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Folk music’s been around forever but made its biggest splash during the 1960s and 1970s. It’s way different from anything you hear pop music-wise these days because music now has a lot of techno-gadgetry thrown in the mix and folk music is all about the voice and the lyrics with minimal instrument accompaniment. This list shows some of the most talented and influential performers of the music from today and yesterday. The photo is of the Carolina Chocolate Drops who aren't on this particular list but who are making a name for themselves as modern folk musicians.

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Rank   Name Genre(s) Career Began Albums Nationality
  1. 1
    Folk music, Jazz, Country blues, Blues, Jazz blues, Spiritual
    Odetta, To Ella, Odetta Sings, Odetta at Carnegie Hall, Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads, Odetta, Livin' With the Blues, Absolutely the Best, The Tradition Masters, Odetta Sings the Blues, Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin', At Town Hall, Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, Lookin' For a Home, Movin' It On, Vanguard Visionaries, Absolutely the Best, Odetta at the Best of Harlem, Christmas Spirituals, Odetta and The Blues, Gonna Let It Shine, My Eyes Have Seen, One Grain of Sand, The Tin Angel, At the Gate of Horn, It's a Mighty World, The Essential Odetta, Odetta in Japan, Women in (E)motion, Odetta At Town Hall, Blues Everywhere I Go, The Best of Odetta, Odetta Sings Dylan, The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues, Odetta Sings of Many Things, Best of the Vanguard Years, Best of the M.C. Records Years 1999-2005, Odetta, Blues Everywhere I Go, Sings Ballads and Blues, Odetta, Looking For a Home, The Best of the Vanguard Years, Odetta Sings Folk Songs More
    United States of America
    One of the most powerful voices and inspiring talents in the history of folk music.
  2. 2
    Folk music, Blues
    Outlasting the Blues, Alice's Restaurant, Alice's Restaurant, Baby's Storytime, Arlo Guthrie, The Best of Arlo Guthrie, BanjoMan - a tribute to Derroll Adams, Live in Sydney, Washington County, Arlo, Mystic Journey, Running Down the Road, Precious Friend, In times like these (with th Oniversity of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra), Alice's Restaurant, Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys, Son of the Wind, Power of Love, One Night, All Over the World, Hobo's Lullaby, 2 Songs , This Land Is Your Land: An All American Children's Folk Classic , Alice's Restaurant - The Massacree Revisited, Amigo, Someday, Washington County, 32¢ Postage Due, Tales Of '69 More
    United States of America
    A folk music trailblazer.
  3. 3
    Folk music, Rock music, Folk rock, Rhythm and blues, Alternative country, Country, Country rock, Gospel music, Blues More
    Greenwich Village, Hibbing High School
    The Best of Bob Dylan, Volume 1, Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love), Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, Wigwam / Copper Kettle, Most of the Time, Series of Dreams, New Morning, Bob Dylan, Hard Rain, Bob Dylan: The Collection, At Budokan, Real Live, World Gone Wrong, Live at The Gaslight 1962, Land of the Free Home of the Brave, The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 1961-1991, Biograph, The Original Mono Recordings, Blonde on Blonde, Modern Times, Nashville Skyline, Dylan, Blood on the Tracks, Take a Message to Mary / Like a Rolling Stone (live), Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3, The Mystery Tape, Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Man Gave Names to All the Animals, Bob Dylan's American Journey: 1956-1966, Saved, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume III, Subterranean Homesick Blues, The Bootleg Series, Volume 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack, More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits, Planet Waves, The Essential Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Volume 5: Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue, Christmas in the Heart, The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue, Folk Rogue, The Times They Are A-Changin', Desire, "Love and Theft", Not Dark Yet, The Best of Bob Dylan, The Ultimate Collection, Blowin' in the Wind, Time Out of Mind, Empire Burlesque, MTV Unplugged, 2005-10-01: Borgata Casino, Atlantic City, NJ, USA (disc 1), The Lonesome Sparrow Sings, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964, Greatest Hits, Masked and Anonymous (bonus disc: The Reissue Series Sampler), The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 2, Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances, Mixed Up Confusion, Under the Red Sky, From Newport to the Ancient Empty Streets of L.A, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964, The Times They Are a-Changin', Everything Is Broken, The Naked Empire, Gotta Serve Somebody / Gonna Change My Way of Thinking, The Bootleg