Folklore (Taylor Swift album)
Taylor Swift
July 24, 2020Best Folk Albums
Explore Folk albums, classic releases, hidden gems and influential records. This page helps music lovers discover albums connected by genre, sound and musical history.
Tracy Chapman (album)
Tracy Chapman
April 5, 1988
Rubber Soul
The Beatles
December 3, 1965
Collection
Tracy Chapman
October 30, 2001
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
February 28, 1966
Greatest Hits
Tracy Chapman
November 20, 2015
David Bowie (1969 album)
David Bowie
November 14, 1969
Bridge over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
January 26, 1970
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
April 3, 1968
The Essential Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
October 22, 2002
Golden Hits
The Turtles
October 25, 1967
Homecoming
America
November 15, 1972
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
August 30, 1965
New Beginning
Tracy Chapman
November 14, 1995
Greatest Hits (Cat Stevens album)
Cat Stevens
June 20, 1975
Sunshine on Leith
The Proclaimers
September 12, 1988
For Emma, Forever Ago
Bon Iver
July 8, 2007
Amplified Heart
Everything But The Girl
June 13, 1994
The Very Best of Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens
January 22, 1990
America
America
January 1, 1972
Sounds of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel
January 17, 1966
The Best of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
January 1, 1975
You Don't Mess Around with Jim
Jim Croce
April 10, 1972
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
December 27, 1967
You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
October 21, 2016
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan
April 24, 1965
Teaser and the Firecat
Cat Stevens
October 1, 1971
Crossroads
Tracy Chapman
October 3, 1989
After the Gold Rush
Neil Young
September 19, 1970
Holiday
America
June 26, 1974
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young with Crazy Horse
June 22, 1979
Buffalo Springfield (compilation album)
Buffalo Springfield
November 12, 1973
Cucumber Castle
Bee Gees
April 5, 1970
The Future
Leonard Cohen
November 24, 1992
Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan
June 20, 1966
Cantora, un Viaje Íntimo
Mercedes Sosa
March 30, 2009
22, A Million
Bon Iver
September 30, 2016
Live in Dublin
Leonard Cohen
December 2, 2014
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
May 27, 1963
Colour the Small One
Sia
January 19, 2004
Matters of the Heart (Tracy Chapman album)
Tracy Chapman
April 28, 1992
The Papas & The Mamas
The Mamas & The Papas
May 14, 1968
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Simon & Garfunkel
October 19, 1964
Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live
Jim Croce
January 31, 2006
Desire
Bob Dylan
January 5, 1976
Cold Fact
Sixto Rodriguez
March 9, 1970
I Got a Name
Jim Croce
December 1, 1973
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
October 24, 1966
Morning Phase
Beck
February 21, 2014
Thanks for the Dance
Leonard Cohen
November 22, 2019
Blue
Joni Mitchell
June 22, 1971
Both Sides Now
Joni Mitchell
February 8, 2000
Life and Times
Jim Croce
January 4, 1973
Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake
July 3, 1969
Tea for the Tillerman 2
Yusuf / Cat Stevens
September 18, 2020
Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
November 23, 1970
Sea Change
Beck
September 24, 2002
Different Pulses
Asaf Avidan
January 28, 2013
Way to Blue
Nick Drake
May 31, 1994
Sean-Nós Nua
Sinéad O'Connor
October 8, 2002
Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
February 1, 1967
Déjà Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
March 11, 1970
Déjà Vu (album)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
March 11, 1970
Blood Bank (EP)
Bon Iver
January 20, 2009
Fruit Tree (box set)
Nick Drake
March 9, 1979
The Times They Are a-Changin'
Bob Dylan
February 10, 1964
Coming from Reality
Sixto Rodriguez
November 11, 1971
Hearts
America
March 19, 1975
Voyage
David Crosby
November 21, 2006
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
October 30, 1967
