RCA asked for more "single material." "Standing Here in Front of Me" was later featured on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful, and "Girl on the Roof" appeared in the motion pictures National Lampoon's Van Wilder and The Sweetest Thing, both released in April 2002. Indiana After Mine and Yours, Mead delivered a follow-up for RCA, but it was made under a proverbial dark cloud after an A&R person for the label proclaimed at the recording's commencement dinner that, given sales of Mead's first two albums, it was a "miracle" that a third was being recorded at all. The album was completed but ended up being shelved after BMG, RCA's parent company, merged RCA and J Records to form the RCA Music Group in 2003 and laid off approximately 50 staffers, including ones who worked in promotions, sales, and A&R; Mead and other artists were subsequently dropped from RCA's roster. He moved back to Nashville in late 2002 and, in between road gigs, started an EP with Nashville producer David Henry (Matthew Ryan, Guster); it soon blossomed into the full-length Indiana, released in May 2004 by Nettwerk America. Featuring some of Mead's best-loved songs, including the title track, "Nashville," and "Beauty," it remains his most recognized and critically acclaimed album ("A knack for telling stories via catchy, concise pop ditties," declared No Depression) to date. Wherever You Are Mead's third album for RCA, recorded in 2002 in Woodstock, New York, and Bath, England, finally emerged as a six-song EP in June 2005 via Eleven Thirty Records. "I got the album back when I left [RCA] but felt, after releasing Indiana, that the full package was confusing and not indicative of where I was going musically anymore, so I tried to frame the songs as more a lost piece of time," Mead says. PopMatters raved that Wherever You Are contains "mature songs that express genuine warmth and emotional intelligence." Tangerine In 2005 Mead married artist Natalie Cox and began work on his fourth LP. Produced by Brad Jones (Jill Sobule, Butterfly Boucher, Josh Rouse), Tangerine was released in May 2006 courtesy of Mead's own Tallulah! Media (his contract with Nettwerk wasn't renewed after Indiana). Paste magazine described it as "the sound of a singer/songwriter finding his voice," and it was nominated in the category of best pop/rock album at the sixth annual Independent Music Awards in 2007 (Mead's website was nominated