The Monday Morning Brew #78 (Exclusive)
New Exclusive Monday Morning Brew Playlist - Plus, an interview with Alasdair Roberts from 2017 and a revisit to Mick Hanly and Mícheál Ó Domhnaill's Celtic Folkweave (1974)
Those of you who caught our recent Regular Newsletter will have read that The Monday Morning Brew is now exclusive to our Premium Newsletter Subscribers (if you missed it, you can read more here - it also included our latest Folk Show).
This latest playlist (listen links below) features releases by some of my favourite Irish artist releases from the past year and more. It kicks off with DUG, featuring Jonny Pickett from California and Lorkin O’Reilly, who, after living in NY for a decade and performing as a solo artist, returned to Dublin in 2022.
KLOF Mag’s much-missed David Morrison, who sadly passed away in 2023, introduced me to Lorkin’s music and selected his 2021 album Marriage Material as one of his Top 10 albums of 2021.
I instantly fell for this collaboration with Pickett, which has only resulted in two singles to date…but I never tire of hearing Jubilee; here’s a lovely session they did for the good folks at GemsOnVHS:
Not all the artists in the new playlist are Irish, nor are all the tracks releases from the past year. As usual, the music meanders, sparked by links and memories that lead to other inclusions, among which you’ll hear Alasdair Roberts playing a song from his 2017 album Pangs - described at the time by KLOF’s Thomas Blake as a collection of songs that are tighter and more incisive than practically anything else in Alasdair Roberts’ massive back catalogue. There’s also, to me at least, a nice contrast between Alasdair’s band and The John Renbourn Group that follows.
Further down this page, you’ll find an insightful interview we had with Alasdair about this album, as well as a deep dive on another favourite album I’ve include a track from, Mick Hanly and the late Mícheál Ó Domhnaill’s Celtic Folkweave, which Claddagh Records reissued in 2022.
Enjoy.
Monday Morning Brew #78
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