Best of the Year 2001 Show
| SONG TITLE | ARTIST | ALBUM | LABEL |
| Amazing Variations/Steel String Rag (weekly intro music) | Larry Pattis | Random Chance | Liberal Palette |
| Birds | Elton John | Songs from the West Coast | Universal |
| Crazy Dreams | Paul Brady | Hard Station | Compass |
| Trella's Trash | Minton Sparks | Middlin' Sisters | Dualtone |
| Salvation in a Texas Town | Cris Talley | Palace Cafe | Hokey Spoke |
| Telephone Road | Rodney Crowell | The Houston Kid - 30 | Sugar Hill |
| Be Careful | The Mary Janes | Flame - 30 | Flat Earth |
| White Trash | Fred Eaglesmith | Ralph's Last Show - 29 | Signature Sound |
| Killin' Kind | Shelby Lynne | Love, Shelby - 28 | Island |
| In These Shows | Kirsty MacColl | Tropical Brainstorm - 27 | Instinct |
| California Sunshine | Los Straitjackets with Dave Alvin | Sing Along with Los Straitjackets -26 | Yep Roc |
| Still Be Wild | Star City | Inside the Other Days - 25 | Star City |
| Let Me Touch for Awhile | Alison Krauss and Union Station | New Favorite - 24 | Rounder |
| What Would Willie Do | Bruce Robison | Country Sunshine - 23 | Boar's Nest |
| I'll Go to My Grave Loving You | Kelly Hogan | Because It Feel Good - 22 | Bloodshot |
| Wise Woman | Caroline Herring | Twilight - 21 | Blue Corn |
| The Long Way Home | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Time*Sex*Love -20 | Columbia |
| Traveling Through This Part of You | Nanci Griffith | Clock Without Hands - 19 | Elektra |
| Aching for a Dream | Randall Bramblett | No More Mr. Lucky - 18 | New West |
| Airplane Song | Hadacol | All in Your Head - 17 | Slewfoot |
| I've Been Around | Wyckham Porteous | sexanddrinking -16 | Cordova Bay |
| Maybe She'll Get Lucky | Rice, Rice, Hillman and Pederson | Running Wild - 15 | Rounder |
| August in Arizona | Pawtuckets | Dogsbody Factotum - 14 | Mad Jack |
| Rollerskate Skinny | Old 97's | Satellite Rides - 13 | Elektra |
| God Said No | Dan Bern | New American Language - 12 | Messenger |
| New York, New York | Ryan Adams | Gold - 11 | Lost Highway |
| Cheap Wine & Nicotine | Scrimshanders | Longneck - previous year received this | self-release |
| Way Down in the Hole | Blind Boys of Alabama | Spirit of the Century - 10 | RealWorld |
| Castanets | Alejandro Escovedo | A Man Under the Influence - 9 | Bloodshot |
| Mississippi | Bob Dylan | Love and Theft - 8 | Columbia |
| American Skin (41 Shots) | Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band | Live in New York City - 7 | Columbia |
| Hills of Old Juarez | Tom Russell | Borderland - 6 | Hightone |
| All the Lilacs in Ohio | John Hiatt | The Tiki Bar Is Open - 5 | Vanguard |
| Barstow | Jay Farrar | Sebastopol - 4 | Artemis |
| Keep Your Distance | Buddy and Julie Miller | Buddy and Julie Miller - 3 | Hightone |
| Got No Reason for Goin' Home | Greta Lee | You Must Be Present to Win - 2 | Let's Roll |
| Run with You | Greta Lee | You Must Be Present to Win - 2 | Let's Roll |
| Three Day Straight | Ray Wylie Hubbard | Eternal and Lowdown - 1 | Philo |
| Didn't Have a Prayer | Ray Wylie Hubbard | Eternal and Lowdown - 1 | Philo |
| Going Home | Mark Knopfler | Local Hero OST | Warner Brothers |