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His honest and introspective lyrics have earned him comparisons to artists such as Slaid Cleaves, Hayes Carll, and Fred Eaglesmith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSnider's discography includes critically acclaimed albums like \"East Nashville Skyline\" and \"Agnostic Hymns \u0026amp; Stoner Fables.\" He has collaborated with notable musicians like Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark, and Alejandro Escovedo.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"crank-it-were-doomed-3","title":"Crank It, We’re Doomed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Lost\" album from Todd Snider, featuring previously unreleased songs, recordings, and versions. Sometimes an artist makes a record, then decides not to release it. Neil Young and Prince are two artists who famously did that multiple times. Todd Snider is another artist who has done it, putting three albums on the shelf in a career now spanning three decades. While Snider may not be as well known as Young or Prince, he is just as committed to his art, and his decisions to shelve those three records were artistic ones. But now Snider has decided to take one of those albums off the shelf. Sixteen years after it was recorded, Crank It, We’re Doomed will finally get its release via Aimless Records. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aimless Records","offers":[{"title":"Yellow LP","offer_id":50395745714507,"sku":"2150827","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50395746533707,"sku":"2150829","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50395745124683,"sku":"2150816","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_4617d1f3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726471126"},{"product_id":"time-as-we-know-it-the-songs-of-jerry-jeff-walker","title":"Time As We Know It: The Songs Of Jerry Jeff Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the words of the man himself, I've always hoped I'd stay around long enough to get to make a record of \u003cem\u003eJerry Jeff Walker\u003c\/em\u003e songs. He's the guy I saw at 19 and decided to try to be like. His are the first songs I learned. He's the reason we put a gypsy flag on stage. It's kind of a tribute record but not the kind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50464539771211,"sku":"352063","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fb14f3eb-879d-4f73-8022-05688cc6750c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727276172"},{"product_id":"cash-cabin-sessions-vol-3","title":"Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter spending the last six years making rock albums, Todd Snider is going back to folk. \u003ci\u003eCash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded at Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, TN. Snider wrote the set of songs and played all the instruments on the record, displaying his growth as a musician and vocalist. Of the five songs on which Snider serves up his humorous brand of socio-political commentary, three are performed in the talking blues style. He even had his friends, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, contribute backing vocals on a few of the tracks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Snider is anything, he is a true artist, and he reminds us of that on \u003ci\u003eCash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3\u003c\/i\u003e. At a point in time when the world has never been more complicated and confusing, with people getting louder and louder, Snider did a 180, went back to his roots as a folksinger, to a simpler, quieter form of expression; and it might be what the world is waiting to hear; a man, his guitar, and the truth. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50472014676299,"sku":"1054190","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50472015003979,"sku":"1054189","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e01b7a18-b3a4-4d06-989f-6eeb06eae27d_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727415206"},{"product_id":"first-agnostic-church-of-hope-and-wonder","title":"First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder","description":"\u003cp\u003eA folk record with funk elements and street singer elements and psychedelic elements. Todd calls it “P-Folk” or “Folkadelic.\" \"With this album I had the idea for the sound first, I think. I wanted to do what I was calling funk in back and busking up front with [Beatles'] white album-y shit scattered about. I had done a lot of listening to and looking into Parliament and James Brown and lots of reggae music, too.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorne from Todd Snider's popular weekly live stream series from The Purple Building in East Nashville (pictured on the album cover). “The songs started for me when Jeff Austin passed away. I made up “Sail On, My Friend,” then the touring stopped, and so I started a Sunday morning show. Viewers started jokingly referring to it as a church and to me as a reverend. I’ve only reverend-ed twice. But I have the license so in my mind this opened me up to play bossy kinds of songs... then John Prine passed away, and I made up a song for him [\"Handsome John\"].”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“By the end of it I started thinking I could make it kinda like the red headed stranger or something where it’s a sunday service at the first agnostic church of hope and wonder, and the preacher is full of shit, and when everyone starts to realize it he asks god to help and god does. Proving once and for all that god is hilarious. And the preacher is like, “I Knew It.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThemes: hope, wonder, questioning, searching, progression, togetherness, idiosyncrasy, wisdom, positivity, moving on\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aimless Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50474548363595,"sku":"1116105","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50474548953419,"sku":"1116106","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5bab200b-6899-4017-898a-1af3792f4e0c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727436600"},{"product_id":"east-nashville-skyline-reissue","title":"East Nashville Skyline (Reissue)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA little more than fifteen years ago, Todd Snider recorded \u003ci\u003eEast Nashville Skyline\u003c\/i\u003e, the album on which Snider took creative control of his music and staked his claim to songwriting greatness. Because turntables had not yet made their comeback, \u003ci\u003eEast Nashville Skyline\u003c\/i\u003e was not issued on vinyl when it was first released in 2004, so to honour the fifteenth anniversary of the album, Snider’s Aimless Records drop a vinyl version. Twelve songs made the final cut for the album, including three covers. The nine Snider originals included some his most memorable compositions: \u003ci\u003ePlay a Train Song, The Ballad of The Kingsmen, Nashville\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males\u003c\/i\u003e. The latter song elicited a call from another of his mentors, songwriting legend Kris Kristofferson. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aimless Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50868922843467,"sku":"1079449","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/346fb232-8c4d-4727-9e6c-fcce8bc93eb5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1732135644"},{"product_id":"live-return-of-the-storyteller","title":"Live: Return of the Storyteller","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe timing of \u003ci\u003eLive: Return of the Storyteller\u003c\/i\u003e's release has extra resonance in our post-pandemic era. Snider says, “I'm glad I recorded the tour last year, because that was the sound of the country getting to see live music again. It was unique and it won't happen again. Everyone just hugs at the start of a concert - you can tell that they're glad to see each other, and then they get more excited than they used to be about just being out and seeing music. I'm sure that it will go back to normal, but it hasn't yet.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the album captures what Snider laughingly calls his “second tour'' - '' because I went out on the road in '94 and never went home until the pandemic” - it acts as both a summing up of a thirty-year career and a look ahead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I always think that being a recording artist isn't something that I've thrived at,” he says. “I have fun with it and try all different kinds of music and try to learn more and more, but the only reason I get to do it is because of the main thing I do - which is travel around by myself and sing and tell stories. That thing works. Since I was twenty, that thing has worked. 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During the pandemic, Todd’s Sunday livestreams became a lifeline for fans. These performances brought music, humor, and storytelling together, creating a sense of community when it was needed most. 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Confident in the feel and in his studio band’s pliability, \u003cb\u003eTodd\u003c\/b\u003e recorded vocal and guitar first, with no accompaniment or click track, so the band would have to follow wherever he led.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy mid-October, he had finished vocal, guitar, and rhythm section recordings for at least an album’s worth of material, originally aiming for a double album. 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