Best 1960s Folk and Singer-Songwriter Songs

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   The Sound of Silence

   Simon & Garfunkel · from Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964) · Album scores 80/99

   A poem and a melody that refused to be forgotten.

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   The Sound of Silence

   Simon & Garfunkel · from Sounds of Silence (1966) · Album scores 90/99

   Revisited: the electric version that nobody asked for and everyone needed.

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   Suzanne

   Leonard Cohen · from Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) · Album scores 88/99

   Poetic, image-rich folk that opened his career.

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   Folsom Prison Blues

   Johnny Cash · from At Folsom Prison (1968) · Album scores 85/99

   Recorded live to a roar of inmates.

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   River Man

   Nick Drake · from Five Leaves Left (1969) · Album scores 88/99

   Harry Robinson's string arrangement around Drake's guitar — devastating.

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   Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

   Fairport Convention · from Unhalfbricking (1969) · Album scores 87/99

   Sandy Denny's voice against Richard Thompson's guitar: the whole of English folk.

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   Matty Groves

   Fairport Convention · from Liege & Lief (1969) · Album scores 89/99

   Electric folk as it had never been heard before.

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