The Rattle & The Clatter: 20 Years (So Far) of Session Americana (BILLY BEARD, JON BISTLINE, RY CAVANAUGH, DINTY CHILD, JIM FITTING) with Eleanor Buckland.

Around 10 years since Musiclee did the first gig with this great bunch of people. And boy are we happy to have them again as they celebrate 20yrs on the road. They are a special band of people and are joyous to be around. What a celebration of music and song they bring to their audience. Can't recommend enough.

"It's right there in the name for this ultra-gifted, rotating collective of singers and multi-instrumentalists. And sprawl is a good word when it comes to the Boston-based group's raucous live shows, which were initially built around the community concept of traditional Irish seisiúns. The group… expertly blends vintage American roots music styles — from country to jazz to rock — in a rowdy but deft fashion." - Rolling Stone

I’m ever in awe of Session, individually and as a band. They’re so finely in tune with each other, with their audiences. I’m in awe of their bond, their easy laughter, their intuitive musical conversation that has now gained the richness of decades. Happy twenty, Session. You can almost legally drink!" — ANAÏS MITCHEL

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