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Top Scottish Folk Music albums of all time

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Updated: 28 May
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Dick Gaughan - Handful of Earth, Cover art
March 1981 Album
acoustic political pastoral passionate folklore nature anti-religious conscious
555 Ratings 13 Reviews 3.71 Average
Silly Wizard - So Many Partings, Cover art
1979 Album
acoustic pastoral warm melodic bittersweet passionate folklore medieval
308 Ratings 6 Reviews 3.68 Average
Brìghde Chaimbeul - Carry Them With Us, Cover art
14 April 2023 Album
hypnotic minimalistic meditative atmospheric pastoral avant-garde
338 Ratings 1 Reviews 3.52 Average
Alasdair Roberts - No Earthly Man, Cover art
22 March 2005 Album
188 Ratings 9 Reviews 3.53 Average
Brìghde Chaimbeul - The Reeling, Cover art
18 January 2019 Album
acoustic instrumental atmospheric pastoral hypnotic
237 Ratings 3.34 Average
Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - Child Ballads, Cover art
11 February 2013 Album
157 Ratings 3 Reviews 3.52 Average
Archie Fisher - The Man With a Rhyme, Cover art
1976 Album
calm spring poetic folklore pastoral
105 Ratings 3.59 Average
Ossian - St. Kilda Wedding, Cover art
1978 Album
energetic happy
89 Ratings 1 Reviews 3.67 Average
Ewan MacColl - Songs of Two Rebellions: The Jacobite Wars of 1715 and 1745 in Scotland, Cover art
1960 Album
rebellious political history acoustic calm melancholic sentimental pastoral
93 Ratings 2 Reviews 3.57 Average
Silly Wizard - Wild & Beautiful, Cover art
1981 Album
82 Ratings 3.61 Average
Bert Jansch - The Ornament Tree, Cover art
November 1990 Album
85 Ratings 2 Reviews 3.44 Average
Alba - Alba, Cover art
3.73 56 56 1 1
1977 Album
56 Ratings 1 Reviews 3.73 Average
Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson - Hirta Songs, Cover art
November 2013 Album
62 Ratings 2 Reviews 3.65 Average
Dick Gaughan - Gaughan, Cover art
1978 Album
65 Ratings 1 Reviews 3.69 Average
Hamish Imlach - Hamish Imlach, Cover art
1966 Album
65 Ratings 2 Reviews 3.59 Average
Julie Fowlis - Cuilidh, Cover art
26 March 2007 Album
pastoral melodic
77 Ratings 4 Reviews 3.51 Average
Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger - Classic Scots Ballads, Cover art
1959 Album
ballad
69 Ratings 3.53 Average
Silly Wizard - Kiss the Tears Away, Cover art
1983 Album
66 Ratings 1 Reviews 3.66 Average
Harry Gorski-Brown - Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats, Cover art
9 February 2024 Album
dense lo-fi pastoral atmospheric hypnotic avant-garde
58 Ratings 3.54 Average
Jeannie Robertson - Scottish Ballads and Folk Songs by Jeannie Robertson, Cover art
February 1961 Album
a cappella folklore ballad
50 Ratings 3.63 Average
Dick Gaughan - No More Forever, Cover art
1972 Album
patriotic bittersweet sad
52 Ratings 2 Reviews 3.63 Average
Silly Wizard - Silly Wizard, Cover art
1976 Album
55 Ratings 3.63 Average
Dick Gaughan - Kist o' Gold, Cover art
1976 Album
52 Ratings 1 Reviews 3.62 Average
Julie Fowlis - Gach Sgeul, Cover art
24 February 2014 Album
melodic mellow soft folklore pastoral warm
44 Ratings 2 Reviews 3.62 Average
Alasdair Roberts - The Fiery Margin, Cover art
13 September 2019 Album
59 Ratings 1 Reviews 3.28 Average
Songs of Separation - Songs of Separation, Cover art
29 January 2016 Album
acoustic passionate peaceful folklore
46 Ratings 1 Reviews 3.48 Average
Archie Fisher - Archie Fisher, Cover art
1968 Album
43 Ratings 3.57 Average
Kris Drever - Black Water, Cover art
23 October 2006 Album
acoustic melodic
49 Ratings 2 Reviews 3.48 Average
Wulf - Wulf, Cover art
3.46 40 40
17 July 2017 Album
repetitive pastoral instrumental hypnotic medieval
40 Ratings 3.46 Average
Alasdair Roberts og Völvur - The Old Fabled River, Cover art
23 July 2021 Album
calm acoustic
47 Ratings 3 Reviews 3.31 Average
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  • Capercaillie - The Blood Is Strong, Cover art
    27 Ratings 3.26 Average
    3.26 27 27
  • Various Artists - Aly Bain Meets the Cajuns, Cover art
    11 Ratings 2 Reviews 3.61 Average
    3.61 11 11 2 2
  • Various Artists - Aly Bain & Friends, Cover art
    6 Ratings 3.70 Average
    3.70 6 6
  • Catherine-Ann MacPhee - Sings Mairi Mhor, Cover art
    4 Ratings 3.68 Average
    3.68 4 4
  • 3 Ratings 3.68 Average
    3.68 3 3
  • Live

  • Runrig - Once in a Lifetime - Live, Cover art
    61 Ratings 5 Reviews 3.83 Average
    3.83 61 61 5 5
  • Various Artists - Salm Vol. I: Gaelic Psalms From the Hebrides of Scotland, Cover art
    3.37 43 43
  • Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers - Off the Map, Cover art
    16 Ratings 1 Reviews 3.82 Average
    3.82 16 16 1 1
  • Hamish Imlach - Live, Cover art
    13 Ratings 3.88 Average
    3.88 13 13
  • Jeannie Robertson - Up the Dee and Doon the Don, Cover art
    10 Ratings 4.22 Average
    4.22 10 10
  • Archival

  • Mary O'Hara - Mary O'Hara's Scotland, Cover art
    65 Ratings 3.71 Average
    3.71 65 65
  • Jeannie Robertson - The Queen Among the Heather, Cover art
    12 Ratings 3.92 Average
    3.92 12 12
  • Pipe Major William MacLean - Scottish Tradition 10: Pibroch, Cover art
    3.81 7 7
  • Silly Wizard - 'Live' Again, Cover art
    7 Ratings 4.00 Average
    4.00 7 7
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