Spotify Playlist for 'Charming Gardeners' by David Biespiel

50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett – Texas Our Texas

Abdullah Ibrahim – Black And Brown Cherries

Adele – Right As Rain

Al Jolson – Waiting For The Robert E. Lee

Alex Turtle – Lummi Morning Song

Alison Krauss – Oh, Atlanta

Alison Krauss – Down To The River To Pray - Soundtrack Version (O Brother Where Art Thou?)

The Allen Brothers – Old Black Crow in the Hickory Nut Tree

Allen Ginsberg – Strange New Cottage In Berkeley

Along Came Jones – Continental Divide

Ameritz Tribute Standards – (Arkansas) You Run Deep in Me

Ani Difranco – To the Teeth

Anita O'Day – Massachusetts

Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer

Aretha Franklin – Wholy Holy

Arlo Guthrie – Oklahoma Hills

Artie Shaw – You Can Tell She Comes From Dixie

The Backyard Blues Boys – Rainy Day Blues

The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - 2000 - Remaster

Barbara Jay – Manhattan

The Barry Sisters – Zug Es Meir Noch Amool (Tell Me One More Time)

The Barry Sisters – Tumbalalaika

The Barry Sisters – Raisins & Almonds

Becky Parkerson – Baxter County

Bee Gees – Massachusetts

Béla Fleck – Old Hickory Waltz

Beth Orton – Last Leaves of Autumn

Beth Whitney – Seattle Rain

Bill Monroe – Baptize Me In The Cumberland River

Bill Withers – Use Me - Single Version

Billie Holiday – Nice Work If You Can Get It

Billy Joel – Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)?

Bing Crosby – Hang Your Heart On A Hickory Limb

Bix Beiderbecke – Royal Garden Blues

Blackbyrds – Rock Creek Park

Blind Willie McTell – The Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues

Bob Dylan – Blind Willie McTell

Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues

Bob Dylan – Isis

Bob Dylan – Jim Jones

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan – Dixie (Live)

Bob Dylan – Forever Young

Bob Dylan – Wedding Song

Bob Dylan – Pressing On

Bob Dylan – Tomorrow Is A Long Time

Bob Mann – Lummi

Bob Willis And His Texas Playboys – Take The "A" Train

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys – Take Me Back To Tulsa

Bobby McFerrin – The Garden

Bobby Sherman – Seattle

Bruce Springsteen – Galveston Bay

Bruce Springsteen – My Oklahoma Home

Buck Owens – Oklahoma Hills

Buffy Sainte-Marie – Sir Patrick Spens

Butthole Surfers – Dracula From Houston

The Byrds – Hickory Wind

Byron Cage – Holy Holy Holy

C.R.M. Brooks – Sir Patrick Spens

Cal Tjader – Crow's Nest

Capt Kirk – Set Fire to the Rain - House Remix

Carla Bruni – Quelqu'un M'a Dit

Carole King – Brother, Brother

The Carter Family – Ship ahoy

Chantal Kreviazuk – Leaving On A Jet Plane - Previously Unreleased Version

Charley Pride – Oklahoma Morning

Charlie Norman's Orkester – Ship Ahoy!

Charlie Parker – April In Paris

Chatham County Line – Tennessee Valley Authority

Chet Baker – Autumn Leaves

The Chieftains – Ev Chistr 'Ta, Laou! - Cider drinking song

The Chieftains – Banish Misfortune / Gillian's Apples

Christine Oehl – Nein, ich war noch nie in Massachusetts

Chuck Berry – Swanee River

Cimarons – Ship Ahoy

Claire's Diary – Western Mass

Conjunto Primavera – Mexico Ra Ra Ra

Cooder Graw – King of the Dairy Queen

Counting Crows – Rain King

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen The Rain

Dan Cluchey – Western Massachusetts

Dave Evans – Stone Coal West Virginia

David Fersh – Welcome to Western Mass.

