The 40 ESSENTIAL FOLK MUSIC Albums

Описание: Which are the ESSENTIAL FOLK MUSIC ALBUMS you need to own? What Folk albums are the minimum before building on your collection? Mmmm tough one to answer, there are so many excellent & amazing Great Folk Albums. Here is my list of the BEST FOLK MUSIC ALBUMS to own. Understand this is a very subjective issue & everyone has their valid opinions. These 40 albums are suggesting building blocks to your Record collection (especially for beginners) which will be built on by other older & newer artists-records as they get discovered or appear to your likes. Said in a different manner, this is MY choice of the essential FOLK MUSIC Records that you NEED TO OWN, listened to & have within any serious Folk Music Record collection… They are just 40 names restricted in number for discipline sake and in NO particular order of ranking.

Realize perfectly well that there are other great Folk Music Albums missing, but had to chose only 40 for this list...Based criteria on factors like Innovation, Impact, Historic tradition, Sales, Different Genres & Durability over time of each album. The debate is naturally opened & welcomed :O)
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Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century, but is often applied to music older than that. Some types of folk music are also called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles (source Wiki)
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FULL VIDEO LIST OF THE ESSENTIAL FOLK MUSIC ALBUMS (in NO particular order of priority):

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a Changin
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Fairport Convention – Liege and Leif
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Pete Seeger - Essential Pete Seeger
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on Gravel Road
John Prine - John Prine
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
The Almanac Singers - Songs of Protest
The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, its Morning
John Fogerty - Wrote a Song for Everyone
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
Alison Krauss and Union Station - Live
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Band - Music from Big Pink
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Bill Monroe - Blue Grass 1950-1958
Steve Earle - Guitar Town
Wilco - Being There
Phil Ochs - I Ain’t Marching Anymore
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Buffalo Springfield - Again

Audio: courtesy of RYAN ADAMS (feat Emmylou Harris) - “Oh, My Sweet Carolina”

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