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todd snider east nashville skyline

11/27/2019

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Todd Snider from the vinyl re-issue East Nashville Skyline available on Aimless Records (by Bryant Liggett)
Todd Snider is a songwriting treasure. Warts and all, his songs can be a history lesson, a self-deprecating look inward, or a sharp, poignant gaze outward. Words that inspires, critiques of the world around you that (perhaps) provide the ability to poke a little fun at yourself… or anyone within heckling distance. Todd Snider’s 2004 album East Nashville Skyline is celebrating its fifteen-year anniversary as a vinyl reissue, the release shows why Todd Snider is at the top of his game as a lyricist and storyteller. “Age Like Wine” kicks things off East Nashville Skyline with Todd Snider voicing an ache that carries itself from the tracks beginning to end as the singer contemplates aging in his world of ‘beer joints and concert halls’.
 
Todd Snider tells a tale of getting your ass kicked by the law with some humor in “Tillamook County Jail,” offers history lessons in the Crazy Horse sounding “Alcohol and Pills” and “The Ballad of the Kingsmen” while he delivers solid covers of Fred Eaglesmith’s “Play a Train Song” and Billy Joe Shavers’ “Good News Blues”. The story on “Conservative Christian Right-Wing Republican Straight White American Male” appears more powerful than in its original telling fifteen years back. Todd Snider leaves the folk-singer label behind on the hyper-punky “Incarcerated” while bringing out some Jerry-Lee Lewis Rock’n’Roll boogie on “Nashville.” Never one to shy away from a good-time, Todd Snider closes East Nashville Skyline with a tender and quiet singalong-inducing version of Carl Sigman and Herb Magidson’s 1949 hit “Enjoy Yourself”.  (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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