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During the early '90s, singer/songwriter Todd Thibaud was the frontman for the Courage Brothers. The Haverhill, MA, group's rootsy alternative pop was showcased on two indie albums: 1993's Something Strong and 1994's Wood. Just as the band was nearing a major-label deal, creative differences caused a breakup. However, Thibaud retained the Courage Brothers' name and continued preparing for the major-label release; meanwhile, the label switched formats and dropped all of its rock signings.
Starting afresh as a solo act, Thibaud turned his struggles with the music industry into fodder for new, more personal material. Determined to record his new songs, Thibaud self-financed his solo debut, Favorite Waste of Time, and recruited friends in local bands, including members of Dumptruck and former Courage Brothers, to help him record and produce it. Given a local release at the end of 1996, Favorite Waste of Time garnered critical acclaim from the Boston Globe and Billboard Magazine, and caught the attention of Doolittle Records, who offered to give it larger distribution. The album was remixed and re-released in 1997; two years later, Thibaud returned with Little Mystery, also on Doolittle. Fall 2000 saw the release of Squash.
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Todd Thibaud is a singer-songwriter based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a co-founder of the group Courage Brothers, a power pop group of the early 1990s, before establishing himself as a solo musician in the late 1990s and 2000s.
Biography
Thibaud was raised in Burlington, Vermont, and moved to Boston in 1987 to pursue a career in music. The Courage Brothers, whom Thibaud fronted, released two albums independently in 1993 and 1994, and the group was nearing a deal with a major label Relativity Records when the group broke up. Thibaud retained the band name and continued work on the major-label release, but was eventually dropped when Relativity switched formats from rock to hip hop and R&B. Thibaud then embarked on a solo career, garnering critical acclaim for his first release, 1997's Favorite Waste of Time. The album was produced by Dumptruck founder Kevin Salem. Songs from Favorite Waste of Time were used on the TV shows Melrose Place, 7th Heaven, and Smallville, and Thibaud appeared on HBO's show, Reverb. The album Little Mystery followed in 1999, as did Squash in 2002; both met with critical success. Thibaud then was involved in Hardpan, a collaboration between Singer/Songwriters in 2002, including Thibaud, Chris Borrouhgs, Terry Lee Hale and Joseph Parsons. Thibaud also wrote the theme song to the 2000 Big East basketball championship for ESPN, a song entitled "In the City Tonight". Thibaud did two Records until now with Joseph Parsons (Blue Rose Records 2007 and 2011). Thibaud has toured the US numerous times but now performs mostly in the Boston area, continuing to release music independently; many of the albums he released in the 2000s have been on Blue Rose Records, a German imprint. His 2009 release Broken was released in single-CD and double-CD formats, the latter containing a full-length acoustic bonus disc.
