NPR - 06/09 [audio download + article]
Song for the Unprepared
Singer-songwriter Todd Snider promises that his new album, The Excitement Plan, is "your surefire cure for the hard times." He guarantees it right there in the liner notes: "You can trust me."
Rolling Stone - 06/09
The Excitement Plan Review
Todd Snider's compressed story-songs are so vivid and knowing that they seem completely plausible, even the one on his new album voiced by a piece of discarded junk mail that dreams of being a tree again...
Paste - 06/09
The Excitement Plan Review
The problem with laughing off a bona-fide wiseass is all that pesky wisdom. And the formerly hard-livin’ Snider—while a veritable sultan of snark—has got that in spades...
Spin - 05/09
Alt-country contrarian brandishes wit and heart
Todd Snider was born in Oregon, but he's a spiritual Texan -- a hardheaded, sharp-penned Americana songwriter...
New York Times - 06/09
The Balladeer of Just Getting By
“All my heroes — John, Kris, Jerry Jeff, Shel Silverstein, Billy Joe Shaver, Randy Newman — have that gallows humor,” Mr. Snider said...
USA Today - 06/09
Todd Snider and Sunday's Tent Revival
Todd Snider's mid-afternoon set was full of surprises. First of all, he brought his producer, Don Was, to accompany him on bass. Then, he brought Robert Earl Keen on stage to join him for Corpus Christi Bay...
Rolling Stone - 06/09
New Music Report: Todd Snider
Rolling Stone’s Christian Hoard says Snider’s “America’s Favorite Pastime” is definitely the best song written about the no-hitter pitched by Doc Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1970 while he was on acid. It’s a track on Snider’s new album The Excitement Plan...
American Songwriter - 07/09
Todd Snider: Man with a Plan
“I like to see them on TV talking,” says indie folkie-raconteur Todd Snider with a twinkle in his eye, addressing modern pop culture’s kinetic charge...
NPR - 06/09
Summer Song Favorites
Singer-songwriter Todd Snider hears the sound of summer in the song "Brandy" by Looking Glass...
Esoteric Hollywood - 07/09
Excitement Plan Review
I’m not one of those people that are against country music, I’m quite okay with it, however few times do I declare a country album to be extraordinary...
JamBase - 06/09
Excitement Plan Review
We are all of us an amalgamation of scar tissue and unconscious tics that shambles around, directed much more by vicissitudes than any grand scheme, grasping at anything that keeps us from "the lap of poverty," be it literal, emotional or spiritual...
Country Standard Time - 06/09
Excitement Plan Review
It would be easy to assume that using a well-known producer like Don Was was meant to bring about a slicker, more refined Todd Snider, one with some of the rough edges burnished off...
Crawdaddy - 06/09
Excitement Plan Review
Snider grew up on folk and singer-songwriter stuff, and lived all over the United States in his youth, picking up a fondness for country music, or at least the conventions of country songwriting...
The 9513 - 06/09
Excitement Plan Review
Todd Snider was never a square, but he did start out as a relatively straight-laced country-rocker with a good sense of humor and a keen ear for the ways word can reinforce melody and vice versa...
The AV Club - 06/09
Excitement Plan Review
At a time when empathy is considered a dirty word in some circles, the only safe place left for drunks, petty criminals, and other undesirables might be in the songs of a man who once described himself as a “tree-huggin’, peace-lovin’, pot-smokin’, porn-watchin’, lazy-ass hippie"...
American Songwriter - 06/09
Writer of the Week
Todd Snider came to the American Songwriter offices and played four songs from his current album The Excitement Plan, and talked about being on the road and writing songs...
L.A. Times - 06/09
The Excitement Plan Review
[Todd] Snider is an eminently gifted Oregon-born, Nashville-based writer who wields a well-developed sense of humor akin to John Prine and Tom Waits....
Time Out New York - 06/09
Todd Snider courts the Bowery
The great Nashville troubadour Todd Snider headlined Bowery Ballroom Thursday night, a rare semiseated show at the venue...
The Globe and Mail - 06/09
Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll and...Baseball?
Trips to the mound are no big deals in baseball, as they happen all the time. Trips on the mound, well, that's a different story...
Time Out New York - 06/09
Nashville Megatalent Sings at Shake Shack [video interview]
Todd Snider, one of the sharpest songwriters in Nashville and, by extension, America, meets Time Out at his in-laws’ apartment on a gloomy Friday morning...
USA Today - 06/09
Notable Releases
The stimulus plan not stimulating you? Then try this abundance of wisecracking riches from a guy who's as "broke as the Ten Commandments and sometimes harder to follow"...
