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Moods
Austere
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Austere Song Highlights
Enjoy the Silence
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
Everything in Its Right Place
Radiohead
Radiohead
Sinner Man
Traditional
Nina Simone
Bird on a Wire
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
Nick Drake
Walking Blues
Son House
Every Day (I Thank You)
Pat Metheny
Jack DeJohnette
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Charlie Haden
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Pat Metheny
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Dewey Redman
Do I Move You?
Nina Simone
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Rudy Stevenson
Nina Simone
Kometenmelodie 2
Ralf Hütter
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Florian Schneider
Kraftwerk
Just a Gigolo
Julius Brammer
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Irving Caesar
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Leonello Casucci
Thelonious Monk Quartet
Stack O' Lee
Mississippi John Hurt
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Traditional
Mississippi John Hurt
Mister Magic
Ralph MacDonald
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William Salter
Grover Washington, Jr.
Mad With You
Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
Fly on the Windscreen
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
All Along the Watchtower
Bob Dylan
Michael Hedges
She's Not There
Rod Argent
The Zombies
Packin' Trunk Blues
Lead Belly
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Alan Lomax
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John A. Lomax
Lead Belly
The Court of the Crimson King/The Return of the Fire Witch/The Dance of the
Robert Fripp
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Ian McDonald
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Peter Sinfield
King Crimson
50ft Queenie
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
Erb
Jim Hall
Lee Konitz
Nothing Ever Was, Anyway
Annette Peacock
Paul Bley
Tom Dooley
Doc Watson
The Scientist
Guy Berryman
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Jonny Buckland
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Will Champion
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Chris Martin
Coldplay
The Bottle
Gil Scott-Heron
Brian Jackson
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Gil Scott-Heron
Do You Love Me?
Martyn Casey
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Nick Cave
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Violet Hill
Guy Berryman
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Jonny Buckland
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Will Champion
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Chris Martin
Coldplay
Trane's Blues
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis Quintet
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Skip James
Skip James
Atlantic City
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Walking Blues
Robert Johnson
Son House
He Ain't Comin' Home No More
Angelo Badalamenti
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John Clifford
Nina Simone
My Black Mama, Pt. 1
Son House
Son House
Special Rider Blues
Son House
Son House
I'm So Glad
Skip James
Skip James
Ruby, My Dear
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Summertime
George Gershwin
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Ira Gershwin
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DuBose Heyward
Miles Davis
Monk's Mood
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Speed of Life
David Bowie
David Bowie
Prisoner of Love
Russ Columbo
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Clarence Gaskill
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Leo Robin
Lester Young-Teddy Wilson Quartet
Europe Endless
Ralf Hütter
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Florian Schneider
Kraftwerk
Pagin' the Devil
Milt Gabler
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Walter Page
Kansas City Six
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Lester Young
Autobahn
Ralf Hütter
Kraftwerk
Humph
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Hallo Spaceboy [Pet Shop Boys Remix]
David Bowie
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Brian Eno
David Bowie
All the Things You Are
Oscar Hammerstein II
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Jerome Kern
Joe Pass
Devil in the Bayou
Harry Choates
Harry Choates
Hard, Ain't It Hard
Traditional
Almanac Singers
Archangel
Burial
Burial
Time of the Season
Rod Argent
The Zombies
Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue
Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
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