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Most Acclaimed Folk Albums of All Time Beta

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#1 Blue (1971)

Joni Mitchell | 18 lists

#2 Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

Bob Dylan | 17 lists

#3 Blonde on Blonde (1966)

Bob Dylan | 16 lists

#4 Blood on the Tracks (1975)

Bob Dylan | 15 lists

#5 Astral Weeks (1968)

Van Morrison | 15 lists

#6 After the Gold Rush (1970)

Neil Young | 17 lists

#7 Rubber Soul (1965)

The Beatles | 12 lists

#8 Graceland (1986)

Paul Simon | 19 lists

#9 Grace (1994)

Jeff Buckley | 23 lists

#10 Forever Changes (1967)

Love | 12 lists

#11 John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)

John Lennon | 12 lists

#12 The Band (1969)

The Band | 11 lists

#13 Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

Bob Dylan | 10 lists

#14 Murmur (1983)

R.E.M. | 12 lists

#15 Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)

Lucinda Williams | 15 lists

#16 The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)

The Kinks | 11 lists

#17 The Velvet Underground (1969)

The Velvet Underground | 10 lists

#18 Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

Leonard Cohen | 9 lists

#19 Music from Big Pink (1968)

The Band | 8 lists

#20 Illinois (2005)

Sufjan Stevens | 19 lists

#21 Pink Moon (1972)

Nick Drake | 9 lists

#22 Five Leaves Left (1969)

Nick Drake | 9 lists

#23 The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)

Joni Mitchell | 9 lists

#24 Harvest (1972)

Neil Young | 8 lists

#25 Younger Than Yesterday (1967)

The Byrds | 8 lists

#26 The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)

Bob Dylan | 8 lists

#27 Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)

The Byrds | 8 lists

#28 Time Out of Mind (1997)

Bob Dylan | 13 lists

#29 Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019)

Lana Del Rey | 12 lists

#30 Moondance (1970)

Van Morrison | 7 lists

#31 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 8 lists

#32 Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)

Simon & Garfunkel | 7 lists

#33 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)

Neutral Milk Hotel | 13 lists

#34 Let England Shake (2011)

PJ Harvey | 14 lists

#35 Red Headed Stranger (1975)

Willie Nelson | 7 lists

#36 For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)

Bon Iver | 18 lists

#37 Ys (2006)

Joanna Newsom | 14 lists

#38 Songs of Love and Hate (1971)

Leonard Cohen | 7 lists

#39 To Bring You My Love (1995)

PJ Harvey | 10 lists

#40 Court and Spark (1974)

Joni Mitchell | 6 lists

#41 Carrie & Lowell (2015)

Sufjan Stevens | 12 lists

#42 I'm Your Man (1988)

Leonard Cohen | 10 lists

#43 The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)

The Byrds | 6 lists

#44 Hejira (1976)

Joni Mitchell | 5 lists

#45 MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)

Nirvana | 10 lists

#46 American Beauty (1970)

Grateful Dead | 5 lists

#47 John Prine (1971)

John Prine | 5 lists

#48 Déjà Vu (1970)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 5 lists

#49 Bryter Layter (1971)

Nick Drake | 5 lists

#50 Rust Never Sleeps (1979)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 5 lists

#51 I See a Darkness (1999)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy | 8 lists

#52 Sea Change (2002)

Beck | 12 lists

#53 I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974)

Richard and Linda Thompson | 6 lists

#54 American Recordings (1994)

Johnny Cash | 8 lists

#55 Tonight's the Night (1975)

Neil Young | 5 lists

#56 Rum Sodomy & the Lash (1985)

The Pogues | 8 lists

#57 The River (1980)

Bruce Springsteen | 6 lists

#58 Fleet Foxes (2008)

Fleet Foxes | 10 lists

#59 Love and Theft (2001)

Bob Dylan | 10 lists

#60 Time (The Revelator) (2001)

Gillian Welch | 9 lists

#61 And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000)

Yo La Tengo | 10 lists

#62 Liege & Lief (1969)

Fairport Convention | 4 lists

#63 You Want It Darker (2016)

Leonard Cohen | 8 lists

#64 Solid Air (1973)

John Martyn | 4 lists

#65 Heartbreaker (2000)

Ryan Adams | 10 lists

#66 Bookends (1968)

Simon & Garfunkel | 5 lists

#67 Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)

Crosby, Stills & Nash | 4 lists

#68 Every Picture Tells a Story (1971)

Rod Stewart | 4 lists

#69 John Wesley Harding (1967)

