The Best Albums of 2003

The Top 10 Albums of 2003

2) Miles Davis - Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete

3) Miles Davis - The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions

4)  Bob Dylan - The Complete SACD Collection

5)  Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks, Volume 29

6) Jeff Buckley - Live at Sin-é

7) The Four Jefferson Airplane Reissues

8) Loudon Wainwright III - So Damn Happy

9) The Who - Who's Next

The Best of the Rest

These releases may not be the cream of the crop for 2003, but each is remarkable in its own right — be they intriguing debuts, welcome returns, fond farewells, brilliant tributes, stunning leaps forward, or just good efforts from consistently creative artists.

Allman Brothers Band - Hittin' the Note

Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Blues Traveler - Truth Be Told

June Carter Cash - Wildwood Flower

David Lindley y Wally Ingram - Twango Bango III

Del McCoury Band - It's Just the Night

Kathleen Edwards - Failer

Gov't Mule - The Deepest End

Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks, Volume 28

Grateful Dead - View from the Vault IV

Joe Henry - Tiny Voices

B. B. King - Reflections

Los Lonely Boys - Los Lonely Boys

John Mellencamp - Trouble No More

Thelonious Monk - Monk in Paris: Live at the Olympia

Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Unclassified

Reckless Kelly - Under the Table and Above the Sun

Damien Rice - O

Sam Bush & David Grisman - Hold On, We're Strummin'

Scott Miller and The Commonwealth - Upside Downside

Chris Smither - Train Home

The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart

Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions

String Cheese Incident - Untying the Not

Joe Strummer - Streetcore

Turin Brakes - Ether Song

U2 - Go Home: Live from Slane Castle

Various Artists - Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan

Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - A Film about Wilco by Sam Jones

Lucinda Williams - World without Tears

Steve Winwood - About Time

Warren Zanes - Memory Girls