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Tom Hamilton

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Tom Hamilton has made a career of pushing rock n’ roll boundaries. Over the last three decades Hamilton has fronted a cadre of bands including Brothers Past, <a href="spotify:artist:5VCANg5vJdUmB2GyD6A7iF" data-name="American Babies">American Babies</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2daxH6yPiKVTF0CtQ6XWOe" data-name="Ghost Light">Ghost Light</a>. He also sings and plays lead guitar in the juggernaut contemporary <a href="spotify:artist:4TMHGUX5WI7OOm53PqSDAT" data-name="Grateful Dead">Grateful Dead</a> cover band, <a href="spotify:artist:1YRc6fheTv1ocTyaZMzwEp" data-name="Joe Russo's Almost Dead">Joe Russo's Almost Dead</a>.

However, it wasn’t until recently that a series of personal and societal crises compelled the Philadelphia based musician/songwriter/producer to reconsider his approach and finally forge ahead under his own name.

“When you're in a van on the road for 20 years, you live in your bubble, you think that your world is one way — and it's not. The pandemic break gave me the time to see that. Then my band broke up and my dad got sick. The only respite I had was the studio.”

The result is "I'm Your Vampire," Hamilton’s most personal effort yet, out January 23rd on AWAL/Relix. Expect a 10-song suite wreathed in tattered-flannel rock & roll that encapsulates Hamilton’s salvation in isolation, as he sorts through the darkness to find a pinpoint of light.

“It takes effort to not just be jaded as we age — to not look at the world in a hardened way,” Hamilton says. “Yeah, it's a dark, dark fucking time, let's make some lemonade.”

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