I'm not too keen on compilation albums, but I have the Best of Suzanne Vega and it's fantastic. Also, Forever Changes is a longtime favorite, and I'm happy to have the expanded cd version. Wanted to add: Jethro Tull Songs from the Wood Nina Nastasia Dogs Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman. Great video and choices. Cheers.
Great video, Tom. Delighted that somebody mentioned the Incredible String Band in the comments. Joe Boyd produced their early albums as well as the Fairport and Nick Drake albums on your list.
Def in my top 3 genres too and you selected well. Would have added Ecclecion self-titled, It's a Beautiful Day Self Titled, Tim Buckley self-titled, Nick Drake Bryter Layter, Beau Brummels, Jeff Air Takes Off, H.P.Lovecraft, Left Banke 1st or Second, Zombie odyssey and Oracle. Thrilled you mentioned 2 of my all time Favorite bone chillers: Here Without You by Gene Clark and Out of My Mind by Neil Young. Great Topic!!!
Wonderful to meet you! Flawless choices! I suggest checking out Spirogyra(early mid 70s) whom Dave Mattacks would play with after Fairport and Richard and Linda.) Another overlooked group of note is Trees,with Celia Humphries on Vocals and Barry Clarke on Guitar/Vocals and a more psychedelic vibe and sound. Are you considering doing a part two? An excellent intro to your channel!
Hello, thanks for watching. I’ll check out Trees. I’ve heard that band mentioned by others. Just did a Favorite Country Rock Albums video a few days back. Check it out. 😉
The very first album I thought of when I saw your video's title was Fairport Convention's What We Did On Our Holidays. Any one of their first five albums could qualify. When it comes to Richard Thompson post-Fairport I would go with I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight with his ex-wife Linda. I have probably 15 of the albums you listed, and love them all. Of the ones I don't know, now I want to hear all of those. Thanks for a great list.
As usual, I greatly enjoyed this list of favorites. Your content always motivates me to re-listen to some of our shared albums, and to discover those with which I am less familiar. One of my favorites of this category is the Donovan 1966 release of Mellow Yellow, which might be categorized as a sub-genre of Folk-Rock (Scottish Folk/Blues-Rock).
Another great segment, Tom. Can't argue with anything here, every lp a gem. I'd like to throw in a real sleeper no one talks about, The Ark, the last lp from Chad and Jeremy from 1968.
Cat Stevens! All of his, but my favorites are the two from which the fantastic film Harold & Maude used a large portion of their songs as its soundtrack: Mona Bone Jakon & Tea For The Tillerman. For me it’s Mona Bone Jakon. Another great one is Donovan when he went back to his folk roots with the music used in Brother Sun Sister Moon made in 1972, but the soundtrack of new recordings was not released until 2004.
I agree on Mr. Tambourine Man, Rubber Soul, and After the Gold Rush. Highway 61 Revisited is fine too. For me, it's a coin flip between that and Blonde on Blonde. Likewise, Liege & Lief is fine, and replacing that with either What We Did on Our Holidays or Unhalfbricking would work for me too. Not sure I'd call Murmur folk rock, but it is a great album. Likewise Velvet Underground self-titled. Gasoline Alley is fine too. I prefer Every Picture Tells a Story, but maybe GA is more folk rock. For Richard Thompson, Shoot Out the Lights would have been my choice. Two more that I might have included are In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel and If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears by The Mamas & The Papas.
Someone may have already mentioned it but sandy Denny returned to record with fairport firstly with Lve Converion and then the studio album Rising for the moon.
Great list with special kudos to NICK DRAKE's FIVE LEAVES LEFT, LOVE'S FOREVER CHANGES, NEIL's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH (his most impressive masterpiece?) JONI's FOR THE ROSES (underrated in favour of other cloassics BLUE an COURT and SPARK), The third Velvet underground album (my favorite alongside the banana-album). Dylan's HIGHWAY 61 is one of the most analysed albums ever and THE BEATLES' RUBBER SOUL may be their best. What a great list !
