Year |
Album |
Artist(s) |
1960 [1] |
The Kingston Trio at Large |
The Kingston Trio |
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall |
Harry Belafonte |
Tennessee Stud |
Eddy Arnold |
The Wild, Wild West |
The Ralph Hunter Choir |
The Wilderness Road |
Jimmy Driftwood |
1961 [2] |
Swing Dat Hammer |
Harry Belafonte |
Cheers: Drinking Songs Around the World |
The Belafonte Folk Singers |
Greenfields |
The Brothers Four |
Here We Go Again! |
The Kingston Trio |
Miriam Makeba |
Miriam Makeba |
1962 [3] |
The Belafonte Folk Singers... At Home and Abroad |
The Belafonte Folk Singers |
The Big Bill Broonzy Story |
Big Bill Broonzy |
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem |
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem |
Folk Songs of Britain Vol. 1 |
Alan Lomax |
The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters |
The Limeliters |
1963 [4] |
If I Had a Hammer |
Peter, Paul and Mary |
The Ballad of Jed Clampett |
Flatt and Scruggs |
Bob Dylan |
Bob Dylan |
Joan Baez in Concert |
Joan Baez |
Midnight Special |
Harry Belafonte |
Presenting The New Christy Minstrels |
The New Christy Minstrels |
Something Special |
The Kingston Trio |
1964 [5] |
Blowin' in the Wind |
Peter, Paul and Mary |
Green, Green |
The New Christy Minstrels |
Judy Collins 3 |
Judy Collins |
Odetta Sings Folk Songs |
Odetta |
The World of Miriam Makeba |
Miriam Makeba |
1965 [6] |
We'll Sing in the Sunshine |
Gale Garnett |
Belafonte at The Greek Theatre |
Harry Belafonte |
Peter, Paul and Mary in Concert |
Peter, Paul and Mary |
Woody Guthrie: Library of Congress Recordings |
Woody Guthrie |
The Times They Are a-Changin' |
Bob Dylan |
Today |
The New Christy Minstrels |
The Voice of Africa |
Miriam Makeba |
1966 [7] |
An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba |
Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba |
The High Lonesome Sound |
Roscoe Holcomb |
Makeba Sings! |
Miriam Makeba |
A Song Will Rise |
Peter, Paul and Mary |
Strangers and Cousins |
Pete Seeger |
There but for Fortune |
Joan Baez |
The Womenfolk Live at the Hungry I |
The Womenfolk |
1967 [8] |
Blues in the Street |
Cortelia Clark |
God Bless the Grass |
Pete Seeger |
Lead Belly |
Lead Belly |
Oliver Smith |
Oliver Smith |
Reflections in a Crystal Wind |
Mimi & Richard Fariña |
Violets of Dawn |
The Mitchell Trio |
1968 [9] |
Gentle on My Mind |
John Hartford |
Album 1700 |
Peter, Paul and Mary |
Alice's Restaurant |
Arlo Guthrie |
In My Life |
Judy Collins |
Janis Ian |
Janis Ian |
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy |
Pete Seeger |
1969 [10] |
Both Sides, Now |
Judy Collins |
Did She Mention My Name? |
Gordon Lightfoot |
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter |
Incredible String Band |
John Wesley Harding |
Bob Dylan |
Late Again |
Peter, Paul and Mary |
The Unicorn |
The Irish Rovers |
1970 [11] |
Clouds |
Joni Mitchell |
Any Day Now |
Joan Baez |
Donovan |
Donovan |
Bird on the Wire |
Judy Collins |
Day is Done |
Peter, Paul and Mary |
Young vs. Old |
Pete Seeger |
1971 [12] |
Good Feelin' |
T-Bone Walker |
Black Music of South America |
David Lewisohn |
Folk Fiddling From Sweden |
Bjorn Stabi & Ole Hjorth |
I Do Not Play No Rock'n'Roll |
Mississippi Fred McDowell |
Sail On |
Muddy Waters |
Shree Rag |
Ali Akbar Khan & Shankha Ghosh |
1972 [13] |
They Call Me Muddy Waters |
Muddy Waters |
18th Century Traditional Music of Japan |
Keiko Matsuo |
The Esso Trinidad Steel Band |
Esso Trinidad Steel Band |
Javanese Court Gamelan |
Javanese Players |
Message to the Young |
Howlin' Wolf |
Mississippi Fred McDowell |
Mississippi Fred McDowell |
Stormy Monday Blues |
T-Bone Walker |
1973 [14] |
The London Muddy Waters Sessions |
Muddy Waters |
Blues Piano Orgy |
Various Artists |
