Folk/Rock choices that are well recorded

I'll second Trinity Sessions by the Cowboy Junkies, and Joni Mitchell's Blue.  Most anything GIllian Welch and/or David Rawlings record is well-recorded.  Joan Baez's debut album is beautifully simple.  The Avett Brothers' I and Love and You.  Most albums by the Wood Brothers.

• Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 & 2
• Paul Westerberg - Folker... Stereo... Mono
• Wilco - A.M.
• Rosanne Cash - The List
• Ray LaMontagne - Trouble

The soundtrack to “Inside Llewelyn Davis” is excellent. Great movie as well, IMO

In terms of British folk-rock the greatest, and at the same time most uncelebrated, band is Five Hand Reel. 

My copy of Hobo's Lullaby is pretty decent. An older pressing.