Biography
Todd Partridge is a storyteller poet with observant eyes and guitar. He has played venues on multiple continents, opened for the big acts and found himself in many surprising and improbable situations. He has been called Iowa's Steve Earle and praised for the rawness of poetry and the honest emotion in his songs.
He has accomplished all of this while raising a family and running logistics companies, serving on non profit boards and his local city council and operating a studio in his 1923 repurposed brick school building.
Performing in the bands Salamagundi, King of the Tramps and Todd Partridge and the Whiskey Gospel he has cataloged 11 albums of original music and published a book of poetry.
He perfoms his shows in a 432hz frequency and also hosts “Harmonic Activation" jam sessions for musicians that perform meditative and energizing sessions tuned to the 432 Hz frequency.
Todd has proven that he has a unique voice. What kind of music is it? Wandering music. Whiskey Gospel. American Roots music. Borrowing from the blues, American folk and country, classic rock and Americana.
The Todd show soars from foot stompin’, hand clappin’ gospel sing-a-long, to the whispers of soft and poignent lyric-forward, heartfelt ballads. Comparisons are as varied as Todd's music; Van Morrison, Mick Jagger, JJ Cale, Steve Earle, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Jon Spencer and Black Keys.
Todd says “I believe music is the purest expression of an artist's authenticity, and for the audience it can bring joy, if only for a moment. This is the reason I write and play my music. This is my passion, and my life.”
What Reviewers Say
Here is what some reviewers have said about Todd’s songs and performances;
“89 Cutlass uses the vehicle as a metaphor, but its about blue collar struggles, lost youth and myriad other things, and do you know why this be so loved and thoroughly understood by a bloke thousands of miles away? Because a magnificent song is a magnificent song, and wonderful songwriting is magnificent songwriting anywhere in the damn world. Maximum Volume, London, England, U.K.
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Partridge, who also serves as the band’s lyricist, has a small-town perspective that reminds me of my own — growing up in a town with nothing much going on but drinking and raising a little hell. In his raucous tribute to this lifestyle, “Last Man Standing,” he sings “Spent half of my life in South Sac County, with that barbed wire and ditch weed all around me.” Little Village Magazine, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Todd Partridge knows how to wrap his audience around his fingers and makes a song line about an old Minnesota bar frequented by people who want to forget about their worries in the New World: " It's hard times out there, but always good times in here! "
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Todd is made for live performances: he embodies his music with heart and soul, Donaukurier, Ingolstadt, Germany