Todd Snider has put together a band that is part roots rock and roll, part Black Crowes-like jam band, and part hillbilly electrified country rock and roll. Hard Working Americans release an album in January…this is the first single. I like it…
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VIDEO: Todd Snider – "Is This Thing Working?" with Dan Baird
Rare and recent summer of 2011, vintage Todd Snider WITH a band live song. Pro shot, and mixed sound make it a great video, plus it features the guitar stylings of the Ex-Georgia Satellite Dan Baird and original Nervous Wrecks bass player Dr. Joe. Reminder of how great Snider can be with rockers behind him… and it looks like Baird got a haircut.
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Indiana Music: the tales of Otis Gibbs; new pics of Henry Lee Summer
Americana singer/songwriter Otis Gibbs wrapped up his European tour this weekend, and was headed home on lasty\ Sunday night from Norway. He tweeted that he “shared a taxi to the airport with Loudon Wainwright”. No word on if they performed a duet of “Dead Skunk” on the way.
Gibbs – from Indiana, now living in Nashville, Tennessee – then shared the stage Wednesday night in Louisville with fellow East Nashville resident Todd Snider at the Kentucky Derby Festival Great Steamboat Race After Party
Henry Lee Summer has released pics from his recent photo shoot with Heather Miles. You can check out the images here.
Todd Snider doesn't meet Dylan, BoDeans change, and Wilber interviews Pete Best
→ Singer/songwriter and Indianapolis favorite Todd Snider recently wrote a piece about what he would say to Bob Dylan if he met him. Hilarious (and heartfelt) stream of thought. Thought you might like to read… Snider is next scheduled to be in Indiana on September, 17, at the Ferdinand Folk Festival, near Jasper.
Todd Snider special one-hour show on Sirius/XM
If you have satellite radio, check out Todd Snider at 10pm on Saturday night, and replayed on Sunday at 8am. The singer-songwriter from East Nashville has released his new live album, a two-CD piece called The Storyteller, and that is exactly what he does, mixing songs and stories from the stage. He’s always funny, touching and brilliant as he talks between songs at the shows. This documents that part of his genius.
Todd will host a one-hour special, performing songs and telling stories live in the SIRIUS XM studios He says on his facebookl page tahat he’ll be “playing some of the artists and tunes that have inspired him, from Ramblin’ Jack Elliott to John Prine.”
The show will be on Outlaw Country, which is Sirius 63 and XM 12.
Todd Snider: a new album and interview with No Depression
“Back in the late 80’s, I was playing an afternoon show at a festival. Backstage was Billy White Shoes Johnson, myself, Alejandro Escovedo, Jerry Jeff Walker, Weird Al Yankovic and some odd -looking friend of his began playing a simple little poker game that, in my opinion, spun way out of control. When we started talking about the single Elton John had put out with Kiki Dee entitled “Don’t Go Breaking my Heart”, things did indeed get ugly between Alejandro and Weird Al Yankovic’s friend. ” – story as told by Todd Snider
Todd Snider should be (maybe already is) considered one of the best storytellers of his generation. The 40-something folk rocker could never sing again, and just sit on a stool onstage, and talk, and he would be great. I’ve never seen him completely screw up a story; it iseither funny, heartfelt, happy-with-reservations, soul-baring or inflammatory, and always brilliantly told. Most of the time, it is three of those things at the same time.
His new live album, The Storyteller, wraps itself around both the stories without music – and the stories with.
Snider exchanged email’s with No Depression’s Hal Bogerd talked, and Snider (as shown in the opening passage to this blog post, taken from that interview) keeps his internal screw just a little loose, on purpose or not, and is endearingly intelligent and happily hippie.
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