Though Tom Hambridge has played drums with Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, and Roy Buchanan and on countless award-winning albums, and has had over 300 of his own songs recorded since 2000, few people have produced as many critically acclaimed records. The industry first took note when he produced Susan Tedeschi’s Just Won’t Burn in 1998. Since then, Hambridge has produced records by Johnny Winter, George Thorogood, Steve Cropper, Joe Louis Walker, James Cotton, Quinn Sullivan, and many others. His most notable work has been producing the last four records by Buddy Guy, including the 2011 Grammy-winning Living Proof and Guy’s current 2013 release, Rhythm & Blues. Hambridge’s philosophy as a producer is not to look at his record collection and pick out 12 songs that would be cool to have the artist record; rather, he strives to create a new record for the artist so that others will want to cover the songs in the future.
