A tropical island song about my 3 favorite things in life, my wife, a beach and tequila 

A Beach And You

Dreamy song about being on a boat in the Caribbean

Down In The Islands  .02.12.25 2

Guy messes up relationship with his partner

Loser .02.05.25 2

Song to honour Jimmy Phair, a Canadian Country & Western musician from Ontario

Jimmy .01.21.25  Mill’s REV 1

Very sad song about a relationship breakdown

GoodBye  .02.19.25 2

Fun song. Everyone needs someone in their life that can fix anything

Liam .01.28.25 2

Farm song about annual stone picking chores giving you the blues

Stone Picker  .02.11.25

Lucky Enough ML Mix  .01.24.25 2

Living a fantasy life with a beach in the front yard.

My Front Yard .02.28.25 2

Livin' life in the Slow lane....one drink at a time.

NO HURRY

SIXTY MINUTES

BEIN FREE

You Are Mine .03.06.25 2

Lazy Daze

enjoy a salt life sound of a tug boat coming across st. andrews bay and a wonderful sunset

Picture Perfect Sunset

trop rock music live with kent singing a little 50's music 

2025 Travelin man (MASTERED) april 13th

live tropic sands trio with kent and sandra on vocals .   classic song

2025 rythm of the falling rain (MASTERED) april 13th

Seafarer's Heart

Music has always played an important part of my life.  From when I played a solo Christmas Song on the Organ for our Elementary School Christmas Show in First Grade up to playing in front of over 15,000 fans at the University of Iowa last year, I’ve always enjoyed entertaining.
Although I have enjoyed entertaining since I can remember, my path to where I am today has been interesting to say the least!  In the 1980’s after playing in a few cover bands, I decided to incorporate a few other like minded musicians and start a rock band doing mostly originals.  In the mid 1980’s it was easier to make a name for yourself than it is today.  Back then (thanks to MTV - when it truly was Music Television) the show was more important than the content.  My fellow bandmates and I worked feverishly on putting together a no holds barred, jump off the top of the PA stacks high energy show.  The summer of 1986 was a summer to remember, Cheap Trick was making a resurgence (thanks to MTV) and we were their opening act.  My goal was to learn as much as I could from them and to get signed by a major label.  Well as fate would have it…   near the end of the tour Rick Nielsen pulled me aside one day and said where do you want to be in 10 years?  I told him headlining a stadium tour.  Rick looked me straight in the eyes and (this is the part I’ll never forget and hopefully someday I will get the chance to thank him) Todd, you’re a good songwriter, however.. you still need some work.  So unless you can afford to struggle and learn for a few years, I’m afraid that in ten years you’ll probably be in the back of a smokey music store teaching guitar or piano to some kid who won’t listen to you anyways.  Enjoy this summer and what’s left of the tour and then get a real job…. you’ll be better off in the end.  At first I didn’t want to believe him, but the thought of ending up in some cramped dungy music store for the rest of my life was not very appealing.  
When that summer ended, I took his advice (although not everyone in my band did - more on that later) and decided to enter the corporate world.  Corporate life was good to me, I had a very successful journey which ended with me being able to take an early retirement in 2013.  
I found myself smack deep in the middle of corn field Iowa when retirement came, I started transforming my home into a recording studio and began the second version of my musical career!  That was almost 6 years ago…  I’m now full blown back into doing what I have always wanted to do.  Write music and entertain audiences!
In 2017 I started work on an album that was released in early 2018 and in the summer of 2018 I decided to book my own tour called the 2018 Campfires & Guitars tour.  I played 16 shows in 14 different venues to over 24,000 fans across Iowa and Wisconsin.  Now I’m back in the studio working on album #2 and starting on planning my 2019 tour!  I will admit getting noticed in the music industry today is completely different than the 1980’s.  But I’ll get there………

New tracks tagged #trop rock