The song showcases Ben Todd’s finger picking guitar, with eerie blues vocals and a sound that seems to carry his love of North Mississippi blues as much as it does the West African guitar style of acts like Tinariwen. – GLIDE MAGAZINE HERE
NEW UNDERGROUND MUSIC
THE ALTERNATE ROOT HERE
BLURT MAGAZINE HERE
There’s a lot in their music, as ‘Past the Ditch‘ demonstrates – a pinch of folk – guitarist Ben Todd wisely spent time transposing old banjo tunes to his finger picking style – a sprinkle of country blues and a swirl of Canned Heat boogie. – AMERICANA UK HERE
They’re raw, extremely expressive, and a bit odd. – AMERICAN BLUES SCENE HERE
CLASSIC ROCK HERE
Alive Naturalsounds Records are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year and releasing Rock & Roll Is A Beautiful Thing on Record Store Day to commemorate the milestone. The limited edition double vinyl includes rarities from blues and roots icons like the Black Keys and T-Model Ford, and today we’re excited to premiere Seattle-based blues rockers […]
Today Ghettoblaster has the pleasure of sharing their video for the title track. Todd had this to say about the video, “My brother and I snuck into a private resort’s mini golf course near Salt Lake City late one night and I let off some steam on the green. It felt like the perfect setting […]
Alive Naturalsound feature in The Blues / Classic Rock magazine – interview with Patrick Boissel, John The Conqueror, Hollis Brown, Buffalo Killers, Left Lane Cruiser, Lee Bains, and more It shouldn’t happen to a label boss. But when you’re at the helm of Alive Naturalsound, it frequently does. “T-Model Ford was a character, that’s for […]