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
November 1, 1970
Songs from the Wood
Jethro Tull
February 11, 1977
Buffalo Springfield (album)
Buffalo Springfield
November 5, 1966
John Wesley Harding
Bob Dylan
December 27, 1967
Forever Changes
Love
November 1, 1967
Crosby, Stills & Nash (album)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album
May 29, 1969
Ladies of the Canyon
Joni Mitchell
April 14, 1970
Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
February 1, 1970
Both Sides of the Gun
Ben Harper
March 21, 2006
Where You Live
Tracy Chapman
September 13, 2005
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Big Thief
February 11, 2022
Hejira (album)
Joni Mitchell
November 21, 1976
Hejira
Joni Mitchell
November 21, 1976
Do You Believe in Magic
The Lovin' Spoonful
October 23, 1965
Clouds
Joni Mitchell
May 1, 1969
Songs from a Room
Leonard Cohen
April 7, 1969
Bob Dylan (album)
Bob Dylan
March 19, 1962
Catch Bull at Four
Cat Stevens
September 27, 1972
Mr. Tambourine Man (album)
The Byrds
June 21, 1965
Chelsea Girl
Nico
October 27, 1967
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Leonard Cohen
August 30, 1974
The Lovin' Spoonful Anthology
The Lovin' Spoonful
January 23, 1990
Gold Shadow
Asaf Avidan
January 12, 2015
Time in a Bottle: Jim Croce's Greatest Love Songs
Jim Croce
December 29, 1976
Universal Mother
Sinéad O'Connor
September 13, 1994
MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
Lauryn Hill
May 7, 2002
If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
February 22, 1971
Either/Or
Elliott Smith
February 25, 1997
Turn! Turn! Turn!
The Byrds
December 6, 1965
Heavy Horses
Jethro Tull
April 10, 1978
Our Bright Future
Tracy Chapman
November 11, 2008
Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison
Harmonium
April 15, 1975
Reckoning (Grateful Dead album)
Grateful Dead
April 1, 1981
Merrie Land
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
November 16, 2018
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
August 8, 1964
Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful
The Lovin' Spoonful
November 9, 1966
Fairport Live Convention
Fairport Convention
July 14, 1974
Let It Rain
Tracy Chapman
October 15, 2002
Down Colorful Hill
Red House Painters
September 14, 1992
For the Roses
Joni Mitchell
November 7, 1972
White Chalk
PJ Harvey
September 24, 2007
Fifth Dimension (album)
The Byrds
July 18, 1966
The Vegetarians of Love
Bob Geldof
July 23, 1990
Song to a Seagull
Joni Mitchell
March 23, 1968
Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan
January 20, 1975
Traffic (Traffic album)
Traffic
September 20, 1968
Rewind the Film
Manic Street Preachers
September 16, 2013
Wild Tales (album)
Graham Nash
January 2, 1974
The Laughing Apple
Cat Stevens
September 15, 2017
U.F.O.F.
Big Thief
May 3, 2019
Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith
July 21, 1995
Mona Bone Jakon
Cat Stevens
April 24, 1970
Modern Times
Bob Dylan
August 29, 2006
The Essential Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
October 31, 2000
Last Time Around
Buffalo Springfield
July 30, 1968
Harmonium
Harmonium
February 20, 1974
The Lovin' Spoonful Greatest Hits
The Lovin' Spoonful
February 22, 2000
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
February 25, 1972
Buffalo Springfield (box set)
Buffalo Springfield
July 17, 2001
Admiral Fell Promises
Sun Kil Moon
July 13, 2010
Big Red Machine (album)
Big Red Machine
August 31, 2018
Ghosts of the Great Highway
Sun Kil Moon
November 4, 2003
Searching for Sugar Man (soundtrack)
Sixto Rodriguez
July 24, 2012
Band of Joy
Robert Plant and Band of Joy
September 13, 2010
Roman Candle
Elliott Smith
July 14, 1994
Made to Love Magic
Nick Drake
May 24, 2004
Songs for a Blue Guitar
Red House Painters
July 22, 1996
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
March 5, 1971
Folklore
16 Horsepower
June 17, 2002
Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
James Taylor
April 11, 1971
Songs for Beginners
Graham Nash
May 28, 1971
Time of No Reply
Nick Drake
March 20, 1987
Out of Season
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man
