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Iron & Wine’s autumn 2002 debut, The Creek Drank theCradle, arrived with all the fanfare of a tree shedding its leaves. But word spread quietly and quickly. Old-school psychedelic-folk devotees glommed onto Sam Beam’s understated finger-picking and his rural-loner mien, while indie kids loved the record’s no-fi production and its pastoral closeness.

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The initial advertising campaign for Jay-Z’s (alleged) swansong, 2003’s The Black Album, featured a picture of a tape box with the names of 12 of hip-hop’s greatest producers scribbled on it. Chalk it up to a two-way malfunction, but the name of famed Beatles knob-adjuster George Martin was conspicuously absent.

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David Banner is hardly the first college kid to wallow in ugliness as a tribute to his humble upbringing. But few have crafted so fond and foul a grotesquerie as the University of Maryland grad student’s 2003 debut, Mississippi: The Album.