There are a lot of "top ten albums" and "top fifty CDs" threads on Mudcat. I was looking over my collection of vinyl, cassettes, and CDs from high school in the fifties to last week, and decided 100 was too many to choose, and ten wasn't enough. So I worked up my purely personal all-time 50. I allowed just original albums - no "best of" or "the essential" collections.

Who agrees with how many?

Peter.

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The Top Ten:

Baez, Joan - "Joan Baez" (original Vanguard album)
Bok, Gordon - "A Rogue's Gallery of Songs for 12-String"
Ian and Sylvia - "Four Strong Winds"
Ian and Sylvia - "Northern Journey"
Jennings, Waylon, & Nelson, Willie - "Waylon and Willie"
Nelson, Willie - "Red Headed Stranger"
Rogers, Stan - "Between the Breaks...Live"
Russell, Tom, et. al. - "The Man From God Knows Where"
Tyson, Ian - "Cowboyography"
Watson, Arthel ("Doc") - "Doc Watson" (original Vanguard album)

The Next Forty:

Baez, Joan (w/Greenbriar Boys) - "Joan Baez vol. 2"
Bikel, Theo, & Gooding, Cynthia - "Young Man and a Maid"
Blake, Norman & Rice, Tony (w/Watson, Doc) - "Blake & Rice II"
Blake, Norman & Rice, Tony - "Blake & Rice"
Blake, Norman & Nancy - "Blind Dog"
Bok/Muir/Trickett - "And So Will We Yet"
Dylan, Bob - "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
Dylan, Bob - "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"
Dylan, Bob - "Bob Dylan"
Dylan, Bob - "Blood on the Tracks"
Dylan, Bob - "Another Side of Bob Dylan"
Dylan, Bob - "Nashville Skyline"
Earle, Steve - "Train a'Comin'"
FinestKind - "Lost in a Song"
Flatt & Scruggs w/Watson, Doc - "Strictly Instrumental"
Harris, Emmylou - "Roses in the Snow"
Hills, Anne & Mangsen, Cindy - "Never Grow Old"
Ian and Sylvia - "Ian and Sylvia" (original Vanguard album)
Keeler, Greg - "Songs of Fishing, Sheep, & Guns in Montana"
Kingston Trio, The - "The Kingston Trio"
Kingston Trio, The - "...From The 'Hungry I' "
McCaslin, Mary, & Ringer, Jim - "The Bramble and the Rose"
Morse, Kendall - "Beginner's Luck"
Parsons, Gram - "Grievous Angel"
Phillips, Bruce ("Utah") & Ross, Mark - "Loafer's Glory"
Phillips, Bruce ("Utah") - "Good, Though"
Roberts, John & Barrand, Tony - "Naulakha Redux"
Rogers, Stan - "Northwest Passage"
Rogers, Stan - "From Fresh Water"
Rush, Tom - "Got a Mind to Ramble"
Rush, Tom - "Blues, Songs and Ballads"
Rush, Tom - "Trolling for Owls"
Russell, Tom - "Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs"
Russell, Tom - "Cowboy Real"
Seldom Scene, The - "Like We Used To Be"
Skaggs, Ricky, and Rice, Tony - "Skaggs and Rice"
Sky, Patrick - "Songs That Made America Famous"
Stecher, Jody & Brislin, Kate - "Heart Songs"
Tyson, Ian - "And Stood There Amazed"
Watson, Arthel ("Doc"), (w/Watson, Merle) - "Doc Watson & Son"