Lightnin' Strikes |
Lightnin' Hopkins |
Live at Soledad Prison |
John Lee Hooker |
Walking the Blues |
Otis Spann |
1974 [15] |
Then and Now |
Doc Watson |
Can't Get No Grindin' |
Muddy Waters |
John Lee Hooker's Detroit |
John Lee Hooker |
King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree: Blues at Montreux |
King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree |
Lead Belly: Live in Concert |
Lead Belly |
1975 [16] |
Two Days in November |
Doc Watson & Merle Watson |
Big Daddy |
Bukka White |
The Back Door Wolf |
Howlin' Wolf |
Catalyst |
Willie Dixon |
London Revisited |
Muddy Waters & Howlin' Wolf |
1976 [17] |
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album |
Muddy Waters |
I Got What It Takes |
Koko Taylor |
Memphis Blues |
Memphis Slim |
Music of Guatemala |
The San Lucas Band |
Wake Up Dead Man |
Bruce Jackson |
1977 [18] |
Mark Twang |
John Hartford |
Bagpipe Marches and Music of Scotland |
Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band |
Beware of the Dog! |
Hound Dog Taylor |
If You Love These Blues, Play 'Em As You Please |
Michael Bloomfield |
Proud Earth |
Chief Dan George, Arliene Nofchissey Williams & Rick Brousseau |
1978 [19] |
Hard Again |
Muddy Waters |
Blues Hit Big Town |
Junior Wells |
Right Place, Wrong Time |
Otis Rush |
The Things That I Used to Do |
Big Joe Turner |
What Happened to My Blues |
Willie Dixon |
1979 [20] |
I'm Ready |
Muddy Waters |
Chicago Blues at Home |
Various Artists |
Clifton Chenier and His Red Hot Louisiana Band in New Orleans |
Clifton Chenier |
I Hear Some Blues Downstairs |
Fenton Robinson |
U.S.A. |
Memphis Slim & His House Rockers ft. Matt "Guitar" Murphy |
1980 [21] |
Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live |
Muddy Waters |
The Chieftains 7 |
The Chieftains |
Ice Pickin' |
Albert Collins |
Laugh Your Blues Away |
Uncle Dave Macon |
Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 1 |
Shaw and the Wolf Gang & Left Hand Frank and His Blues Band |
Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 3 |
Lonnie Brooks Blues Band, Pinetop Perkins & Sons of Blues |
New England Traditional Fiddling |
John Edwards Memorial Foundation |
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival |
Various Artists |
So Many Roads |
Otis Rush |
1981 [22] |
Rare Blues |
Various Artists |
Atlanta Blues: '33 |
Various Artists |
The Chieftains 9: Boil the Breakfast Early |
The Chieftains |
Kidney Stew Is Fine |
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson |
Queen Ida & the Bon Temps Zydeco Band In New Orleans |
Queen Ida |
1982 [23] |
There Must Be a Better World Somewhere |
B.B. King |
Blues Deluxe |
Various Artists |
From the Heart of a Woman |
Koko Taylor |
Frozen Alive! |
Albert Collins |
Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 4 |
Various Artists |
1983 [24] |
Queen Ida & The Bon Temps Zydeco Band On Tour |
Queen Ida |
In the Tradition |
The Boys of the Lough |
Live in America |
The John Renbourn Group |
Metropolis |
The Klezmorim |
Reggae Sunsplash '81: A Tribute to Bob Marley |
Various Artists |
Tennessee: Folk Heritage - The Mountain |
Various Artists |
1984 [25] |
I'm Here |
Clifton Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana Band |
The Grey Fox |
The Chieftains |
Raga Mishra Piloo |
Ali Akbar Khan & Ravi Shankar |
Renaissance of the Celtic Harp |
Alan Stivell |
Syncro System |
King Sunny Adé |
1985 [26] |
Elizabeth Cotten Live! |
Elizabeth Cotten |
100% Fortified Zydeco |
Buckwheat Zydeco |
Good Rockin' |
Rockin' Dopsie |
On A Saturday Night |
Queen Ida |
Open Road |
Boys of the Lough |
1986 [27] |
My Toot Toot |
Rockin' Sidney |
Live at the San Francisco Blues Festival |
Clifton Chenier |
Souvenirs |
Dewey Balfa |
Turning Point |
Buckwheat Zydeco |
Zydeco Gris Gris |
BeauSoleil |