My Favorite Albums of 1971

Music Anniversaries.   Don't you just love them?  Well if you are a list lover, like me, you do.  Below are an A-Z listing of my favorite albums released in 1971.  Lots of genres, and most likely, even in 2021, lots of albums that I still haven't heard.  All are studio or live, no greatest hits albums.

Al Green - Gets Next To You

Alice Cooper - Killer

Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East

America - s/t

Aretha Franklin - Live at Fillmore West

Badfinger - Straight Up

B.B. King - Live In Cook County Jail

Beach Boys - Surf's Up

Bee Gees - Trafalgar

Bill Withers - Just As I Am

Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality

Bobby Womack - Communication

Bonnie Raitt - s/t

Booker T. & The M.G.'s - Melting Pot

Carly Simon - Anticipation

Carole King - Tapestry

Carole King - Music

Carpenters - s/t

Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat

Charley Pride - I'm Just Me

Charley Pride - Sings Heart Songs

Chi-Lites - Give More Power To The People

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Lost in the Ozone

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis/Live

Curtis Mayfield - Roots

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name

Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton - Joshua

Don McLean - American Pie

Donny Hathaway - s/t

Doors - L.A. Woman

Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get

Elton John - Madman Across The Water

Elvis Presley - Elvis Country

Faces - A Nod Is As Good As A Wink

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of A Man

Graham Nash - Songs for Beginners

Grateful Dead - s/t

Grin - 1+1

Isaac Hayes - Black Moses

Isaac Hayes - Shaft

Isley Brothers - Givin' It Back

Jackson 5 - Maybe Tomorrow

James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon

Janis Joplin - Pearl

Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff

Jerry Reed - When You're Hot, You're Hot

Jimi Hendrix - Cry of Love

Johnny Cash - Man In Black

Joy of Cooking - s/t

John Hartford - Aereo-Plain

John Lennon - Imagine

John Prine - s/t

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies

Kris Kristofferson - Silver Tongued Devil and I

Led Zeppelin - IV 

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate

Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

MC5 - High Time

Merle Haggard - Hag

Merle Haggard - Someday We'll Look Back

Mickey Newbury - Frisco Mabel Joy

Miles Davis - Jack Johnson

Miles Davis - Live/Evil

Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Move - Message From The Country

New Riders of the Purple Sage - s/t

Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson

Paul McCartney - Ram

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Ricky Nelson - Rudy the Fifth

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Sammi Smith - Lonesome

Santana - III

Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson

Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On

Staple Singers - Staple Swingers

Stevie Wonder - Where I'm Coming From

Stylistics - s/t

T. Rex - Electric Warrior

Tom T. Hall - In Search Of A Song

Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey

Waylon Jennings - Taker/Tulsa

Willie Nelson - Yesterday's Wine

Who - Who's Next

Yes - Fragile

Yes - Yes Album