Todd Snider's plan is to get excited
"The Excitement Plan" is "an old gypsy term" Snider adopted from his father. He said, "I know right now that times are hard for all of us and that new songs from a folk singer are not at the top of so many grocery lists but these 12 songs are different. These 12 songs can be part of your solution. Just give them a chance. Take them in. Use 'em to help you appreciate your girl if you still got one, and/or your job if you still got one. Trust them, trust me and I promise you as god is my witness sometime here in the next 60 to 90 days we will be layin 'em in the sweet peas."
Yep Roc will offer a limited edition deluxe box set version of "The Excitement Plan" that will include a bonus CD, DVD, stickers and more.
Snider will tour throughout the spring including June 11th at NYC's The Bowery Ballroom and his first performance at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival June 14th.
More news for Todd Snider
- 06/12/19: Snider assembles new band to hit road
- 12/12/18: Snider announces album, tour
- 11/09/10: Todd Snider goes live
- 10/10/08: Todd Snider gives away new CD, for awhile
- 07/02/08: Todd Snider gets political
CD reviews for Todd Snider
There's a lot to be said for the old adage that you're known by the company you keep. So to all who think of Todd Snider as a snarky burnout with one minor '90s hit, take note of the guy's friends: Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine, Loretta Lynn, Jason Isbell and so on. When people of a certain stature vouch for somebody, it matters. And if you study Snider's catalog from his start in 1994, you hear patterns emerge - razor-sharp wit and an x-ray vision to see through American ...
For Todd Snider, Jerry Jeff Walker looms larger than a mere musical hero. When Snider first relocated to Austin in the early '90s, Walker was the first singer/songwriter that Snider witnessed in the city's club scene, showing Snider by example he didn't necessarily require a band to achieve his musical goals. Somewhere along the line, Snider even camped out on Walker's sofa for a few months. Given their longstanding professional and personal connection, there can be little ...
"Some of this trouble just finds me," sings journeyman folk singer/troubadour Todd Snider on Greencastle Blues, the opening track of this career-spanning live collection, and that about sums up the kind of things that either happened directly to him or the characters that populate his songs, a distinction that's blurred more often than not.
There's a full band backing Snider throughout, which adds some heft musically but it's mostly unnecessary as the focus is more on ...
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