There is a movie being made about Todd Snider’s new album Peace Queer. I don’t have very many details but here are some clips. All I can say is that Todd Snider is a very disturbed man and I love him for it!
Todd will be playing Gruene Hall on December 30.
The new Todd Snider album Peace Queer officially comes out on Tuesday October 14 but its being offered up as a free mp3 download on toddsnider.net through the end of the month. I love the prelude he gives about being abducted by a coalition of “Peace Queers” and forced to write an album of protest songs. Some of my favorite Snider tunes are the protest songs, such as You Got Away With It and Conservative Christian Right Wing Republican. Anyway, download it, buy it when it comes out and go see a Todd Snider Show. On a related note, I saw him on Thursday at the Cactus Cafe and as always he was amazing. Here are some pics from the show.
Todd Snider’s new album Peace Queer is set to be release October 14. Can’t wait to hear Forunate Son and all the new material. Here is the track listing:
1. Mission Accomplished (because you gotta have faith)
2. The Ballad of Cape Henry
3. Fortunate Son
4. Is This Thing Working?
5. Stuck On The Corner (prelude to a heart attack)
6. Dividing The Estate (a heart attack)
7. Ponce of The Flaming Peace Queer
8. Is This Thing On?
In related news, Todd is slated to play the Cactus Cafe on October 9 and 10. Yay!!!
I’m such a YouTube junkie. I’ll go on YouTube in search of something and find myself browsing videos for hours. One cool side effect Youtube is having is that it is bringing back music videos. Cuckoobird favorite Todd Snider has some excellent music videos on YouTube including the following two which I hope you get as much of a kick out of as I did.
The first is a hilarious video for a song Called Looking For A Job which features Todd driving around in a van convincing people to quit there jobs and go party with him:
The second is a video for the song called Iron Mike’s Main Man’s Last Request which features some well placed footage of Mike Tyson. The video was produced by Fifth Column Films who’ve done a very good job, really driving home the point of the song:
Last night I got to see Todd Snider play at the Santa Fe Brewing Company. I arrived at 7:00, thirty minutes before the show was supposed to start and it was already packed. Somebody mentioned to me that Todd’s new album The Devil You Know was ranked 33 on Rolling Stone’s top 50 albums of 2006 list. Todd Snider is finally getting the kind of audience that he deserves. Every one of his albums is a masterpiece of songwriting inspired by such greats as John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joe Shaver and Kris Kristofferson.
Todd’s buddy from East Nashville, Pete Cooper opened the show. Pete is a clever singer songwriter with a very poignant song about Hank Aaron. Todd took the stage a little after 8:30 with his jumbo Epiphone and harmonica. With Todd solo acoustic in such a small place it made for a very intimate vibe. He played most songs of The Devil You Know and also reached into his older repertoire with songs like Missing You and This Land Is Our Land.
Some of the stories that Todd told between the songs had me rolling on the floor, especially the story about the inspiration for If Tomorow Never Comes. Apparently he stole the name of the song from Garth Brooks after the guy that wrote Garth’s version explained to him how he legally stole Beer Run from Todd.
Paintings by Todd’s wife Moleta Osheowitz-Snider were displayed all over the stage and presumably they were for sale. Below are some photos and a video clip that I took.
Update: I just found this excellent interview/performance with Todd in KUT’s Studio 1A.
