1. Tom Hambridge has received two Grammy Awards, an ASCAP award, seven Grammy nominations, seven Boston Music Awards, and has been inducted into the Buffalo Hall of Fame.
12 Facts About Tom Hambridge
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Tom Hambridge has been referred to as "The White Willie Dixon" by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Buddy Guy and Susan Tedeschi's "Secret Weapon".
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Tom Hambridge played his first paying gig, a bar mitzvah, in third grade.
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Tom Hambridge received his degree in Professional Music in 1983.
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Tom Hambridge wrote Tedeschi's Top 10 hits "Rock Me Right" and "It Hurt So Bad".
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Tom Hambridge received a subsequent 2004 Grammy nomination for his contributions on Johnny Winter's release I'm A Bluesman.
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Shortly thereafter, Tom Hambridge released his album Bang N' Roll and the album Live.
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Tom Hambridge was credited as the producer, songwriter and percussionist for George Thorogood and the Destroyers 2011 release 2120 South Michigan Ave.
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Later in 2013, Tom Hambridge would do the same on Quinn Sullivan's release Getting There, which charted at 38 on the Billboard Blues Chart.
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In 2015, Tom Hambridge earned his second Grammy Award for Best Blues Album for his contributions as a musician, producer, composer and mixer on Buddy Guy's Born to Play Guitar.
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In 2016, Tom Hambridge produced Mike Zito's album, Make Blues Not War, which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Chart on December 10,2016 and earned his seventh Grammy Award Nomination for his production work on Bloodline.
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On October 14,2015, Tom Hambridge returned to the White House with Buddy Guy, Marty Sammon, Trombone Shorty, Carol Burnett, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Keb Mo, Smokey Robinson and others for "A Celebration of American Creativity: In Performance at the White House", commemorating the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Humanities.