Americana troubadour Todd Snider, alt-country singer-songwriter, dies at 59 : NPR

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Mark Humphrey/AP NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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 file label stated Saturday in an announcement posted to his social media accounts that Snider died Friday.

"The place do we discover the phrases for the one who at all times had the suitable phrases, who knew how you can distill all the pieces right down to its essence with phrases and tune whereas delivering essentially the most devastating, hilarious, and impactful flip of phrases?" the assertion learn. "All the time creating rhyme and meter that instantly felt like an outdated pal or a favourite blanket. Somebody who might virtually at all times discover the humor on this loopy journey on Planet Earth."

Snider's household and pals had stated in a Friday assertion that he had been identified with pneumonia at a hospital in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and that his scenario had since grown extra sophisticated and he was transferred elsewhere. The prognosis 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 keeping with a Nov. 3 assertion from his administration group.

However Salt Lake Metropolis police later arrested Snider himself when he at first refused to go away a hospital and later returned and threatened staffers, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

The scrapped tour was in help of his most up-to-date album, "Excessive, Lonesome and Then Some," which launched in October. Snider mixed components of folks, rock and nation in a three-decade profession. In critiques of his current albums, The Related Press referred to as him a "singer-songwriter with the persona of a fried folkie" and a "stoner troubadour and cosmic comedian."

He modeled himself on — and at instances 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 tune with Loretta Lynn that appeared on her 2016 album, "Full Circle."

"He relayed a lot tenderness and sensitivity by means of his songs, and confirmed many people how to have a look at the world by means of a unique lens," the Saturday assertion from his label learn. "He obtained up each morning and began writing, at all times working in the direction of discovering his place among the many songwriting giants that sat on his file cabinets, those self same giants who let him into their lives and took him below 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," "Close to Truths and Resort Rooms" and "East Nashville Skyline," a 2004 assortment that is thought of by many to be his greatest.

These albums yielded his greatest identified songs, "I Cannot Complain," "Beer Run" and "Alright Man."

Snider was born and raised in Oregon earlier than settling and making his musical chops in San Marcos, Texas. He ultimately made his option to Nashville, and was dubbed by some the unofficial "mayor of East Nashville," assuming the title from a pal memorialized thusly in his "Prepare Music." In 2021, Snider stated a twister that ripped by means 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 file label, Margaritaville, which launched his first two albums, 1994's "Songs for the Day by day Planet" and 1996's "Step Proper Up."