Best of 1998 Listener Poll
Your favorites from the year 1998, from our annual end-of-the-year listener poll.
- Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
- Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue
- Lyle Lovett, Step Inside This House
- The Mavericks, Trampoline
- Ani DiFranco, Little Plastic Castle
- Emmylou Harris, Spyboy
- Rufus Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright
- Cry Cry Cry, Cry Cry Cry
- Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach, Painted from Memory
- Susan Tedeschi, Just Won't Burn
- Martin Sexton, The American
- Robbie Robertson, Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
- Jules Shear, Between Us
- Joni Mitchell, Taming the Tiger
- Dan Bern, Fifty Eggs
- Nanci Griffith, Other Voices, Too
- Bob Dylan, Live 1966
- Gillian Welch, Hell Among the Yearlings
- Patty Griffin, Flaming Red
- Various Artists, Largo
- Marc Cohn, Burning the Daze
- Natalie Merchant, Ophelia
- Willie Nelson, Teatro
- Elliot Smith, xo
- Golden Smog, Weird Tales
- REM, Up
- Bonnie Raitt, Fundamental
- Beck, Mutations
- Keb Mo, Slow Down
- Son Volt, Wide Swing Tremolo
- Dave Matthews Band, Before These Crowded Streets
- BB King, Blues on the Bayou
- Neil Finn, Try Whistling This
- John Gorka, After Yesterday
- Sheryl Crow, The Globe Sessions
- Garcia & Grisman, So What
- Brian Wilson, Imagination
- Cowboy Junkies, Miles from Home
- Taj Mahal, In Progress and Motion
- Van Morrison, The Philosopher's Stone
- Tori Amos, Songs from the Choirgirl Hotel
- Liz Phair, White Chocolate Space Egg
- The Band, Jubilation
- Belle and Sebastian, The Boy with the Arab Strap
- Kate Campbell, Visions of Plenty
- Laura Love, Shum Ticky
- Sinead Lohan, No Mermaid
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle, The McGarrigle Hour
- Olu Dara, In The World From Natchez to New York
- Angelique Kidjo, Oremi