Brooklyn’s American Babies just released its first album, but the band is already being heralded as a supergroup by bloggers and Paste magazine due to the combined experience of the group’s core members. While brothers Tom and Jim Hamilton spent years with the Philadelphia jam band Brothers Past, the rhythm section is led by Joe Russo of the Benevento Russo Duo. Hear more in this edition of the Songlines podcast.

 

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It took Tom Hamilton two years to write the song “American Babies,” which was one of the first he began for the project. He wrote it with the vision of getting as many friends as possible into the studio to record together. Good thing he has so many talented friends!