Great Topic and excellent choices🎉 Hearing that you put Fairport, Fleet Foxes and Pentangle on places 20,19 and 18 I knew it was going to be a fascinating list... 😅 However some great albums are missing (but then you would have to augment your list): US artists: Grateful Dead "American Beauty" Barry McGuire "Eve of Destruction" Simon & Garfunkel "Sounds of Silence" David Crosby "If I could only remember my name" Gene Clark "Spanish guitar" Jackson Browne "For Everyman" Warren Zevon, 1976 Jimmy Buffett "You had to be there" (Live) Continental Drifters Lucinda Williams Irish / British Artists: Planxty - any album Clannad 2 Kate Rusby Steeleye Span (First) Fotheringay Bert Jansch "L.A. Turnaround" John Renbourn Group "A Maid in Bedlam" Fairfield Parlour "From Home to Home" Jethro Tull Stand up Lindisfarne "Fog on the Tyne" Jackie Leven "Fairy Tales for Big Boys)! Albion Band " Rise up like the Sun" Roy Harper "Stormcock" (The one with Jimmy Page on guitar)
You did a great job of picking ( I always say "If I Should Fall From Grace With God " is my favorite Pogues album.. most pick "Sodemy and Lash").. Peace and Love, Terry Tutor
What about these more Celtic-influenced artists:- Horslips-The Tain,Dancehall Sweethearts,Book of Invasions Runrig-Heartland,Big Wheel,Amazing Things Five Hand Reel-debut album,For a'That,Earl o'Moray Moving Hearts eponymous debut album Tamalin-Rhythm and Rhyme Paul Brady-Welcome Here Kind Stranger All surely wothy of consideration,and would broaden the scope of your nonetheless interesting list.
I would add Jackson Browne's 1st one, Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends, Steve Forbert - The American In Me, and maybe some Continental Drifters - Vermillion. Now I'm off to listen to Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly because you keep recommending it and I've never heard it. Would that be considered a Shame Listen? LOL
FANTASTIC Ist album from Richard Thompson... couldn't agree more! U.S. Rubber Soul... gave 'I've Just Seen a Face' its rightful important place - leadoff track -- in the pantheon of folk-rock. I prefer both U.S. Rubber Soul and Revolver. Sometimes less is more.
Hard to disagree with your spectacular picks. Just a few of my favorites: Runrig: Cutter & the Clan; Heartland; Oyster Band: English Rock 'n' Roll - The Early Years; June Tabor and the Oysterband: Freedom & Rain; Nick Drake: Bryter Layter; Fairport Convention: Unhalfbricking; Four Men & a Dog: Shifting Gravel; Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Kate & Anna McGarrigle; The Incredible String Band: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter; and Richard Thompson: Daring Adventures
I tend to separate my Brit Folk from my Folk Rock, I don't know why, given that my grandmother was twice anthologized by musical anthropologists singing traditional "Virginia" folk songs that were brought over from England. Anyway, on the British Isles side, Jethro Tull's Songs From the Wood has always been a favorite (as if my name wasn't a giveaway). The Waterboys' Fishermans Blues is one of the greatest albums of the 1980s. Steeleye Span's Below the Salt is my favorite of their very large, and mostly excellent, discography. I'm not sure if Clannad is "rock" enough to qualify, but Dulaman and Clannad 2 are absolutely amazing albums. Donovan's A Gift From a Flower to a Garden has some really great folk psych on its two discs as well. Domestically, Simon & Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme was my first album by them, so it has the deepest connection. I've mentioned The Indigo Girl's self titled before. The Decemberists We All Raise Our Voices To The Air. Hard to Pick specific Gordon Lightfoot album, but If You Could Read My Mind is a strong one. And Tim Buckley's Hello Goodbye, for some US folk psych.
Funny you mention the U.S. version of Rubber Soul. It was slapped together by Capital Records flunkies with zero aesthetic sense, but it really does hold together stylistically, and indeed it is sublime. Sometimes great art just happens, and who can explain why.
