Tom Hambridge

Drummer and songwriter Tom Hambridge had a clean with a far more wide-spread following in 2000 following his debut to get a major-record label, Balderdash, for the brand new York City-based Artemis Information. Artemis, a short-lived label operate by record market star Danny Goldberg, folded just a couple years afterwards, but although it lasted, the label acquired an extraordinary lineup of root base artists including Warren Zevon, Jimmie Vaughan, Todd Rundgren, Hubert Sumlin, and Susan Tedeschi. Elevated in Buffalo, N.Con., Hambridge got his initial group of drums being a five-year-old, and acquired his first music group a short while afterwards. The youngest of four kids, he spent lots of time hearing his old sisters’ albums from the Rolling Rocks as well as the Beatles, understanding how to enjoy drums by ear from the albums he’d noticed. He concentrated his initiatives on music and soccer through senior high school, however when it emerged time to select a collegiate route, Hambridge find the esteemed Berklee College of Music. He suit right along with the then-lively membership picture in Boston in the first ’80s, and pursued gigs and his research, graduating from Berklee promptly. Soon after graduating, he was tapped with the past due Viriginia-based guitarist Roy Buchanan and became his drummer and vocalist. He honed his chops after many years on the highway with Buchanan, so when he was house in Boston, promoters would contact Hambridge to greatly help assemble regional rings to backup famous brands traveling music artists like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. While seeking studio function, live gigs, and brief travels with better-known performers within the ’90s, Hambridge come up with his own music group, TH & the Wreckage, the receiver of several Boston Music honours. After many years of near-misses with a significant record company offer, Hambridge transferred to Nashville along with his wife and youthful daughter, but quickly before he still left Boston, he performed drums on, and created, Susan Tedeschi’s debut blues record for Artemis Information, the platinum-selling Simply Won’t Burn off. Hambridge composed two of Tedeschi’s crossover strike singles, “It Harm SO VERY BAD,” and “Rock and roll Me Best.” In early 1998, Hambridge begun to focus on an record of his personal songs that could become Balderdash, his debut for Artemis Information. Tedeschi, who later continue to marry and record with Derek Vehicles, sings two duets for the recording, “Opposites Attract,” and “Boneyard.” Using its nation and blues inflections, Balderdash could greatest certainly be a origins rock and roll recording. Since documenting with Tedeschi in Boston within the ’90s, Hambridge offers recorded and distributed stages with a brief who’s-who of individuals within the worlds of blues and rock and roll: Johnny Winter season, George Thorogood, B.B. Ruler, Buddy Man, Shemekia Copeland, Delbert McClinton, and also Hank Williams, Jr. Apart from Balderdash, released in 2000, Hambridge’s additional releases consist of Still Operating, Bang N’ Move, Boogieman, Live, and Mater’s Car Blues.