American Music's Top 50 2003
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2. Jeannie Kendall
Jeannie Kendall
Rounder
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3. The Allman Brothers Band
Hittin' the note
Peach / Sanctuary
4. Albert Lee
Heartbreak Hill
Sugar Hill
6. Jeanette Wormald
Messenger Bird
Lindene Music (Australia)
8. Reckless Kelly
Under the table & above the sun
Sugar Hill
7. Dwight Yoakam
Population Me
Audium
9. Jill King
Jillbilly
Blue Diamond
10. Lynyrd Skynyrd
Vicious Cycle
Sanctuary
11. Janie Fricke
Tributes to my heroes
JMF
12. Audrey Auld
Losing faith
Reckless (Australia)
13. Lee Kernaghan
Electric Rodeo 2
ABC (Australia)
14. Sonny Landreth
The  road we're on
Sugar Hill
15. Robert Palmer
Drive
Compendia
18. Karen O'Shea
Wish
Self Released (Australia)
17. Keith Glass & Mick Hamilton
Clutching at straws
Dimmer Twin (Australia)
16. Patty Loveless
On your way home
Epic
19. Kevin Lee
Loaded
Big Blast
20. The Charlie Daniels Band
Freedom and justice fo all
Audium
21. Jennifer Hanson
Jennifer Hanson
Capitol
22. Glen Boham
Glen Bonham
Scene
23. Belinda Butler
Belinda Butler
Self Released (Australia)
24. Marty Stuart
Country Music
Columbia
25. Neville AndersonRambling Shoes
Self Released (Australia)
29. T.Graham Brown
The next right thing
Intersound
28. Billy Rawlett
Time stood still
Self Released
27. Wildfire
Where roads divide
Pinecastle
26. Donna Fisk & Michael Christian
Joyride
Honk! (Australia)

30. Shania Twain
Up!
Mercury
The Brooklyn Cowboys
Dodging bullets
Leaps Recordings
(includes some 2002 late arrivals)
34. Rhonda Vincent
One step ahead
Rounder
38. Adam Harvey
Cowboy Dreams
ABC (Australia)
42. Michael Carpenter & King's Rd
Kingsrdworks
Laughing Outlaw (Australia)
47. Ben Atkins
Mabelle
Hightone
31. Jim Lauderdale  Ralph Stanley Lost in the lonesome pines
Dualtone
32. Karen Lynne
Second wind
Shoestring (Australia)
33. The Del McCoury Band
It's just the night
Sugar Hill


35. Jim Lauderdale & Donna The Buffalo
Wait 'til spring
Dualtone
36. Billy Bridge
Post it note proposal
Self Released (Australia)
37. Trick Poney
On a mission
Warner Bros
41. Gene Watson
...Sings
Intersound
40. Terri Clark
Pain to kill
Mercury
39. Keith Norris
Deuce
Tektonic
43. Stephanie Urbina Jones
Stephanie Urbina Jones
Compendia
44. Jason Walker &  Last Drinks
Ashes & Wine
Laughing Outlaw (Australia)
45. Beccy Cole
Little Victories
ABC (Australia)
49. Eddie & Martha Adcock
TwoGrass
Pinecastle
48. The Larkins
The Larkins
Audium
46. Ross Wilson
Country & Wilson
Sound Vault (Australia)
50. George Strait
Honkytonkville
MCA
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5. Crakajak
Dirt, dust and thunder
Self-released (Australia)
Compiled out of
872 albums
TOO MANY HONKY TONKS ON MY WAY
(Tom Wopat)