Dean Martin – I Napoli

Deke Dickerson – Train To Nowhere

DH Lawrence – Figs

Dianne Reeves – Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

Dianne Reeves – Solitude

Diffident Rebel – John Keats Side of Me

Dixie Chicks – Cold Day In July

Dixie Rag A Jazz Band – The Bridge of Avignon

Dizzy Gillespie – Theme From Lawrence Of Arabia

Django Reinhardt – Swing De Paris

Don Lennon – Northampton

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – North Carolina Breakdown

Dr Zog – Texas

Duke Ellington – Perdido

Duke Ellington – The Jeep Is Jumpin'

The Dukes Of Dixieland – Robert E Lee - Toot Toot Tootsie

Dusty Springfield – Son Of A Preacher Man

Eartha Kitt – Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding Bell

East Town Pirates – Ship Ahoy

Edith Piaf – Paris

Edith Piaf – La vie en rose

Ella Fitzgerald – April In Paris

Ella Retford – Ship Ahoy! (All The Nice Girls Love A Sailor) - 1910

Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel

Emily's Army – Loch Lomond

Emmylou Harris – The Good Book

Emmylou Harris – Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby - Soundtrack Version (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)

Emmylou Harris and Mary Black – Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia

Ernest Tubb – Waltz Across Texas

Eurythmics – Here Comes The Rain Again

The Fallen Stars – Massachusetts

Feels Like Home – Walla Walla Wine Taster Me

The Flying Burrito Brothers – Man In The Fog

Footloose – A Finnish Polka Medley

Frank Sinatra – French Foreign Legion

Frank Sinatra – It Ain't Necessarily So

Frank Zappa – Ship Ahoy

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Hickory

The Garbonzos – Texas Tango

The Gaslights – Galveston

Geoff Brown – Figs and Oranges

Gipsy Kings – Hotel California

Gladys Knight & The Pips – Friendship Train

Glen Miller – A String Of Pearls

Glenn Miller – Jeep Jockey Jump

Gogol Bordello – American Wedding

The Gourds – Tex - Mex Mile

Grateful Dead – Box Of Rain

Gretchen Wilson – California Girls

The Handsome Family – Gulls

Hank Williams – Wedding Bells

Hank Williams – The Angel Of Death - Undubbed Version

Harry McClintock – Big Rock Candy Mountain

Harry Nilsson – I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City

Hermes Nye – Old Abe Lincoln

The High Kings – Irish Pub Song

Holly Near – West Virginia Friend

Hollywood Symphonic Orchestra – Stagecoach - Suite

Honeyhouse – Crow's Nest

The Hot Toddies – Seattle

Houndmouth – Houston Train

Howlin' Wolf – Come Back Home

Is Tropical – Mexico

Israel Vibration – Walla Walla

Italian Mandolin Torna A Surriento – Carnival of Venice

Italian Wedding Music of Italy – Vivaldi Guitar Concerto

J.J. Cale – Travelin' Light

Jack White – Another Way To Die

Jack White – Love Interruption

Jack White – I Guess I Should Go To Sleep

James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy (Piano Version)

James Hawkins – Talkin' Jeb Bush Carpetbagger Blues

James Taylor – Fire And Rain

Janis Ian – Galveston

Jason Boland and the Stragglers – If I Ever Get Back (to Oklahoma)

Jason Howard – Oklahoma! - Oh, What A Beautiful Morning

Jay Blackton – Overture (From "Oklahoma!")

