Todd Snider
Tags: singer-songwriter, folk, alt-country
From the moment Todd Snider delivered 1994’s Songs from the Daily Planet, he’s dazzled us with his witty socio-political commentaries and all around coolness. When he stands barefoot onstage with an acoustic guitar, elucidating in his slow, stoner-daze manner, it’s like listening to a laconic comedian (or, as he, too, was once known, “the next Bob Dylan”). But his unerring aim might just as easily pierce your heart as your funnybone; he’ll crack you up with a song like “Ballad of the Kingsmen” and follow it up with a total tearjerker about a pitiful lost soul — which just might be autobiographical. Snider spent his formative career years in Texas; he’s a member of San Marcos’ Cheatham Street Warehouse songwriting alum society, to which he paid homage on 2007’s Peace, Love and Anarchy. His new, Don Was-produced album, The Excitement Plan, contains an ode inspired by the no-hitter Pittsburgh Pirates player Doc Ellis pitched on LSD. Both speak volumes about this “Alright Guy.”
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Pop Matters Best 2012 on Todd Snider
11 days ago#51 You may have heard that Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball was “a fierce rallying cry on behalf of the 99 percent”. Well, that may be so. But, for my money, little about that bloated spectacle felt much like the on-the-ground reality of a cratered middle class amid the great recession...full article here
American Songwriter's Top 50 Albums Of 2012 on Todd Snider
3 months ago#11 Todd Snider is no simple man, but if you had to boil him down to likes and dislikes, two things are clear: he loves his hometown of East Nashville, but hates the shit its poorest residents, and those like them, are put through by a corrupt government and its money-grubbing leaders. Oh – and he also enjoys a little weed. Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is another exercise in politically-driven, everyman tales, but finds Snider at perhaps his angriest, most direct yet: like in “New York Banker,” which rails against those evil lemmings of Goldman Sachs, and “In Between Jobs,” a bluesy talker for those constantly struggling and out of work...full article here