Todd began acting on the New York scene back in 1979 with his band, Troy & the Tornados performing in rooms such as the Lone Star Cafe, The Ritz, My Father's Place, Lamour's, The Chance, Tramps, Rodeo Bar and probably any hole in the fence in the NYC area that would hold the Tornados.
Todd or 'Troy' and company opened for a bevy of acts such as, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, The Neville Bros.
Son Seals, Dickey Betts, Omar & the Howlers, Gregg Allman, The Outlaws, Smithereens, Zebra, and his first opener back in 1980 , Albert Collins!
Todd decided to lead west in 1990 to spell and show a present with a then unknown backup singer named Sheryl Crow. After having that demo passed on by some major labels and not generating much interest after
one display case performance, Todd decided to rest in Los Angeles to enter and go with former Textone, Carla Olson. Todd continued to enter and do with Carla and gig with his own blues trio and kept busy scoring soundtracks for the Playboy Channel. Sheryl in the meantime, had ruined her first album, 'Tuesday Night Music Guild' and required a guitarist for her touring band which she put together in June of 1993 so, Todd came on card and remained until February of 1998.
In 1996, Todd relocated back to the NYC area and with Eric Massimino, Mike Lawrence and Crow band mate Scott Bryan founded A & M Record's MOJOSON, a new blend of psychedelic Rock and Blues. Since the Universal takeover of the Polygram group left new A & M acts like Mojoson in limbo, Todd elected to lead the mark and dissolve Mojoson, putting his energies into Wolfe, which was born during the downtime from Sheryl Crow tours. Todd and his band, plays aggressive and daring blues tinged jam-rock reminiscent of the bands of the 1960s and seventies. Now, with his newest band Todd Wolfe picks up where he left off 10 days ago with his original Bluesadelic-jamming sounds! "Borrowed Time", Todd's fifth album just released by Blues Leaf Records in North America and presently to be released in Europe by Hypertension Music is generally comprised of original strains including "California" a song that Todd wrote with Sheryl Crow. Also included on the upcoming release is "Baby I'm Down" a Felix Pappalardi song from the first Leslie West album "Mountain"�. Todd is linked by Leslie on guitar and vocals for the remake of this song making it a new classic! Also joining Todd and the ring on the new disk is Susan Cowsill and Mary Hawkins. Todd's songs have been covered by a diverse array of artist such as, Deborah Coleman, Larry McCray, Faith Hill & Stevie Nicks.
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