Nashville's Legendary Bluebird Café announces show with Grammy™, ASCAP, and Blues Music Award-winner Tom Hambridge

NASHVILLE, TN – Grammy™, ASCAP and multiple Blues Music Award-winning Tom Hambridge will celebrate the upcoming release of his new Superstar Records album, Boom!, with a special CD release show on Tuesday, September 6, at The Bluebird Cafe. This event, with a show time of 9PM, is planned to feature many of the top artists and songwriters that Tom has successfully partnered with over the years to write and produce Grammy™ nominated as well as and hit songs and albums. The Bluebird Café is located at 4104 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37215. For more information or tickets, contact them at (615) 383-3669; www.bluebirdcafe.com.

Superstar Records is also celebrating the new album's August 30 national release with a series of promotional events in other cities, which began with a very special CD release show in his native Buffalo, New York, on July 27; and continues with a show at Johnny D's in Boston on August 27, where Hambridge attended the Berklee School of Music and was the recipient of five Boston Music Awards.

In addition to his CD release showcases, Hambridge is set to open a number of tour dates in July and August with good friends Lynyrd Skynyrd and, in September/October, with George Thorogood. Hambridge produced the new Thorogood CD, 2120 South Michigan Avenue, a tribute to the iconic Chess Records catalog, released in July from Capitol/EMI Records.

"I'm really looking forward to getting out on tour with Skynyrd and Thorogood and performing for the fans," Hambridge says about the upcoming dates. "I love playing songs to a live audience and feeling that immediate connection through the music."

Boom! perfectly showcases not only Tom Hambridge's skills as a singer and drummer, but also his multiple award-winning talents as a songwriter and producer. He's backed by an all-star cast of musicians including Delbert McClinton band members Rob McNelley on guitar and Kevin McKendree on keyboards. Other players include long-time Hambridge band member Tommy McDonald on bass, as well as Nashville stalwarts Mark Jordan on piano, Kenny Greenburg on guitar and Michael Rhodes on bass.

Hambridge wrote or co-wrote all of the album's 11 tracks, collaborating with such acclaimed American songwriters including Gary Nicholson, Delbert McClinton, Jeffrey Steele and Lynyrd Skynyrd's Johnny Van Zant. Utilizing all of his blues, rock and country influences, songs on Boom! range from the rockin' opener, "I Keep Things" and closer "I Had a Real Good Time;" to the bluesy "Upside of Lonely," "Two Thumbs Up," "Nine Pound Hammer" and "The Pistol;" to the Southern rock/country of "I Got Your Country Right Here"(recorded by Gretchen Wilson - debuted at #6 on Billboard Top Country Album charts) and "Things I Miss the Most," a Top 100 Billboard Country hit recorded by Donnie and Johnny Van Zant.

Hambridge is on a major roll as a producer and songwriter. Three of the current top 15 best-selling albums on the Billboard blues chart were produced by Tom, including blues legend Buddy Guy's latest CD, Living Proof, which won the 2010 Grammy as Best Contemporary Blues Album, and also recently won Blues Music Awards as Album of the Year, Contemporary Blues Album of the Year and Song of the Year for the title track. George Thorogood's 2120 South Michigan Avenue CD is also on the blues chart and has also hit number one on the classic rock radio chart. Tom also produced the blues charting new CD by Quinn Sullivan, too.

Tom also produced Guy's last Grammy™ nominated album, Skin Deep, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard blues chart and #68 on the Billboard 200 chart. Living Proof surpassed that by debuting at #1 on the blues chart, while also hitting #10 on the Top Rock Albums and #46 on the Top 200, making it Buddy Guy's highest charting record of all time. "Tom is such a creative writer and musician," said Guy. "Someone like that comes along only once in a lifetime. I call him the white Willie Dixon!"

Tom's production credits also include work with B.B. King, Johnny Winter, Susan Tedeschi and Jonny Lang. Regarding his work as a producer, Hambridge says: "I don't want to make a lot of records … I just want to make a few great records that stand the test of time."

Record companies, managers and artists come to Hambridge for his production skills which include writing songs, playing, singing, arranging as well as producing the record. Hambridge explains his production style: "Writing and producing music is like building a house to me. I don't want to come in after it's built and decorate it or paint it. My job as a songwriter and producer is to find the lot, break ground, pour the foundation, frame it, put the walls up, put in the plumbing and heating … and then can I finally decorate it and paint it. I want that house to be strong and stand the test of time for years to come."

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About Tom Hambridge
Four Time Grammy™ Nominated and winner of the 2010 Grammy Award for producing and co-writing the Best Contemporary Blues Album of the year, Living Proof, for Buddy Guy. For media interviews and information contact Jill Kettles (770) 804-9555/ jill@markpuccimedia.com.

About Superstar Records:
Superstar Records is an artist owned and operated company that leverages the power and reach of today's (and tomorrow's) technologies to support independent, emerging and professional artists. Working as a virtual record label, the firm seeks to provide a 360-degree range of services provided by traditional labels and offers these services on a virtual a la carte basis to artists, who also directly participate in the revenues generated by the music. Contact John Heithaus, Managing Partner at john.heithaus@superstarrecords.com, or call (888) 803-5825 x101.