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Long Shot's Top 75 Albums of 1964

Now we're cruising, baby. Lots of folk revival records here because I'm a folk JUNKIE (including some you might not have heard or even heard of), plus a few select British Invasion choices.
1John Fahey
Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes

4.8

Track pick: "Stomping Tonight on the Pennsylvania/Alabama Border"
2Eric Dolphy
Out to Lunch!

4.7

Track pick: "Hat and Beard"
3Charles Mingus
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

4.7

Track pick: "Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul"
4Herbie Hancock
Empyrean Isles

4.5

Track pick: "The Egg"
5The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night

4.4

Track pick: "And I Love Her"
6Muddy Waters
Folk Singer

4.4

Track pick: "Cold Weather Blues"
7Grachan Moncur III
Evolution

4.3

Track pick: "Evolution"
8John Coltrane
Crescent

4.3

Track pick: "Crescent"
9John Coltrane
Live At Birdland

4.2

Track pick: "Alabama"
10Buffy Sainte-Marie
It's My Way!

4.2

Track pick: "The Universal Soldier"
11Charles Mingus
Town Hall

4.1

Track pick: "Praying with Eric"
12John Coltrane
Coltrane's Sound

4.1

Track pick: "Equinox"
13Jesse Colin Young
The Soul of a City Boy

4.1

Track pick: "Drifter's Blues"
14Phil Ochs
All The News That's Fit to Sing

4.1

Track pick: "Too Many Martyrs"
15Andrew Hill
Black Fire

4.0

Track pick: "Black Fire"
16Dave Van Ronk
Inside Dave Van Ronk

4.0

Track pick: "Fair and Tender Ladies"
17Stan Getz
Getz/Gilberto

4.0

Track pick: "The Girl from Ipanema"
18The Ronettes
Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes

3.9

Track pick: "Be My Baby"
19Sam Cooke
Ain't That Good News

3.9

Track pick: "A Change Is Gonna Come"
20Booker Ervin
The Freedom Book

3.9

Track pick: "A Lunar Tune"
21Andrew Hill
Judgment!

3.9

Track pick: "Siete Ocho"
22The Beatles
Beatles for Sale

3.8

Track pick: "Baby's in Black"
23Jimmy Smith
The Cat

3.8

Track pick: "Basin Street Blues"
24Lee Morgan
The Sidewinder

3.8

Track pick: "The Sidewinder"
25Simon and Garfunkel
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

3.8

Track pick: "The Sound of Silence"
26Thelonious Monk
It's Monk's Time

3.8

Track pick: "Brake's Sake"
27Nina Simone
Nina Simone in Concert

3.8

Track pick: "Go Limp"
28Wayne Shorter
Night Dreamer

3.8

Track pick: "Night Dreamer"
29Jackie McLean
One Step Beyond

3.7

Track pick: "Ghost Town"
30Art Blakey
The Freedom Rider

3.7

Track pick: "Tell It Like It Is"
31Freddie Hubbard
Breaking Point

3.7

Track pick: "Far Away"
32Jan Johansson
Jazz Pa Svenska

3.7

Track pick: "Visa från Utanmyra"
33Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin'

3.6

Track pick: "Ballad of Hollis Brown"
34Jackie McLean
Destination... Out!

3.6

Track pick: "Esoteric"
35Monica Zetterlund and Bill Evans
Waltz for Debby

3.6

Track pick: "Sorrow Wind"
36Miles Davis
Miles Davis in Europe

3.6

Track pick: "Autumn Leaves"
37Etta James
Rocks The House

3.6

Track pick: "Baby, What You Want Me to Do"
38Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan

3.6

Track pick: "My Back Pages"
39Joe Henderson
Our Thing

3.6

Track pick: "Our Thing"
40Hank Mobley
No Room for Squares

3.5

Track pick: "Carolyn"
41Joan Baez
Joan Baez/5

3.5

Track pick: "There But for Fortune"
42Baden Powell
A Vontade

3.5

Track pick: "Berimbau"
43Yusef Lateef
Eastern Sounds

3.5

Track pick: "The Plum Blossom"
44The Beach Boys
All Summer Long

3.5

Track pick: "I Get Around"
45Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot, Volume 2

3.5

Track pick: "Aggression"
46Chuck Berry
St. Louis to Liverpool

3.5

Track pick: "No Particular Place to Go"
47Nara Leao
Nara

3.5

Track pick: "Marcha da quarta-feirza de cinzas"
48Jerry Lee Lewis
Live at the Star Club, Hamburg

3.5

Track pick: "Money"
49Herbie Hancock
Inventions And Dimensions

3.5

Track pick: "Mimosa"
50Solomon Burke
Rock 'n' Soul

3.5

Track pick: "Cry to Me"
51Donald Byrd
A New Perspective

3.4

Track pick: "Cristo Redentor"
52Irma Thomas
Wish Someone Would Care

3.4

Track pick: "Wish Someone Would Care"
53Shirley Collins and Davy Graham
Folk Roots, New Routes

3.4

Track pick: "Reynardine"
54Little Richard
Little Richard Is Back (And There's a Whole Lotta

3.4

Track pick: "I Don't Know What You Got"
55The Kinks
Kinks

3.4

Track pick: "You Really Got Me"
56Bukka White
Mississippi Blues

3.4

Track pick: "Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues"
57Charles Mingus
Tonight at Noon

3.4

Track pick: "Peggy's Blue Skylight"
58Otis Redding
Pain in My Heart

3.4

Track pick: "That's What My Heart Needs"
59The Yardbirds
Five Live Yardbirds

3.4

Track pick: "Smokestack Lightnin'"
60John Coltrane
Black Pearls

3.4

Track pick: "Lover Come Back to Me"
61Eric Dolphy
Last date

3.3

Track pick: "Epistrophy"
62Tony Bennett
The Many Moods of Tony

3.3

Track pick: "You've Changed"
63Kenny Dorham
Una Mas (One More Time)

3.3

Track pick: "Straight Ahead"
64Glen Campbell
The Astounding 12-String Guitar of Glen Campbell

3.3

Track pick: "Lonesome Twelve"
65Charles Mingus
Mingus Plays Piano

3.3

Track pick: "Myself When I Am Real"
66The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Jazz Impressions of Japan

3.3

Track pick: "Tokyo Traffic"
67John Coltrane
The Believer

3.3

Track pick: "The Believer"
68The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

3.2

Track pick: "Route 66"
69Bo Diddley / Chuck Berry
Two Great Guitars

3.2

Track pick: "Chuck's Beat"
70Frank Sinatra
It Might as Well Be Swing

3.2

Track pick: "Fly Me to the Moon"
71Waylon Jennings
At JD's

3.1

Track pick: "Crying"
72Archie Shepp
Four For Trane

3.1

Track pick: "Naima"
73Fred Neil
Tear Down the Walls

3.1

Track pick: "Red Flowers"
74Johnny Cash
Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian

3.1

Track pick: "The Ballad of Ira Hayes"
75Tom Paxton
Ramblin' Boy

3.1

Track pick: "Harper"
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