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Jun 22
Joni Mitchell
Blue
100
critic score
(5)
90
user score
(2,321)
Mar 5
Nick Drake
Bryter Layter
89
critic score
(4)
85
user score
(1,283)
May 17
Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
Ram
80
critic score
(3)
87
user score
(1,116)
Mar 19
Leonard Cohen
Songs of Love and Hate
97
critic score
(3)
87
user score
(758)
Feb 19
Comus
First Utterance
80
critic score
(3)
84
user score
(536)
Oct
John Prine
John Prine
98
critic score
(4)
82
user score
(208)
Dec 29
America
America
60
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(131)
Oct 1
Cat Stevens
Teaser and the Firecat
80
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(131)
Oct 16
Françoise Hardy
La question
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(115)
Sep 15
Judee Sill
Judee Sill
84
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(113)
Oct 1
John Fahey
America
90
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(90)
Jan 1
Roy Harper
Stormcock
90
critic score
(3)
83
user score
(88)
Sep
Cher
Chér
65
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(63)
Mar 15
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
80
user score
(58)
Apr 6
John Denver
Poems, Prayers & Promises
60
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(45)
Oct
Fabrizio De André
Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(44)
Mar
Luis Alberto Spinetta
Spinettalandia y Sus Amigos
74
user score
(43)
Mar 16
James Taylor
Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(40)
Dec 25
José Afonso
Cantigas do Maio
84
user score
(28)
1971
Moondog
Moondog 2
60
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(27)
1971
Tia Blake
Folksongs & Ballads
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(24)
Nov
John Martyn
Bless the Weather
85
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(22)
1971
Exuma
Do Wah Nanny
50
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(22)
Jan 1
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes
Âme debout
81
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(21)
1971
Bridget St. John
Songs for the Gentle Man
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(16)
Nov
Carly Simon
Anticipation
70
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(14)
Oct
The Mamas & The Papas
People Like Us
40
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(14)
1971
Robbie Băsho
Song of the Stallion
60
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(13)
Sep
Spirogyra
St. Radigunds
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(13)
Feb 9
Carly Simon
Carly Simon
70
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(12)
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Feb 19
Paul McCartney
Another Day
91
user score
(12)
1971
The Children of Sunshine
Dandelions
69
user score
(12)
Oct
Melanie
Gather Me
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(11)
1971
Lee Hazlewood
Requiem for an Almost Lady
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(6)
Jun
Masato Minami
回帰線 (The Tropics)
61
user score
(6)
Nov
Olivia Newton-John
If Not for You
80
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(4)
1971
Joakim Skogsberg
Jola Rota
70
user score
(4)
1971
Tucker Zimmerman
Tucker Zimmerman
83
user score
(3)
1971
Jan Dukes De Grey
Mice and Rats in the Loft
82
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(3)
1971
Virgil Caine
Virgil Caine
73
user score
(2)
Dec
Claudio Rocchi
Volo magico n. 1
77
user score
(2)
Feb 5
Comus
Diana / In the Lost Queen's Eyes / Winter Is a Coloured Bird
83
user score
(2)
Nov 17
Orhan Gencebay
Orhan Gencebay
98
user score
(1)
1971
Cris Williamson
Cris Williamson
70
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(1)
Feb 27
Melanie
The Good Book
70
user score
(1)
Aug 16
Rosebud
Rosebud
1971
Jerry Solomon
Past the 20th Century
1971
Azize Gencebay
Severek Ayrılalım / Dönmeyen Yıllar
1971
Catherine Howe
What a Beautiful Place
70
critic score
(1)
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