This week’s Monday Morning Brew is a special 4-hour playlist celebrating ‘Down Home Music’. We explore the far corners of American vernacular music: folk, blues, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, hillbilly, and more, featuring releases from Arhoolie Records, Smithsonian Folkways, Dust-to-Digital, and more.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew playlist features 22 new tracks, including a shamelessly naked love song from Johanna Warren, plus collaborations between Shawn James and Damien Jurado and Ann Annie, and between Meshell Ndegeocello, Bill Callahan, and Chris Thile.

Welcome to the latest Monday Morning Brew, jam-packed with new releases from the likes of Birdvox, Spell Songs, The McMillan’s Camp Boys, Brigid Mae Power, Jude Brothers, Abby Walker, Diket, Hannah Everingham, Misha Panfilov, Colin Stetson & Brìghde Chaimbeul, Jon McKiel, Sean Hayes, Steven R. Smith, Nat Myers, Charlie Parr and more. Plus five new album recommendations ft. African steel guitar, indie twang, kosmiche country and Irish Trad to explore.

Listen to our special mid-week Morning Brew playlist, celebrating over three years of our weekly playlist series: The Monday Morning Brew. It features over four hours of music spanning folk, psych, soul, jazz, and more.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew playlist clocks in at over two hours with all new releases, ft. Elanor Moss, Rosie Miles, Niamh Bury, Alice Boyd, Claire Cronin, claire rousay, Sheherazaad, Josienne Clarke, M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon, Sam Burton, Liana Flores and more. Plus three album recommendations covering a viral hit from Brazil, Australian Post-Punk, a Glasgow musician challenging the folk orthodoxy.

Read our latest Substack Newsletter and enjoy our new Monday Morning Brew weekly playlist, featuring a stack of new releases from Sam Amidon, Ohtis, Natalie Wildgoose, Martin Simpson, Rachel Sermanni, plus some older favourites from Arborea, Two Wings, Great Lake Swimmers, The Gloaming and lots more.

Read our latest Substack Newsletter and enjoy our Two-Hour Monday Morning Brew weekly playlist: spiritual vibes from the hippie forefather, eden ahbez, Ethio-jazz, psychedelic folk, and more. Plus, three of my favourite albums on New York’s Freedom to Spend label; a delve into the finely crafted books from German publisher Steidl (including a full-length Documentary); plus a John Cohen Documentary on Roscoe Holcomb, and my latest favourite releases.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist is out, ft. Trá Pháidín, Noah C. Lekas, More Eaze, Mali Obomsawin, Allison De Groot & Rich Ruth, Niamh Regan, Nora Stanley, Rowena Wise, BLack Duck & Elena Setién, Jon McKiel and more.

Our latest Monday Morning Brew playlist is out, featuring new music from The Furrow Collective, MF Tomlinson, Sir Richard Bishop, a new Blaze Foley tribute album, Margaret Glaspy, Kam Franklin and more, along with a stack of new music recommendations ranging from English Psych Folk to an album inspired by Southern Africa’s indigenous guitar traditions.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew opens with the mesmerising ‘News from Home’ from Clara Mann, then roams from a pair of sixties one-album-wonders to a reissued early-80s outsider legend and the forthcoming Mama’s Broke — our Artists of the Month for August.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew features new tunes from M.G. Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon, Alex Dupree, Colin Stetson & Brighde Chaimbeul, Bitichin Bajas, Cinder Well, Minna, Jeffrey Silverstein, Le Ren, Ben McElroy, Jackson Hoyt & Kaia Kater, Karine Polwart, The Deep Dark Woods and more.

The latest Monday Morning Brew Playlist features music from Seu Jorge, koleżanks, Passepartout Duo, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Elanor Moss, Jason Molina, Dave Rawlings Machine, Mama’s Broke, Hana Stretton, Creekbed Carter Hogan, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Takuro Okada, Terry Riley, TJ Douglas,Trá Pháidín and more. In the accompanying newsletter, we have new music recommendations, and you can listen to a newly discovered Jean Ritchie concert from 1960.