| The Double Decker Stringband | The Dark Haired Girl | The Rest Is Yet to Come | 5-String Productions |
| The New Lost City Ramblers | '31 Depression Blues | Outstanding in Their Field | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Volo Bogtrotters | Hell Bound Train | Backside of Buncombe | Merimac |
| Mike Seeger & Paul Brown | Way Down in North Carolina | Way Down in North Carolina | Rounder |
| Jeni & Billy | I Saw a Man at the Close of Day | Longing for Heaven | Jewell Ridge Records |
| Jake & Sarah Owen | Raleigh and Spencer | Jake & Sarah Owen | self |
| Marvin Gaster | Poor Little Nell | Uncle Henry's Favorites | Rounder |
| Dirk Powell | Hop High My Lulu Gal | Hand Me Down | Rounder |
| Citico Stringband | Old Jimmy Sutton | A Souvenir for all Occasions | self |
| The Southern Schoolhuse Rascals | Had a Big Time Today | Old School, Mountain Style | 5-String Productions |
| Brad Leftwich with Linda Higginbotham | Number Nine | Say Old Man | County |
| Hobart Smith | K.C. Blues | Blue Ridge Legacy | Rounder |
| Red Headed Fiddlers | Texas Quickstep | Times Ain't Like They Used To Be, Vol. 7 | Yazoo |
| Mike Seeger | Johnson Jinkson | True Vine | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Reed Martin | Last Payday at Coal Creek | Old Time Banjo | self |
| Norman & Nancy Blake | Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase | The Norman & Nancy Blake Compact Disk | Rounder |
| Uncle Dave Macon | Rock about Saro Jame | Go Long Mule | County |
| Dick Reinhart | Rambling Lover | Times Ain't Like They Used To Be, Vol. 8 | Yazoo |
| The Carter Family | No Telephone in Heaven | On Border Radio-1939: Vol. 1 | Arhoolie |
| Alice Gerrard, Gail Gillespie, & Sharon Sandomirsky | Bob Taylor's March | The Road to Agate Hill | 5-String Productions |
| Ill-Mo Boys | All Around the Mountain | Laugh and Grow Fat | Vigortone |
| Charlie Poole | Baltimore Fire | Volume Two: Old Time Songs Recorded from 1926 to 1930 | County |
| Plank Road String Band | Big Eyed Rabbit | Plank Road String Band | Field Recorders Collective |
| The Improbabillies | Salt River | The Improbabillies | Yodel Ay Hee |
| Artie P. Crowder & the Tennessee Railsplitters | Sail Away Ladies | Folksongs of Illinois #2 | Illinois Humanities Council |
| Tompkins County Horseflies | Benton's Dream | Rounder Old Time Music | Rounder |
| Charlie McCoy & Bob Carter | The Northern Starvers are Returning Home | Hard Times Come Again No More, Vol. 2 | Yazoo |
| Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee | Go on, Nora Lee | Times Ain't Like They Used To Be, Vol. 7 | Yazoo |
| The Renegades | Lost Everything | The Renegades | Field Recorders Collective |
| Norman Blake | The Ministrel Boy to the War Has Gone/The Ash Grove | Whiskey Before Breakfast | Rounder |