Album Of The Week

"Tio nya låtar med amerikanen Todd Partridge på hans nya skiva. Rakryggad blues med alla nödvändiga ingredienser, inte minst ett munspel, som för övrigt hanteras allt annat än varsamt, men med en stor portion fullskalig ödmjukhet och finess. Kan tänka mig att boogie-rockare som gillar ZZ Top med fördel också kan hitta en och annan pärla på 'Desert Fox Blues', musik som med fördel kan spelas på hög volym och inte minst på en scen."

- Torbjörn Berlin / Berlin Calling -

"Todd Partridges 'Desert Fox Blues' är blixtrande dunder och åska i varje nedslag, grymt bra, och så stark att man kan nyttja den som hammare i en omvärld som behöver just den här formen av bluesrock."

- Micheles Kindh / Blaskan -

"Gillar ni rå, skitig och svängig blues och boogie med elgitarrer som låter som om ackorden och riffen kämpar för att bryta sig loss och ut genom spräckta högtalarmembran, ett ivrigt munspel, samt trum- och bas-lir som får en att vilja dansa loss likt en alkoholiserad rocker efter dagens första kvarting? Då är Todd Partridge er man och 'Desert Fox Blues' er platta!"

- Robert Ryttman / Zero Magazine -

"Todd Partridge is an Iowa musician who has been performing live music for over 30 years. With 12 albums of original music, tours across the US and Europe, he has made a name for himself as the front person and songwriter for King Of The Tramps, and as a solo artist. This is his 1st blues focused record, and he says blues is his 1st love, since his 12th birthday, when his parents gave him a phonograph and a 'BB King Live' album."

- Kenneth Bremer / Blue Desert -

"Iowa native Todd Partridge started out with local band King Of The Tramps, and after a run of successful albums he decided to turn his focus to recording solo. The 1st album was a very melodic country tinged release back in 2023, but this is a completely different beast, and reveals a deep bluesy music with real edge to it. Partridge also delivers a very different vocal, using distortion effects, and the fuzz tone of the electric guitars blend with cool harmonica and a laid back blues beat on opening track 'Depression' captured in the words 'when all you do is worry, fuss and fret, about trouble that ain’t even got here yet’. A big leap away from the last album in terms of sound, but one that brings its own rewards."

- Paul McGee / Lonesome Highway -

"Accompanying Todd Partridge on 'Desert Fox Blues' are the core band of seasoned players Winston Watson, drums, Nick Agustine, bass, Tom Albanese, harmonica and Kent Burnside on guitar. And what a sound they make! These 10 groove driven, fuzzed up, distorted, battered and beaten tracks are a masterful musical melding of old and new, looking backwards and forwards in equal measures."

- Mike Davies / Fatea Magazine -

"Although I’ve never heard of him, Todd Partridge from Iowa, has been a member of several bands over the last few decades, only going solo in 2023 when he released 'Autumn Never Knows' and now this beauty, 'Desert Fox Blues'. I guess it was the wheezing harmonica and National Steel that filled the opening few bars of track #1, "Depression", that not just caught my attention, but set the hair on the back of my head on end. Even that didn’t prepare me for Partridge’s raw and grizzly vocals which immediatly reminded me of a very young Mick Jagger circa 'King Bee' and 'Around And Around'!"

- Alan Harrison / The Rocking Magpie -

"Last October I spent a week in Tucson, AZ. I saw those bare grey mountains, the cowboy culture desert dry with thousands of cactus arms akimbo. It was an education uniquely American. The image on the back of Iowa musician Todd Partridge’s new album against a vast expanse of Arizona sky was nice to see again. A Tucson showcase? Arizona is a desert state, but it must have a musical personality. It’s just not as widely known as others. Todd Partridge seems motivated by this region."

- John Apice / Americana Highways -

"This is high quality from start to finish, and fans of this unstoppable classic heavy blues rock sound will absolutely love this album. I can imagine if you like The Black Keys or JD McPherson, you will also love this album!"

- Gabor Kleinbloesem / Strutterzine -

"In contradiction with his previously released solo album, 'Autumn Never Knows', where he played folk and country songs, on his newest album, '‘Desert Fox Blues', US singer songwriter Todd Partridge, frontman of rootsrock band King Of The Tramps, is going full option in the direction of traditional blues, as known from New Orleans, The Mississippi Delta and Chicago.“

- Valére Sampermans / Rootstime -

"Todd Partridge is a veteran who is in very good shape, as shown by his years of activity in King Of The Tramps, as well as the last few years of his solo career, with which he welcomed the release of his 2nd album in a row. The title of album is 'Desert Fox Blues', and we find 10 tracks done in a blues manner, a genre that was this artist’s first musical love, ever since he was 12 years old."

- Branimir Lokner / Time Machine Music -