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Sprinting toward the finish line:

Belle & Sebastian, The Boy with the Arab Strap. Scottish folk-pop. (dreamallday)
Big Country, The Crossing. Scottish 80s pop, with e-bow. Includes "In a Big Country". (dougo)
Boards of Canada, Geogaddi. Scottish electronica. (bushmiller)
Battlefield Band, Rain, Hail or Shine. Scottish folk-rock. (B)

The Buckinghams, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Compilation by 60s faux-British-invasion band. "Kind of a Drag", but no "Don't You Care". (dougo)
The Beach Boys, Smiley Smile + Wild Honey. Two albums after Smile fell apart. Includes "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes and Villains", alternate takes, and a lot of filler. (artname)
The Beach Boys, Friends + 20/20. The downward slide continues. Includes a cover of "Walk On By". (juliansinger)

Various Artists, Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach. Tribute album for John Zorn's Tzadik label; unconventional approaches by Horvitz, Ribot, Douglas, Frisell, etc. (bushmiller)
Brave Combo, Mood Swing Music. Oddlot compilation from the eclectic polka/world music band. "Always Vienna (The Last Words of Sigmund Freud)" is particularly nice. (B)
Joshua Bell and Edgar Meyer, Short Trip Home. Classical/Americana hybrid. With Sam Bush and Mike Marshall. (artname)
Bang on a Can, Live Vol. 3. New Music, with one track by Nick Didkovsky (Doctor Nerve). (bushmiller)

Bis, Intendo. Demos and B-sides from cute indie rock band. (dougo)
Built to Spill, Keep It Like a Secret. Indie rock (on Warner Brothers).
Blinker the Star, August Everywhere. Major label pop debut.
Dan Baird, Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired. How did I end up with a CD by the singer from the Georgia Satellites?
Tracy Bonham, The Burdens of Being Upright. Major label debut by violin rocker. Features "Mother Mother". (juliansinger)
Jeff Buckley, Grace. "Last Goodbye" is a fantastic song, and the cover of "Hallelujah" is well-loved. (dreamallday)
Jay Bennett & Edward Burch, The Palace at 4am (Part I). Pop-rock from Wilco's other mad genius and some guy. Includes two Woody Guthrie songs a la Mermaid Avenue.
Belleville, My Friends Are My Estate. Pretty good alt-country.

Brandy, Never Say Never. R&B, with "Top of the World".
Kofy Brown, Hungry. Independent hip-hop. (juliansinger)

Sharon Bousquet, "Vancouver Winter". Christmas single by a singer-songwriter who used to live around here (and around Vancouver, I guess). (B)
Allette Brooks, Swim with Me. Silicon Valley singer-songwriter. "Rolling Blackout" was topical and catchy.
Bob and Wendy, Vagabond for Beauty. Central Coast singer-songwriter and her multi-instrumentalist husband.
Jonatha Brooke, "Ten Cent Wings". Singer-songwriter's first officially solo record after The Story.

Kenny Barron and Regina Carter, Freefall. Piano/violin jazz duets. No cover. (artname)
Kenny Barron and Mino Cinelu, Swamp Sally. Piano/percussion. (artname)
Kenny Barron-John Hicks Quartet, Rhythm-a-ning. Live album by two-piano quartet. (artname)
Jaki Byard, At Maybeck. Solo piano.
Andre Bush, Invisible City. Instrumental album by Jenna Mammina's longtime guitarist.
Don Byron, Nu Blaxploitation. Clarinetist takes on 70s funk. Features rap by Biz Markie, spoken-word by Sadiq, and songs by Mandrill and Jimi Hendrix. (juliansinger)
Don Byron, A Fine Line: Arias and Lieder. Songs by Bernstein, Wonder, Puccini, Mancini, etc. Cassandra Wilson sings Sondheim's "The Ladies Who Lunch". (B)
Don Byron, Romance with the Unseen. No gimmick, just a jazz record. With Bill Frisell, Drew Gress, Jack DeJohnette.


Some of these are still left: D E F H I.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I would like the Big Country, the Buckinghams, and Bis. Danke.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Done. And now I need a box again.