Brooklyn based singer and instrumentalist Jefferson Hamer spent the last decade touring out of Colorado and across the American West, first with the acoustic trio Single Malt Band, and then with the country-rock outfit Great American Taxi. He plays guitar, mandolin, and sings in the Irish group The Murphy Beds, plays in Session Americana, tours the USA and Europe with electric-fiddler and singer Laura Cortese, and has an acoustic duo with Tashina Clarridge. He is currently working on an album of new adaptations of the Francis James Child ballads with songwriter Anais Mitchell. His most recent studio recording, a solo-acoustic 7″ vinyl record titled “This Ragged World We Spanned,” was released in 2011 by Brooklyn’s Media Blitz records.