Top album: Patty Griffin by Patty Griffin
= Albertan
= Canadian
- Patty Griffin: Patty Griffin (PGM)
- Nick Waterhouse: Nick Waterhouse (Innovative Leisure )
Ben Sures: Live at the Yardbird Suite (Independent)
JV’s Boogaloo Squad: Going to Market (Flatcar)
Lee Harvey Osmond: Mohawk (Latent)
Abigail Lapell: Getaway (Coax)
- J Dilla: The Shining Instrumentals (BBE)
- The Cat Empire: Stolen Diamonds (Two Shoes)
- Our Native Daughters: Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Solange: When I Get Home (Columbia)
Matt Andersen: Halfway Home By Morning (True North)
- Ten Fé: Future Perfect, Present Tense (Some Kinda Love/[PIAS])
- Mavis Staples: Live in London (ANTI-)
- Durand Jones & The Indications: American Love Call (Dead Oceans)
Michael Jerome Browne: That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
Bryan Adams: Shine A Light (Polydor)
- Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)
- Hayes Carll: What It Is (Dualtone)
- Leyla McCalla: The Capitalist Blues (Jazz Village/[PIAS])
- Lemongrass: Earth (Independent)
- Over the Rhine: Love & Revelation (Great Speckled Dog)
Ben Rogers: Wildfire (Still)
- SUSTO: Ever Since I Lost My Mind (Rounder)
King Of Foxes: Salt & Honey (Independent)
- Karen O & Danger Mouse: Lux Prima (BMG)
- Cass McCombs: Tip of the Sphere (ANTI-)
- Gary Clark Jr.: This Land (Warner)
- Molly Tuttle: When You’re Ready (Compass)
- Adia Victoria: Silences (Canvasback/Atlantic)
- Luther Dickinson and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon: Solstice (New West)