October 28, 2002
Daydream
The Lovin' Spoonful
March 9, 1966
Angry Cyclist
The Proclaimers
August 10, 2018
Ballad of the Broken Seas
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
March 7, 2006
Looking Forward
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
October 26, 1999
Happy Sad (album)
Tim Buckley
April 24, 1969
Emblems: The Menstrual Years
Current 93
March 24, 2011
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
January 2, 1970
Foreverly
Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones
November 25, 2013
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Joni Mitchell
December 13, 1977
Benji
Sun Kil Moon
February 11, 2014
Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man
March 29, 2019
This Is the Story
The Proclaimers
April 27, 1987
April
Sun Kil Moon
April 1, 2008
People Like Us
The Mamas & The Papas
November 14, 1971
Recent Songs
Leonard Cohen
September 27, 1979
Bloodline Maintenance
Ben Harper
July 22, 2022
Lovers in the City
Tanita Tikaram
February 13, 1995
Al Despertar
Mercedes Sosa
December 14, 1998
You're a Big Boy Now
The Lovin' Spoonful
March 29, 1967
Tempest
Bob Dylan
September 10, 2012
Poguetry in Motion
The Pogues
February 24, 1986
Stormcock (album)
Roy Harper
May 24, 1971
James Taylor
James Taylor
December 6, 1968
Barrett
Syd Barrett
November 14, 1970
Self Portrait (Bob Dylan album)
Bob Dylan
June 8, 1970
Blows Against the Empire
Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship
October 31, 1970
Mutations
Beck
November 3, 1998
Love
Love
March 3, 1966
Hideaway
America
April 9, 1976
One Foot in the Grave
Beck
June 27, 1994
More of the Hard Stuff
The Dubliners
February 21, 1967
Family Tree (Nick Drake album)
Nick Drake
July 9, 2007
An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
Rod Stewart
November 14, 1969
Tiny Cities
Sun Kil Moon
November 1, 2005
Harbor
America
March 17, 1977
Everything Playing
The Lovin' Spoonful
December 6, 1967
A Drop of the Hard Stuff
The Dubliners
March 22, 1967
Live at the Troubadour
Carole King and James Taylor
May 4, 2010
Absolute Zero (Bruce Hornsby album)
Bruce Hornsby
April 12, 2019
Room to Roam
The Waterboys
September 17, 1990
At Home with The Dubliners
The Dubliners
December 22, 1969
Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention
July 3, 1969
Everybody's Angel
Tanita Tikaram
February 4, 1991
Number 5
Steve Miller
July 17, 1970
Blue Afternoon
Tim Buckley
November 24, 1969
HQ (album)
Roy Harper
June 27, 1975
Flat Baroque and Berserk
Roy Harper
June 15, 1970
It Ain't Me Babe
The Turtles
October 28, 1965
Songs from the Road
Leonard Cohen
September 14, 2010
Fairport Convention (album)
Fairport Convention
June 13, 1968
Winter Is for Lovers
Ben Harper
October 23, 2020
T. Rex (album)
T. Rex
December 18, 1970
Oar (album)
Alexander Spence
May 19, 1969
Dream Letter: Live in London 1968
Tim Buckley
May 25, 1990
Orange
Al Stewart
January 1, 1972
The Burning World
Swans
December 19, 1989
Ocean Beach (album)
Red House Painters
March 27, 1995
Lorca (album)
Tim Buckley
June 14, 1970
Stormwatch
Jethro Tull
September 14, 1979
Lighthouse
David Crosby
October 21, 2016
Now
Graham Nash
May 19, 2023
La voz de la zafra
Mercedes Sosa
December 21, 1962
Grave New World
Strawbs
February 13, 1972
Red House Painters (Bridge)
Red House Painters
October 18, 1993
Nested
Laura Nyro
June 18, 1978
Town and Country (album)
Humble Pie
November 18, 1969
You Baby
The Turtles
April 18, 1966
Among the Leaves
Sun Kil Moon
May 29, 2012
Jim & Ingrid Croce
Jim Croce and Ingrid Croce
September 19, 1969
Facets
Jim Croce
March 23, 1966
A Beard of Stars
T. Rex
March 13, 1970
Jim Croce Live: The Final Tour
Jim Croce
December 25, 1989
Sentimental (Tanita Tikaram album)
Tanita Tikaram
April 12, 2005
Thin Lizzy (album)
Thin Lizzy
April 30, 1971
Stereopathetic Soulmanure
Beck
February 22, 1994
Zero She Flies
Al Stewart
April 11, 1970
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
February 14, 2011
This Is My Dinner
Sun Kil Moon
November 1, 2018
Tim Buckley
Tim Buckley
October 14, 1966
My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair...
