Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 29th August, 2025

Tracklist:

1. Willie Dixon’s Gone
2. Every Time I Sing the Blues
3. I Want You Bad
4. How Blues Is That
5. Hard Times
6. What Does That Tell You
7. Believe These Blues
8. Making Lemonade
9. What Might Have Been
10. You Gotta Go Through St. Louis
11. Start Drinking Early Day
12. I Wanna Know About You

“Down The Hatch” is basically me being me,” says Tom. I love the blues, I love rock ‘n roll, I love Willie Dixon, I love Buddy Guy – it’s me, doing and feeling me.”

Down The Hatch, the new album from four-time Grammy Winner, producer/drummer/songwriter Tom Hambridge showcases the joy Tom receives from creating music — especially for his own releases. The12 original track-album offers a mix of songs that represent the blues sounds of the past, present and future. Some of the tunes were originally written for others by him, like “Willie Dixon’s Gone”; “You Gotta Go Through St. Louis,” “Every Time I Sing The Blues” and are included as he wanted to do his version — the way he heard them in his head while writing them. There are also a handful of new tunes. All the songshave a common thread – ‘Tom’ . Whether he’s in the studio creating for Kingfish, George Thorogood or Buddy Guy, the award-winning drummer is motoring the whole thing – in this case he’s the original producer, songwriter, drummer and arranger. Tom Hambridge is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, producer & drummer.