Jean Ritchie – West Virginia Mine Disaster

Jeff Litman – Maine

Jelly Roll Morton – Seattle Hunch

Jerry G. Hludzik – Read It in The Good Book

Jerry Lee Lewis – Carry Me Back to Old Virginia

Jimmy Buffett – He Went To Paris

Jimmy Buffett – Son Of A Son Of A Sailor

Joan Baez – Satisfied Mind

Joan Baez – Hickory Wind - Extended version

John Anderson – Old Chunk Of Coal

John Coltrane – Autumn Serenade

John Denver Duet with Emmylou Harris – Wild Montana Skies

John Fogerty – Centerfield

John Fogerty – Midnight Special

John Hiatt – Feels Like Rain

John Prine With Lucinda Williams – Wedding Bells / Let's Turn Back The Years

John Scofield – Scenes From A Marriage

Johnny Cash – Loading coal

Johnny Cash – Bottom Of The Mountain

Johnny Cash – The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer

Johnny Cash – In The Garden

Johnny Cash – Five Feet High And Rising

Johnny Cash – Father And Son

Johnny Cash – "T" Is for Texas

Jonathan Edwards – Sunshine

Joni Mitchell – California

Joni Mitchell – Free Man In Paris

Joséphine Baker – J'Ai Deux Amours

Judy Collins – Loch Lomond

Judy Garland – Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries

Judy Garland – Friendship

Julie Andrews – Jewish Wedding Song (Trinkt Le Chaim)

Kenny Rogers – I'll Be There For You

Klaus Badelt – He's a Pirate

Krishna Das – Namah Shivayah

Lead Belly – Abraham Lincoln

Leadbelly – Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Leatherbag – Galveston Bay

Led Zepagain – Rock And Roll

Lennie Tristano – No Figs

Leon Russell – Tijuana Wedding - 1999 Digital Remaster

Leonard Bernstein – Rhapsody In Blue

Leonard Cohen – Tower of Song

Leonard Cohen – First We Take Manhattan

Lester Flatt – Dear Old Dixie

The Longtime Goners – Coal Train Blues

Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner's Daughter

Loretta Lynn & Jack White – Portland Oregon

Louis Armstrong – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Louis Armstrong – Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen

Louis Armstrong – Rock My Soul

Louis Armstrong – Ezekiel Saw De Wheel

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Fives – Heebie Jeebies

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five – Salt pork west virginia

The Lovin' Spoonful – On The Road Again

Lucas Wells – Northampton

Lyle Lovett – Election Day

Lyle Lovett – That's Right (You're Not From Texas)

Lynyrd Skynyrd – T For Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1) - 1976/Live At Fox Theatre, Atlanta

The MA Love Song Warriors – Hadley Girl (I Had Me a Girl From Hadley)

Madeleine Peyroux – Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love

Major Parkinson – Heart Of Hickory

The Male Choir Moscow Choral Synagogue – Adon olam

Manny Albam – Spring In Maine

Marilyn Horne – Take Care of this House - from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - Alan Jay Lerner

Mark Knopfler – Prairie Wedding

The Marx Brothers – Preparing a Land Auction - The Cocoanuts - Dialogue

Mary Flower – Columbia River Rag

Maurice Jarre – Lawrence of Arabia (Overture)

Michel Bühler – Avignon

Mighty Ghosts Of Heaven – Wedding Dress

Miles Davis – Autumn Leaves

Miles Davis – Summertime

The Mills Brothers – On the Banks of the Wabash

Molly Venter & Eben Pariser – Winston-Salem

Morris Goldstein – Sha, Sha Der Rebi Geht (Shh, Shh The Rabbi's Coming)

Mother Mabel Carter – Dixie Darling

Muddy Waters – I'm Ready

Native American Indians – Kiowa Peyote Ritual Songs

Neil Young with The Stray Gators – Bad Fog Of Loneliness - Previously Unreleased Version

The New Main Street Singers – The Good Book Song

Nina Simone – Marriage Is For Old Folks

Nina Simone – Mood Indigo

Nina Simone – The Last Rose Of Summer - Album Version (Stereo)

NOFX – Straight Outta Massachusetts

Norah Jones – Chasing Pirates

NRBQ – Get Rhythm

The O'Jays – Ship Ahoy

Odetta and Larry – Pay Day At Coal Creek

The Offspring – Walla Walla

Orlie & the Saints – Seattle Twist & Freeze

Oscar Brand – Grant, Grant, Grant (Ulysses S. Grant)

Oscar Brand – Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge (Calvin Coolidge)

Pat Green – Songs About Texas

Paul McCartney – 3 Legs - 2012 Remaster

Paul McCartney – Blackbird

Paul Winter Consort – Osprey

Peggy Lee – How Long Has This Been Going On?

