# Album top 25

De Album top 25 was een jaarlijks terugkerend onderdeel van het KRO-radioprogramma American Connection. Aan het eind van het jaar konden luisteraars een top 5 insturen van dat jaar verschenen albums. Volgens een puntenwaardering (nummer 1 krijgt 5 punten, nummer 5 krijgt 1 punt) werd op basis van die lijstjes een top 25 opgesteld. De top 25 werd aan het eind van het jaar (verdeeld over twee uitzenduren) uitgezonden.

## 2001

* Ryan Adams - Gold
* Buddy & Julie Miller - Buddy & Julie Miller
* Lucinda Williams - Essence
* Rodney Crowell - The Houston Kid
* Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
* Mary Gauthier - Drag Queens In Limousines
* Various Artists - Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt
* Chip Taylor - Black And Blue America
* Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt & Guy Clark - Together At The Bluebird Café
* Eric Taylor - Scuffletown
* Greg Trooper - Straight Down Rain
* Nick Lowe - The Convincer
* The Psychedelic Cowboys - Tragic Songs and Hop-A-Longs
* Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
* Toni Price - Midnight Pumkin
* Jim White - Handcuffed To A Fence In Mississippi
* Tom Russell - Borderland
* Jesse Dayton - Tall Texas Tales
* Alison Krauss & Union Station - New Favorite
* Chris Knight - A Pretty Good Guy
* Eliza Gilkyson - Beauty Way
* Kelly Joe Phelps - Sky Like A Broken Clock
* Anders Osborne - Ash Wednesday Blues
* Ron Sexsmith - Blue Boy
* Sarah Harmer - You Were Here

## 2002

* Steve Earle - Jerusalem
* Guy Clark - The Dark
* Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - Let’s Leave This Town
* Buddy Miller - Midnight And Lonesome
* Peter Wolf - Sleepless
* Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
* Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses
* Mary Gauthier - Filth & Fire
* Solomon Burke - Don’t Give up On Me
* Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live
* The Flatlanders - Now Again
* Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
* Linda Thompson - Fashionably Late
* Kasey Chambers - Barricades & Brickwalls
* Chuck Prophet - No Other Love
* Dixie Chicks - Home
* Tift Merritt - Bramble Rose
* Dolly Parton - Halos & Horns
* Ryan Adams - Demolition
* Rod Picott - Stray Dogs
* Wilco - Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
* Slobberbone - Slippage
* Hardpan - Hardpan
* Caitlin Cary - While You Weren’t Looking
* Delbert McClinton - Room To Breathe

## 2003

* Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
* Greg Trooper - Floating
* Emmylou Harris - Stumble Into Grace
* Warren Zevon - The Wind
* Dayna Kurtz - Postcards From Downtown
* Kathleen Edwards - Failer
* Brian Webb - Broken Folk
* Rodney Crowell - Fate’s Right Hand
* Jennie Stearns - Sing Desire
* Natalie Merchant - The House Carpenter’s Daughter
* Chris Knight - The Jealous Kind
* Chris Smither - Train Home
* Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
* Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - The Trouble With Humans
* Damien Rice - ‘O ‘
* Scott Miller & The Commonwealth - Upside Downside
* John Hiatt & The Goners - Beneath This Gruff Exterior
* Ben Atkins - Mabelle
* David Olney - The Wheel
* Ben Weaver - Hollerin’ At A Woodpecker
* Tandy - To A Friend
* The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
* Reckless Kelly - Under The Table & Above The Sun
* Boris McCutcheon - When We Were Big
* John Mellencamp - Trouble No More

## 2004

* Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now…
* Allison Moorer - The Duel
* Eliza Gilkyson - Land Of Milk And Honey
* JW Roy - Kitchen Table Blues
* Buddy Miller - United Universal House Of Prayer
* Nels Andrews - Sunday Shoes
* Ron Sexsmith - Retriever
* Dave Alvin - Ashgrove
* Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
* Fred Eaglesmith - Dusty
* Slaid Cleaves - Wishbones
* Rod Picott - Girl From Arkansas
* Patty Griffin - Impossible Dream
* JJ Cale - To Tulsa And Back
* Tres Chicas - Sweetwater
* Keb’ Mo’ - Peace…Back By Popular Demand
* Lori McKenna - Bitter Town
* Alison Krauss & Union Station - Lonely Runs Both Ways
* Chuck Prophet - Age Of Miracles
* Hayden - Elk Lake Serenade
* John Fogerty - Déjà Vu All Over Again
* Richard Shindell - Vuelta
* Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
* Jake Brennan & The Confidence Men - Love & Bombs
* Alejandro Escovedo - Por Vida

