NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Todd Snider, a singer whose thoughtfully freewheeling tunes and cosmic-stoner songwriting made him a beloved determine in American roots music, has died. He was 59.
His document label stated Saturday in an announcement posted to his social media accounts that Snider died Friday.
“Where do we find the words for the one who always had the right words, who knew how to distill everything down to its essence with words and song while delivering the most devastating, hilarious, and impactful turn of phrases?” the assertion learn. “Always creating rhyme and meter that immediately felt like an old friend or a favorite blanket. Someone who could almost always find the humor in this crazy ride on Planet Earth.”
Snider’s household and buddies had stated in a Friday assertion that he had been recognized with pneumonia at a hospital in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and that his scenario had since grown extra difficult and he was transferred elsewhere. The analysis got here on the heels of the cancellation of a tour after Snider had been the sufferer of a violent assault within the Salt Lake Metropolis space, in accordance with a Nov. 3 assertion from his administration group.
However Salt Lake Metropolis police later arrested Snider himself when he at first refused to depart a hospital and later returned and threatened staffers, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
The scrapped tour was in assist of his most up-to-date album, “High, Lonesome and Then Some,” which was launched in October. Snider mixed parts of people, rock and nation in a three-decade profession. In opinions of his latest albums, The Related Press referred to as him a “singer-songwriter with the persona of a fried folkie” and a “stoner troubadour and cosmic comic.”
He modeled himself on — and at occasions met and was mentored by — artists like Kris Kristofferson, Man Clark and John Prine. His songs had been recorded by artists together with Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joe Shaver and Tom Jones. And he co-wrote a track with Loretta Lynn that appeared on her 2016 album, “Full Circle.”
“He relayed so much tenderness and sensitivity through his songs, and showed many of us how to look at the world through a different lens,” the Saturday assertion from his label learn. “He got up every morning and started writing, always working towards finding his place among the songwriting giants that sat on his record shelves, those same giants who let him into their lives and took him under their wings, who he studied relentlessly.”
Snider would do his best-known and most acclaimed work for Prine’s impartial label Oh Boy within the early 2000s. It included the albums “New Connection,” “Near Truths and Hotel Rooms” and “East Nashville Skyline,” a 2004 assortment that’s thought-about by many to be his finest.
These albums yielded his finest identified songs, “I Can’t Complain,” “Beer Run” and “Alright Guy.”
Snider was born and raised in Oregon earlier than settling and honing his musical chops in San Marcos, Texas. He ultimately made his technique to Nashville, and was dubbed by some the unofficial “mayor of East Nashville,” assuming the title from a good friend memorialized thusly in his “Train Song.” In 2021, Snider stated a twister that ripped by way of the neighborhood residence to a vibrant arts scene severely broken his home.
Snider had an early fan in Jimmy Buffett, who signed the younger artist to his document label, Margaritaville, which launched his first two albums, 1994’s “Songs for the Daily Planet” and 1996’s “Step Right Up.”