Some beauties here alright! Very simpatico with your taste. (P.s.) Ever heard Alan Hull's 'Pipedream,' Bonnie Prince Billy's 'Master & Everyone.' Each v different, but both right up there too..
(1) Totally agree - the USA version of "Rubber Soul" is better! (2) Jethro Tull came from the blues/jazz scene but sounded quite folky with flute and acoustic guitar up front. "Stand Up" (1969) is great folk rock to me (3) Kate Rusby, “Sleepless” (1999). Love her voice and Yorkshire accent; perhaps too folky or traditional to be described as folk rock
I agree with most of your selections. I would add the first LP from Bob Dylan's gospel period, Slow Train Coming, from 1979. Every track is great, IMHO.
You left out practically any album by Steeleye Span... an omission that practically leaves my mouth open in bewilderment 🙃 I'm not sure how you are determining the criteria for "folk-rock" but one album you should listen to is 'Memories' by Richard and Mimi Farina (an album that was released posthumously regarding Mr. Farina; Mimi Farina was Joan Baez's sister)
@@tomrobinson5776 'Now We Are Six' is a great album though interestingly, the sequence of the original vinyl album is not repeated on its CD equivalent. Two other records to listen to 'Below The Salt' and Parcel Of Rogues'.
Tom Id add in no order Beth Orton ' Trailer Park', John Martyn "One World', Calexico "Feast of the Wire,' Bruce Cockburn "Humans' Al Stewart 'Year of the Cat', King Creosote - Jon Hopkins ' Diamond Mine' Gordon Lightfoot 'Cold on the Shoulder' Lambchop "Nixon', Junip 'Junip', , Midlake 'Van Occupanther'. Van Morrison "Verdon Fleece' , Josh Rouse '1972', Sparklehorse "Dream for Light Years' Lord Huron "Long Lost', Gerry Rafferty's beautiful but forgotten "North & South', My Morning Jacket 'It Moves' and lastly not least Damien Jurado "Maraqopa' (featured on the movie the "HoldOvers'
The boundaries of the genre are drawn somewhat idiosyncratically but that makes this list extra interesting. But a few notable absentees I would like to mention here. As with Capo's lists of best albums of the late 60s, Tim Buckley is absent. While in my opinion he is so brilliant and idiosyncratic that he should not be missing. His 70s work is disappointing but from 1966 through 1970 he delivered 6 top albums of which at least 3 were abolute masterpieces. An album by Fred Neil could also have been included as far as I am concerned, perhaps 'Bleecker & MacDougal' would have been the best contender for this list. And choices with more emphasis on folk than rock would not have been out of place if boundaries were drawn broadly anyway, and then you can (nay should!) think of the early albums of both Joan Baez and Judy Collins. The Judy Collins Concert from 1964 is breathtakingly beautiful with the two Billy Edd Wheeler songs as absolute highlights. And where is Tracy Chapman's debut or Terry Callier's first album? More recently, Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy's album “Adieu, false heart” is one of the finest recordings in this genre of the 21st century. Maybe think about a second list after all. Anyway, any list that includes Nick Drake is a great list. So well done Capo!
@@gcmvw1201 Thank you. I was never a huge Tim Buckley fan but I love the Happy Sad album. The vibes really add a nice touch. To be honest I almost put it on the list but it really straddles various genre’s and is truly hard to classify.
i love the byrds , love , neil young , some dylan , bert jansch , and especially nick drake . but i never thought i'd ever hear the velvet underground described as folk rock . might as well call syd barret folk rock 'cos of his sense of whimsy .
I think folks will like "How Can I Sleep" by a band called Cordelia's Dad; Kind of like a rough-edged Fairport Convention, but with American folk material. "Narraganset Bay" and "Texas Rangers" are worth a listen.
