From The Road

Hey everybody! Hot off the press (literally) is Tom's latest solo CD, BOOM! Get yours today at CD Baby.Click here for the latest BOOM Reviews. 

First leg of the 2011 "BOOM" tour started out for me in Columbus Ohio on Friday night at the Lifestyles Pavilion. I love playing that place. In the winter you play indoors and in the summer the stage turns around and you play facing outdoors.I played d...

It's 10:30pm in Duluth MN. It's pouring rain!I just got off stage at the Bayfront Blues Festival.Big Head Todd and The Monsters were playing as my runner drove me and Tommy Mac back to the hotel.Got an early flight in the wee hours of the morning to ...

(Friday Night - August 12.2011) It's 10:30pm in Duluth MN. It's pouring rain! I just got off stage at the Bayfront Blues Festival.  Big Head Todd and The Monsters were playing as my runner drove me and Tommy Mac back to the hotel. Got an earl...

Hey Everybody!On my way to LA to play the "Tonight Show" with Buddy Guy tonight. We will be performing a song off Buddy Guy's Grammy Award winning "Living Proof" album. It's a song I wrote with my friend Gary Nicholson called "74 Years Young". It's the...

Congratulations to Tom for winning the Grammy® Award for Buddy Guy's album "Living Proof". The album was nominated in the Contemporary Blues Category in the 53rd Annual Grammy Ceremonies, held in Los Angeles on February 13, 2011.Tom produced the recor...

HEY EVERYBODY,ONCE AGAIN IT'S GRAMMY TIME. I'M HEADING OUT TO CALIFORNIA THIS WEEKEND TO ATTEND THE GRAMMIES."LIVING PROOF" THE ALBUM I PRODUCED FOR BUDDY GUY IS NOMINATED FOR "BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR". BOTH BUDDY AND I WILL RECEIVE G...

Leaving the country in a few minutes but wanted to wish you all a Happy new year!A lot of good stuff to catch you up on including another Grammy nomination and I promise to do that in the coming weeks.I'll be performing on the Delbert McClinton Sandy B...

Probably not many people from Lettsworth have won Grammys — Buddy Guy owns five of them.  He has also won the Blues Music Award twenty-eight times along with many other awards.  He came in at number thirty on Rolling Stone’s list of the 1...

SO IT'S MONDAY NIGHT……. THE PHONE RINGS. BUDDY GUY NEEDS ME TO PLAY DRUMS FOR HIM AT A SOLD OUT CONCERT TOMORROW NIGHT IN GREEN BAY WISCONSIN.HE'S IN THE MIDDLE OF A TOUR AND HIS DRUMMER HAS TAKEN ILL. HE NEEDS ME. WHEN BUDDY CALLS YOU GO. I CANCEL...

Growing up in the small Georgia community of Crestview, Unincorporated, Columbia Nashville artist Joanna Smith knew she was destined to sing country music. At age five she told a judge at a talent contest, “I am already a country music singer,...

Gretchen Wilson, who rose to fame with anthemic songs like “Redneck Woman,” “Here for the Party” and “All Jacked Up,” knows the reason she’s had success over the last six years: “I’ve been genuine from the get-go,” she says, “a...

Rated 4 Stars by Rolling Stone! Powerhouse Records and Tom Principato are proud to announce the release from Fender Telecaster icon and guitar legend and virtuoso Roy Buchanan of the CD "Roy Buchanan Live: Amazing Grace" from their "Guitarchives" Se...

Hello friends!We are excited to announce we’ll be sailing once again on the Simple Man Cruise in 2011! We're thrilled to be joining the 5th cruise adventure, and hope you can join us! We'll be sailing with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackberry Smoke, Bonepony, ...

IT'S BEEN A BUSY COUPLE MONTHS.JUST FINISHED TWO TOURS. ONE OPENING FOR GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS.THIS TOUR WENT THROUGH NASHVILLE OVER TO NORTH CAROLINA THEN CRISS CROSSED AROUND PENNSYLVANIA. I HAD A BALL HANGING WITH GEORGE AND THE BOYS. G...

FOR CURT (written 10/4/09) I PLAYED THE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL LAST NIGHT IN TEXAS. I'M ON A FLIGHT TODAY UP TO BUFFALO TO SAY GOODBYE TO ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS. JOHN FLYNN ALSO KNOWN AS CURT PASSED AWAY. HIS HEART STOPPED AND NOW MINES BROKEN. ...

FOR CURT (written 10/4/09) I PLAYED THE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL LAST NIGHT IN TEXAS. I'M ON A FLIGHT TODAY UP TO BUFFALO TO SAY GOODBYE TO ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS. JOHN FLYNN ALSO KNOWN AS CURT PASSED AWAY. HIS HEART STOPPED AND NOW MINES BROKEN. ...

A WONDERFUL NEW ARTIST THAT I AM PRODUCING NAMED QUINN SULLIVAN WILL BE FEATURED ON THE TODAY SHOW MONDAY MORNING. HE IS TEN YEARS OLD........... YEA YOU HEARD ME RIGHT. HE PLAYS GUITAR AND SINGS LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD..... YEA I MEAN IT. THEY FILMED ...