Series, Volume 4: Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert, Watching the River Flow / Spanish Is the Loving Tongue, The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 1, Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde, Volume 2, Modern Times (bonus DVD), Biograph, Together Through Life, Good as I Been to You, The Third One Now, Ten of Swords, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Outtakes, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Street-Legal, Lovesick, His Greatest Songs, You Don't Know Me, Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2, Live at Carnegie Hall 1963, Oh Mercy, Infidels, Shot of Love, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, The Best of Bob Dylan, Volume 2, In 1966 There Was, The Minnesota Tapes, Dylan, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Great White Wonder, Blues, Hurricane, The Essential Bob Dylan, Zimmerman Looking Back, John Wesley Harding, Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine), In Concert – Brandeis University 1963, Love Sick, Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? / Highway 61 Revisited, If You Gotta Go, Go Now / To Ramona, The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack, The Genuine Bootleg Series Take 2, The Bootleg Series, Volume 6: Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Slow Train Coming, Stealin', All I Really Want to Do, Mr. Tambourine Man, A Night to Remember, The Best of the Original Mono Recordings, Rollin' and Tumblin', \\"Love and Theft\\", Bob Dylan at Budokan, Highway 61 Revisited, Unbelievable, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume I, The Very Best of Bob Dylan, Greatest Hits, The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs, Positively 4th Street, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Blonde on Blonde, The Genuine Bootleg Series, The Best of Bob Dylan, Volume 2, Masterpieces, Knocked Out Loaded, Now Aint The Time for Your Tears, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume II, Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, Dignity, George Jackson, Self Portrait, Little white wonder, Down in the Groove, Playlist: The Very Best of Bob Dylan '60s, Heart of Mine, Bob dylan blues, A Tree with Roots, The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, Hard to Find, A Tree With Roots: The Genuine Basement Tape Remasters, Blues, \tThe Voice of Every Generation, Things Have Changed, Blonde on Blonde, Volume 1, The Bootleg Series, I Threw It All Away More
    United States of America
    Dylan is so iconic as a musician-poet that his body of collected works get nominated every other year for a Nobel Prize.
  4. 4
    Folk rock
    Brooklyn
    The Great Blind Degree, The Classics, Alarm Clock, Wishing Well, Cuts to the Chase, Time, Resume: The Best of Richie Havens, Mixed Bag, Grace of the Sun, Dreaming as One: The a & M Years, Simple Things, Richie Haven Sings Beatles and Dylan, Nobody Left to Crown, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Richie Havens, Something Else Again, Connections, Somethin' Else Again, Stonehenge, Collection, Résume, Richard P. Havens, 1983 More
    United States of America
    This man who rocked Woodstock like nobody's business and still has people talking about it.
  5. 5
    Folk music, Folk rock
    New York City
    Around the Campfire, Carry It On (Disc 4), No Easy Walk to Freedom, Album 1700, Lifelines Live, Oh, Rock My Soul, In These Times, In the Wind, Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too, In the Wind, A Holiday Celebration, The Very Best of Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter, Paul and Mary, Don't Laugh at Me, Reunion, See What Tomorrow Brings, Peter, Paul and Mommy, Platinum Collection, The Very Best of Peter, Paul and Mary, Flowers and Stones, Carry It On (Disc 2), A Song Will Rise, Moving, The Peter, Paul and Mary Album, In Concert, In Concert, LifeLines, Carry It On, Late Again, Songs of Conscience & Concern, "The Prague Sessions", Once Upon The Time, The Solo Recordings (1971–1972), The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary: Ten Years Together, The Best Of, Ten Years Together: The Best of Peter, Paul & Mary More
  6. 6
    Folk music, Rock music, Folk rock, Singer-songwriter, Pop music, Americana, Country, Gospel music, Acoustic music More
    Staten Island
