Diesel Town by Rick Todd
  • Diesel Town
  • Most Promising Officer
  • Bless My Eyes
  • El Solitario
  • 1931
  • The Lesson
  • It's The Breath
  • Two Step The Night Away
  • Deepening Of The Stillness
Biography
After a few lifetimes as a Telecaster-slinging rocker, farm manager, studio producer and engineer, and award-winning research scientist, Rick Todd turned his creative talents to making music once again.

The result is Diesel Town, a tapestry of tales drawn from the Empty Quarter of America - the often forgotten expanse of dusty roads, dry rivers and huddled towns in the country's middle. The songs are alive with railroad bulls, wailing ghost ponies, wandering monks, Dust Bowl survivors, guitar slinging pirates, road-worn pilgrims, broken lovers and those made whole by love. These intimate songs are rooted - in landscapes, in lived experience and in the heart.

Diesel Town inhabits a space between Americana, country and folk, with mostly acoustic instrumentation, including mandolin, dobro, and pedal steel guitar, with sonic doses of shimmering tremolo guitar, Tejano button accordion and a couple of driving, guitar riff-dominant tracks.

Diesel Town

1. Diesel Town
2. Most Promising Officer
3. Bless My Eyes
4. El Solitario
5. 1931
6. The Lesson
7. It's The Breath
8. Two Step The Night Away
9. Deepening Of The Stillness

Released July 1, 2023

All songs written by Rick Todd
©2023 Richard William Todd (BMI)

Produced, recorded, mixed & mastered by Rick Todd

Rick Todd: Vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, button accordion, bass, banjo, harmonica, keyboards

Nate Todd: Piano, organ, lap steel guitar (7)
Matt Dwyer: Dobro (3,6,9)
Dan Rankins: Pedal steel guitar (3,6,9)
Eric Berg: Acoustic guitar (2)
Leon Lange: Bass guitar (2)
Danny "Freeze" Dobervich: Harmonica (2)
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  • Members:
    Rick Todd
  • Sounds Like:
    Rick Todd
  • Influences:
    John Prine, Guy Clark, John Hiatt, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen
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