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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
5 reviews
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2.

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
January 1, 1974
Critic Score
100
5 reviews
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3.

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
June 14, 1970
Critic Score
98
5 reviews
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4.

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
January 26, 1970
Critic Score
97
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.

The Band - Music from Big Pink
July 1, 1968
Critic Score
95
5 reviews
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8.

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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9.

Bob Dylan & The Band - The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete
November 4, 2014
Critic Score
93
14 reviews
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10.

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
September 19, 1970
Critic Score
92
5 reviews
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11.

Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown
March 9, 2010
Critic Score
92
5 reviews
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12.

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
July 5, 2005
Critic Score
92
20 reviews
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13.

Sam Lee & Friends - The Fade In Time
June 16, 2015
Critic Score
92
6 reviews
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14.

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
March 24, 2017
Critic Score
91
18 reviews
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15.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
March 31, 2015
Critic Score
90
42 reviews
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16.

Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
August 29, 2011
Critic Score
89
9 reviews
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17.

Bob Dylan - Modern Times
August 29, 2006
Critic Score
89
16 reviews
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18.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Live
April 28, 2017
Critic Score
89
5 reviews
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19.

Lankum - The Livelong Day
October 25, 2019
Critic Score
89
6 reviews
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20.

Elliott Smith - Either/Or
February 25, 1997
Critic Score
88
6 reviews
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21.

Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
March 23, 2004
Critic Score
88
7 reviews
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22.

Augie March - Strange Bird
October 14, 2002
Critic Score
88
5 reviews
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23.

Joanna Newsom - Divers
October 23, 2015
Critic Score
88
38 reviews
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24.

Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
July 1, 2003
Critic Score
88
8 reviews
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25.

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs
October 7, 2008
Critic Score
88
9 reviews
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