I endorse these choices! Most of them were in the rotation when I first started listening to FM radio (KSAN, San Francisco) in 1971. With the Joni Mitchell, you get a bonus with a delightful picture of her bottom. 😀 Judy Collins did a nude album cover too, and she made some good folk rock tunes as well. I guess Jefferson Airplane Takes Off gets passed by for being the least of the band's records in the '60s. I'd like to add the first Hot Tuna record, though -- it's just Jorma on acoustic guitar, Jack on electric bass, and sometimes Will on harmonica, recorded live doing mostly old songs (Jelly Roll Morton, Reverend Gary Davis, other traditional material). To this day, I believe, Jack and Jorma split their set into acoustic and electric halves. Worth a look on TH-cam.
Stand Up - Jethro Tull Greenhouse - Leo Kottke The Crane Wife - The Decemberists In the 70s Antillies Records released Nick Drake's first two albums posthumously with great liner notes. Wish I had bought them.
Stand Up and Greenhouse are two of my all-time favorite albums. The Antilles reissue of Bryter Layter was my introduction to Nick Drake. I bought it for $1.99 from the cut-out bin. I didn't know anything about Nick Drake, but I bought the LP because I thought that he looked so cool and mysterious on the cover. Also, the musician credits included familiar names like John Cale and Richard Thompson, and the liner notes mentioned Tim Buckley and Van Morrison, whom I was already listening to, as artists who inspired Nick. The liner notes also mentioned John Martyn, whom I also had never heard of, but based on that reference, I started checking out John's albums (starting with Inside Out), and I became similarly enthralled. Liner notes are one of the things that I miss the most about LP records.
Fotheringay-The band Sandy Denny formed when she left Fairport Convention. Any album by Steeleye Span.
I'm not too keen on compilation albums, but I have the Best of Suzanne Vega and it's fantastic. Also, Forever Changes is a longtime favorite, and I'm happy to have the expanded cd version.
Wanted to add: Jethro Tull Songs from the Wood
Nina Nastasia Dogs
Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman.
Great video and choices. Cheers.
Great video, Tom. Delighted that somebody mentioned the Incredible String Band in the comments. Joe Boyd produced their early albums as well as the Fairport and Nick Drake albums on your list.
Def in my top 3 genres too and you selected well. Would have added Ecclecion self-titled, It's a Beautiful Day Self Titled, Tim Buckley self-titled, Nick Drake Bryter Layter, Beau Brummels, Jeff Air Takes Off, H.P.Lovecraft, Left Banke 1st or Second, Zombie odyssey and Oracle. Thrilled you mentioned 2 of my all time Favorite bone chillers: Here Without You by Gene Clark and Out of My Mind by Neil Young. Great Topic!!!
Wonderful to meet you! Flawless choices! I suggest checking out Spirogyra(early mid 70s) whom Dave Mattacks would play with after Fairport and Richard and Linda.) Another overlooked group of note is Trees,with Celia Humphries on Vocals and Barry Clarke on Guitar/Vocals and a more psychedelic vibe and sound. Are you considering doing a part two? An excellent intro to your channel!
Hello, thanks for watching. I’ll check out Trees. I’ve heard that band mentioned by others. Just did a Favorite Country Rock Albums video a few days back. Check it out. 😉
another great video! so many excellent, eclectic picks.
The very first album I thought of when I saw your video's title was Fairport Convention's What We Did On Our Holidays. Any one of their first five albums could qualify. When it comes to Richard Thompson post-Fairport I would go with I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight with his ex-wife Linda. I have probably 15 of the albums you listed, and love them all. Of the ones I don't know, now I want to hear all of those. Thanks for a great list.
As usual, I greatly enjoyed this list of favorites. Your content always motivates me to re-listen to some of our shared albums, and to discover those with which I am less familiar. One of my favorites of this category is the Donovan 1966 release of Mellow Yellow, which might be categorized as a sub-genre of Folk-Rock (Scottish Folk/Blues-Rock).
Another great segment, Tom. Can't argue with anything here, every lp a gem. I'd like to throw in a real sleeper no one talks about, The Ark, the last lp from Chad and Jeremy from 1968.
Recently bought tbe lp its brilliant. A bit avant guard. I love the track you need feet.
@@ricjan58 Never heard that one. I only have a Best Of.
