The Monday Morning Brew is a weekly Folk Radio Playlist available on Spotify.
Last week, we shared news of the new book ‘Arhoolie Records Down Home Music’, a visual storytelling celebration of American roots music through unseen and newly scanned photographs by Chris Strachwitz, the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records. This week’s playlist includes some gems from Arhoolie Records as well as Smithsonian Folkways and more.
Featuring* Hackberry Ramblers, Alice Stuart, Frank Fairfield, Kostas Bezos and the Whitebirds, Lydia Medoza, Wilmouth Houdini, Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band, Rumel Fuentes, Johnie Lewis, Jesse Fuller, John Jackson, The Doc Watson Family, Barbara Dane, Neil Morris, Precious Bryant, Mance Lipscomb, Nathan Abshire and The Balfa Brothers, The New Lost City Ramblers and Cousin Emmy, Wade Fruge, Ola Belle Reed and David Reed, Dock Boggs, Mike Hanapi, Sid Hemphill, John Lee Ziegler, Othar Turner, Hobart Smith, Robert “Guitar” Welch, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sonny Treadway, Clarence “Tom” Ashley, Roscoe Holcomb, Spender Moore, The Georgia Potlickers.