Bob Dylan | 4 lists

#70 Clube da Esquina (1972)

Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges | 3 lists

#71 All Things Must Pass (1970)

George Harrison | 5 lists

#72 I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990)

Sinéad O'Connor | 8 lists

#73 I Love You, Honeybear (2015)

Father John Misty | 10 lists

#74 Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)

The Byrds | 4 lists

#75 Paul Simon (1972)

Paul Simon | 4 lists

#76 Happy Sad (1969)

Tim Buckley | 4 lists

#77 No Other (1974)

Gene Clark | 4 lists

#78 Tracy Chapman (1988)

Tracy Chapman | 6 lists

#79 Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)

Buffalo Springfield | 3 lists

#80 The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1968)

The Incredible String Band | 3 lists

#81 Veckatimest (2009)

Grizzly Bear | 8 lists

#82 Tea for the Tillerman (1970)

Cat Stevens | 3 lists

#83 Sweet Baby James (1970)

James Taylor | 3 lists

#84 Bon Iver (2011)

Bon Iver | 8 lists

#85 The Rising (2002)

Bruce Springsteen | 7 lists

#86 If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971)

David Crosby | 3 lists

#87 Live/Dead (1969)

Grateful Dead | 4 lists

#88 Miss America (1988)

Mary Margaret O'Hara | 4 lists

#89 Led Zeppelin III (1970)

Led Zeppelin | 3 lists

#90 New York Tendaberry (1969)

Laura Nyro | 3 lists

#91 Lucinda Williams (1988)

Lucinda Williams | 5 lists

#92 Modern Times (2006)

Bob Dylan | 5 lists

#93 Clandestino (1998)

Manu Chao | 4 lists

#94 Wildflowers (1994)

Tom Petty | 4 lists

#95 Songs from a Room (1969)

Leonard Cohen | 3 lists

#96 The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

Joanna Newsom | 6 lists

#97 Gold (2001)

Ryan Adams | 6 lists

#98 If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966)

The Mamas & the Papas | 2 lists

#99 Townes Van Zandt (1969)

Townes Van Zandt | 3 lists

#100 Desire (1976)

Bob Dylan | 2 lists

#11

Joni Mitchell

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Pop Rock

18 lists

Blue 1971

#14

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock

17 lists

Highway 61 Revisited 1965

#17

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock

16 lists

Blonde on Blonde 1966

#19

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

15 lists

Blood on the Tracks 1975

#31

Van Morrison

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

15 lists

Astral Weeks 1968

#40

Neil Young

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock / Rock & Roll

17 lists

After the Gold Rush 1970

#51

The Beatles

Rock / Pop / Folk / Beat Music / Folk Rock

12 lists

Rubber Soul 1965

#57

Paul Simon

Rock / Pop / R&B / Funk / Folk / World / African / Afrobeat / Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Rhythm & Blues

19 lists

Graceland 1986

#63

Jeff Buckley

Rock / Folk / Alternative Rock / Folk Rock

23 lists

Grace 1994

#10

#64

Love

Rock / Pop / Folk / Baroque Pop / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

12 lists

Forever Changes 1967

#11

#103

John Lennon

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Pop Rock

12 lists

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 1970

#12

#106

The Band

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Roots Rock

11 lists

The Band 1969

#13

#112

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

10 lists

Bringing It All Back Home 1965

#14

#114

R.E.M.

Rock / Folk / Punk / Alternative Rock / Folk Rock / Jangle Pop / Post-Punk

12 lists

Murmur 1983

#15

#120

Lucinda Williams

Rock / Blues / Folk / Country / Rock & Roll

15 lists

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 1998

#16

#122

The Kinks

Rock / Pop / Folk / Baroque Pop / Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Traditional Pop

11 lists

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society 1968

#17

#130

The Velvet Underground

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

10 lists

The Velvet Underground 1969

#18

#136

Leonard Cohen

Folk

9 lists

Songs of Leonard Cohen 1967

#19

#149

The Band

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock / Roots Rock

8 lists

Music from Big Pink 1968

#20

#155

Sufjan Stevens

Rock / Pop / Folk / Baroque Pop / Folk Rock / Indie Folk / Indie Pop

19 lists

Illinois 2005

#21

#156

Nick Drake

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

9 lists

Pink Moon 1972

#22

#164

Nick Drake

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

9 lists

Five Leaves Left 1969

#23

#165

Joni Mitchell

Rock / Pop / Jazz / Folk / Art Pop / Folk Rock / Jazz Fusion

9 lists

The Hissing of Summer Lawns 1975

#24

#167

Neil Young

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

8 lists

Harvest 1972

#25

#171

The Byrds

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

8 lists

Younger Than Yesterday 1967

#26

#188

Bob Dylan

Folk

8 lists

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 1963

#27

#197

The Byrds

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

8 lists

Sweetheart of the Rodeo 1968

#28

#198

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock

13 lists

Time Out of Mind 1997

#29

#201

Lana Del Rey

Rock / Pop / Electronic / Folk / Dream Pop / Folk Rock / Indie Pop / Psychedelic Rock / Soft Rock / Trip Hop