Cat Stevens! All of his, but my favorites are the two from which the fantastic film Harold & Maude used a large portion of their songs as its soundtrack: Mona Bone Jakon & Tea For The Tillerman. For me it’s Mona Bone Jakon.
Another great one is Donovan when he went back to his folk roots with the music used in Brother Sun Sister Moon made in 1972, but the soundtrack of new recordings was not released until 2004.
A fine folk rock listing. A favorite of mine is Tom Rush - The Circle Game.😊
I agree on Mr. Tambourine Man, Rubber Soul, and After the Gold Rush. Highway 61 Revisited is fine too. For me, it's a coin flip between that and Blonde on Blonde. Likewise, Liege & Lief is fine, and replacing that with either What We Did on Our Holidays or Unhalfbricking would work for me too. Not sure I'd call Murmur folk rock, but it is a great album. Likewise Velvet Underground self-titled. Gasoline Alley is fine too. I prefer Every Picture Tells a Story, but maybe GA is more folk rock. For Richard Thompson, Shoot Out the Lights would have been my choice. Two more that I might have included are In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel and If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears by The Mamas & The Papas.
Thanks for the content as always Tom. I really enjoy your channel! Keep up the great work 👏
Thanks David 😉
Someone may have already mentioned it but sandy Denny returned to record with fairport firstly with Lve Converion and then the studio album Rising for the moon.
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All incredible picks. Here’s a couple more;
Roy Harper-Stormcock
Judee Sill-Heart Food
John Martyn-One World
Gene Clark-No Other
Terry Reid-River
@@painless465 Those are awesome. Especially love Heart Food, River and Stormcock.
Great selection, I love them all! The Pentangle Sweet Child album is terrific but I prefer their Cruel Sister album a bit better.
Great list with special kudos to NICK DRAKE's FIVE LEAVES LEFT, LOVE'S FOREVER CHANGES, NEIL's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH (his most impressive masterpiece?) JONI's FOR THE ROSES (underrated in favour of other cloassics BLUE an COURT and SPARK), The third Velvet underground album (my favorite alongside the banana-album). Dylan's HIGHWAY 61 is one of the most analysed albums ever and THE BEATLES' RUBBER SOUL may be their best. What a great list !
Great Topic and excellent choices🎉 Hearing that you put Fairport, Fleet Foxes and Pentangle on places 20,19 and 18 I knew it was going to be a fascinating list... 😅
However some great albums are missing (but then you would have to augment your list):
US artists:
Grateful Dead "American Beauty"
Barry McGuire "Eve of Destruction"
Simon & Garfunkel "Sounds of Silence"
David Crosby "If I could only remember my name"
Gene Clark "Spanish guitar"
Jackson Browne "For Everyman"
Warren Zevon, 1976
Jimmy Buffett "You had to be there" (Live)
Continental Drifters
Lucinda Williams
Irish / British Artists:
Planxty - any album
Clannad 2
Kate Rusby
Steeleye Span (First)
Fotheringay
Bert Jansch "L.A. Turnaround"
John Renbourn Group "A Maid in Bedlam"
Fairfield Parlour "From Home to Home"
Jethro Tull Stand up
Lindisfarne "Fog on the Tyne"
Jackie Leven "Fairy Tales for Big Boys)!
Albion Band " Rise up like the Sun"
Roy Harper "Stormcock" (The one with Jimmy Page on guitar)
You did a great job of picking ( I always say "If I Should Fall From Grace With God " is my favorite Pogues album.. most pick "Sodemy and Lash").. Peace and Love, Terry Tutor
What about these more Celtic-influenced artists:-
Horslips-The Tain,Dancehall Sweethearts,Book of Invasions
Runrig-Heartland,Big Wheel,Amazing Things
Five Hand Reel-debut album,For a'That,Earl o'Moray
Moving Hearts eponymous debut album
Tamalin-Rhythm and Rhyme
Paul Brady-Welcome Here Kind Stranger
All surely wothy of consideration,and would broaden the scope of your nonetheless interesting list.
