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Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
January 20, 1975
Critic Score
100
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Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
January 1, 1974
Critic Score
100
5
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3
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Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
June 14, 1970
Critic Score
98
5
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4
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Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
January 26, 1970
Critic Score
97
5
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5
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Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
October 13, 1998
Critic Score
96
5
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6
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Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
December 27, 1967
Critic Score
95
5
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The Band - Music from Big Pink
July 1, 1968
Critic Score
95
5
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8
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Bob Dylan & The Band - The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete
November 4, 2014
Critic Score
93
15
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Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall
March 30, 2004
Critic Score
93
7
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10
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Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
July 5, 2005
Critic Score
92
21
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11
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Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
September 19, 1970
Critic Score
92
5
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12
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Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown
March 9, 2010
Critic Score
92
5
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13
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Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
October 5, 1970
Critic Score
92
6
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14
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Sam Lee & Friends - The Fade In Time
June 16, 2015
Critic Score
92
6
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15
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Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Critic Score
91
18
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16
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Lankum - Between the Earth and Sky
October 27, 2017
Critic Score
90
5
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17
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Critic Score
90
43
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18
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Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
August 29, 2011
Critic Score
89
9
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19
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Bob Dylan - Modern Times
August 29, 2006
Critic Score
89
16
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20
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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Live
April 28, 2017
Critic Score
89
5
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21
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Lankum - The Livelong Day
October 25, 2019
Critic Score
89
6
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22
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Elliott Smith - Either/Or
February 25, 1997
Critic Score
88
6
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23
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Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
March 23, 2004
Critic Score
88
7
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24
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Augie March - Strange Bird
October 14, 2002
Critic Score
88
5
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25
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Joanna Newsom - Divers
October 23, 2015
Critic Score
88
39
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