    Gone From Danger, Carry It On, The First Ten Years, The Best of Joan Baez, Ring Them Bells, Live Europe '83: Children of the Eighties, Joan Baez, Vol. 2, Joan Baez/5, Rare, Live & Classic, Rare, Live & Classic, Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring, Live, Joan Baez in Concert, Portrait of Joan Baez, Farewell Angelina, Honest Lullaby, Best of Joan C. Baez, Die Schönsten Lieder, Come from the Shadows, Joan Baez in Italy, Joan, The First Ten Years, Very Early Joan, The Complete A&M Recordings, Day After Tomorrow, From Every Stage, Recently, Greatest Hits, Play Me Backwards, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Gracias A la Vida, David's Album, Baez Sings Dylan, The Joan Baez Ballad Book, Speaking of Dreams, Any Day Now, One Day at a Time, Joan Baez: Classics, Imagine, Joan Baez in San Francisco, TOURNEE EUROPEENNE , Bowery Songs, Diamonds, Joan Baez, Blessed Are..., Gracias A la Vida, The Joan Baez Country Music Album, Satisfied Mind, Classic Joan Baez, Blowin' Away, How Sweet the Sound, No Woman No Cry, Blessed Are..., Hits, The Joan Baez Ballad Book, Volume 2, Brothers in Arms, Greatest Hits, Hits: Greatest and Others, The First 10 Years, Selection of Joan Baez, Noel, From the Heart - Live, Live in Japan, Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2, Live at Newport, Greatest Hits, The Best of the Vanguard Years, El preso numero 9, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Dark Chords on a Big Guitar, Joan Baez AAD La Mejor Musica, Gulf Winds, The Contemporary Ballad Book, The Joan Baez Lovesong Album, We Shall Overcome, Поёт Джоан Баэз, Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time, The Joan Baez Ballad Book, Where Are You Now, My Son?, Diamonds & Rust, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Joan Baez, Le meilleur de Joan Baez 1, Ring Them Bells - Collectors Edition, Best of Joan Baez: The Millennium Collection, The Very Best of Joan Baez, The Joan Baez Ballad Book, Volume 1 More
    United States of America
  7. 7
    Folk rock, Psychedelic rock, Psychedelic pop
    All Time Greatest Hits, Golden Greats, Gold, Midnight Voyage, Creeque Alley: The History of the Mamas and the Papas, Daydream: The Famous Hits Of, Golden Greats, California Dreamin', Greatest Hits, Monday, Monday, The Very Best of The Mamas and Papas, California Dreamin', The Very Best of The Mamas and The Papas, Greatest Hits, Complete Anthology, The Mamas and the Papas, Twelve Thirty, Dream a Little Dream of Me, The Mamas & The Papas lo mejor, I Saw Her Again, 20 Golden Hits, California Dreamin', The Mamas & the Papas, The Singles+, California Dreamin': Live in Concert, The Universal Masters Collection: Classic The Mamas & the Papas, Papas & Mamas, California Dreamin', Go Where You Wanna Go, Monday, Monday, Look Through My Window, Do You Wanna Dance, California Dreamin' / Monday, Monday / Dedicated to the One I Love, Farewell to the First Golden Era, Greatest Hits Live, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Mamas and The Papas, Greatest Hits, Deliver, The Ultimate Collection, Before They Were The Mamas & The Papas... The Magic Circle, For the Love of Ivy, Glad To Be Unhappy, 24 Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits: 18 Great Songs of Peace, The Best of The Mamas & The Papas, The Collection, The Very Best of The Mamas & The Papas, The Hit Singles Collection, Mamas & Papas Live, California Dreamin', If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, California Dreamin', Safe in My Garden, Dancing Bear, 16 Original World Hits, All the Leaves Are Brown: The Golden Era Collection, 36 All-Time Greatest Hits, The Collection, California Dreamin', California Dreamin': The Very Best of The Mamas & The Papas, Dedicated to the One I Love, Creeque Alley, Dancing in the Street, 16 of Their Greatest Hits, Dedicated to the One I Love, Monday, Monday, 16 of Their Greatest Hits (Vinyl Cut), People Like Us, California Dreaming, I Saw Her Again, Step Out, 20 Greatest Hits, Twin Best The Mamas & the Papas, Words of Love / Dancing in the Street, California Dreamin', Golden Era, Volume 2 More
  8. 8
    Folk music, Rock music, Soft rock, Folk rock, Pop music, World music, Pop folk More
    Forest Hills
    The Best Of, The Essential Simon & Garfunkel, Silent Voices, The Hits Collection, Part 1, The Definitive Simon and Garfunkel, Collected Works, Sounds of Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, The Concert in Central Park, 20 Golden Hits, The Hits Collection, Part 2, Sounds of Silence, Super Selection, Old Friends: Live on Stage, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., Tales From New York: The Very Best of Simon & Garfunkel, 20 Greatest Hits, Tales from New York: The Best of Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel, The Columbia Studio Recordings, 21 grandes sucessos, The Graduate, Best Selection, Live From New York City, 1967, Two Can Dream Alone, Die größten Hits, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cecilia / The Only Living Boy in New York, Old Friends, Mrs. Robinson, The Simon and Garfunkel Collection, The Columbia Studio Recordings 1964-1970, Voices of Intelligent Dissent (Live At The Hollywood Bowl, August 23, 1968), Sounds of Silence, Greatest Hits, Bookends, Before the Fame, Live 1969, The Concert in Central Park, Live In Concert, The Essential Simon & Garfunkel, Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits, Simon & Garfunkel Best, The Best of Simon & Garfunkel, Best of, The Boxer, The Hits Collection, Part 3, The Hit Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel, Wednesday Morning, 3AM, Early Simon & Garfunkel, Gold, Bookends, Best, More Great Songs More
  9. 9
    Gospel music, Blues, Spoken word
    Washington, D.C.
