„I don't write story songs, I write about how we deal with life."

Self described as a songwriter first, Todd Thibaud (pronounced TEE-bo) has had a prolific run of three albums in four years. Raised in Burlington, Vermont, Thibaud moved to Boston in 1987 to master his craft and pursue his dream. "When I first got there, the music scene was mostly alternative rock and more hardcore stuff. I would get mislabeled as a 'Country Act', but by the 1990's it diversified and there was room for more rootsy Americana stuff." By 1992, he was fronting The Courage Brothers (releasing two independent albums: Wood and Something Strong) when Sony subsidiary Relativity Records signed him. After Relativity's rock division dissolved, Thibaud decided to go solo and recorded two critically lauded albums for Doolittle Records, 1998's Favorite Waste of Time (produced by Bostonian musician Kevin Salem) and 1999's Little Mystery. Using songwriters like Elvis Costello, Neil Finn, and John Hiatt for inspiration, Thibaud built a sound that is entirely his own.

Thibaud's talent was noticed by the music department of ESPN (headquartered near Boston in Bristol, CT) who used his song "Sweet Destiny" from Little Mystery for the theme music to their coverage of the College World Series. This relationship strengthened and ESPN commissioned him to write a new song ("Back Home In Omaha") for the college baseball championship as well as themes for The Big East College Basketball Tournament ("In the City Tonight") and most recently for the NFL Draft ("Down To This"). "ESPN has been really cool. They didn't want literal songs about the events and individual sports; instead they asked me only to capture the feel." He also had his song "Suffer Me" highlighted in the film Love and Sex, starring Jon Favreau and Famke Jansen.

Adam Steinberg (Patty Griffin, Dixie Chicks) produced Squash at the Fort Apache studios in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Thibaud had been a fan of Steinberg's guitar playing with various Boston bands and heard from fellow musicians about his production skills. Together Steinberg and Thibaud paired the more than thirty songs down to twelve, a process Thibaud described as "painful". "We picked stylistically diverse songs that are intimate and subtle. It's a songwriting record." Some of Thibaud's favorite recording moments came from the song "New World Coming"; "I love the vibe on that one. I wrote that in about 15 minutes. I wanted to try some new recording techniques on the guitar parts. I like the sounds Daniel Lanois achieves and went for something like that. The engineer, Jordan D'alessio, did a rough mix late that night, and that's what we ended up using. I love those magic moments."

Thibaud, capitalizing on a road-tested chemistry, used his four piece-touring band on Squash including guitarist Thomas Juliano (Talking To Animals, Seven Mary Three) who joined the band in 1998. His guitar playing frames Thibaud's songs with tasteful leads and melodic solos. Thibaud, who claims that he uses the "guitar first" approach to crafting his albums, has found in Juliano the complimentary guitarist for both the road and the studio. "For a while we were using two electric guitarists with me on the acoustic at gigs. Because of scheduling reasons we had to play some shows as a four-piece with Thomas on lead and me switching between electric and acoustic depending on the song. I really liked how it sounded. I was amazed at what he could do with all that space in the music." Filling out the band is Jeff St. Pierre on bass and Phil Antoniades on drums.

And after released the live double CD „Official Bootleg“ Blue Rose Records/Germany put out his next record in October 2004.