The Rattle & The Clatter: 20 Years (So Far) of Session Americana (BILLY BEARD, JON BISTLINE, RY CAVANAUGH, DINTY CHILD, JIM FITTING) with Eleanor Buckland.
SESSION AMERICANA is a cast of top-shelf players, singers, and writers who tour internationally, taking their own songs, plus hundreds more from the American songbook, on the road. "No egos, no big production, just some great songs stripped down to their bare essentials and performed with a real genuineness of spirit and emotional authenticity ...it's beautiful." — The Noise.
Winner "2005 Best Folk Act" - The Boston Music Awards
Winner "Best Roots Act 2006" - Improper Bostonian "Best
of Boston" Issue
Winner "Best CD" 2007 - Improper Bostonian
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Nominated "Best Roots Act" 2007 - WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music
Nominated "Best Live Act" 2007 - The Boston Music Awards
Nominated "Best Americana Act" 2008 - The Boston Music Awards

Press
"Genius ... Jaw-dropping vocals ... Session Americana is blessed in this regard: ...musicianship that sets the standard for the genre in Boston and vocals that do the same"
— NE Performer Magazine

"No egos, no big production, just some great songs stripped down to their bare essentials and performed with a real genuineness of spirit and emotional authenticity...
it's beautiful." (Brian Mosher)
— The Noise

"An eclectic, swinging tour de force"
— The Boston Globe

"[This] local country-folk megagroup's double CD is one of
the most loose, spontaneous, warm, and homespun acts
of community and decency since the Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band's Will the Circle Be Unbroken."— The Boston Phoenix