    Twenty-Five, In This Land, Good News, Still the Same Me, All for Freedom, Still on the Journey, Breaths, Selections 1976-1988, I Got Shoes, Live At Carnegie Hall, Experience...101, Twenty-Five, Feel Something Drawing Me On, Selections: 1976-1988 More
  10. 10
    Folk music, Rock music, Pop music, Alternative country, Country, Country rock, Bluegrass More
    Singin' With Emmylou, Volume 1, Brand New Dance, Songs of the West, Light of the Stable (The Christmas Album), Duets, Bluebird, Wrecking Ball, Western Wall — The Tucson Sessions, Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems, Pieces of the Sky, Roses in the Snow, Light of the Stable, Luxury Liner, Last Date, Thirteen, Real Live Roadrunning, Angel Band, Red Dirt Girl, The Ballad of Sally Rose, Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris, All I Intended to Be, Cimarron, Gliding Bird, Trail's End, Singin' With Emmylou, Volume 2, Hard Bargain, Elite Hotel, Stumble Into Grace, At the Ryman, Profile: The Best of Emmylou Harris, All the Roadrunning, The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways, Blue Kentucky Girl, Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town, Portraits, White Shoes, Duets, Cowgirl's Prayer, Evangeline, SpyBoy, Anthology, The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways More
    United States of America
  11. 11
    Folk music, Rock music, Folk rock, Pop music, Country
    Orillia
    Summertime Dream, The Best Of, The United Artists Collection, Dream Street Rose, Waiting For You, The Original Lightfoot: The United Artists Years (disc 1), Gord's Gold, Gordon Lightfoot, Classic Masters, 36 All Time Favorites!, Summer Side of Life, Shadows, The Way I Feel, Songbook, Back Here on Earth, The Original Lightfoot, The Very Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Old Dan's Records, Sunday Concert, Over 60 Minutes With ..., A Painter Passing Through, Complete Greatest Hits, Salute, Cold on the Shoulder, East of Midnight, Endless Wire, Gord's Gold, Volume II, The Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Don Quixote, Sit Down Young Stranger, Sundown, Lightfoot!, Did She Mention My Name, Early Morning Rain, Gord's Gold, Vol. 2, Early Morning Rain, Harmony, Did She Mention My Name? / Back Here on Earth, Early Lighfoot / Sunday Concert More
    Canada
    Has the soul of a true folk artist and the voice of a poet in love.