T. Rex
July 5, 1968
I Also Want to Die in New Orleans
Sun Kil Moon
March 1, 2019
Shades of a Blue Orphanage
Thin Lizzy
March 10, 1972
Bed-Sitter Images
Al Stewart
October 6, 1967
Between the Wars (Al Stewart album)
Al Stewart
May 8, 1995
What We Did on Our Holidays
Fairport Convention
December 23, 1968
Bullinamingvase
Roy Harper
February 11, 1977
This Path Tonight
Graham Nash
April 15, 2016
Golden Feelings
Beck
December 17, 1993
Sparks of Ancient Light
Al Stewart
September 15, 2008
It
Pulp
April 18, 1983
Sophisticated Beggar
Roy Harper
December 24, 1966
English Rebel Songs
Chumbawamba
July 8, 2003
Live at Montreux
The Dubliners
January 20, 1977
Prophets, Seers & Sages: The Angels of the Ages
Tyrannosaurus Rex
November 1, 1968
Folkjokeopus
Roy Harper
June 5, 1969
A Singsong and a Scrap
Chumbawamba
October 11, 2005
Strawbs (album)
Strawbs
May 23, 1969
A Beach Full of Shells
Al Stewart
June 21, 2005
Love of Life
Swans
February 5, 1992
Universal Hall
The Waterboys
June 9, 2003
Down in the Cellar
Al Stewart
October 17, 2000
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
The Lovin' Spoonful
August 9, 1966
Quiet Beach House Nights
Sun Kil Moon
January 16, 2023
Valentine
Roy Harper
February 14, 1974
Famous Last Words (Al Stewart album)
Al Stewart
September 21, 1993
Lifemask
Roy Harper
February 24, 1973
Lunch in the Park
Sun Kil Moon
February 24, 2021
Angel Delight (album)
Fairport Convention
June 5, 1971
The Boy Bands Have Won
Chumbawamba
March 3, 2008
If a City Is Set Upon a Hill
Current 93
March 11, 2022
Universal Themes
Sun Kil Moon
June 2, 2015
Live (The Dubliners album)
The Dubliners
April 23, 1974
Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith
Roy Harper
January 14, 1968
The Dubliners (album)
The Dubliners
May 25, 1964
Sandy Denny and the Strawbs
Sandy Denny and the Strawbs
July 14, 1991
All Our Own Work
Sandy Denny and the Strawbs
July 24, 1973
Dragonfly
Strawbs
February 21, 1970
Retrospective (Red House Painters album)
Red House Painters
July 19, 1999
Man and Myth
Roy Harper
September 23, 2013
Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
Sun Kil Moon
February 17, 2017
Judas as Black Moth
Current 93
August 31, 2004
Unicorn (Tyrannosaurus Rex album)
T. Rex
May 16, 1969
ABCDEFG
Chumbawamba
March 1, 2010
The History of Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
December 30, 1972
Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
Jefferson Airplane
August 15, 1966
Love Chronicles
Al Stewart
September 11, 1969
The Beginning of the Enz
Split Enz
November 16, 1979
Born in Captivity
Roy Harper
April 15, 1984
Tipplers Tales
Fairport Convention
May 6, 1978
Live at the L.A. Troubadour
Fairport Convention
June 16, 1986
20 Granite Creek
Moby Grape
September 26, 1971
Welcome to Sparks, Nevada
Sun Kil Moon
November 26, 2020
Boz
Boz Scaggs
February 4, 1966
Baalstorm, Sing Omega
Current 93
August 31, 2021
In Menstrual Night
Current 93
January 14, 2014
Heyday
Fairport Convention
July 31, 1987
Swingin' with Raymond
Chumbawamba
October 23, 1995
The Bonny Bunch of Roses (album)