Tim Hardin! 😊😊😊😊😊😮😮😮😮😮
First Tim Hardin album !
I would add Jackson Browne's 1st one, Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends, Steve Forbert - The American In Me, and maybe some Continental Drifters - Vermillion. Now I'm off to listen to Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly because you keep recommending it and I've never heard it. Would that be considered a Shame Listen? LOL
@@stupendous9896 You’ll love it. 😉
FANTASTIC Ist album from Richard Thompson... couldn't agree more! U.S. Rubber Soul... gave 'I've Just Seen a Face' its rightful important place - leadoff track -- in the pantheon of folk-rock. I prefer both U.S. Rubber Soul and Revolver. Sometimes less is more.
All three Buffalo Springfield albums could make the list! 😊😊😊😊😊
@@kingofallmediums2123 Absolutely 😉
I bought every one of these on release except REM and CS&N. I still love am all, hardly a bad track amongst them
Hi Cape.......Gold Rush is the BIG thumbs up here..The rest are all fingers...IMO....(Take it easy)..Ha!!!!
I'm a fan of Richard Thompson but am largely unfamiliar with his 70s material - except I Wanna See The Bright Lights Tonight. I need to check more out
Hard to disagree with your spectacular picks. Just a few of my favorites: Runrig: Cutter & the Clan; Heartland; Oyster Band: English Rock 'n' Roll - The Early Years; June Tabor and the Oysterband: Freedom & Rain; Nick Drake: Bryter Layter; Fairport Convention: Unhalfbricking; Four Men & a Dog: Shifting Gravel; Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Kate & Anna McGarrigle; The Incredible String Band: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter; and Richard Thompson: Daring Adventures
You started with my all-time favorite, "Lief and Liege".
I tend to separate my Brit Folk from my Folk Rock, I don't know why, given that my grandmother was twice anthologized by musical anthropologists singing traditional "Virginia" folk songs that were brought over from England.
Anyway, on the British Isles side, Jethro Tull's Songs From the Wood has always been a favorite (as if my name wasn't a giveaway). The Waterboys' Fishermans Blues is one of the greatest albums of the 1980s. Steeleye Span's Below the Salt is my favorite of their very large, and mostly excellent, discography. I'm not sure if Clannad is "rock" enough to qualify, but Dulaman and Clannad 2 are absolutely amazing albums. Donovan's A Gift From a Flower to a Garden has some really great folk psych on its two discs as well.
Domestically, Simon & Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme was my first album by them, so it has the deepest connection. I've mentioned The Indigo Girl's self titled before. The Decemberists We All Raise Our Voices To The Air. Hard to Pick specific Gordon Lightfoot album, but If You Could Read My Mind is a strong one. And Tim Buckley's Hello Goodbye, for some US folk psych.
@@seed_drill7135 DITTO!!...to everything you said. Donovan is essential to the genre.
Funny you mention the U.S. version of Rubber Soul. It was slapped together by Capital Records flunkies with zero aesthetic sense, but it really does hold together stylistically, and indeed it is sublime. Sometimes great art just happens, and who can explain why.
Some beauties here alright! Very simpatico with your taste. (P.s.) Ever heard Alan Hull's 'Pipedream,' Bonnie Prince Billy's 'Master & Everyone.' Each v different, but both right up there too..
@@TomFazzini Never heard them. I’ll have to check them out.
Amazing! No Gordon Lightfoot at all!
@donneumann6546 You betcha! Old Dan's Records & Summer Side of Life, two oft overlooked, and my personal favorites
(1) Totally agree - the USA version of "Rubber Soul" is better!
(2) Jethro Tull came from the blues/jazz scene but sounded quite folky with flute and acoustic guitar up front. "Stand Up" (1969) is great folk rock to me
(3) Kate Rusby, “Sleepless” (1999). Love her voice and Yorkshire accent; perhaps too folky or traditional to be described as folk rock
I'll add David Bromberg's debut album and John Sebastian's Tarzana Kid
I agree with most of your selections. I would add the first LP from Bob Dylan's gospel period, Slow Train Coming, from 1979. Every track is great, IMHO.