  12. 12
    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin', The Wayfaring Stranger, The Wayfaring Stranger, Walt Disney Presents Burl Ives' Animal Folk, 20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection: The Best of Burl Ives, Christmas at the White House, Songs of the West, Australian Folk Songs, Down to the Sea in Ships, Greatest Hits, Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, Christmas Day in the Morning, Historical America in Song, Scouting Along With Burl Ives, Burl Ives Presents America's Musical Heritage, The Best of Burl Ives, Lavender Blue: Songs of Charm, Humour & Sincerity, Christmas Album, Chim Chim Cheree, Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger, America's Favorite Balladeer, Riders in Sky, Burl Ives Sings... For Fun, A Little Bitty Tear: The Nashville Years 1961-1965, Songs From the Big Rock Candy Mountain, The Times They Are A-Changin', The Versatile Burl Ives!, Burl Ives and the Korean Orphan Choir Sing of Faith and Joy, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Burl Ives, Uforglemmelige Klassikere, America's Folk Singer: Burl Lives, America's Folk Singer, Burl Ives: In Memoriam, Burl Ives Sings Pearly Shells and Other Favorites, Christmas by the Bay, Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck and Other Children's Favorites More
    United States of America
  13. 13
    Folk music, Vocal music, Calypso music
    An Evening With Belafonte / Mouskouri, Belafonte at Carnegie Hall - The Complete Concert (disc 1), The Collection, King of Calypso, Calypso, Jamaica Farewell, Banana Boat Song, Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean, An Evening With Belafonte, Gold, Swing Dat Hammer, In My Quiet Room, Belafonte at The Greek Theatre, Belafonte Sings of Love, Play Me, Turn the World Around, Belafonte...Live!, Belafonte '89, Belafonte: The Best Of, Legendary, How Green Was My Valley / They Didn't Believe Me, Island in the Sun: His Greatest Hits, Midnight Special, All Time Greatest Hits, Volume 2, Pure Gold, Harry Belafonte, To Wish You A Merry Christmas, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, To Wish You a Merry Christmas, Jump Up Calypso, Paradise in Gazankulu, The Twelve Days of Christmas / Silent Night, Favorite Folk Songs, Banana Boat and Other Famous Folk Songs, All Time Hits, Volume 3, A Legendary Performer, The Many Moods of Belafonte, The Very Best Of, Golden Hits - 60 Original Recordings, Island in the Sun, Favourite Love Ballads, Belafonte: Returns to Carnegie Hall, Belafonte, Homeward Bound, Belafonte Concert in Japan, An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends, Ballads, Blues and Boasters, Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, Hold 'em Joe / Scarlet Ribbons, My Lord What a Mornin', All-time Greatest Hits, The Very Best of Harry Belafonte, Island in the Sun, The Best of Harry Belafonte, European Kings Club: Live, The Collection, At Carnegie Hall, Beetlejuice, Belafonte at Carnegie Hall, Sings of the Caribbean, Mark Twain and other Folk Favorites, Loving You is Where I Belong, The Best of Harry Belafonte, Judy Drownded / Lucy's Door, The Son of Mary / I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music, The Essential Harry Belafonte, Belafonte Sings the Blues, Folk Songs From the World, 20 Greatest Hits, Mary's Boy Child / Eden Was Just Like This, Simple, Simple / Only One Like Me, Calypso in Brass, The Ultimate Hit Collection, Lean on Me / Recognition, Banana Boat Song, Sings of Love, Whispering / Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Belafonte at Carnegie Hall, 24 Karat Gold, 20 Greatest Hits, Very Best of Harry Belafonte, An Evening with Belafonte, Harry & Lena, My Greatest Songs, Annabelle Lee / Venezuela, Harry Belafonte, Belafonte on Campus, Streets I Have Walked, Love Songs, Deep as the River, Greatest Hits, The Warm Touch, The Art of a Legend, 24 Great Hits, Falling in Love Again: Two Duets with Nana Mouskouri, I Still Get a Thrill / Farewell to Arms, Porgy and Bess, Calypso Carnival, Island in the Sun / Cocoanut Woman, Lead Man Holler / Haiti Cherie, The Collection, Day-O, Christmas, All Time Greatest Hits, Volume 1, Greatest Hits, Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) / Jamaica Farewell, Little Bernadette / Danny Boy, 20 Super Hits, Belafonte By Request, This Is Harry Belafonte, Love is a Gentle Thing, Coconut Woman More
    United States of America
  14. 14
    Folk music, Rock music, Folk rock, Pop music, Blues
    United Kingdom, England
    Greatest Hits, Lovers Speak, Walk Under Ladders, The Shouting Stage, Classics, Volume 21, Gold, This Charming Life, How Cruel, The Collection, Show Some Emotion, Love and Affection: Classics 1975-1983, What's Inside, Square the Circle, Me Myself I, Secret Secrets, Master Series: Joan Armatrading, To the Limit, Whatever's For Us, Back to the Night, Joan Armatrading, Steppin' Out, The Key, Sleight of Hand, Hearts and Flowers, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Joan Armatrading, Love & Affection, Track Record, The Very Best Of, Into the Blues, The Very Best of Joan Armatrading, The Universal Masters Collection: Classic Joan Armatrading, The Very Best of Joan Armatrading, Live: All the Way From America, True Love, Show Some Emotion More
    England
    One of the most amazing singer/songwriter/guitarists of contemporary music.