## 2005

* John Prine - Fair & Square
* Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
* Neil Young - Prairie Wind
* Eliza Gilkyson - Paradise Hotel
* Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Lights
* John Hiatt - Master Of Disaster
* Bruce Springsteen - Devils And Dust
* Greg Trooper - Make It Through This World
* Sufjan Stevens - Come And Feel The Illinoise
* Remmelt, Muus & Femke - The Long Way Round
* Ad Vanderveen - Fields Of Plenty
* Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine
* Rodney Crowell - The Outsider
* Caitlin Cary & Chad Cockrell - Begonias
* Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me
* Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake This Morning
* James McMurtry - Childish Things
* Nickel Creek - Why Should The Fire Die
* Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
* Shane Alexander - The Middle Way
* Delbert McClinton - Cost Of Living
* Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald
* T-99 - Cherrystone Park
* Adam Carroll - Far Away Blues
* Sara Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Exploration

## 2006

* Bob Dylan - Modern Times
* Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome / The Seeger Sessions
* Jeffrey Foucault - Ghost Repeater
* Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
* JJ Cale & Eric Clapton - The Road To Escondido
* Boris & The Saltlicks - Cactusman Versus The Blue Demon
* Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
* Chris Knight - Enough Rope
* Solomon Burke - Nashville
* Kris Kristofferson - This Old Road
* Ad Vanderveen - Cloud Of Unknowing
* Ron Sexsmith - Time Being
* Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All The Road Running
* Shiner Twins - All In Store
* Slaid Cleaves - Unsung
* Darrell Scott - The Invisible Man
* The Drams - Jubilee Dive
* Kevn Kinney - Comin’ Round Again
* Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
* Neil Young - Living With War
* Fred Eaglesmith - Milly’s Café
* Tim Easton - Ammunition
* Kris Delmhorst - Strange Concersation
* Linda Ronstadt & Anne Savoy - Adieu False Heart
* Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther

## 2007

* Sam Baker - Pretty World
* Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade
* Jimmy LaFave - Cimarron Manifesto
* Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
* Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
* Lucinda Williams - West
* Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
* Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden
* Joe Henry - Civilians
* Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
* Various artists - A Tribute to Larry Brown
* Eilen Jewell - Letters From Sinners
* Levon Helm - Dirt farmer
* Mavis Staples/Ry Cooder - We’ll Never Turn Back
* Iron And Wine - Shepherd’s Dog
* John Fogerty - Revival
* Bruce Springsteen - Magic
* Oh Susannah - Short stories
* Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy
* Chuck Prophet - Soap And Water
* Mary Gauthier - Between Daylight & Dark
* The Sadies - New Seasons
* Patty Griffin - Children running through
* Bettye Lavette - the Scene of the Crime
* Stephen Simmons - Something In Between

## 2008

* Rodney Crowell - Sex and Gasoline
* Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs
* Band Of Heathens - Band Of Heathens
* Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
* John Hiatt - Same Old Man
* Ry Cooder - I, Flathead
* Darrell Scott - Modern Hymns
* Nels Andrews - Off Track Betting
* Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
* Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cardinology
* Royal Wood - A Good Enough Day
* Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
* Eliza Gilkyson - Beautiful world
* Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind
* Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
* Chris Knight - Heart Of Stone
* Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be
* Randy Newman - Harps And Angels
* Otis Gibbs - Grandpa Walked A Picketline
* Fred Eaglesmith - Tinderbox
* Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Rattlin’ Bones
* Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
* James McMurtry - Just Us Kids
* Mark Erelli - Delivered
* Reckless Kelly - Bulletproof

## 2009

* Sam Baker - Cotton
* Levon Helm - Electric Dirt
* Israel Nash Gripka - New York Town
* Steve Earle - Townes
* Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
* Buddy & Julie Miller - Written In Chalk
* Wilco - Wilco (the album)
* Guy Clark - Somedays The Song Writes You
* The Wailin’ Jenny’s - Live At The Mauch Chunk Opera House
* John Gorka - So Dark You See
* Richard Shindell - Not Far Now
* Romy Mayes - Achin In Yer Bones
* Jeffrey Foucault - Shoot the moon right between the eyes
* Delbert McClinton - Acquired taste
* Ian Hunter - Man Over Board
* The Band Of Heathens - One Foot In The Ether
* Jason Isbell and the 400 unit - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
* Willie Nile - House of a Thousand Guitars
* Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring
* Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken from You
* Gregory Alan Isakov - The Empty Northern Hemisphere
* Robert Earl Keen - The Rose Hotel
* Bruce Springsteen - Working on a dream
* The Flatlanders - Hills and Valleys
* Eilen Jewell - Sea of Tears