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The Best Folk Albums of All Time

Decade
Source
Genre

1.

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
January 20, 1975
Critic Score
100
6 reviews
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2.

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
January 17, 1974
Critic Score
100
5 reviews
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3.

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
July 3, 1969
Critic Score
99
5 reviews
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4.

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
June 14, 1970
Critic Score
98
5 reviews
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5.

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The
October 13, 1998
Critic Score
96
5 reviews
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6.

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
December 27, 1967
Critic Score
95
5 reviews
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7.

Nick Drake - Pink Moon
February 25, 1972
Critic Score
95
6 reviews
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8.

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966
November 6, 2015
Critic Score
94
13 reviews
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9.

David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
February 22, 1971
Critic Score
94
5 reviews
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10.

Bob Dylan & The Band - The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete
November 4, 2014
Critic Score
93
15 reviews
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11.

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall
March 30, 2004
Critic Score
93
7 reviews
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12.

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
July 5, 2005
Critic Score
93
22 reviews
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13.

Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown
March 9, 2010
Critic Score
92
5 reviews
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14.

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
September 19, 1970
Critic Score
92
5 reviews
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15.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Critic Score
91
45 reviews
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16.

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Critic Score
91
18 reviews
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17.

The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
September 7, 1999
Critic Score
91
10 reviews
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iTunes
Music
Spotify

18.

Lankum - The Livelong Day
October 25, 2019
Critic Score
90
7 reviews
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19.

Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
January 1, 1970
Critic Score
89
5 reviews
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20.

Sam Lee & Friends - The Fade In Time
June 16, 2015
Critic Score
89
8 reviews
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21.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Live
April 28, 2017
Critic Score
89
5 reviews
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22.

Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
August 29, 2011
Critic Score
89
10 reviews
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23.

Elliott Smith - Either/Or
February 25, 1997
Critic Score
88
6 reviews
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24.

Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
March 23, 2004
Critic Score
88
7 reviews
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25.

Joanna Newsom - Divers
October 23, 2015
Critic Score
88
40 reviews
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