Todd Snider

The technical quality of his old band was very high, but you can hear that his, like, sort of heart and soul is not in the songs.

And when I asked him about what his influences were, he, I mean, he rattled off the FUV classics: Todd Snider, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Lucinda.

These are things that-

Bonnie Raitt.

Yeah.

Bonnie Raitt for sure.

Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, and Lucinda Williams, and Todd Snider.

Heavies.

And also, Friday, Nick Cord does a thing called New Release Friday, where he highlights a new release.

Last week, last Friday, it was the new Todd Snider album, unfortunately released after Todd's demise.

And you know what we didn't talk about, The Rolling Stones are recording a new album.

They're on a roll, aren't they? They can see the end, so they're rushing towards it with as much productivity as they can because I feel worried about Keith.

It is the wildly colorful retelling of an artistic dust-up by someone that was certainly influenced by Phil.

So this is the late Todd Snider with a song that he and Peter Cooper wrote called Thin Wild Mercury.

[upbeat rock music]

Poor Phil Ochs, sad and low.

Thin wild mercury and golden age.

You know what they say or you don't, or you don't, or you don't, or you don't.

I really like Todd Snider's voice.

Yeah, I miss Todd.

Keep it going.

And then one more thing for the OGs, this weekend, October 11th, it would've been singer-songwriter Todd Snider's 60th-

Mm

... birthday.

Unfortunately, he passed earlier this year.

But his East Nashville pals are holding him up.

They're gonna have a street festival outside the purple building, and they're gonna be temporarily renaming that block of 11th Street Todd Snider Way.

So get out there-

There are bonus interviews, lots of music and, uh, film news as well.

Uh, one of my recent episodes featured some classics and favorites from the band James, Josh Rouse, Johnny Cash, Tina Turner, Nina Simone, uh, Bettye LaVette, Paul Simon, Crash Test Dummies, New Radicals, Wilco, Tiana Esperanza, The Highwomen, Counting Crows, Leon Bridges, Wolf Alice, Feist, Todd Snider, Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M., Kings of Leon, Green Day, Sheryl Crow, and my interviews with, uh, with everyone from Sting, Lindsey Buckingham, Bryan Ferry, Monica Bellucci, Matilda De Angelis, Harriet Walter, Les Claypool, Maynard James Keenan, uh, Anna Camp, Tony Hale.

Uh, that's what you get when you tune in.

So tune in weeknights.

Yeah.

Um, Todd Snider was a big one for me.

Right.

Um, he was, he was one of my...

Yeah, I've always, I've always thought in rhymes.

There's this quote from a songwriter named Todd Snider.

I'm gonna butcher it, but he, he says something like, "I don't sing these songs because I think they're true, but I just tell you the truth because it rhymes," or something like that.

Mm.