StarNews Online - 06/09
On the Excitement Plan, Todd Snider Works Out His Issues
For a guy who’s pretty rough around the edges, the singer and songwriter Todd Snider knows how to hone his lyrics to a (rusty) razor sharpness...
Washington Post - 06/09
Live Last Night
The Birchmere's "quiet please" policy was rendered completely and totally irrelevant the second Todd Snider opened the floor up to requests Friday night...
Philadelphia Inquirer - 06/09
Concert Previews
Fifteen years on from his raggedly brilliant debut, Todd Snider still comes across like the smart and smart-alecky charmer of his slacker anthem, "Alright Guy"...
Wasthington Post - 06/09
Editorial Review
When Todd Snider lets the pure energy of his music run free, there's nothing better...
The New Yorker - 06/09
Night Life
Todd Snider, a rocking country-folk troubadour out of Oregon (and now based in East Nashville), takes a low-key, off-kilter approach in presenting his unique songs, masking a biting wit, some tenderness, and not a little anger.
Hickory Wind - 06/09
Todd Snider @ Cat's Cradle
If there were any “Conservative Christian, Right-wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males” in attendance at Todd Snider’s recent show (5/16/09) at the Cat's Cradle they didn’t speak up...
Rolling Stone - 05/09
America's Favorite Pastime
This loosely grooving vignette documents the night in 1970 when Pittsburgh Pirate Dock Ellis...
Albuquerque Journal - 04/09
Snider gives misfits a home in his songs
In the world of singer/ songwriter Todd Snider, the offbeat is very OK. For instance...
Tucson Weekly - 04/09
Favorite Pastime
All Todd Snider wants to do is play music, to sing for people and write songs. All the time...
USA Today - 04/09
Tracks Playlist
America's Favorite Pastime - The tale of pitcher Dock Ellis' no-hitter on LSD...
Time Out New York - 04/09
Now Playing: Todd Snider
The story of Dock Ellis reads like a great American tall tale, a ’70s equivalent of Paul Bunyan or John Henry. A major-league baseball pitcher in the years when the sport was riddled with eccentrics and facial hair...
Earbender - 04/09
Opening Day 2009 - Todd Snider Sings “America’s Favorite Pastime”
Todd Snider’s latest recording “America’s Favorite Pastime” documents a great moment in sports history, the day Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while under the influence of LSD...
Orlando Sentinel - 04/09
Todd Snider salutes LSD-fueled no-hitter in a new song
Just in time for baseball's opening day, iconoclastic folkie Todd Snider comes out with "America's Favorite Pastime." It's all about Snider's hero, Pittsburgh Prates pitcher Dock Ellis...
JamBase - 04/09
Celebrate Opening Day w/ LSD and Todd Snider
Just in time for opening day, Todd Snider shares one of the wildest stories in baseball history on "America's Favorite Pastime," a song from the upcoming album The Excitement Plan...
Washington Post - 03/09
Broke(n) Records
For Neil Young's next release, "Fork in the Road," the venerated, if occasionally vexing, rocker has created a concept album about electric cars. But Young takes a detour on at least two tracks to work with a suddenly popular songwriting topic: the cratering economy...
The Voice Magazine - 03/09
In Conversation with Todd Snider
Todd Snider is a singer-songwriter based in East Nashville, Tennessee. His songs are mostly gritty down-home narratives about losers, low-lifes, and mice that roar...
The New Yorker - 03/09
The Long Lead-Up
Industrious types at record labels and publicity firms send us records weeks and weeks ahead of time in the hopes of capturing our attention closer to release dates. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t...
Paste Magazine - 03/09
Todd Snider Signs to Yep Roc
The self-proclaimed "tree huggin', peace lovin', pot smokin', porn watchin', lazy ass hippie," has made a move of surprising responsibility and signed to Yep Roc Records...
Austin 360 - 02/09
Songs of the Heart
Shanties that touch the heart. Tunes that make you swoon. Lullabies of love. These are songs made for the soft side of the human condition; songs that sum up feelings of passion better than words spoken...
Eugene Weekly - 02/09
Empathy For Assholes
The guy in the car in front of you at the drive through window is brutally chewing out the blameless pimply-faced kid working there. You probably don’t give it much thought other than knowing that the jerk just wasted your precious time...
Uncommon Music - 01/09
10 Questions: Todd Snider
He’s preparing to embark on a 28 show tour in support of his latest album, Peace Queer but Todd Snider was able to take a few minutes to offer us a little insight...
Telluride Inside - 01/09
Preview & podcast
Beaverton, Oregon's proud son Todd Snider is his generation's Will Rogers, an amiable, plainspoken, wise-cracking story teller and champion of the common man – just add a guitar and a pickup truck...