I WOKE THIS MORNING TO BE TOLD MY GOOD FRIEND TIM KREKEL PASSED AWAY. TIM AND I WROTE MANY SONGS TOGETHER INCLUDING "BEST THING I NEVER HAD".  I WAS HONORED TO PLAY IN A BAND WITH HIM CALLED "THE LINDY'S" WITH JOEY SPAMPINATO (NRBQ) AND JACK IRWIN AND...

JUST GOT BACK FROM THE BLUES MUSIC AWARDS IN MEMPHIS. THE BUDDY GUY RECORD I PRODUCED "SKIN DEEP" WON "ALBUM OF THE YEAR" AND "CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR".  IT WAS A FANTASTIC NIGHT. PERFORMERS INCLUDED: B.B. KING, TAJ MAHAL, KOKO TAYLOR, M...

ALRIGHT!JUST GOT OFF STAGE AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES IN ATLANTIC CITY. WHAT A CROWD! THIS PLACE IS JUMPING. I'M IN MY DRESSING ROOM ABOVE THE STAGE AND THE PLACE IS GOING NUTS. LET'S SEE I PLAYED: GET OFF, GOOD TEACHER, SHOTGLASS, RACHEL FAY, 19, UPSIDE O...

WE ALL LOST A GREAT FRIEND WITH THE SUDDEN PASSING OF BILLY POWELL LAST WEEK. I WANT TO SEND MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO THE POWELL FAMILY.  I ALSO WANT TO SAY WHAT AN HONOR IT WAS TO HAVE MET AND WORKED WITH BILLY OVER THE YEARS. HE WILL BE MISSED AND I C...

WHAT A BLAZING START TO A NEW YEAR.LET'S SEE...I FINISHED SONGS WITH BILLY GIBBONS FOR A NEW ZZ TOP CD, FINISHED PRODUCING BB KING, WROTE A BUNCH OF NEW SONGS AND RECORDED THEM WITH DELBERT MCCLINTON AND FINISHED MY NEW CD "BOOGIEMAN" WHICH IS AVAILABL...

HEY EVERYBODY,I'M IN HOUSTON ON THE SECOND LEG OF THE "TOM HAMBRIDGE-LONE WOLF TOUR"SOLD OUT IN VIRGINIA BEACH AND NORTH CAROLINA. THE VIPER ROOM IN LA WAS A TRIP. I SAW LOTS OF GOOD FRIENDS IN ROCHESTER ON A SNOWY NIGHT AT THE WATER STREET MUSIC HALL,...

HEY EVERYBODY,PLAYED THE NIAGARA FALLSVIEW CASINO THIS PAST WEEKEND. HAD A BALL. LOT'S OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN ATTENDANCE. NICE PLACE. SPENT THIS WEEK IN THE STUDIO PUTTING THE LAST TOUCHES ON MY NEW CD. I SHOULD HAVE IT DONE FOR THE HOLIDAYS. CAN'T...

I hope you saw Buddy Guy on Letterman. I joined Buddy's band for the performance and had a great time. It was great to hang out with Dave, and with actors Dennis Quaid and Sarah Chalke, along with Paul and the Band. Everyone loved the song and the pe...

Hey everybody, I just found out I will be performing with Buddy Guy on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight Wed. Oct 8th 10:30/11:30 PM CT/EST on CBS. Buddy is performing the title track from his new CD "SKIN DEEP" which we co-wrote with him and...

Hey I'm in Auburn Washington this Saturday Oct. 4 doing a Master Songwriting Clinic. It's a few miles outside of Seattle. If anyone is interested in attending I'll leave the contact info below. It starts at 11 in the morning and goes all afternoon. Sti...

JUST GOT BACK FROM OUR WEEKEND SHOWS IN OHIO. IT WAS HOT HOT HOT AT THE TASTE OF CLERMONT IN BATAVIA FRIDAY NIGHT AND WE HAD A BALL. I WAS VERY HONORED TO BE ASKED TO PERFORM "NINETEEN" FOR THE FAMILIES OF 7 FALLEN SOLDIERS AT A TRIBUTE TO THOSE HEROES...

I was in NYC at the Hammerstien Ballroom the other night with Buddy Guy, George Thorogood and a bunch of the Soprano's.We had a good time.  Buddy Guy's CD "Skin Deep" (which you all should run out and get) is now his highest charting record of all tim...

Alright.....I'm in Philly at the Sheraton University...nice hotel.I just flew into town...Phillies, Eagles, Flyers...cool.I've got ten minutes before I need jump into a limo with Mr. Buddy Guy to head to the "whatever center"We should get there right a...

NEW DATES/BACK IN THE STUDIOTom HambridgeJun 25, 5:19 PMHEY EVERYONE. NOW THAT I'VE FINISHED THE NEW BUDDY CD I'M STARTING MY LONG OVERDUE NEXT STUDIO CD. WE WERE IN THE STUDIO YESTERDAY AND WE STARTED IN ON THE FIRST TWO SONGS. SMOKIN!!!! CAN'T WAIT F...