This decade has seen the rise of the the singer songwriter: the melancholy songster crooning with a guitar. If you’re in the mood for some acoustic rumination, check out some of the beautiful songs below!

• Fleet Foxes - Mykonos (Album)
• John Butler - Ocean (Max Sessions)
• Bon Iver - For Emma
• Piers Faccini The Wind that blows
• Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
• Jens Lekman - Black Cab
• Proof - I Am Kloot
• Johnny Cash - I see a darkness
• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Careless Love
• Will Oldham - Apocalypse, No!
• Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing
• Damien Rice - Cannonball - Official Video
• John Frusciante - A Doubt (Album Version)
• Joe Purdy - Wash Away
• Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (Once)