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