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Can't wait to return to The Oxted Sessions in Surrey! Amazing concert series in a sweet spot. Join us!
My set will feature Alan Fish & local talent Hammo Mat will open the night!
cheers, JT
"It is easy to compare Terry?s heritage and storytelling to that of Jackson Browne, James Taylor or Bruce Springsteen. A symphonic delight for the heart and soul." (Americana UK)
?Terry essentially re- writes the book on how to strip back your sound and sound incredible in the
process? (Maverick Magazine)
After a stunning performance at last year's 'Americana In The Fall' festival, Jesse Terry - once again accompanied by Alan Fish on guitar - returns to The Oxted Sessions for his very own headline show.
Whatever magic potion the troubadours in Laurel Canyon were sipping on in 1971, Jesse Terry has managed to track it down and take a deep gulp. His seventh album, 'When We Wander' was released in 2021, and was perhaps his best album yet, gaining him brilliant reviews and a legion of new fans. Red Guitar Music perhaps put it best when they wrote: ?Jesse Terry has made a record that is exquisitely played, sincerely felt and sonically beautiful... [He has] made the kind of record that thousands of singer-songwriters dream of making"
Emerging from a degree at Berklee College of Music, Jesse has won prestigious songwriting awards including 'The John Lennon Songwriting Contest' and 'The CMT/NSAI Song Contest'.; while his music has appeared in Netflix?s ?Virgin River,? CW?s ?Hart of Dixie,? PBS?s ?Roadtrip Nation? and ABC?s ?Fever.' To add to his impressive CV, Terry he had a children's book published, last year via Schiffer Publishing, entitled 'If I Were the Moon', which is based on his song of the same name.
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Support comes from Sessions favourite Hammo Mat.
A graduate of the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California, Hammo Mat is an international recording artist who's recorded and toured with numerous music projects, including the critically acclaimed, USA based bands, ?Living Daylytes?, and ?Eurovox?.
Currently a solo artist based in Surrey, England, Hammo is a highly regarded and accomplished musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. His debut album ?On The Day That I Am King?, was a warmly received pop-folk release featuring touches of the Americana he found himself enveloped in while living in Arizona. Hammo?s follow up, due out in mid-2024, promises to be a much stronger pop-centric offering with ?full-band? implications throughout.
?I love what I do. Sharing my soul to feed the souls of others.?
You can find Hammo Mat online via www.linktree.com/hammomatmusic
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Jesse Terry Biography
“Jesse Terry is a gentle soul with a formidable song writing talent and a clear artistic vision.”
-- John Platt, WFUV-NYC
Jesse Terry's seventh album, When We Wander, is the first he wrote since becoming a parent. So it's no surprise the family theme courses through many of its 12 songs. His music career has been a family project ever since he became a full-time touring artist a decade ago.
That was right around the time when Jesse met his wife Jess working on a cruise ship in the South Pacific. "As soon as we got back to the states, I proposed to her at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in July 2010 and we packed up the car for the first tour right after that. We've been touring together full-time ever since." Now with two-year-old Lily added to the clan, family is more important than ever to him, including the parental urge to love and protect. "If I were the moon, I’d light all of your back roads," he sings in "If I Were The Moon": "You wouldn’t need no headlights / I’d always be full."
The life of a touring family inspired the album's title track. "When we wander, when we wander / Don’t it feel like we’re finally found." But in the face of the pandemic, he has found that "wandering is not just a literal thing. We've followed our hearts with so many decisions in 2020-2021, and have found that there are many ways to wander and be free and brave."
One of those ways has been going virtual. He says that his livestream concerts have "become the highlight of my week and the thing that sustains us emotionally and financially. And an amazing community has sprung up from these concerts."
The stage had been Jesse's home for a decade. He plays around 150 shows a year, from Bonnaroo to the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the 30A Songwriters Festival to AmericanaFest. When the pandemic canceled concerts and delayed the album's release, he pivoted to performing online and found a strong new connection to his fans, who had helped fund his albums all along. "My musical tribe has always been there for me," he says with gratitude.
Though recorded in 2019, the songs off the new album click with fans online too. He and his band recorded When We Wander live in the studio, a first for his career. "I wanted to try that Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Neil Young approach to live recording, prioritizing emotion and raw performances over perfection. I loved that experience." Recorded live, the album resonates especially with the intimacy and community spirit of the online shows.
He also wrote all the music and lyrics this time, instead of working with collaborators, and took a very personal approach, including a look back. "In Spite of You" recalls his stay in a residential facility for behavior modification that traumatized him as a young teenager: "The sermons that you sold me all were fakes."
Yet he emerged to earn a degree from Berklee College of Music, net a five-year staff writer gig on Nashville's Music Row penning material for major TV networks, and win prestigious songwriting awards. And then to become the singer-songwriter his countless fan know today, who (in the words of Music News Nashville) "bring[s] to mind iconic artist/poets like Paul Simon and Jackson Browne... [with] a performance that touches the heart like only a whisper can."
Read More-- John Platt, WFUV-NYC
Jesse Terry's seventh album, When We Wander, is the first he wrote since becoming a parent. So it's no surprise the family theme courses through many of its 12 songs. His music career has been a family project ever since he became a full-time touring artist a decade ago.
That was right around the time when Jesse met his wife Jess working on a cruise ship in the South Pacific. "As soon as we got back to the states, I proposed to her at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in July 2010 and we packed up the car for the first tour right after that. We've been touring together full-time ever since." Now with two-year-old Lily added to the clan, family is more important than ever to him, including the parental urge to love and protect. "If I were the moon, I’d light all of your back roads," he sings in "If I Were The Moon": "You wouldn’t need no headlights / I’d always be full."
The life of a touring family inspired the album's title track. "When we wander, when we wander / Don’t it feel like we’re finally found." But in the face of the pandemic, he has found that "wandering is not just a literal thing. We've followed our hearts with so many decisions in 2020-2021, and have found that there are many ways to wander and be free and brave."
One of those ways has been going virtual. He says that his livestream concerts have "become the highlight of my week and the thing that sustains us emotionally and financially. And an amazing community has sprung up from these concerts."
The stage had been Jesse's home for a decade. He plays around 150 shows a year, from Bonnaroo to the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the 30A Songwriters Festival to AmericanaFest. When the pandemic canceled concerts and delayed the album's release, he pivoted to performing online and found a strong new connection to his fans, who had helped fund his albums all along. "My musical tribe has always been there for me," he says with gratitude.
Though recorded in 2019, the songs off the new album click with fans online too. He and his band recorded When We Wander live in the studio, a first for his career. "I wanted to try that Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Neil Young approach to live recording, prioritizing emotion and raw performances over perfection. I loved that experience." Recorded live, the album resonates especially with the intimacy and community spirit of the online shows.
He also wrote all the music and lyrics this time, instead of working with collaborators, and took a very personal approach, including a look back. "In Spite of You" recalls his stay in a residential facility for behavior modification that traumatized him as a young teenager: "The sermons that you sold me all were fakes."
Yet he emerged to earn a degree from Berklee College of Music, net a five-year staff writer gig on Nashville's Music Row penning material for major TV networks, and win prestigious songwriting awards. And then to become the singer-songwriter his countless fan know today, who (in the words of Music News Nashville) "bring[s] to mind iconic artist/poets like Paul Simon and Jackson Browne... [with] a performance that touches the heart like only a whisper can."
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