10 Great Folk Albums for the End of Daylight Saving Time

10 Great Folk Albums for the End of Daylight Saving Time

The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally appropriate folk albums will still be there.

The best folk albums tend to suit this time of year—the muddy oranges, browns and greens; the slowing-down after frenzied summers; the darkness.

Blending an embrace of the melancholy with an interest in societies and characters that can populate your inner world against the loneliness, folk music is the perfect companion for all the walking in the rain, waiting for the bus in the dark and sheltering cozily on the sofa that’s ahead of us these next few months.

It’s music of the people, for the people. But it’s not the most straightforward thing to define.

In the West, we tend to think of anything with an acoustic guitar and lo-fi production as being folk, because that’s what American folk music— which developed from a blend of traditional songs brought over by British and Irish settlers and African slaves—sounds like.

Author summary: Discover 10 great folk albums.

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GQ GQ — 2025-11-03

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