  15. 15
    Folk music, Rock music, Soft rock, Folk rock, Blues-rock, Rhythm and blues, Pop music, Country, Disco More
    Chapel Hill
    October Road, Greatest Hits, Volume 2, Greatest Hits, Never Die Young, Classic Songs, That's Why I'm Here, Sweet Baby James, Greatest Hits, Amchitka, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, Original Flying Machine 1967, Dad Loves His Work, James Taylor, James Taylor and the Original Flying Machine, Greatest Hits Volume 2, Live at the Troubadour, Walking Man, Close Your Eyes, JT, New Moon Shine, (Live), A Christmas Album, Live in Rio, In the Pocket, Hourglass, One Man Band, James Taylor at Christmas, 1970-10-28 - Royal Albert Hall, London, England, Covers, Other Covers, One Man Dog, Roses for Carole, Cars, (Best Live), Live at the Beacon Theatre, One Man Band, Carnegie Hall, October Road, Flag, Original Album Classics, Pull Over, Taylor Made... Greatest Hits, The Best of James Taylor, Gorilla More
    United States of America
  16. 16
    Folk music, Folk rock, Pop music, Jazz, World music, Art rock, Pop folk, Folk jazz More
    Saskatoon, Fort Macleod
    Clouds, Beginning of Survival, Shadows and Light, Amchitka, Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, Blue, Shine, Court and Spark, Songs of a Prairie Girl, Taming the Tiger, Big Yellow Taxi, Both Sides Now, Hejira, Dog Eat Dog, Miles of Aisles, Joni Mitchell, Song to a Seagull, Misses, Turbulent Indigo, Hits, Big Yellow Taxi, Ladies of the Canyon, Travelogue, Wild Things Run Fast, Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm, Live at the BBC 1972, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Mingus, Shadows and Light, Live at Wembley Arena, 4/24/83, Dreamland, Night Ride Home, For the Roses, Hits, The Complete Geffen Recordings More
    Canada
  17. 17
    Folk music, Alternative rock, Rock music, Folk rock, Blues-rock, Soul music, Funk-rock, Post-grunge, Gospel music, Reggae, Blues, Blue-eyed soul, Jam band, Neofolk, Soul rock More
    Live at the Apollo, There Will Be a Light, Diamonds on the Inside, The Will to Live, Lifeline, Give Till It's Gone, White Lies for Dark Times, Fight for Your Mind, Lifeline, Welcome to the Cruel World, Both Sides of the Gun, Burn to Shine, Pleasure and Pain More
    United States of America
  18. 18
    Folk music, Pop music, Rock and roll
    Seattle
    Living, Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins, Home Again, Running for My Life, Judith, In My Life, Voices, The Very Best of..., Maid of Constant Sorrow, So Early in the Spring, the First 15 Years, Golden Apples of the Sun, Christmas at the Biltmore Estate, Golden Apples of the Sun, Bread and Roses, Wildflowers, Both Sides Now, Fifth Album, Wind Beneath My Wings, Who Knows Where the Times Goes, Judy Collins' Fifth Album, Live at Newport, 1959-1966, Trust Your Heart, Fires of Eden, Whales and Nightingales, Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy, Classic Broadway, Live at Wolf Trap, Hard Times for Lovers, Judy Collins Sings Dylan... Just Like a Woman, Times of Our Lives, The Judy Collins Concert, Forever: An Anthology, True Stories and Other Dreams, Recollections, Amazing Grace, Who Knows Where the Time Goes, Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy, Live at Newport, Judy Collins 3 & 4, Portrait of an American Girl, Judy Collins #3, All on a Wintry Night, Come Rejoice! A Judy Collins Christmas, Classic Folk, Judy Collins Sings Lennon and McCartney More
    United States of America
  19. 19
    Alternative rock, Folk rock, Indie, Urban Folk
    Dilate, Imperfectly, Swing Set, Educated Guess, Little Plastic Castle, Boston 11.16.03, Women In (E)motion 5, Not a Pretty Girl, Reprieve, Up Up Up Up Up Up, Fellow Workers, Boston 11.10.06, Demo tape, Live at Babeville, Rome, Italy 11.15.04, Ani DiFranco +, Puddle Dive, Carnegie Hall - 4.6.02, Not a Pretty Girl +, So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter, As Is, To the Teeth, Not So Soft, Portland 4.7.04, Little Plastic Remixes, Red Letter Year, The Past Didn't Go Anywhere, Sacramento 10.25.03, Knuckle Down, 2007-10-18: Hamburg, Germany, Madison 1.25.04, Angry Anymore, Atlanta 10.9.03, Canon, Revelling / Reckoning, Bremen 1997, Chicago 1.17.04, Living in Clip, Atlanta - 10.9.03, An Acoustic Evening With, Live at Babeville, More Joy, Less Shame, Like I Said: Songs 1990-91, Canon, Out of Range, Evolve, Saratoga, CA - 9.18.06, Ani DiFranco, Chicago - 9.22.07, Back Back Back, Reckoning More
