Peace-loving Tennessee singer-songwriter Todd Snider has been captured by a band of hippies and forced to sing protest songs against his will. Well, not really, but that's the story told on the cover art of his latest album, Peace Queer, which goes on sale Oct. 14.
Todd Snider's birthday is Oct. 11, and he wants to give us a present.
Okay, so he looks a bit like Beck, twangs and rambles like John Prine or Bob Dylan, crafts a song like Arlo Guthrie and tells a deadpan joke in the vein of Zach Galifianakis, but Tennessee songwriter's songwriter Todd Snider is a rare performer who can at once channel tradition and still step—poignantly and hilariously—out of its shadow.
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Episode 70
August 19, 2008
