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Review "New England's best and most underrated singer-songwriter" -- Boston Globe Product Description "Thibaud's made an album studded with unforgettable melodies, literate lyrics, and passionate playing... The result is a terrific, endlessly listenable album that in a perfect world - or even an imperfect one, deserves to make Thibaud a star." - The Boston Herald About the Artist "I dont write story songs, I write about how we deal with life." Self described as a songwriter first, Todd Thibaud (pronounced TEE-bo) has had a prolific run of three albums in four years. Raised in Burlington, Vermont, Thibaud moved to Boston in 1987 to master his craft and pursue his dream. "When I first got there, the music scene was mostly alternative rock and more hardcore stuff. I would get mislabeled as a Country Act, but by the 1990s it diversified and there was room for more rootsy Americana stuff." By 1992, he was fronting The Courage Brothers (releasing two independent albums: Wood and Something Strong) when Sony subsidiary Relativity Records signed him. After Relativitys rock division dissolved, Thibaud decided to go solo and recorded two critically lauded albums for Doolittle Records, 1998s Favorite Waste of Time (produced by Bostonian musician Kevin Salem) and 1999s Little Mystery. Using songwriters like Elvis Costello, Neil Finn, and John Hiatt for inspiration, Thibaud built a sound that is entirely his own. Adam Steinberg (Patty Griffin, Dixie Chicks) produced Squash at the Fort Apache studios in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Thibaud had been a fan of Steinbergs guitar playing with various Boston bands and heard from fellow musicians about his production skills. Together Steinberg and Thibaud paired the more than thirty songs down to twelve, a process Thibaud described as "painful". "We picked stylistically diverse songs that are intimate and subtle. Its a songwriting record." Some of Thibauds favorite recording moments came from the song "New World Coming"; "I love the vibe on that one. I wrote that in about 15 minutes. I wanted to try some new recording techniques on the guitar parts. I like the sounds Daniel Lanois achieves and went for something like that. The engineer, Jordan Dalessio, did a rough mix late that night, and thats what we ended up using. I love those magic moments." Thibaud, capitalizing on a road-tested chemistry, used his four piece-touring band on Squash including guitarist Thomas Juliano (Talking To Animals, Seven Mary Three) who joined the band in 1998. His guitar playing frames Thibauds songs with tasteful leads and melodic solos. Thibaud, who claims that he uses the "guitar first" approach to crafting his albums, has found in Juliano the complimentary guitarist for both the road and the studio. "For a while we were using two electric guitarists with me on the acoustic at gigs. Because of scheduling reasons we had to play some shows as a four-piece with Thomas on lead and me switching between electric and acoustic depending on the song. I really liked how it sounded. I was amazed at what he could do with all that space in the music." Filling out the band is Jeff St. Pierre on bass and Phil Antoniades on drums.
