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Todd Snider
Keith Richards said humor was rock and roll’s greatest weapon, Bob Dylan proved it and Snider takes it to heart. For twelve years, Todd Snider has been a satirist, class cutup and the rare artist who understands and celebrates the connections between the Stones, Dylan, Bill Hicks, John Prine, Mitch Hedberg, Kris Kristofferson, Hunter S. Thompson and Randy Newman. Snider’s records are fun even when they aren’t being funny, funny even when they’re sad, and no less truthful for the laughs.
Which brings us to The Devil You Know, a sparkling, smiling, snarling portrait of the doomed. “I was angry because I had no shoes ‘til I saw a man who had no feet. Now I’m really pissed off,” he explained. “If you’re going to accept your fate, you might have to accept fate as your enemy.”
Things don’t end well, you know. But Snider has a unique way of sidling up to a topic, spinning a yarn, making you chuckle amidst all the sinister stuff going down. There’s an edge to what he’s done over seven albums, and this eighth album hones that edge. It’s not any more a concept album than many others – all albums come from concepts – but it’s as direct an attack as this master of the odd, oblique angle has ever waged.
“I’m a gypsy first and a singer second, and I always will be,” he says. But he’s married now – his wife, Melita Osheowitz Snider, painted the cover of The Devil You Know – and lives in a house with a sweet rooftop bar that has become local legend. As for that gypsy spirit, he need not worry about it. Performers wander the world for a living, and the best ones do it for the rest of their lives. Todd Snider is one for the wandering. read more
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Good News Blues | East Nashville Skyline | 3:14 | 14 |  12 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Enjoy Yourself | East Nashville Skyline | 3:28 | 25 | 12 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Nashville | East Nashville Skyline | 2:27 | 26 | 11 votes |
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