National Top 10
1. Los Lobos, This Time (Hollywood Records)
2. Pretenders, Viva El Amor (Warner Bros. Records)
3. Wilco, Summer Teeth (Reprise Records)
4. XTC, Apple Venus, Vol. 1 (TVT Records)
5. Ned Sublette, Cowboy Rumba (Palm Pictures)
6. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Echo (Warner Bros. Records)
7. Buddy Miller, Cruel Moon (Hightone Records)
8. Various Artists, Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the '60s (Astor Place)
9. Richard Thompson, Mock Tudor (Capitol Records)
10. Various Artists, Bringing It All Back Home: The Influence of Irish Music (Valley Records)
Texas Top 10
1. Texas Tornados, Live From The Limo, Vol. 1 (Virgin Records)
2. The Gourds, Ghosts of Hallelujah (Watermelon Records)
3. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American Music, Texas Style (Polygram Records)
4. Santiago Jimenez, Jr., El Corrido de Esequiel Hernandez (Arhoolie Records)
5. Guy Clark, Cold Dog Soup (Sugar Hill Records)
6. Long John Hunter, Ooh Wee Pretty Baby! (Norton Records)
7. Ray Wylie Hubbard, Crusades of the Restless Knights (Philo Records)
8. Ed Burleson, My Perfect World (Tornado Records)
9. Bradley Jaye Williams, Tex-Mex Gumbo (Lazy Sob Records)
10. The Cornell Hurd Band, At Large (Behemoth Records)