Featured Album

Each week XPN's Music Director, Dan Reed, serves up another Featured Album of the Week. Tune in to the XPN Morning Show every Monday as Dan reviews another great CD.

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2005 Featured Album of the Week Archives
Date Artist Title Label


December
12-26-2005 Various Artists Our New Orleans Nonesuch
12-19-2005 Matt Pond PA Several Arrows Later Altitude Records
12-12-2005 ALO Fly Between Falls Brushfire Records
12-05-2005 Marah If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry Yep Roc Records


November
11-28-2005 Jamie Cullum Catching Tales Verve
11-21-2005 Wilco Kicking Television: Live In Chicago Nonesuch
11-14-2005 Trey Anastasio Shine Sony
11-07-2005 Soulive Breakout Concord Records


October
10-31-2005 The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers Capitol
10-24-2005 My Morning Jacket Z ATO
10-17-2005 Susan Tedeschi Hope and Desire Verve


September
9-26-2005 Various Artists Live at the World Cafe Volume 20 World Cafe Records
9-19-2005 Neil Young Prairie Wind Reprise
9-12-2005 David Gray Life In Slow Motion ATO Records
9-05-2005 Nada Surf The Weight Is A Gift Barsuk Records


August
8-29-2005 Shemekia Copeland The Soul Truth Alligator Records
8-22-2005 Death Cab For Cutie Plans Atlantic/WEA
8-15-2005 Rodney Crowell The Outsider Columbia
8-08-2005 Nickel Creek Why Should The Fire Die? Sugarhill
8-01-2005 Sufjan Stevens Come On Feel The Illinoise Asthmatic Kitty


July
7-25-2005 Jason Mraz Mr. A-Z Atlantic / WEA
7-18-2005 Son Volt Okemah and The Melody Of Riot Sony
7-11-2005 Erin McKeown We Will Become Like Birds Nettwerk Records
7-04-2005 John Hiatt Master of Disaster New West


June
6-27-2005 Mike Doughty Haughty Melodic ATO
6-20-2005 Feist Let It Die Interscope
6-13-2005 Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake Verve
6-06-2005 Coldplay X & Y Capitol


May
5-30-2005 John Scofield That’s What I Say: The Music of Ray Charles Verve
5-23-2005 Spoon Gimme Fiction Merge Records
5-16-2005 Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation Mighty Rearranger Sanctuary
5-09-2005 Ryan Adams Cold Roses Lost Highway
5-02-2005 Aimee Mann The Forgotten Arm Superego Records


April
4-25-2005 Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust Sony
4-18-2005 John Prine Fair & Square Oh Boy Records
4-11-2005 Thievery Corporation The Cosmic Game ESL Music
4-04-2005 Billy Miles Billy Miles Aezra Records


March
3-28-2005 Beck Guero Geffen Records
3-21-2005 The Decemberists Picaresque Kill Rock Stars
3-13-2005 The John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea Lava
3-07-2005 Kathleen Edwards Back To Me Zoe Records


February
2-28-2005 Amos Lee Amos Lee Blue Note
2-21-2005 Ben Lee Awake Is The New Sleep New West Records
2-14-2005 Blue Merle Burning In The Sun Island


January
1-30-2005 Various Artists Live at the World Cafe Volume 19 &
Philly Local: Right On Track
World Cafe / XPN
1-24-2005 Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Saddle Creek
1-17-2005 Ani Difranco Knuckle Down Righteous Babe
1-10-2005 Elliott Smith From A Basement On The Hill Anti- Records
1-03-2005 The Arcade Fire Funeral Merge Records
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