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Moods
Austere
Overview
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Austere Song Highlights
Enjoy the Silence
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
Everything in Its Right Place
Radiohead
Radiohead
I Feel You
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
To Love Somebody
Barry Gibb
/
Robin Gibb
Nina Simone
Chelsea Hotel No. 2
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Time of No Reply
Nick Drake
Nick Drake
My Black Mama, Pt. 1
Son House
Kometenmelodie 2
Ralf Hütter
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Florian Schneider
Kraftwerk
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye
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James Nyx, Jr.
Grover Washington, Jr.
Frankie
Mississippi John Hurt
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Traditional
Mississippi John Hurt
Just a Gigolo
Julius Brammer
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Irving Caesar
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Leonello Casucci
Thelonious Monk Quartet
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
Mojo Hand
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
/
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
Man-Size
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
Erb
Jim Hall
Lee Konitz
In My Place
Guy Berryman
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Jonny Buckland
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Will Champion
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Chris Martin
Coldplay
Jangling Jack
Nick Cave
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Violet Hill
Guy Berryman
/
Jonny Buckland
/
Will Champion
/
Chris Martin
Coldplay
Tom Dooley
Doc Watson
Nothing Ever Was, Anyway
Annette Peacock
Paul Bley
The Bottle
Gil Scott-Heron
Brian Jackson
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Gil Scott-Heron
I Loves You, Porgy
George Gershwin
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Ira Gershwin
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DuBose Heyward
Miles Davis
Trane's Blues
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis Quintet
Atlantic City
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Skip James
Skip James
Straight, No Chaser
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
He Ain't Comin' Home No More
Angelo Badalamenti
/
John Clifford
Nina Simone
Monk's Mood
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Showroom Dummies
Ralf Hütter
Kraftwerk
Special Rider Blues
Son House
Son House
Speed of Life
David Bowie
David Bowie
All of Me
Gerald Marks
/
Seymour Simons
Lester Young-Teddy Wilson Quartet
Preachin' the Blues, Pt. 1
Son House
Son House
I'm So Glad
Skip James
Skip James
Tour de France
Ralf Hütter
Kraftwerk
Walking Blues
Robert Johnson
Son House
Pagin' the Devil
Milt Gabler
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Walter Page
Kansas City Six
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Lester Young
'Round Midnight
Bernie Hanighen
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Thelonious Monk
/
Cootie Williams
Thelonious Monk
The Man Who Sold the World
David Bowie
David Bowie
Cherokee
Ray Noble
Joe Pass
Rye Whiskey
Traditional
Harry Choates
Union Maid
Almanac Singers
A Rose for Emily
Rod Argent
The Zombies
Raver
Burial
Burial
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