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Moods
Plaintive
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Plaintive Album Highlights
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Pete Seeger
A Link in the Chain
Don Gibson
RCA Country Legends
Nina Simone
Anthology
Burning Spear
Marcus Garvey
Depeche Mode
The Singles 86>98
Johnny Cash
Man in Black: His Greatest Hits
Lightnin' Hopkins
Blues Masters: The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins
Merle Haggard
Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
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Plaintive Recent Releases
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Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac 1975 to 1987
Rush
50
Edmar Castañeda
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Béla Fleck
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Antonio Sanchez
BEATrio
Eric Church
Evangeline vs. The Machine
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Plaintive Song Highlights
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
Pete Seeger
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Traditional
Pete Seeger
Blue Blue Day
Don Gibson
Don Gibson
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Sandy Denny
Nina Simone
Slavery Days
Winston Rodney
Burning Spear
Enjoy the Silence
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Penitentiary Blues
Sam Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
Pancho and Lefty
Townes Van Zandt
Merle Haggard
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Willie Nelson
Earl's Breakdown
Earl Scruggs
Flatt & Scruggs
These Arms of Mine
Otis Redding
Otis Redding
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