Here's a few recommendations all of them Canadian,:
Royal Wood - A Good Enough Day
Melissa McLelland - Thumbellina's One Night Stand
Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy for the Soul
Skydiggers - City of Sirens
Blue Rodeo - Blue Road
kd lang - Watershed
David Francey - Right of Passage
Jim Bryson - Where the Bungaloes Roam
Emm Gryner - Goddess