Check out Wrong End of the Rainbow by Tom Rush.
Will do 😉
Some real good choices. For myself, I would have included First Aid Kit, Cowboy Junkies and the under appreciated Melanie Safka.
I forgot about the Cowboy Junkies. Love The Trinity Session album.
I would throw in Now we are six by Steeleye Span, great album from '74.
I’ll be honest, I have that album. Someone gave it to me years ago, but seldom played it. It is now on my agenda to listen to asap. 😉
You left out practically any album by Steeleye Span... an omission that practically leaves my mouth open in bewilderment 🙃
I'm not sure how you are determining the criteria for "folk-rock" but one album you should listen to is 'Memories' by Richard and Mimi Farina (an album that was released posthumously regarding Mr. Farina; Mimi Farina was Joan Baez's sister)
I must confess I have one Steeleye Span album I’ve barely listened to. It’s Now We Are Six. I’ve got it ready for the next listen. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 'Now We Are Six' is a great album though interestingly, the sequence of the original vinyl album is not repeated on its CD equivalent. Two other records to listen to 'Below The Salt' and Parcel Of Rogues'.
Tom Id add in no order Beth Orton ' Trailer Park', John Martyn "One World', Calexico "Feast of the Wire,' Bruce Cockburn "Humans' Al Stewart 'Year of the Cat', King Creosote - Jon Hopkins ' Diamond Mine' Gordon Lightfoot 'Cold on the Shoulder' Lambchop "Nixon', Junip 'Junip', , Midlake 'Van Occupanther'. Van Morrison "Verdon Fleece' , Josh Rouse '1972', Sparklehorse "Dream for Light Years' Lord Huron "Long Lost', Gerry Rafferty's beautiful but forgotten "North & South', My Morning Jacket 'It Moves' and lastly not least Damien Jurado "Maraqopa' (featured on the movie the "HoldOvers'
@@GabrielSoma5899 Love that Josh Rouse album. 😉
Love Fairport, but Sandy did come back for Rising For The Moon.
Interesting. Never knew that.
The first Youngbloods is a fave. The Rose Garden's one and only album with a couple of Gene Clark songs on it. Great folk rock.
Great album, especially love Elephant Mountain from 1969. Almost put that one on the list, but it’s all over the map stylistically.
@@russellkroeker2822 the Rose Garden ❤ lovely album
👍😃Great selection, CF.
You need to buy some more lightbulbs...
The boundaries of the genre are drawn somewhat idiosyncratically but that makes this list extra interesting. But a few notable absentees I would like to mention here.
As with Capo's lists of best albums of the late 60s, Tim Buckley is absent. While in my opinion he is so brilliant and idiosyncratic that he should not be missing. His 70s work is disappointing but from 1966 through 1970 he delivered 6 top albums of which at least 3 were abolute masterpieces. An album by Fred Neil could also have been included as far as I am concerned, perhaps 'Bleecker & MacDougal' would have been the best contender for this list.
And choices with more emphasis on folk than rock would not have been out of place if boundaries were drawn broadly anyway, and then you can (nay should!) think of the early albums of both Joan Baez and Judy Collins. The Judy Collins Concert from 1964 is breathtakingly beautiful with the two Billy Edd Wheeler songs as absolute highlights.
And where is Tracy Chapman's debut or Terry Callier's first album? More recently, Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy's album “Adieu, false heart” is one of the finest recordings in this genre of the 21st century. Maybe think about a second list after all. Anyway, any list that includes Nick Drake is a great list. So well done Capo!
@@gcmvw1201 Thank you. I was never a huge Tim Buckley fan but I love the Happy Sad album. The vibes really add a nice touch. To be honest I almost put it on the list but it really straddles various genre’s and is truly hard to classify.
You should do a top 10 debuts.
@@JackTheMusicGuy I have. I’ve done 60’s 70’s & 80’s debut album videos. Check ‘em out. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 thank you!
i love the byrds , love , neil young , some dylan , bert jansch , and especially nick drake . but i never thought i'd ever hear the velvet underground described as folk rock . might as well call syd barret folk rock 'cos of his sense of whimsy .