Pete Levin & Wayne Lammers – Time To Change The Constitution

Pete Seeger – My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away

Phil Ochs – William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park And Escapes Unscathed

Phil Ochs – Hills Of West Virginia

Pokey LaFarge – Arkansas

Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain

Professor Presley – A New Constitution

Quincy Jones – The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)

Rainy Days – The Last Voyage Of Sir Patrick Spens

Ralph Richardson – Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ray Charles – Two Old Cats Like Us

Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra – Georgia On My Mind

Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie

Reggie Houston – Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Robert Glasper – Smells Like Teen Spirit

Robert Johnson – Travelling Riverside Blues

Robert Johnson – Love In Vain

The Rolling Stones – Prodigal Son

Ronnie Drew – Finnegan's Wake

Ronnie Milsap – Smoky Mountain Rain

Roy Orbison – Love Hurts

Sade – Pearls

Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin – We Open In Venice

Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion – Dupont Circle

Sarah Vaughan – Blackbird

Scott Joplin – Weeping Willows

Seeburg L Nickelodeon – The Old Gray Mare Ain't What She Used to Be.

Shawn Mullins – The Gulf of Mexico

Skizzo Franick – Ahoy

Sky Cries Mary – Walla Walla

Slightly Stoopid – Leaving On A Jetplane

Solomon Burke – Georgia On My Mind - Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux,Switzerland / 2006

Sonido Mazter – Bailando en Mexico

Sonny & Cher – Podunk

Sound Effects – Sea Gulls

Speechwriters LLC – Hanoi

Spike Jones – Sailin’ On The Robert E. Lee

Spike Jones & His City Slickers – I Wanna Go Back To West Virginia

Sports Ringtones, World Cup Soccer, Football & More Comedy Messages – Derek Jeter Chant, Ringtone Loop, Text, Alert Alarm

The Stanley Brothers – Daybreak In Dixie

The Stanley Brothers – The Angel of Death

Steel String Session – Nowhere West Virginia

Stephen Murray – Lycidas (Lines 165-193) - Lines 165-193

Steve Winwood – Arc Of A Diver

Steven Wesley – Boys From Oklahoma

Sunny Sweeney – East Texas Pines

T Town Aces – Page Boy Shuffle

Talking Heads – Lifetime Piling Up - Remastered LP Version

Tammy Wynette – The Hawaiian Wedding Song (Ke Kali Nei Au)

Terry Cashman – Ichiro

Tex-Mex Flavours – La Bamba

Texas Tornados – Adios Mexico

Texas Tornados – (Hey Baby) Que Paso

Thelonious Monk – Dinah (Take 2)

The Through & Through Gospel Review – The Good Book

Tilt – Berkeley Pier

Todd Snider – Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues

Tom Waits – Gin Soaked Boy

Tracy Chapman – Let It Rain

Tracy Chapman – Fast Car

U2 – Drunk Chicken/America

United States Air Force Band – Fourth of July

Van Morrison – Satisfied

Vicente Fernandez – Soy México

Vince Guaraldi Trio – Baseball Theme

W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B. Yeats (Part 1)

Wah! – Shiva

Wanda Jackson – Tunnel of Love

The Warner Bros. Orchestra – Giant: End Title (The Eyes Of Texas Are Upon You)

The Wasco Brothers – The Wind In This County

Waylon Jennings – Oklahoma Sunshine

Waylon Jennings – Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)

Wendy Wiseman – Home On The Range

Williamson Brothers And Curry – Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand

Willie Nelson – On The Road Again

Willie Nelson – My Cricket And Me - Band Outtake

Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

Wilma Lee, Stoney Cooper – Moonlight On West Virginia

Woody Guthrie – You Souls of Boston

Woody Guthrie – Roll On Columbia

Woody Guthrie – Seattle to Chicago

Woody Guthrie – Miner's Song

The Yardbirds – New York City Blues

ZeroPlusOne – Lummi Nation

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