    United States of America
  20. 20
    Folk music
    Greenwich Village
    Songs Of The Lincoln Battalion, Gazette, Pete's Family Concert, Folk Music of the World, Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits, Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits, The Essential Pete Seeger, God Bless the Grass, American Industrial Ballads, Abiyoyo and Other Story Songs for Children, Traditional Christmas Carols, We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, At 89, Headlines & Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs, Children's Concert at Town Hall, Precious Friend, American Industrial Ballads ... and More, Folk Songs for Young People, Song and Play Time, Sing Out With Pete!, Broadside Ballads Volume 2, Clearwater Classics, Singalong, American Folk Game & Activity Songs, American Favorite Ballads, Volume 1, Ao vivo em Lisboa, Live at Newport, Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes and Little & Big Animal Folk Songs, Which Side Are You On?, American Favorite Ballads, Volume 5, American Favorite Ballads, Volume 3, American Industrial Ballads ... and More, Darling Corey and Goofing-Off Suite, American Favorite Ballads, Volume 4, All-Time Favorites, Little Boxes and Other Broadsides, Hard Travelling: The Best of Pete Seeger, Love Songs for Friends & Foes, American Favorite Ballads, Volume 4, American Favorite Ballads, Volume 2, The 'American Folk Song' Collection, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy & Other Love Songs, Dangerous Songs!?, Stories and Songs for Little Children, If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle, The Essential Pete Seeger, A Link in the Chain, We Shall Overcome, The Bitter and the Sweet More
    United States of America
  21. 21
    Pop rock, Soft rock, Folk rock, Pop music, Psychedelic rock, Spoken word, Sufi rock, Nasheed More
    London
    The Collection, Morning Has Broken, Early Tapes, Greatest Hits, Box Set (disc 1: The City), The Very Best of Cat Stevens, The Life of the Last Prophet, Tea for the Tillerman, Gold, New Masters, Mona Bone Jakon, I Look I See, Gold, Numbers, Wild World, The View From the Top, First Cuts, The Best of Cat Stevens, Teaser and the Firecat, Prayers of the Last Prophet, Roadsinger, Izitso, Back to Earth, Harold and Maude, On the Road to Find Out, Can't Keep It In, A View From the Top, I Have No Cannons That Roar, Classics, Volume 24, Matthew and Son, Foreigner, Remember: The Ultimate Collection, Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits Volume Two, Indian Ocean, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Cat Stevens, Buddha and the Chocolate Box, Harold and Maude, Digitally remastered, A is for Allah, Catch Bull at Four, Saturnight, Majikat (Earth Tour), Greatest Hits, Morning Has Broken (Old Gaelic Melody), An Other Cup, The First Cut Is The Deepest, Wild World, Collected, I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun, Wild World, Footsteps in the Light, The World of Cat Stevens, Lady D'Arbanville, Sad Lisa, Moonchild's Dream, Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, The Life of the Last Prophet More
    United Kingdom, England, Sweden
  22. 22
    Folk music, Music theatre, Spiritual
    Songs of Free Men, Spirituals, Folksongs, and Hymns, The Voice of the Mississippi, The Very Best of Paul Robeson, The Power and the Glory, A Man and His Beliefs, Songs for Free Men, Songs of Struggle (& more), The Odyssey of Paul Robeson, Ballad for Americans, Voice of the People (Best of), Golden Classics Volumn Tow, Live at Carnegie Hall, The Peace Arch Concerts, The Collector's Paul Robeson, Ol' Man River, Legends of the 20th Century: Paul Robeson, Green Pastures, The Essential Paul Robeson, The Great Paul Robeson More
    United States of America
  23. 23

    The Weavers

    Folk music
    The Weavers Greatest Hits, The Weavers at Carnegie Hall, Wreck of the John B / The Roving Kind, Goodnight Irene: The Weavers, 1949-1953, Best of the Vanguard Years, Wasn't That a Time, The Weavers at Carnegie Hall Vol. 2, At Carnegie Hall, The Weavers at Carnegie Hall, Volume 2, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine / When the Saints Go Marching In, Classics, Hard, Ain't It Hard: The Weavers' Greatest Songs, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Wasn't That a Time: This Land Is Your Land More
    Early trailblazers and groundbreakers.