@@HalfBlindAssassin-i5q 3/4 of that third VU album is folk rock. None of their other albums sound like it.
at the more country end of the scale ...gene clarke and gram parsons cosmic american music is brilliant
@@HalfBlindAssassin-i5q No doubt about it. 😉
I'll throw in the third Don McLean (self titled) album.
I think folks will like "How Can I Sleep" by a band called Cordelia's Dad; Kind of like a rough-edged Fairport Convention, but with American folk material. "Narraganset Bay" and "Texas Rangers" are worth a listen.
@@ice9snowflake187 Sounds interesting.
Nick Drake, perfect choice. Not that your other choices slacked in any way.
anyone here ever heard Chris Helme - The Rookery (2012) ??
@@HalfBlindAssassin-i5q Never heard it. I’ll check it out.
Songs from the wood Jethro Full.
Hi Tom
@@doodahdavesrecords4319 Hello Doo Dah Dave’s Records
How could you forget blood on the tracks by Dylan?
I always thought that was more of a singer songwriter album like Blue.
“Caesar’s Palace Morning Glory city human, city Human Race.”
Golden smog weird tales
I need to check out Golden Smog. Heard of the name, but not the music.
Hot Tuna - Burgers
IMHO the greatest Rock-folk album is Songs From The Wood by Jethro Tull; the greatest Folk-rock album IMHO is Liege and Lief by Fairport Convention.
@@BG-id2cv Liege and Lief is magic.
Buffalo Springfield all day!!
@@wayne7177 Hell yeah 😉
I endorse these choices! Most of them were in the rotation when I first started listening to FM radio (KSAN, San Francisco) in 1971.
With the Joni Mitchell, you get a bonus with a delightful picture of her bottom. 😀 Judy Collins did a nude album cover too, and she made some good folk rock tunes as well.
I guess Jefferson Airplane Takes Off gets passed by for being the least of the band's records in the '60s. I'd like to add the first Hot Tuna record, though -- it's just Jorma on acoustic guitar, Jack on electric bass, and sometimes Will on harmonica, recorded live doing mostly old songs (Jelly Roll Morton, Reverend Gary Davis, other traditional material). To this day, I believe, Jack and Jorma split their set into acoustic and electric halves. Worth a look on TH-cam.
Hoping Cat Stevens made it.
@@adamfindlay7091 oooops! Love Teaser And The Firecat and Tea For The Tillerman.
Yeah I only have teaser I need some more@@tomrobinson5776
I’d add Beggars Banquet, Tumbleweed Connection; Audience’s debut, LED Zeppelin lll, like your picks!
@@SFbank721 Almost put Beggars Banquet on the list. My fave Stones album.
Stand Up - Jethro Tull
Greenhouse - Leo Kottke
The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
In the 70s Antillies Records released Nick Drake's first two albums posthumously with great liner notes. Wish I had bought them.
Stand Up and Greenhouse are two of my all-time favorite albums. The Antilles reissue of Bryter Layter was my introduction to Nick Drake. I bought it for $1.99 from the cut-out bin. I didn't know anything about Nick Drake, but I bought the LP because I thought that he looked so cool and mysterious on the cover. Also, the musician credits included familiar names like John Cale and Richard Thompson, and the liner notes mentioned Tim Buckley and Van Morrison, whom I was already listening to, as artists who inspired Nick. The liner notes also mentioned John Martyn, whom I also had never heard of, but based on that reference, I started checking out John's albums (starting with Inside Out), and I became similarly enthralled. Liner notes are one of the things that I miss the most about LP records.
@@GreenManalishiUSA Thanks, I bought my Nick Drake LPs new in the import section. Kudos to Island records for always keeping them in print.
No. I'm sorry. 3rd Velvets album is not folk rock.
MIA: Steeleye Span - Parcel of Rogues.
I need to explore more of their catalog. The only one I have is Now We Are Six.