Todd Snider - Devil You Know
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Artist: Todd SniderEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-08
Music Label: New Door Records
Soundtracks:
- If Tomorrow Never Comes
- Looking For A Job
- Just Like Old Times
- Carla
- You Got Away With It (A Tale Of Two Fraternity Brothers)
- The Highland Street Incident
- Thin Wild Mercury
- The Devil You Know
- Unbreakable
- All That Matters
- Happy New Year
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Free Music Review: Utterly Amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a Todd Snider fan since his Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues got some spins on local Dallas radio back in the eaaaarrly 90s. His sense of humor slayed me. It's a hilarious song. But the thing about Todd is that he's not just funny. He can also be profound, poignant, angry, slick, or crafty with his messages, and they resonate equally well. This guy is in stiff competition with Hayes Carll as my favorite songwriter of this generation.
The Devil You Know is in my opinion, Todd's strongest work ever. The album starts with a fury of machine-gunned words in "If Tomorrow Never Comes" where Todd spills his take on creation, and self-acceptance.
"Any kind of heaven everybody doesnt get in
wont seem like a heaven to me.
They tell you that the garden of eden was perfect
but you couldnt even eat off the apple tree,
And for heaven's sakes look out for that snake
Lying to your woman constantly
Adam must have scratched his head
Looked up and said
Lord, this just isnt doing it for me."
Now imagine those words coming at you at a hundred miles an hour and you've got the first song. And if those lyrics sound smug or self-sure, don't worry, the 2nd verse is very self-deprecating in a way that lets us all off the hook for enjoying the first verse so much. That's what a master songwriter does. Challenges your thinking, and gives you an out so that you can feel even.
I could write a paragraph about every song on this record, but I won't. Click BUY now, and enjoy this album for yourself. Download the lyrics. Read along. Think about it. You'll be on here writing your own review in notime!
-The Troubaderos
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Keith Richards said humor was rock and roll's greatest weapon, Bob Dylan proved it and Snider takes it to heart. For twelve years, Snider has been a satirist, class cutup and the rare artist who understands and celebrates the connections between the Stones, Dylan, Bill Hicks, John Prine, Mitch Hedberg, Kris Kristofferson, Hunter S. Thompson and Randy Newman. Snider's records are fun even when they aren't being funny, funny even when they're sad, and no less truthful for the laughs. Which brings us to The Devil You Know, a sparkling, smiling, snarling portrait of the doomed.Eric McConnell's as-yet-unnamed studio -- the same place where Loretta Lynn recorded her Grammy-winning Van Lear Rose -- was the setting for Snider's new album. It's the same structure where Snider made his critically acclaimed 2004 album East Nashville Skyline, and the musicians used the whole place.
With The Devil You Know, Snider has assembled a bag of songs that speak to the politics of the day without ever speaking politics, that talk to the wars being fought away from cameras or reporters and that balance truth, beauty and humor.
Todd Snider, the East Nashville antihero, can always be counted on to deliver a brilliant spitball of humor and satire, shot across a classroom devoted to John Prine, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, and the Rolling Stones. Here, on one of his most instantly accessible albums, he balances troubadourish recounts of personal experience and mythmaking (the getting-mugged-in-Memphis tale of "The Highland Street Incident"), the chronicling of not-so-famous-moments in history (Bob Dylan's ass-whipping of Phil Ochs in "Thin Wild Mercury"), and songs of romantic surrender. "All That Matters," a declaration of marital love with a nearly prayerful electric guitar solo from the great Will Kimbrough, shows how profound Snider can be in his simplicity. But his genius is best captured in the deceptively smart "Just Like Old Times," particularly in an exchange with a cop about a high school photo, carried in a wallet since 1982. Here, on his half-drunk vocals, Snider makes clear what he really is: A professional smart-ass whose bravado masks a wounded heart. --Alanna Nash
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