  24. 24
    Folk music
    Absolutely the Best of The Kingston Trio, The Stewart Years, Volume 7, Goin' Places, Make Way, Looking for the Sunshine, Live at the Santa Monica Auditorium, 40 Legendary Hits [disc 1], Greatest Hits, 40 Legendary Hits, The Stewart Years, Volume 6, All Time Greatest Hits, The Kingston Trio, Stereo Concert, String Along, Children of the Morning, Capitol Collectors Series, Everybody's Talking, Treasure Chest, Greatest Hits, The Capitol Years, The Very Best of the Kingston Trio, Tom Dooley and Other Folksong Hits, Time to Think, Here We Go Again!, Sold Out, The Kingston Trio: The Stewart Years, Best of the Decca Years, Greatest Hits, The Kingston Trio No. 16, Stay Awhile, Tom Dooley & Other Hits, Both Sides of the Kingston Trio, Volume 1, The Stewart Years, Volume 2, Back in Town, Turning Like Forever: Rarities Vol. 2, Twice Upon a Time, The Final Concert, Live at the Crazy Horse, Tom Dooley, Sold Out / String Along, The Last Month of the Year, Both Sides of the Kingston Trio, Volume 2, Live at Newport, Sunny Side!, The Lost 1967 Album: Rarities Vol. 1, The Decca Years, Make Way / Goin' Places, At Large / Here We Go Again!, ...from the Hungry i, The Kingston Trio, The Kingston Trio, The Best of the Decca Years, New Frontier, San Miguel / A Worried Man, College Concert, Once Upon a Time, An Evening with The Kingston Trio, The Kingston Trio / ...From the Hungry I, The Stewart Years, Volume 8, The Very Best of the Kingston Trio, Aspen Gold, The Very Best of The Kingston Trio, The Stewart Years, Volume 4, At Large, Something Special, The Kingston Trio, Close-Up / College Concert, The Kingston Trio: The Guard Years, D-10, American Troubadours, The Kingston Trio: The Guard Years, Somethin' Else, Close-Up, Once Again, The Stewart Years, Volume 3, The Capitol Collector's Series, The Original More
  25. 25
    Folk music, Folk rock
    London
    Heaven in a Wild Flower, Five Leaves Left, Pink Moon, Bryter Layter, A Treasury, Made to Love Magic, Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake, Time Has Told Me, Volume 2, Magic, The Complete Home Recordings, Time of No Reply, Family Tree, Fruit Tree, Second Grace, Time Has Told Me, Family Tree, Nick Drake, Brittle Days - A Tribute To Nick Drake, River Man More
    England

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  1. Dan Fender
    25 Awesome Folk Singers and Groups at 4/07/2011 12:44 AM
    glad to see Joan Armatrading getting her due
    1. Konnoisseur411 [List Creator]
      25 Awesome Folk Singers and Groups at 4/08/2011 6:19 PM
      Yeah she's earned it a few times over. Can't help thinking her public profile's low as it is cause she must want it that way. Give her more space to deal with the music stead of trippin on celebrity stuff.
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