The official name in all the streaming sites is Gardener’s Rain (2026). There are many ways to hear this album: it’s available on all the digital platforms like Apple Music, Spotify and the rest; it’s also available in high quality downloads or the vinyl itself from my Bandcamp Page; and, of course, the vinyl is available from the Shop All Media page on this site.
Gardener’s Rain was officially Lewis’ fourth album, but after three cassettes, was the first to come out on CD, so it’s only appropriate that out of the 26 albums he’s made, it also becomes his first to be released on vinyl.
His best-selling series of “music that paint’s the rural landscape, and quiets the mind” includes his trademark sound that combines the precision of the steel-stringed guitar with the sustained elegance of the violin, personified in the album Gardener’s Rain. Passages of solo guitar are mixed with soaring violin, with the title track adding the synthesizer and its soft, melodic harmonies.
The album was produced in full analog glory, using the Otari 1/2” reel to reel tape deck Lewis purchased from Barnard’s Rooster Records in 1988, and subsequently mixed at Burlington, Vermont’s then premier studio White Crow Audio, using their Neve 8068 MKII mixing board, now considered one of the best vintage analog consoles ever made. Outside of remixing the title track from the archived tape, everything else was preserved from those original mixing sessions and remastered using the best of today’s recording techniques to eliminate rogue frequencies. The newly mixed Gardener’s Rain song, long a thorn in Lewis’ side because the ambient ‘rain’ that accompanied the guitar and synth became too overbearing, was the last piece to the puzzle of making this album whole after 35 years. In the streaming pipeline it’s now called: Gardener’s Rain (2026).
The graphics were re-imagined and designed by Pappy Biondo, musician and artist from Hinesburg, Vermont using the original artwork made by former Bethel resident and legendary artist/designer David Powell. Legendary because one of his first projects was doing the cover for the Allman Brothers’ Eat A Peach record back when he was a college art student in Georgia. He was also the designer of many of Lewis’ albums through the years, including his latest CD Cairns.