Great list, ncdrawl. Thanks for sharing. A few of those albums are very important to me, too, including:

Iron and Wine: The Creek Drank the Cradle
Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise
Ryan Adams: Easy Tiger

I gotta get into Leo Kottke.

Hmmm, well, for me there was of course, DSOTM.

Mother Lode, Loggins and Messina.

Abraxas, Santana.

Abbey Road.

Kind Of Blue, Miles.

The Ella songbook series.

Lots of Mobile Fidelity and other such pressings.

Trey