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01. One Skinner
02. Helena
03. Bumbershoot
04. Big Mill in Bogalusa
05. What Are Those things
06. Tired Blue Shirt
07. Great Western Rail
08. Mississippi Mud
09. One Good Rain
10. Barefoot Sailors
A couple of dozen manila folders are scattered on the kitchen table of an old Boston Queen Anne Victorian - a song title on the cover of each file with a pile of lyrics stuffed inside. The coffee machine is coughing out its brew as the first risers climb out of all the corners of the house. For the past couple of days, and on and off for the past few weeks, this house has been a round-the-clock workspace for Session Americana. There is cold ash in the fireplace in the living room where the group has set up its makeshift studio, but the recording gear is still on and the computer monitor displays the evidence of some late night editing that lead to late morning reflection: “Did we get it?”
 
Great Shakes, the new album from Session Americana with Jefferson Hamer, makes a bold statement for the Boston-area collective that has been playing together since 2003. Whereas previous albums have harnessed the sprawling familial energy of the group, Great Shakes is a focused reflection of a six-piece version of the band that has been playing together sporadically for the past few years: Billy Beard (drums), Ry Cavanaugh (guitar), Kimon Kirk (bass), Jim Fitting (harmonica), Dinty Child (multi-instrumentalist), and Jefferson Hamer (guitar). While some of the songs on the record will be familiar to fans of the live group, the band also worked on new material together during their weeks-long sojourn in January 2016. Some songs fit together like jigsaw puzzles, with lyrics from one member and music from another, while other songs evolved through conversation and much experimentation. The product, scheduled for release in September 2016, feels more like the birth of a band than the seventh record of a collective.
 
August 2016

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