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  • B. B. King - Live At The BBC
  • Baaba Maal - Television
  • Baby Teeth - Hustle Beach
  • The Bad Plus - Barracuda
  • The Bad Plus - For All I Care
  • Bad Veins - Bad Veins
  • Band of Heathens - One Foot In The Ether
  • Band of Skulls - Baby Darling Dollface Honey
  • Barbara Carr - Savvy Woman
  • Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
  • Bearfoot - Doors And Windows
  • Bela Fleck/Zakir Hussain/Edgar Meyer - The Melody of Rhythm
  • Ben Folds - Presents: University A Cappella!
  • Ben Harper And Relentless7 - White Lies For Dark Times
  • Ben Lee - The Rebirth of Venus
  • Benny Golson - New Time, New 'Tet
  • Better Than Ezra - Paper Empire
  • Big Bill Morganfield - Born Lover
  • Big James - Right Here Right Now
  • Big Pete Pearson - Finger In Your Eye
  • Big Star - Keep An Eye On The Sky (Box Set)
  • Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
  • Bill Frisell - Disfarmer
  • Björk - Voltaïc: Songs from The Volta Tour
  • Black Crowes - Before The Frost... Until The Freeze
  • Blackburn - Brotherhood
  • Blind Boys of Alabama - Duets
  • BLK JKS - After Robots
  • Bob Dylan - Christmas In The Heart
  • Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
  • Bob Marley - B Is For Bob
  • Bob Mould - Life And Times
  • Bob Schneider- Lovely Creatures
  • Bobby Jones - Comin' Back Hard
  • Bomba Estereo - Blow Up
  • Boo Boo Davis - Ain't Gotta Dime
  • Booker T - Potato Hole
  • Boulder Acoustic Society - Punchline
  • Bowerbirds - Upper Air
  • Bowling For Soup - Sorry For Partyin'
  • Brain Blade - Mama Rosa
  • Brandi Carlile - Give Up The Ghost
  • Brandi Shearer - Love Don't Make You Juliet
  • Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend
  • Brian Wilson - What Love Can Do
  • Broken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part
  • Brookville - Broken Lights
  • Brownout - Aguilas And Cobras
  • Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers - Levitate
  • Buckwheat Zydeco - Lay Your Burden Down
  • Buffy St. Marie - Running For The Dream
  • Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
  • Busdriver - Jhelli Beam
  • Butterfly Boucher - Scary Fragile

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