Todd Snider - Near Truths and Hotel Rooms Live
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Artist: Todd SniderEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2003-05-13
Music Label: Oh Boy
Soundtracks:
- Tension
- D.B. Cooper
- Lonely Girl
- Beer Run
- Statistician's Blues
- Waco Moon
- I Can't Complain
- The Ballad Of The Devil's Backbone Tavern
- Easy Money
- Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues
- Long Year
- Side Show Blues
- I Spoke As A Child
- Doublewide Blues
- Broke
- Beer Run (Bob and Tom version)
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Free Music Review: Excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
This is really an amazing album.
It was recommended to me. I didn't know Todd Snider before listening to it. It blew me away. It reminded me of the folk songs I used to listen to when I was a kid, but updated for the modern times.
The funny songs are funny. The serious songs are touching. (They make me wonder what sort of life Todd Snider has lived.) Yes, one or two duds (D.B. Cooper, Easy Money), but with so many great songs, it still deserves 5 stars, especially because...
The patter between songs is what really turns this into a great live album. This is the kind of thing you will not get on studio albums, or even on most live albums. Todd Snider is a real entertainer, and his introductions to the songs are the highlights of the album.
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Todd Snider really knows how to work a room. As a storytelling troubadour for the slacker set, he takes inspiration from the likes of Jerry Jeff Walker (as he explains in one of this solo concert album's deadpan introductions) and Robert Earl Keen and applies it to a selection of shaggy-dog stories, talking blues, and slices-of-life gone askew. One of his earliest signature tunes, "Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues," has now outlived grunge by too long, but the more recent "Waco Moon," inspired by the death of guitartist Eddy Shaver, shows that Snider's songwriting is good for a whole lot more than laughs. Some of his most engaging songs such as "Beer Run" seem to have practically written themselves, while others such as "Tension" and "Statistician's Blues" sound like songs that were just waiting to be written. It's an integral part of Snider's engaging appeal that he makes it all seem so effortless. As with Keen, the challenge for Snider is balancing the easy laughs with his more serious progression as a songwriter. --Don McLeeseTodd Snider has built a reputation as a great live performer who tours relentlessly. Near Truths and Hotel Rooms, his third release for Oh Boy Records (his sixth overall) is an all live collection of songs and stories that represents a typical evening with Snider, his guitar, and his imagination. Co-produced by Snider, this 23-song disc combines his witty songwriting with his engaging storytelling. Recorded in several different locations over eighteen months. It includes an alternate version of 'Beer Run' recorded on the air during one of Todd's many appearances on the syndicated morning radio program Bob & Tom. 2003.
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