I’ve been back in DC this week with a fun run of shows the past few days. These included i) a house party across the street from the famous Hilton where President Reagan was shot ii) a solo gig at the world famous Madam’s Organ (in Adams Morgan) which I somehow managed to never play during the time I actually lived here in the District, playing before Country Jack and Human Country Jukebox and finally iii) a restaurant / gallery opening at the very new 14th Street bar / gastro pub Black Whiskey, joined on the bill with some old friends from the band Lindsay Buckingham Palace. (An excellent band name btw).

So yeah, we are gearing up for another big album release show, this one in Washington DC @ the Black Cat on Friday May 31st. DC friends Olivia & the Mates have joined the bill for the evening and we have a great band opening the night from a little ways down I-95, the People’s Blues of Richmond . . from .. Richmond. Following the Black Cat show, I’ll be going on a small run of solo shows with Will Dailey, a great artist out of Boston and multiple winner of the Boston Music Awards Singer-Songwriter of the Year award. So check out my tour schedule on the link at the top of the page for those dates and venues.

This photo below is courtesy of Tim Causa who captured some great images at the Black Whiskey event last week.

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ORDER HERE FOR LIMITED EDITION CD’S OF MORNING IN GLEN BURNIE

A limited run of CD’s were made with the release of Morning in Glen Burnie. After the initial PledgeMusic fullfilments were shipped-out last month along with various press and promotional mailers, there is now a limited supply remaining of the physical CD’s.

If you are one that likes having a physical copy of an album, (along with the original artwork, lyric insert, photos and track listings*), you can order this for $12 (+ shipping) over at the BandCamp store here: http://tommcbride.bandcamp.com/

or . . .

by clicking on the link at the top of the page that says . .. “Store”.

** – the digital download also includes a PDF of the album insert & artwork.

Tickets are now on-sale here for the Friday, May 31st show at Black Cat in Washington DC

http://www.blackcatdc.com/shows/tom-mcbride.html

On Saturday night, I returned to Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn – this time with Jack Gregori joining me on lead guitar. Jack was able to escape DC and take a few nights off from the band he fronts down there, Human Country Jukebox, and accompany me on a set that was heavy on songs from the new album. Other simple but lasting highlights included a good pre-show meal across the street, street parking in front of the venue, a standing room only crowd, cheap PBR, help selling merch at the show, and Jack playing lead guitar throughout the evening . . . . basically, all a traveling musician could about ask for. Thanks to all of you who came out.

Also if you missed it, the DC Album Release show was also announced: Friday, May 31st @ Black Cat.
Get advanced tickets here! See you soon.

It’s Monday here in Nashville and I somehow spent the majority of my afternoon attempting to clean-up my laptop hard-drive and reduce the 10,000 photos I have stored on it. Fun stuff. But alas, I did promise to post another song from the new record . . so without further ado . . .

Here is track #11 ‘Just Like You ‘ from the new album Morning in Glen Burnie. The full WORLD-WIDE!! (its a big world, right?) digital release is tomorrow, April 9th. Enjoy.

Performing on this song are the following: Tom McBride (vocals, guitar), Kimon Kirk (bass, vocals), Billy Beard (drums), Lyle Brewer (electric guitar), Tom West (organ). Engineered by Dan Cardinal @ Dimension Sound Studios (Jamaica Plain, MA). Mixed by Ryan Freeland (Culver City, CA). Mastered by Jim DeMain @ Yes Master (Nashville, TN); Fisheries & Swine Publishing (2013), ASCAP

Good day on this Friday. Here is track #5 ‘Take Her Somewhere‘ from the new album Morning in Glen Burnie. While the full world-wide digital release is next Tuesday (April 9th), you can already purchase the entire album for immediate download on my web-site over here . . . or you can wait til next week to do it on iTunes, stream it on Spotify etc. . enjoy.

Performing on this song are the following: Tom McBride (vocals, guitar), Kimon Kirk (bass), Billy Beard (drums), Lyle Brewer (electric guitar), Tom West (organ), Amy Correia (vocals), J. Tom Hnatow (pedal steel)

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In celebration of next week’s iTunes / Spotify / Amazon etc. . digital release of Morning in Glen Burnie, I’ll be posting a new song from the album each day until next Tuesday, April 9th. Today’s song is “Angel In My Head”, track #2 on the new album.

The band: Tom McBride (vocals + guitar), Lyle Brewer (lead guitar), Billy Beard (drums), Tom West (piano), Kimon Kirk (bass & vocals), Lennie Peterson (trombone), Michael Peipman (trumpet), Gordon Beadle (tenor sax), Tom Hall (bartione sax) Engineered by Dan Cardinal + Mixed by Ryan Freeland.

Tom performing ‘But I Don’t Care’ at Jammin Java during his performance as winner of the “GOLD” award for Best Adult Contemporary song in the 29th Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, put on annually by SAW (Songwriters Association of Washington).

Nothing more to add to this really. Other than please note the dog in the foreground. We had a blast last week in Jersey City and thank you to Kelly who put together a remarkable event, Marcia for the making the intro and Sean for stepping up and accompanying me during the set.

We had a sold-out show up in Cambridge, MA at The Lizard Lounge on March 1st for the kick-off of my new album Morning in Glen Burnie and it was a real blast. Thanks to the folks at Twangville who stopped in and wrote a nice little piece on the new album and how I got here. You can read more of that article here: http://twangville.com/13883/tom-mcbride-morning-in-glen-burnie-live/

I’ll be back in NYC this Thursday night for a solo acoustic release show at Rockwood Music Hall (8 PM).

photo by Suzanne Davis McMahon