Todd Snider
Todd Daniel Snider (born October 11, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter with a musical style that combines Americana, alt-country, and folk.
Biography
Singer-songwriter Todd Snider was born in Portland, Oregon, United States, and lived there until his family moved to Houston. When he was 15, he ran away from home with a friend and went back to Portland. After high school, he moved to Santa Rosa, California, to be a harmonica player. Then his brother, who lived in Austin, Texas, bought him a ticket to move there. After seeing Jerry Jeff Walker in a local bar, Snider decided that he didn't need a band to be a musician.
After moving to Memphis in the mid-1980s and establishing residency at a club named the Daily Planet, he was discovered by Keith Sykes, a member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. A longtime acquaintance of John Prine and Walker, Sykes began to work with Snider to help advance his career. Prine hired him as an assistant and then invited him to open shows. In time, Buffett heard Snider's demo tapes and signed him to his own label. On his music, Snider has said "I was just trying to come up with the best... most open hearted ... well-thought-out lyrics I could come up with. I wanted every song to be sad and funny at the same time, vulnerable and entertaining at the same time, personal and universal at the same time. I wanted every song to be as uniquely written as possible and then I wanted to perform them in a studio loose and rugged and hopefully as uniquely as I could. My hope is to be hard to describe and/or new…I'm not saying I am. I'm just saying that's the hope."
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ALBUMS
- Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables released: 2012
- Todd Snider Live: The Storyteller released: 2011
- The Excitement Plan released: 2009
- Peace Queer released: 2008
- Peace, Love and Anarchy released: 2007
- The Devil You Know released: 2006
- Countryfried released: 2004
- East Nashville Skyline released: 2004
- Near Truths and Hotel Rooms released: 2003
- New Connection released: 2002
- Happy to Be Here released: 2000
- Viva Satellite released: 1998
- Step Right Up released: 1996
- Songs for the Daily Planet released: 1994
- Happy New Year Vol. I released:
- Todd Sings Prine released:
- That Was Me 1994 - 1998 released:
Near Truths and Hotel Rooms
Released 2003- Ladies and Gentlemen
- Tension
- D. B. Cooper
- Lonely Girl
- Hello... Sorry
- Beer Run
- Reading on the Plane, Writing on the Phone
- Statistician's Blues
- Waco Moon
- I Can't Complain
- Story of the Ballad on the Devil's Backbone Tavern
- Ballad of the Devil's Backbone Tavern
- Easy Money
- Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues
- Long Year
- Typing Gibberish
- Side Show Blues
- Any Requests?
- I Spoke as a Child
- Doublewide Blues
- Letter From Australia
- Broke
- Beer Run
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Some Things Are
by: Todd SniderHe took the kid to see a doctor on the other side of town
Signed in with a nurse and sat down
The boy played with toys on the waiting room floor
He tried to read a paper that he read before
The doctor will see you now is not what that means
It's a smaller room with even less magazines
Where you wait around another hour it seems
Like an hour, Lord it seems like an hour
All the days go by
No real point in wondering why
You can't undo what's done
No matter how hard you try
Some things are the way they are
Cause some things are the way they are
Love will be enough
He met the boy's mama when they were both young
The kid come along and then another two sons
Together they had weathered what hardships came
But this kind of trouble, it wasn't the same
So much seemed to be depending on this
The doctor come in looking down that list
Made a little small talk, stuck the needle in
Drew a little blood and was gone again
The kid cried and pulled close to the old man's side
It was then he realized
It didn't matter
All the days go by
No real point in wondering why
You can't undo what's done
No matter how hard you try
Some things are the way they are
Cause some things are the way they are
The truth of the matter come crashing in
Long before the doctor come back again
That the truth didn't matter whether or not he knew it
True love matters and that's all there is to it
True love matters and that's all there is to it
So when the doctor come back with his glasses pushed low
And said, "We run the test and here's what they show"
He said, "Wait, doc, let me pay you and go
I don't need to know, I don't need to know."
All the days go by
No real point in wondering why
You can't undo what's done
No matter how hard you try
Some things are the way they are
Cause some things are the way they are
Love will be enough
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