THE NEW YORKER: “Jeffrey Foucault sings stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest”

Session Americana (Boston) is a rock band in a tea cup, or possibly a folk band in a whiskey bottle. This band/collective of talented musicians craft an musical experience unlike any other. On stage is a collapsible bar table wired with microphones, a vintage suitcase recast as a kick drum, an old Estey field organ, a pre-war parlor guitar, a mandocello and all of its smaller siblings, a harmonica case fire damaged when Jack's bar went up in flames and graffitied by Depeche Mode roadies, and an assortment of other instruments that get passed around in this freewheeling modern hootenanny. The anything-could-happen feel of a Session show depends on craft that's not accidental or easilywon; they bring a kind of ease and genuineness to this timeless music, sometimes presenting the latest batch of original songs, sometimes reaching back into depths of the American "song bag".

Session Americana is an absolute must-see, must-hear.
Says David Greenberger of NPR:"I'd give them 100 miles. That is to say, if they're playing anywhere within 100 miles of your home, you drive there and are grandly rewarded for your effort."

Their newest album LOVE AND DIRT (September 4, 2012) is a cohesive and and wellcomposed batch of songs, a playfully irreverent take on roots music with an edgy experimental side. The record was tracked by Matt Malikowski and noted producer, engineer, and mixer Paul Q. Kolderie, known for his work with the Pixies, Radiohead, Hole, Dinosaur Jr., Throwing Muses, Morphine, and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

An essential part of Session Americana is collaboration and spontaneity. Some of the regional and international artists who have "sat at their table" are: Patty Griffin, Kris Delmhorst, Jennifer Kimball, Peter Wolf (J.Geils Band), Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom), Billy Conway (Morphine), Bruno Green (FR), The Henry Girls (ROI), Cahelen Morrison (CAN), Rose Cousins (CAN), Anais Mitchell, David Wax Museum, The Watson Twins, Aoife O'Donavan, and many more.

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Awards
"Best Live Residency" 2011 - Boston Music Awards
Nom "Best Americana Act" 2009 - Boston Music Awards
Nom "Album of the Year - Diving for Gold" 2009 - Boston Music Awards
"Best CD of 2007 - Beer Town" - Improper Bostonian
"Best Roots Act 2006" - Improper Bostonian
"Best Folk Act - 2005" - Boston Music Awards

Collaborations, Casual Guests, and Friends of the Band
Rose Polenzani (Studio Record Here)
Bruno Green (FR)(Studio Record Here)
Peter Wolf and Duke LevinePatty GriffinBill Janovitz
The Henry Girls (ROI)
Finbarr Doherty (ROI)
Cahalen Morrison
Anais Mitchell
Kris Delmhorst
Everyday Visuals, Tim Gearan, The Watson Twins, Alec Spiegelman, Dietrich Strause, Jon Powhida, Billy Conway... too many to list.

Some Venues
The Lizard Lounge, Club Passim, Natick Center for the Arts, Stone Mountain Arts Center, Barbes Brooklyn, Brooklyn Rod and Gun Club, Avalon Theater Maryland, Galway Arts Festival, Earigael Arts Festival, Sugar Club Dublin, Cafe Lena, Narrows Center for the Arts, Iron Horse Northampton, Brattle Theater, First Night Boston, Tweed River Festival, Langdon Street Cafe (RIP), Middle Earth Music Hall (RIP), Hay Barn at Goddard College, Grand Theater Ellsworth Maine, One Longfellow, Tupelo Music Hall, Toad Cambridge, Parker Pie VT.

Jefferson Hamer is a songwriter, guitarist, and interpreter of traditional music. "Alameda," his latest album of original songs, was released in 2018, and features Jeff Picker, John Fatum, Alec Spiegelman, Hannah Read, and Sarah Jarosz. Writing for The New Yorker, Robert Sullivan said, "'Alameda,' the title track on Hamer’s album, is a rock ballad with crispy guitar licks and geographic lyrics about a wandering worker, who is maybe the author, but maybe not. In the way that it talks about a long search for work, it reminds me of Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River song series…“Moving Day,” another song on the CD, is now up there with Guy Clark’s “L.A. Freeway” as one of my favorite songs about moving."
Jefferson also performs with Eamon O'Leary in the acoustic folk duo Murphy Beds and as electric guitarist in the six-piece folk-rock ensemble Session Americana. His 2013 “Child Ballads” album with Anais Mitchell earned a BBC2 Folk Award and was named one of NPR’s top-ten Folk releases of the year.

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