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Date(s) - 09/12/2023
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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Sportsmens presents

Tom Hambridge & The Rattlesnakes

Saturday, December 9, 2023 8pm $25

Tom Hambridge and the Rattlesnakes

 

Featuring Sal Baglio and Jim Scoppa on guitars, Sven Larson on Bass, Dave

 

Fox and Tom Hambridge on drums

 

When you have a musical career as a singer and drummer that includes

 

writing over 1000 songs, producing 100 albums, and working with everyone

 

from Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley to Buddy Guy – two things come to mind.

 

You must be exceptionally talented. You must be Tom Hambridge.

 

The list of artists he has collaborated with and recorded with over the

 

years is almost inexhaustible. Gary Clark Jr. Eric Clapton, Van Morrison,

 

B.B. King, Greg Allman, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Kid Rock, Johnny

 

Winter, George Thorogood, Susan Tedeschi, Chuck Berry, Boston, Keb’

 

Mo, Bo Diddley. Too many to mention. Musicians such as Buddy Guy,

 

Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Eric Burdon, James Cotton, Delbert McClinton

 

and Joe Bonamassa have recorded Hambridge’s compositions. He also

 

releases his own albums. His solo debut ‘Still Running’ dates from 1996.

 

Hambridge is the four-time Grammy-winning whirlwind talent behind –

 

among many other projects – three of blues legend Buddy Guy’s most

 

critically acclaimed albums: ‘Living Proof’ (2011), ‘Born To Play Guitar’

 

(2016), ‘The Blues Is Alive And Well’ (2018), Keb Mo’s ‘Good To Be’ (2022)

 

and for his work on rising blues star Christone “Kingfish” Ingram’s albums

 

‘662’ (2022) and ‘Kingfish’ (2020).

 

Hambridge has been such a prodigious creator and producer of music that

 

Buddy Guy says of him: “Someone like that comes along only once in a

 

lifetime. I call him the white Willie Dixon.”

 

But every once in a while, Hambridge takes time out to make an album just

 

for himself. His latest, Blu Ja Vu, is the first since his 2018 The NOLA

 

Sessions, a sparkling tribute to New Orleans music.

 

‘Blu Ja Vu’ is a look back at some of the songs Hambridge has written and

 

produced for his musical friends. A few of them return the favor here, so it’s

 

bluesy déjà vu all over again. But if Blu Ja Vu shows us anything, it’s that

 

Tom Hambridge can be counted on to create great music … again … and

 

again … and again – Jim White (Bluestown Music)

 

The album currently sits at Number 1 on both the USA Blues Rock Album

 

and Singles Charts for the second week in a row!

 

“I can’t fathom the possibility that this album doesn’t garner

 

Hambridge Grammy consideration as a solo artist . The Recording

 

Academy should do the right thing and give Hambridge his fifth

 

Grammy for this superlative effort.” -Americana Highways

 

 

 

Tom Hambridge is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, producer &

 

drummer.

 

Tom’s production work includes duets or solo projects with:

 

BB King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Gregg Allman, Keith Richards, Keb Mo,

 

Susan Tedeschi, Carlos Santana, Steven Tyler & Joe Perry of Aerosmith,

 

Van Morrison, Mick Jagger, Keith Urban, James Bay, Kid Rock, Foghat, Billy

 

Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, James Cotton, George Thorogood,

 

Gary Clark Jr., Jeff Beck, Joss Stone, Allen Toussaint, Delbert McClinton,

 

Johnny Winter, Marcia Ball, Kingfish, Quinn Sullivan, Kenny Neal and many

 

others.

 

Tom has had over 1000 of his songs recorded by such diverse artists as BB

 

King, ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Meatloaf, Billy Ray Cyrus, Foghat, Rascal

 

Flatts, Chris Young, Gretchen Wilson, Keb Mo, George Thorogood, Rodney

 

Atkins, Joe Nichols, Montgomery Gentry, Van Zant, Ronnie Dunn, The

 

Outlaws, Johnny Winter, John Mayall, Eric Burden, Joe Bonamassa, Jamey

 

Johnson and many others. His songs have been included in many major

 

motion pictures, TV movies and shows from American Idol, Criminal Minds to

 

The Super Bowl.

 

Tom has produced 11 Grammy nominated albums, won four Grammy

 

Awards, won countless Handy and Blues Music Awards, 9 Boston Music

 

Awards, ASCAP Country Music Awards, He is a recipient of the prestigious

 

KBA Award in Memphis (Keeping the Blues Alive) and has been inducted

 

into the Buffalo Music Hall Of Fame.

 

As a drummer Tom has played on albums and/or toured with: Chuck Berry,

 

Bo Diddley, Roy Buchanan, Boston, B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton,

 

Susan Tedeschi, Buddy Guy, Hank Williams Jr., Delbert McClinton, George

 

Thorogood and The Destroyers, Jeff Beck, The Rascals, James Cotton and

 

many others.

 

Website:  “http://www.hambridgetunes.com“

 

www.hambridgetunes.com

 

Facebook:

 

www.facebook.com/hambridgetunes

 

Instagram. @TomHambridge

 

Coming to see the show from out of town? Sportsmens guests receive 20% discount.

 

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Downtown

 

601 Main St

 

Buffalo NY 14203

 

 

 

All rooms are king suites with sofabed;   free hot breakfast buffet;  TGI Friday’s in the hotel offers 20% discount to guests.

 

 

 

Special 20% off Holiday Inn Express

 

              & Suites Downtown Booking Link

 

 

 

Please Note that the artists have a 3 hour window to complete the show. This does not mean the performance will be 3 hours in length.

 

ALL SALES FINAL

 

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