| SONG TITLE | ARTIST | ALBUM | LABEL |
| Amazing Variations/Steel String Rag (weekly intro music) | Larry Pattis | Random Chance | Liberal Palette |
| Listen to the Radio | Nanci Griffith | Winter Marquee | Rounder |
| Oro Se Do Bheata' Bhaile | Sinead O'Connor | Sean-Nos Nua | Hummingbird/Vanguard |
| Long Time Gone | Dixie Chicks | Home | Open Wide |
| Lion in Winter | Hoyt Axton with Linda Ronstadt | The A & M Years | A & M Great Britain |
| Christmas in Copenhagen 1996 | Ray Weaver | What You Wish For | self-release |
| Cold Wyoming Snow | Harris & Ryden | Run | Two Mule |
| Wallflowers | Marlee MacLeod | Like Hollywood | Catamount |
| The Losing | The Pretenders | Loose Screw | Artemis |
| You Move Too Fast | Elizabeth Cook | Hey Y'All | Warner Nashville |
| Somewhere Elseward Blown | Alistair Moock | A Life I Never Had | Bad Moock Rising |
| Jordan Town | The Last Hombres | Redemption | self-release |
| Gulf Road | James McMurtry | St. Mary of the Woods | Sugar Hill |
| Hill Farmer's Blues | Mark Knopfler | The Ragpicker's Dream | Warner Brothers |
| Love Me Like a Song | Kimmie Rhodes with Willie Nelson | Love Me Like a Song | Sunbird |
| All for Love's Sake | Ruth Bloomquist | All for Love's Sake | Ruby |
| Say It Isn't So | Diane Zeigler | Paintbrush | self-release |
| The Big Fear | Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies | Honesty Box | Tantobie |
| Blue Mountain | Jubal Foster | Jubal Foster | Western Beat |
| Spacewalk | Walt Wilkins | Rivertown | Western Beat |
| Flying Time | Marlee MacLeod | Like Hollywood | Catamount |
| The Boys of Summer | Bree Sharp | More B. S. | Ahimsa |
| You're the One | Tracy Chapman | Let It Rain | Elektra |
| Homeless | Guy Clark | The Dark | Sugar Hill |
| Woodsmoke and Oranges | James Keelaghan | Home | Appleseed |
| The Ballad of the Crimson Kings | Ray Wylie Hubbard | Dangerous Spirits | Philo |
| Tangled Up in Blue | Drew Emmitt | Freedomn Ride | Compass |
| Into the Light | Alice Peacock | Alice Peacock | Aware/Columbia |
| Body and Soul | Hazeldine | Double Back | Okra Tone |
| Common Man | The Blasters | Trouble Bound | Hightone |
| Godd Morning, Aztlan | Los Lobos | Good Morning, Aztlan | Hollywood/Mammoth |
| Lone Star Blues | Delbert McClinton | Room to Breathe | New West |
| You Don't Miss Me | Marlee MacLeod | Like Hollywood | Catamount |
| I Wish I Was the Moon | Neko Case | Blacklisted | Bloodshot |
| Sweet Tequila Blues | Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez | Let's Leave This Town | Trainwreck/Texas Music Group |
| Oh Fait Pitie D'Amour (Love Have Mercy on Me) | Buddy Miller | Midnight and Lonesome | Hightone |
| Too Hard Drivin' | Tim Grimm | Heart Land | Vault |
| Not in My Name | John McCutcheon | Greatest Story Never Told | Red House |
| Going Home | Mark Knopfler | Local Hero OST | Warner Brothers |
