Here are the Top 100 Albums of 2000 as selected by the members of the Nanci
Net List:
| Place | Artist | Title |
| 1 | Red Dirt Girl | Emmylou Harris |
| 2 | Transcendental Blues | Steve Earle |
| 3 | The Green World | Dar Williams |
| 4 | Broke Down | Slaid Cleaves |
| 5 | Somewhere Near Paterson | Richard Shindell |
| 6 | The Captain | Kasey Chambers |
| 7 | Crossing Muddy Waters | John Hiatt |
| 8 | Tanglewood Tree | Dave Carter & Tracy Grammar |
| 9 | One Endless Night | Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
| 10 | I Am Shelby Lynne | Shelby Lynne |
| 11 | Covenant | Greg Brown |
| 12 | Bachelor No 2 | Aimee Mann |
| 13 | Mermaid Ave, Vol 2 | Billy Bragg & Wilco |
| 14 | Public Domain | Dave Alvin |
| 15 | All That You Leave Behind | U2 |
| 16 | Distillation | Erin McKeown |
| 17 | Nickel Creek | Nickel Creek |
| 18 | Live As I'll Ever Be | Chris Smither |
| 19 | Live | Ellis Paul |
| 19 | White Ladder | David Gray |
| 21 | Back Home Again | Rhonda Vincent |
| 21 | Sailing to Philadelphia | Mark Knopfler |
| 23 | Two Against Nature | Steely Dan |
| 24 | Love Light | Claire Lynch |
| 25 | American III: Solitary Man | Johnny Cash |
| 25 | Sign of Truth | Tish Hinojosa |
| 25 | Seen It All | Seldom Scene |
| 28 | The Hardest Part | Allison Moorer |
| 29 | Talkin' to Myself | Lonesome River Band |
| 29 | Invincible Summer | K D Lang |
| 31 | You're the One | Paul Simon |
| 32 | Telling Stories | Tracy Chapman |
| 32 | Kid A | Radiohead |
| 34 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| 34 | Faith and Courage | Sinead O'Connor |
| 36 | Kids in Philly | Marah |
| 36 | Another Kind of Blue | Peter Keane |
| 36 | Farmhouse | Phish |
| 39 | Fair Weather | Alison Brown |
| 40 | Smile | The Jayhawks |
| 41 | The Door | Keb Mo |
| 41 | In the Company of Strangers | Robin & Linda Williams |
| 43 | Ice Caps: The Peaks of Telluride | Sam Bush |
| 44 | Riding With the King | B B King & Eric Clapton |
| 45 | Magnolia | Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| 46 | Shake Hands With Shorty | The North Mississippi All Stars |
| 47 | Real Time | Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott |
| 47 | Speaking With the Angel | Mary Black |
| 49 | Out of the Blue | The Burns Sisters |
| 50 | The Hour Before | Dawn Solas |
| 50 | Maroon | Barenaked Ladies |
| 50 | Big Mon: The Songs of Bill Monroe | Various Artists |
| 53 | Wonder Bar | Martin Sexton |
| 54 | You Were Here | Sara Harmer |
| 54 | Indiginous | Circle |
| 54 | Positive Friction | Donna the Buffalo |
| 54 | Fire, Honey & Angels | Walt Wilkins Band |
| 58 | Never an Adult Moment | The Austin Lounge Lizards |
| 58 | I Hope You Dance | Lee Ann Womack |
| 58 | Furnace Room Lullaby | Neko Case & Her Boyfriend |
| 58 | America Town | Five for Fighting |
| 62 | Tomorrow's Sounds Today | Dwight Yoakam |
| 62 | Levee Town | Sonny Landreth |
| 62 | Password | Geoff Muldaur |
| 62 | Trouble With Poets | Peter Mulvey |
| 62 | Wish I Was in Heaven | R L Burnside |
| 62 | Heartbreaker | Ryan Adams |
| 62 | Hard Times in Babylon | Elisa Gilkyson |
| 69 | Dancin' With Them That Brung Me | Stacey Earle |
| 70 | Only a Story | The Mollys |
| 70 | Last of the Old Time | Chuck Brodsky |
| 72 | Evergreen Boy | Steve Forbert |
| 73 | Trainfare Home | Last Forever |
| 74 | Groucyfriendly | Phil Roy |
| 74 | Doin' Time on Planet Earth | Brooklyn Cowboy |
| 74 | Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" | Various Artists |
| 77 | Bolsa de Agua | The Gourds |
| 77 | The Age of Possibility | Carrie Newcomer |
| 77 | It's Like This | Rickie Lee Jones |
| 77 | The Man Who | Travis |
| 77 | Tarbox | Ramblers |
| 82 | Righteous Love | Joan Osborne |
| 82 | Things To Come | Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel |
| 84 | Waltz Across America | The Cowboy Junkies |
| 84 | The Essential | Bob Dylan |
| 86 | Life'll Kill Ya | Warren Zevon |
| 86 | Real Live Woman | Trisha Yearwood |
| 86 | The I-10 Chronicles | Various Artists |
| 89 | Regrooving the Dream | Patty Larkin |
| 89 | Silent Ground | Front Range |
| 89 | Time After Time | Eva Cassidy |
| 89 | Stories From the City; Stories From the Sea | PJ Harvey |
| 89 | Survival | Stephanie Fix |
| 89 | West By Southwest | Craig Chambers |
| 94 | Gram Parsons Notebook | Various Artists |
| 94 | Fourteen Days | Laura Love |
| 94 | Spin | Whirligig |
| 94 | Lucky One | Christy McWilson |
| 94 | Breach | The Wallflowers |
| 99 | Ready to Go | Bryan Sutton |
| 100 | Gretchen Peters | Gretchen Peters |
| 100 | Evolver | The Kennedys |