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Featured Albums (2003)

Date Artist Title Label
10/27/03 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros Streetcore Hellcat
10/20/03 Sting Sacred Love A & M
10/13/03 Rickie Lee Jones The Evening Of My Best Day V2
10/6/03 4 Way Street Pretzel Park Sanctuary
9/29/03 Joss Stone The Soul Sessions S-Curve / EMI
9/22/03 The Mavericks The Mavericks Sanctuary
9/15/03 Michael Franti & Spearhead Everyone Deserves Music Columbia
9/8/03 John Mayer Heavier Things Columbia
9/1/03 North Mississippi All-Stars Polaris Tone-Cool/ATO Records
8/25/03 Maktub Khronos Velour Records
8/18/03 Fountains Of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers S-Curve/Virgin
8/11/03 Los Lonely Boys Los Lonely Boys Or Music
8/4/03 Robert Randolph Unclassified Warner Brothers
7/28/03 Various Artists Masked And Anonymous Sony
7/21/03 Chris Smither Train Home Hightone Records
7/14/03 Erin McKeown Grand Netwerk
7/7/03 Sam Roberts We Were Born in a Flame Universal Records
6/30/03 Lizz Wright Salt Verve Music
6/23/03 Steve Winwood About Time Wincraft / Sci-Fidelity
6/16/03 eastmountainsouth eastmountainsouth Dreamworks
6/9/03 Damien Rice O Vector
6/1/03 Various Artists Live at the World Café: Sweet Sixteen
5/27/03 Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos The Secret Sun Blue Thumb
5/19/03 The Thorns The Thorns Sony
5/12/03 John Eddie Who the Hell is John Eddie? Lost Highway / Thrill Show
5/5/03 Phil Roy Issues + Options Or Music
4/28/03 Yo La Tengo Summer Sun Matador
4/21/03 The Jayhawks Rainy Day Music Lost Highway
4/14/03 Pete Yorn Day I Forgot Columbia
4/7/03 Lucinda Williams World Without Tears Lost Highway
3/31/03 Calexico Feast of Wire Quarterstick
3/24/03 Rosanne Cash Rules of Travel Capitol
3/17/03 Ben Harper Diamonds on the Inside Virgin
3/10/03 Joe Jackson Volume 4 Rykodisc
3/3/03 Warren Zanes Memory Girls Dualtone
2/24/03 Nada Surf Let Go Barsuk
2/17/03 Dar Williams The Beauty of the Rain Razor & Tie
2/3/03 Various Artists Almost You: The Songs of Elvis Costello Glurp
1/27/03 Ry Cooder and Manual Galbán Mambo Sinuendo Nonesuch
1/20/03 Joseph Arthur Redemption's Son Real World / Universal
1/13/03 Kathleen Edwards Failer Rounder / PGD
1/6/03 Jason Mraz Waiting for My Rocket to Come Elektra

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