschi Trucks Band: Signs (Fantasy)
- Michael Jerome Browne: That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
- Nick Waterhouse: Nick Waterhouse (Innovative Leisure)
- Altameda: Time Hasn’t Changed You (Pheromone)
- Beirut: Gallipoli (4AD)
- King Of Foxes: Salt & Honey (Independent)
- Mercury Rev: Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited (Partisan)
- Dave Gunning: Up Againist The Sky (Wee House Of Music)
- Angela Verbrugge: The Night We Couldn’t Say Good Night (Gut String)
- Matt Andersen: Halfway Home By Morning (True North)
- Mavis Staples: Live In London (ANTI-)
- Elizabeth Shepherd: MONTRÉAL (Pinwheel)
- Mandolin Orange: Tides of a Teardrop (Yep Roc)
- JV’s Boogaloo Squad: Going to Market (Flatcar)
- Our Native Daughters: Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Various Artists: Africa Airways Five (Brace Brace Boogie 1976 – 1982) (Africa Seven)
- Jessica Pratt: Quiet Signs (Mexican Summer)
- Kate Blechinger: Under A Dancing Sky (Bent River)
- Steve Earle: Guy (New West)
- Cory Weeds: Live at Frankie’s Jazz Club (Cellar Live)
- Hannah Georgas: Imprints (EP) (Dine Alone)
- The Cactus Blossoms: Easy Way (Walkie Talkie)
- Abigail Lapell: Getaway (Coax)
- Webster: Webster & 5 For Trio (Coyote)
- Deer Tick: Mayonnaise (Partisan)
- Kid Koala: Music To Draw To: Io (Arts & Crafts)
- Gurf Morlix: Impossible Blue (Independent)
- Colin Linden & Luther Dickinson: Amour (Stony Plain)