Todd Snider with Haley Bonar
It's the return of the tree huggin’, love makin’, pro choicin’, gay weddin’, widespread diggin’ barefoot hippie Todd Snider! He’s taken on Conservative Christians, hippies, Republicans, and frat boys. In his most recent album, “country’s conscience” (Spin, August 2006) and “top wiseass” (Blender, August 2006) Todd Snider shows us how to get through this economic crisis with ‘The Excitement Plan’ (Yep Roc). The album features GRAMMY-winning producer Don Was (Bob Dyan, Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt) and a guest appearance by Loretta Lynn.
‘The Excitement Plan’ is “an old gypsy term” Snider adopted from his father. He explains, “I know right now that times are hard for all of us and that new songs from a folk singer are not at the top of so many grocery lists but these twelve songs are different. These twelve songs can be part of your solution. Just give them a chance. Take them in. Use 'em to help you appreciate your girl if you still got one, and/or your job if you still got one. Trust them, trust me and I promise you as god is my witness sometime here in the next sixty to ninety days we will be layin 'em in the sweet peas.”
Todd Snider is a renegade storyteller who crafts songs about the everyday man and truthful observations of society with trademark wit. His acclaimed album ‘The Devil You Know’ landed in numerous year-end top 10 critics lists including Spin, Blender and Rolling Stone, as well as his first career appearances on Late Show w/ David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. More recently, 2008's Peace Queer EP--a concept record featuring all the peace, love and anarchy Snider is known for-inspired Blender to say he "morphed from a wisecracking country-ish journeyman to the sharpest and funniest protest singer working today." The EP spent five weeks at number one on the Americana chart and Spin Magazine dubbed him, "One of roots music's slyest, smartest songwriters."
On a final note, Snider adds: "To me, The Excitement Plan is about the lap of poverty, being sung with authority and experience. Where Peace Queer was speculation from afar, The Excitement Plan is certainty from the heart of the story, i think anyway ... It had lots of rewrites on both words and music, lots of wondering what the point was and waiting for it to show up. I don't like to finish any song 'til I know what the therapeutic part for me is gonna be."
Tonight, there'll be a very special guest to open the show: local fave indie singer-songwriter Haley Bonar!
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Singer-songwriter Todd Snider has been a fixture on the Americana, alt-country, and folk scene since his wryly humorous debut on MCA, entitled Songs for the Daily Planet, named for the Memphis bar where Snider used to play regularly. On that album were the...
My name is Haley Bonar (rhymes with Daily Honor), I am a 28 year old singer/songwriter who resides in the lovely village of Minneapolis, MN. I recently wrote, recorded, and am now getting ready to release my new record Golder. Titled after the dreams I had...