Washington Post - 01/09
Out: Ryan Adams. In: Todd Snider
But in a kinda-sorta related development, at the same time as Adams was backing off, the underrated Portland/then Texas singer-songwriter-buttkicker Todd Snider was firing up his laptop and filling the void with an amazing blog post of his own -- "an open letter to texans, inspired by the 38th birthday of one blank plectrum."...
Kansas City Star - 01/09
Live review
It takes a lot for one guy with nothing but a guitar to command a big room, especially when he’s not wearing shoes. But that’s what Todd Snider did Wednesday night, inside a casino, no less...
St. Louis Metromix - 01/09
Feature
The singer-songwriter, who released Peace Queer in 2008, has obviously been noticed by many St. Louisians, as well as may others; the album was #1 for four weeks on the Americana charts. When I caught up with Snider over e-mail last week, he seemed to notice the love...
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All Good Music Festival
It's not too late to get your tickets for the All Good Music Festival -- July 10, 2009 (Masontown, WV)!
Todd Snider on NPR All Things Considered
Click the logo above to listen to a live stream of Todd Snider's appearance on NPR's All Things Considered
Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009
October 2-4, 2009. Tickets on sale now! Click the image above for more information.
ESPN Chat with Todd Snider
View the transcript of Todd Snider's recent online chat on ESPN.com.
Todd Joins The Brite Revolution
 Todd recently joined forces with a new online source of exclusive and rare music. Its called Brite Revolution and their mission is to help artists release new music on a regular basis while supporting a number of non-profit causes... Check out Todd's Brite page often as the content featured will change often. Every month, Brite will roll out a new Todd song exclusively on their site as well as various live recordings, demos, out-takes and other back catalog songs every month as well.
http://briterevolution.com/artists/todd-snider/
Brite Revolution donates 10% of its gross subscription revenues to the non-profit causes of your choice. So, when you sign up, you can pick which artist's charity choice you would like to help support. Other artists on Brite Revolution: Katie Herzig, Griffen House, Andy Davis, Matthew Perryman Jones, Todd Snider, Billy Cerveny, Drew Holcomb And The Neighbors, Randall Goodgame, Caedmon’s Call, Andy Osenga, Waterdeep and Ginny Owens. As a thank you for all your support Todd would like to give you a free month membership to Brite Revolution. Just click the link below and go from there.
Brite Revolution
The Excitement Plan Limited Edition Available for Pre-Order
UPDATE: The Limited Edition Box Set is currently sold out but pre-orders for the Excitement Plan are being taken HERE.
Street corner prophet and good time buddy Todd Snider has been championing the overlooked and underappreciated for more than fifteen years. This year he's back with The Excitement Plan, an album at once social commentary, gypsy recession recovery plan and soul-folk masterpiece.
Self-awareness never sounded so good as Todd and crack sidemen Jim Keltner and Greg Liesz team up with Grammy-winning producer Don Was (Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones) for an album that exemplifies Snider's by-your-wits lifestyle and once-an-age lyricism.
Artfully combining an appreciation of what you already have with longshot hope for a happy ending, The Excitement Plan ranges from the boozy tonk of Loretta Lynn duet "Don’t Tempt Me" to the earnest soul searching of "Greencastle Blues." The brilliant "Money, Compliments, Publicity (Song Number Ten)" seems to sum up Snider in a song—gracious and grounded, yet longing to write a song or two that would warrant getting too big for his britches.
With The Excitement Plan Snider may have done just that.
Yep Roc is excited to offer an exclusive box set edition of The Excitement Plan that will be limited to a pressing of 500 units. There will only be one pressing of the box set and is sure to become a collector's item for any Todd Snider fan.
Included in the box set are these great items!
- Each box set will be individually numbered and signed by Todd!
- Digital downloads of "Good Fortune" and "Don't Tempt Me" from The Excitement Plan available in your Stash immediately upon completing your order.
- 1 Specially designed hard-shell box featuring an original design
- 1 CD copy The Excitement Plan
- 1 DVD copy of Todd's short film Peace Queer featuring head shaking animation, intimate interviews and brilliant live performances captured on tour. The DVD also includes an 8 page booklet featuring animation stills and notes from Todd about the film.
- 1 CD copy of The Excitement Plan Bonus Disc featuring unreleased audio material that will not appear on the regular version of the album. This disc is only available as part of the box set and will not be available anywhere else!
- 3 limited-edition Todd Snider stickers
- 1 nylon gypsy flag featuring the official Todd Snider logo (measures 4x6 inches)
CD/Box Set Release Date: June 9, 2009.
Please note that when your order contains a preordered item, it will ship for arrival on release date.
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