Todd Snider

Todd Snider was the quintessential postmodern troubadour, a singer and songwriter whose slacker wit and cheerfully rumpled style was an entertaining counterpoint to the plainspoken wisdom of his songs. While he scored a minor hit with "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues" from his 1994 debut album, Songs for the Daily Planet, he found his most loyal audience in the contemporary folk scene and the jam band community, where he was embraced as a John Prine for the postmodern era. (It didn't hurt that Prine himself was a fan.) Snider's major-label period was brief, which gave him the freedom to let his freak flag fly on indie projects like 2008's Peace Queer, 2012's Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, and 2016's Eastside Bulldog, and 2011's Live: The Storyteller captured the engaging spirit of his live shows.