After months of compiling lists then listening to 60+ albums, here are my Top Forty:

1. Queen - Night at the Opera
2. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
3. Led Zeppelin - IV
4. Leonard Cohen - The Essential Leonard Cohen
5. Jimmy Buffett - You Had To Be There
6. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
7. Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
8. Three Dog Night - Seven Separate Fools
9. Elton John - Madman Across the Water
10. Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
11. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
12. Johnny Cash - American IV
13. Soul Asylum - Let Your Dim Light Shine
14. The Who - Who's Greatest Hits 1983
15. Collective Soul - Collective Soul
16. Neville Brothers - Live on Planet Earth
17. Rusted Root - Live Disc 2
18. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle
19. Steve Earle - I Ain't Ever Satisfied
20. Tom Waits - The Early Years Vol. 1
21. Sonia Dada - Sonia Dada
22. The Eagles - Greatest Hits
23. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced
24. James McMurtry - Complicated Game
25. Old Crow Medicine Show - Old Crow Medicine Show
26. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far
27. Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
28. The Clumsy Lovers - Smart Kid
29. Frente! - Marvin the Album
30. Rusted Root -Remember
31. Finn Brothers - Finn
32. Michael Franti - All Rebel Rockers
33. The Badlees - River Songs
34. Doobie Brothers - Best of the Doobies
35. Lyle Lovett - The Road to Ensenada
36. Counting Crows - Underwater Sunshine
37. Supertramp - Breakfast in America
38. Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
39. Eric Clapton - Time Pieces
40. Moby - Play