Some 54 years after his 1971 debut, Steve Tilston releases his final album, Last Call. As valuable and worthy as any of his previous recordings, it secures his place as a stellar member of the folk music elite.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver, Toby Hay, Quinie, Aidan O’Rourke, Appendix Out, Jackie Oates, Joseph Allred, James Yorkston, Iona Lane, Trembling Bells, Eight Point Star, Remorae, Pelt and more.

Watch the new video from Glasgow-based musician Quinie for her new single ‘Sallow Buckthorn’, a mesmeric sea of swirling sound and Scots poetry.

With Altogether Stranger, Lael Neale has cooked up a concoction of her own that will be ripe for inspiration to many: an exquisitely crafted masterclass in retro minimalism and free expression.

Watch Alex Rex’s ‘Boss Morris’ video, a tribute to his favourite all-female Morris dancing side, the titular Boss Morris – energy, colour, self-invention and profound knowledge of the tradition all collapsed into something that has reinvigorated the form.

After 15 years of performing together, the much-loved Yorkshire folk duo of Belinda O’Hooley & Heidi Tidow say farewell for now in order to explore other adventures that are beckoning to them. Don’t miss their final tour of their favourite venues.

Iona Lane’s Swilkie is a masterful album full of heartfelt emotion and breathtaking songwriting, and the additional disc of live recordings casts the whole album as a journey from solo endeavour to collaboration, from the bud of an idea to a fully-realised work of art.

Christina Alden and Alex Patterson’s long-awaited second album, Safe Travels, is released on 9th May. Watch them performing the heartfelt ‘A Hundred Years Ago’ live.

On Annie A’s ‘The Wind That Had Not Touched Land’, the boundaries between song, sound art and poetry disappear in a flicker or a haze, and the results are quietly mesmerising.

Listen to “Widdershins” an ornately decorated folk epistle that shares an existential fundament of Faun Fables’ worldview. Their new album, Counterclockwise, drops on May 30th.

Sally Anne Morgan announces her new album, Second Circle The Horizon. Listen to her first album single, “I Saw a Heron” – “I wanted to capture the feeling of walking outside and encountering organic nature sounds”

In follow-up to 2019’s ‘New Music for the 12 String Guitar’, Toby Hay, one of the finest guitarists of his generation, announces his 7th studio album ‘New Music for the 6 String Guitar’ and shares lead single and video ‘Celyn’.