Fairport Convention
July 7, 1977
Looney Runes
Current 93
September 25, 2015
Birdsong in The Empire
Current 93
November 16, 2013
Worried Men in Second-Hand Suits
Frank Tovey
October 19, 1992
The Broken Hearted Bride
Strawbs
September 25, 2008
Grand Union
Frank Tovey
May 13, 1991
Strawbs by Choice
Strawbs
August 31, 1974
Tiger Bay
Saint Etienne
February 28, 1994
Cats Drunk on Copper
Current 93
February 23, 2014
Strawberry Sampler Number 1
Strawbs
December 23, 2001
Blue Angel
Strawbs
July 23, 2003
Farewell, Farewell
Fairport Convention
September 4, 1979
Déjà Fou
Strawbs
August 30, 2004
How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon
Current 93
January 25, 2019
All Dolled Up Like Christ
Current 93
February 3, 2014
Baroque & Roll
Strawbs
October 23, 2001
Ancient & Modern 1911–2011
The Mekons
September 27, 2011
A Little Menstrual Night Music
Current 93
November 27, 2013
Full House
Fairport Convention
July 10, 1970
Beach Boys' Party!
The Beach Boys
November 8, 1965
Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God
Current 93
January 11, 2014
Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega
April 22, 2003
Violent Femmes (album)
Violent Femmes
April 13, 1983
This Is All Yours
Alt-J
September 22, 2014
Paul Simon (album)
Paul Simon
January 24, 1972
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
September 30, 1982
Harvest
Neil Young
February 15, 1972
On the Beach (Neil Young album)
Neil Young
July 19, 1974
The Velvet Underground (album)
The Velvet Underground
March 27, 1969
Closing Time
Tom Waits
March 6, 1973
World Record
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
November 18, 2022
The Heart of Saturday Night
Tom Waits
October 15, 1974
The Zealot Gene
Jethro Tull
January 28, 2022
Neil Young
Neil Young
November 12, 1968
Songs in Red and Gray
Suzanne Vega
September 25, 2001
Suzanne Vega (album)
Suzanne Vega
May 1, 1985
Days of Open Hand
Suzanne Vega
April 10, 1990
Nine Objects of Desire
Suzanne Vega
September 10, 1996
Beauty & Crime
Suzanne Vega
July 17, 2007
Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers
Suzanne Vega
October 14, 2016
Jehovahkill
Julian Cope
October 19, 1992
Ride the Tiger
Yo La Tengo
January 4, 1986
Self Civil War
Julian Cope
January 10, 2020
The Paul Simon Songbook
Paul Simon
August 2, 1965
Wide Open Light
Ben Harper
June 2, 2023
The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion
Current 93
January 24, 2014
Lucifer Over London
Current 93
January 17, 2014
Birth Canal Blues
Current 93
December 2, 2013
Haunted Waves, Moving Graves
Current 93
May 28, 2010
Black Ships Heat the Dancefloor
Current 93
December 24, 2008
The Great in the Small
Current 93
December 28, 2001
Burn the World
Roy Harper
December 14, 1990
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3
Traveling Wilburys
October 29, 1990
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
Traveling Wilburys
October 18, 1988
Songs of Love and Hate
Leonard Cohen
March 19, 1971
Truly Fine Citizen
Moby Grape
July 30, 1969
In Concert (The Dubliners album)
The Dubliners
July 27, 1965