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Best 1960s Folk and Singer-Songwriter Songs

The best folk songs of the 1960s (60s), ranked — each one links to the album it came from, on vinyl, CD or Amazon Music.

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    The Sound of Silence

    Simon & Garfunkel · from Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)

    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)

    The hushed folk landmark that launched them.

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    Suzanne

    Leonard Cohen · from Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

    Poetic, image-rich folk that opened his career.

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    Folsom Prison Blues

    Johnny Cash · from At Folsom Prison (1968)

    Recorded live to a roar of inmates.

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    River Man

    Nick Drake · from Five Leaves Left (1969)

    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)

    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)

    Electric folk as it had never been heard before.

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