RICK TODD MUSIC
All Purpose Survival Cracker is a four-song survival kit for weird and trying times. Part allegorical romp through the American condition, part giddy silliness over love, part gentle advice for the heart, part laugh-through-the-tears dark humor, the EP's songs insist that we pay attention to our hearts, our history and to the world around us.
Rick Todd continues making music suffused with the big skies, dusty winds and lonely roads of his High Plains home. He concocts his Empty Quarter medicinals with an unsettling balance of distance and insistence, acceptance and defiance, dead seriousness and gallows humor. Do we cry or dance? Celebrate or mourn? Give up or slog on? Todd’s answer in All Purpose Survival Cracker is all of these, all at the same time.
Rick Todd handles all the performance and production work, with keyboard help from his son Nate Todd. The rockier feel of All Purpose Survival Cracker is not a new sound for Todd, but a return to his rock n roll roots. As Todd says “You need an edge to meet these weird and trying times. You need to turn it up loud and let your voice be heard.”