12 lists

Norman Fucking Rockwell! 2019

#30

#203

Van Morrison

Rock / Pop / Soul / R&B / Jazz / Folk / Blue-Eyed Soul / Pop Rock / Rhythm & Blues / Traditional Folk

7 lists

Moondance 1970

#31

#204

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

8 lists

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 1969

#32

#218

Simon & Garfunkel

Rock / Pop / Folk / Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Soft Rock

7 lists

Bridge over Troubled Water 1970

#33

#228

Neutral Milk Hotel

Rock / Folk / Alternative Rock / Indie Folk / Indie Rock

13 lists

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 1998

#34

#229

PJ Harvey

Rock / Pop / Folk / Alternative Rock / Art Pop / Folk Rock / Indie Rock

14 lists

Let England Shake 2011

#35

#230

Willie Nelson

Folk / Country

7 lists

Red Headed Stranger 1975

#36

#241

Bon Iver

Rock / Pop / Folk / Baroque Pop / Folk Rock / Indie Folk

18 lists

For Emma, Forever Ago 2007

#37

#254

Joanna Newsom

Pop / Folk / Baroque Pop / Indie Folk

14 lists

Ys 2006

#38

#269

Leonard Cohen

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

7 lists

Songs of Love and Hate 1971

#39

#276

PJ Harvey

Rock / Folk / Alternative Rock / Folk Rock

10 lists

To Bring You My Love 1995

#40

#291

Joni Mitchell

Rock / Pop / Folk / Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Soft Rock

6 lists

Court and Spark 1974

#41

#293

Sufjan Stevens

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Indie Folk

12 lists

Carrie & Lowell 2015

#42

#295

Leonard Cohen

Rock / Pop / Electronic / Folk / Folk Rock / Synth-pop

10 lists

I'm Your Man 1988

#43

#300

The Byrds

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Psychedelic Rock

6 lists

The Notorious Byrd Brothers 1968

#44

#301

Joni Mitchell

Rock / Jazz / Folk / Folk Rock / Smooth Jazz / Soft Rock

5 lists

Hejira 1976

#45

#308

Nirvana

Rock / Folk / Alternative Rock / Folk Rock / Grunge

10 lists

MTV Unplugged in New York 1994

#46

#332

Grateful Dead

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

5 lists

American Beauty 1970

#47

#338

John Prine

Folk / Country / Traditional Folk

5 lists

John Prine 1971

#48

#341

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock / Traditional Folk

5 lists

Déjà Vu 1970

#49

#350

Nick Drake

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Traditional Folk

5 lists

Bryter Layter 1971

#50

#354

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Hard Rock

5 lists

Rust Never Sleeps 1979

#51

#361

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Rock / Folk / Country / Alternative Rock / Country Rock / Indie Folk / Indie Rock

