What are your top 10 folk albums?

I love Folk

Bring it All Back Home - Bob Dylan

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes

Wild Mountian Nation - Blitzen Trapper

Black River Killer - Blitzen Trapper

Pre Wars Blues Collection

Peter, Paul and Mary 10 year anniversary

Woody Guthries Greatest Hits

Harvest Moon - Neil Young

Rumors - Fleetwood Mac

BQ2:Woody Guthrie

BQ3:Stevie Nicks

I'm gonna stick to American artists, because to me, British Isles folk is a whole different trip... Also, I'm being fairly strict in my definition of "folk"; none of these have any electric instrumentation except for a little on Fred Neil's album and the Farinas' album..

Roscoe Holcomb - The High Lonesome Sound (1965)

Buffy St. Marie - It's My Way! (1964)

Doc Watson - Doc Watson (1963)

Fred Neil - Bleeker and MacDougal (1966)

Woodie Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads (1940)

Richard & Mimi Farina - Celebrations for a Grey Day (1965)

Lead Belly - Lead Belly Sings Folk Songs (1989)

Odetta - The Tin Angel (1954)

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1962)

Pete Seeger - Dangerous Songs!? (1966)

BQ: Holcomb

BQ2: Odetta or Buffy St. Marie

edit: D'oh, I forgot to mention what is my most favorite folk album of all, above all else: "Garden of Joy" (1967) by Jim Kweskin's Jug Band But that's an entirely different kind of folk than the ones in my list. Worth seeking out for fans of the 60's, psychedelic music, Americana, religious cults, Frank Zappa type stuff... But it is still completely a folk album.

Leonard Cohen-Song of Leonard Cohen

Bob Dylan-Bringing it All Back Home

Paul Simon- Graceland

Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska

Woody Guthrie- The Asch Recordings

Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited

Paul Simon- Self Titled

Leonard Cohen- Old Ideas

Woody Guthrie- Dust Bowl Ballads

Gregory and the Hawk- Moenie and Kitchi

BQ: Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen

BQ2: Meredith Godreau

Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan

On The Beach - Neil Young

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

Songs Of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

The End Of History - Fionn Regan

The Definitive Collection - Luke Kelly

Blue - Joni Mitchell

BQ: Neil Young

BQ2: Joni Mitchell

BQ: John Denver

BQ2: Tracy Chapman

Anything by Roy Harper, Sandy Denny or Joan Baez

evening fructose,

seederman is right: folk does indeed mean something different to us in the united kingdom.

it's the music of the common people, sung/played down through the centuries, and mostly of great historical and socio-political import

my first introduction to music was through folk, and it's a love i've never lost

and before the traditionalists don their arran sweaters and stick their finger in their ear, electric is perfectly, wonderfully acceptable

the very best of the corries - the corries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gung11ifkII

? - the spinners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6v2jRqjHzg

hark! the village wait - steeleye span

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBBSYK20-T0

liege and lief - fairport convention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD3F93v1Tdc

the tain - horslips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BbqCYpPPcM

songs from the wood - jethro tull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2MgU7PNHgw

earl o'moray - 5 hand reel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5JYqFSR5K4

rum, sodomy and the lash - the pogues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLPGphHOE0Q

links - kerfuffle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtiqoE-mOWs

the imagined village - the imagined village

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMpzWrDss_s

my top ten would normally include four or five steeleye span albums, but i thought i'd showcase a few others...

Woody Guthrie-Songs

BQ:That's all i know

BQ2:N/A

Woody Guthrie-Songs

BQ:That's all i know

BQ2:N/A

as in folk metal but without the metal?

The only one I can think of is "Storm" by Fejd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7H-OHJ10M