- Top album: Nick Waterhouse by Nick Waterhouse
= Albertan
= Canadian
- Nick Waterhouse – Nick Waterhouse (Innovative Leisure)
- Jenny Lewis – On The Line (Capitol)
- Patty Griffin – Patty Griffin (Thirty Tigers)
JV’s Boogaloo Squad – Going To Market (Flatcar)
- Karen O & Danger Mouse – Lux Prima (BMG)
- Hayes Carll – What It Is (Dualtone)
- Luther Dickinson and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon – Solstice (New West)
- Durand Jones & The Indications – American Love Call (Dead Oceans)
- Rupa & the April Fishes – Growing Upward (Electric Gumbo)
Ben Sures – Live At The Yardbird Suite (Independent)
- Sugaray Rayford – Somebody Save Me (Forty Below)
- Our Native Daughters – Songs Of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways)
Matt Andersen – Halfway Home By Morning (True North)
- Leyla McCalla – The Capitalist Blues (Jazz Village / [PIAS])
Abigail Lapell – Getaway (Coax)
- Molly Tuttle – When You’re Ready (Compass)
Ben Rogers – Wildfire (Still)
- Karl Denson – Gnomes & Badgers (Seven Spheres)
- SUSTO – Ever Since I Lost My Mind (Rounder)
King Of Foxes – Salt & Honey (Independent)
- Gary Clark Jr. – This Land (Warner)
Noah Derksen – America, Dreaming: Part I (EP) (Independent)
- The Cat Empire – Stolen Diamonds (Two Shoes)
Lee Harvey Osmond – Mohawk (Latent)
- Chaka Khan – Hello Happiness (Universal)
- Andrew Bird – My Finest Work Yet (Loma Vista)
- Ibibio Sound Machine – Doko Mien (Merge)
- Adia Victoria – Silences (Canvasback / Atlantic)
- Dexter Story – Bahir (Soundway)
Pete Eastmure – Keep Your Love Steady (Independent)