8 lists

I See a Darkness 1999

#52

#366

Beck

Rock / Folk / Alternative Rock / Folk Rock

12 lists

Sea Change 2002

#53

#368

Richard and Linda Thompson

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

6 lists

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 1974

#54

#380

Johnny Cash

Soul / Folk / Country / Gospel

8 lists

American Recordings 1994

#55

#385

Neil Young

Rock / Folk / Country / Blues Rock / Country Rock / Folk Rock

5 lists

Tonight's the Night 1975

#56

#386

The Pogues

Rock / Folk / Punk / Folk Rock / Traditional Folk

8 lists

Rum Sodomy & the Lash 1985

#57

#391

Bruce Springsteen

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Rock & Roll / Roots Rock

6 lists

The River 1980

#58

#413

Fleet Foxes

Rock / Pop / Folk / Country / Baroque Pop / Folk Rock / Indie Folk / Indie Rock

10 lists

Fleet Foxes 2008

#59

#415

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock

10 lists

Love and Theft 2001

#60

#419

Gillian Welch

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

9 lists

Time (The Revelator) 2001

#61

#420

Yo La Tengo

Rock / Electronic / Folk / Folk Rock / Indie Rock

10 lists

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out 2000

#62

#432

Fairport Convention

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

4 lists

Liege & Lief 1969

#63

#434

Leonard Cohen

Rock / Pop / Folk / Art Pop / Folk Rock

8 lists

You Want It Darker 2016

#64

#442

John Martyn

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Traditional Folk

4 lists

Solid Air 1973

#65

#456

Ryan Adams

Rock / Folk / Country / Alternative Rock / Country Rock / Folk Rock

10 lists

Heartbreaker 2000

#66

#459

Simon & Garfunkel

Rock / Pop / Folk / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

5 lists

Bookends 1968

#67

#469

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Pop Rock

4 lists

Crosby, Stills & Nash 1969

#68

#472

Rod Stewart

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock

4 lists

Every Picture Tells a Story 1971

#69

#477

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

4 lists

John Wesley Harding 1967

#70

#487

Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges

Rock / Folk / World / Brazilian / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

3 lists

Clube da Esquina 1972

#71

#500

George Harrison

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Pop Rock

5 lists

All Things Must Pass 1970

#72

#502

Sinéad O'Connor

Rock / Folk / Alternative Rock / Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Traditional Folk

8 lists

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 1990

#73

#506

Father John Misty

Rock / Pop / Folk / Baroque Pop / Folk Rock / Indie Folk / Indie Rock / Soft Rock

10 lists

I Love You, Honeybear 2015

#74

#523

The Byrds

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Garage Rock / Pop Rock

4 lists

Mr. Tambourine Man 1965

#75

#532

Paul Simon

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Pop Rock

4 lists

Paul Simon 1972

#76

#534

Tim Buckley

Rock / Jazz / Folk / Folk Rock / Jazz Fusion / Psychedelic Folk

4 lists

Happy Sad 1969

#77

#548

Gene Clark

Rock / Pop / Folk / Country / Baroque Pop / Country Rock / Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Psychedelic Rock

4 lists

No Other 1974

#78

#553

Tracy Chapman

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

6 lists

Tracy Chapman 1988

#79

#555

Buffalo Springfield

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

3 lists

Buffalo Springfield Again 1967

#80

#560

The Incredible String Band

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Folk / Psychedelic Rock

3 lists

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter 1968

#81

#593

Grizzly Bear

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Indie Folk / Indie Rock

8 lists

Veckatimest 2009

#82

#600

Cat Stevens

Rock / Pop / Folk / Folk Rock / Pop Rock

3 lists

Tea for the Tillerman 1970

#83

#610

James Taylor

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Soft Rock / Traditional Folk

3 lists

Sweet Baby James 1970

#84

#611

Bon Iver

Rock / Pop / Folk / Baroque Pop / Folk Rock / Indie Folk / Indie Rock

8 lists

Bon Iver 2011

#85

#612

Bruce Springsteen

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Roots Rock

7 lists

The Rising 2002

#86

#613

David Crosby

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Folk / Psychedelic Rock

3 lists

If I Could Only Remember My Name 1971

#87

#640

Grateful Dead

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

4 lists

Live/Dead 1969

#88

#654

Mary Margaret O'Hara

Rock / Folk / Alternative Rock / Dream Pop

4 lists

Miss America 1988

#89

#661

Led Zeppelin

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock / Hard Rock / Psychedelic Rock

3 lists

Led Zeppelin III 1970

#90

#677

Laura Nyro

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

3 lists

New York Tendaberry 1969

#91

#682

Lucinda Williams

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

5 lists

Lucinda Williams 1988

#92

#694

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock

5 lists

Modern Times 2006

#93

#713

Manu Chao

Pop / Folk / World / Latin

4 lists

Clandestino 1998

#94

#720

Tom Petty

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock / Roots Rock

4 lists

Wildflowers 1994

#95

#731

Leonard Cohen

Rock / Folk / Country / Folk Rock

3 lists

Songs from a Room 1969

#96

#737

Joanna Newsom

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Indie Folk

6 lists

The Milk-Eyed Mender 2004

#97

#762

Ryan Adams

Rock / Folk / Country / Alternative Rock / Country Rock / Folk Rock

6 lists

Gold 2001

#98

#765

The Mamas & the Papas

Rock / Pop / Folk / Baroque Pop / Folk Rock / Pop Rock

2 lists

If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears 1966

#99

#769

Townes Van Zandt

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

3 lists

Townes Van Zandt 1969

#100

#774

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

2 lists

Desire 1976

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