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way too young. saw him live twice, just wonderful shows / story telling 

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21 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

Yeah, it was either the day before or the day after that show (I saw them in St Paul)

Isbell played Elephant and you could hear a pin drop.  It was one of those moments where you knew you were hearing something that was going to alter things.   

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One of his many eulogies has called his live albums "stand up comedy with really great songs in between".

That's pretty much who he was as a performer.

If you've never seen this, this about sums him up.  What a loss.

 

7 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Man, this sucks.  I saw him open for John Prine at the Paramount a long while back.  Man that was a great show.

My wife and I were at that show.  We were trying to remember what year it was. 

It was a magnificent show.  Just brilliant.  Snider's between-song banter was funnier than most stand-up comedians, and the songs were brilliant.  Many of those songs are among his all-time classics now, but at the time, I think a lot of them were fairly fresh.  

What, they couldn't cram Guy Clark onto that bill?  

Psssh.

I have been following Todd since around 2003 when my co-worker let me listen to Near Truths and Hotel Rooms shortly after he picked it up.  Once I heard that CD and played it for my then wife, we were hooked.  We started to see him any chance we could.  We probably saw him 25 times.  The most meaningful show to me was probably when we traveled to NYC to see him open for JJW at BB Kings.  We saw him open for Prine in San Antonio.  We saw him share the stage with South Austin Jug Band at Threadgills and various places around the state. The last time I saw him was the night before my then wife would find out some really terrible personal news and that was in December of 2018.

This one has really hit me hard and I'm still in shock that this happened.  I had a real bad feeling that he wasn't long for this world after Jerry Jeff, Prine and Buffet all passed around covid.  Todd started really looking gaunt and you could see the sadness in his soul that his mentors were gone.  I am hopeful he is at peace now and partying with his pals wherever that may be.

On 11/18/2025 at 11:54 AM, cactusflinthead said:

 

connecting dots here, it seems like Todd was injured in an altercation near the club, tour was cancelled, tour manager sent the band home and Todd to the hospital. When police reached out to the manager he was confused and said he asked for an ambulance, not police. Nowhere in that article does it mention what kind of state he was in that night before the assault, but from the "assaulted" and "no police please" and the state he's in on the arrest cam (the morning after?) I'm guessing he was very not OK. I mean, that article starts with 'none of the PDs have information or are trying to get information' and ends with the part where his babysitter didn't want help from police at the outset of the crisis. I'm guessing that whatever happened was connected to Todd's condition, him escaping the first hospital and getting into an altercation leading to his arrest at a second hospital was related to his condition, and getting sick in a way that killed him from a night of being assaulted, wandering the streets, being thrown in the back of a police car, and then somehow shipped back home to Nashville is also related to his condition. I can speak with some experience that nobody takes you seriously when you present as a delirious drunk or addict, it's hard to communicate effectively or consistently, you're not really in control of your actions, and it is hard on the body. That kind of night is rough at 30, I don't think I could do it at 40, not surprised if that's pretty much what the story is at 50. Fucking bummer to go out like that, if that's what happened. It would be interesting to know more about the altercation outside of the club.

On 11/15/2025 at 9:06 PM, Ten Bears said:

Last of the 20 or so times i saw him.  If you're in the men's bathroom at dbt and see Todd Snider Rulz written on the wall, you're welcome.

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I was there. I think you and I might have mutual friends. Cool picture. 

On 11/20/2025 at 10:07 PM, Da Fino said:

I was there. I think you and I might have mutual friends. Cool picture. 

Do you know any of the Austin Shithouse Choir? 

1 minute ago, Ten Bears said:

Do you know any of the Austin Shithouse Choir? 

Is that name trademarked?  I know a website where it might be useful as a banner headline. 

The Shithouse Choir was an old listserve email chat group for Todd's fans. They (we) call themselves Shitheads.

On 11/19/2025 at 4:55 PM, Celery Man said:

 

connecting dots here, it seems like Todd was injured in an altercation near the club, tour was cancelled, tour manager sent the band home and Todd to the hospital. When police reached out to the manager he was confused and said he asked for an ambulance, not police. Nowhere in that article does it mention what kind of state he was in that night before the assault, but from the "assaulted" and "no police please" and the state he's in on the arrest cam (the morning after?) I'm guessing he was very not OK. I mean, that article starts with 'none of the PDs have information or are trying to get information' and ends with the part where his babysitter didn't want help from police at the outset of the crisis. I'm guessing that whatever happened was connected to Todd's condition, him escaping the first hospital and getting into an altercation leading to his arrest at a second hospital was related to his condition, and getting sick in a way that killed him from a night of being assaulted, wandering the streets, being thrown in the back of a police car, and then somehow shipped back home to Nashville is also related to his condition. I can speak with some experience that nobody takes you seriously when you present as a delirious drunk or addict, it's hard to communicate effectively or consistently, you're not really in control of your actions, and it is hard on the body. That kind of night is rough at 30, I don't think I could do it at 40, not surprised if that's pretty much what the story is at 50. Fucking bummer to go out like that, if that's what happened. It would be interesting to know more about the altercation outside of the club.

Sounds like he just fell down in his bus and split his head open. Altercation was either made up or just a guess based on his concussed/inhebriated state. 

Regardless, lost one of the great ones. 

https://savingcountrymusic.com/todd-snider-assault-determined-to-be-self-inflicted-injury-police-say/

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Todd and Evan are on my Mt Rushmore of songwriters (along with Mike Cooley and James McMurtry).  This is so fucking cool.

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3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

They may be dead but they are far from gone. 

The fucking songs that table has produced.  Good lord.

44 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

The fucking songs that table has produced.  Good lord.

Except Junior.

23 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Except Junior.

Yeah, but he's less a songwriter than a virtuoso.   Which also has its place.  But c'mon, Broke Down South of Dallas and Highway Patrol are just plain fun.

1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

Yeah, but he's less a songwriter than a virtuoso.   Which also has its place.  But c'mon, Broke Down South of Dallas and Highway Patrol are just plain fun.

Ahem…My Wife Thinks You’re Dead

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Junior Brown could have been a quadriplegic vegetable, and that table still would have produced a litany of incredible songs.

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On 11/25/2025 at 12:00 PM, Al_4_ISU said:

Todd and Evan are on my Mt Rushmore of songwriters (along with Mike Cooley and James McMurtry).  This is so fucking cool.

Strong to quite strong array of songwriters there.  McMurtry probably gets my nod, but ain't no flies on the others.

On 11/25/2025 at 11:00 AM, Al_4_ISU said:

Todd and Evan are on my Mt Rushmore of songwriters (along with Mike Cooley and James McMurtry).  This is so fucking cool.

Happy to see this on Apple Music this morning. 

This was always one of my favorite Todd Snider songs.  It's silly but just hits me for reasons I can't explain.   

 

 

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25 minutes ago, BottleRocket said:

This was always one of my favorite Todd Snider songs.  It's silly but just hits me for reasons I can't explain.   

 

 

I’ve been singing this to myself around the house and office the last few weeks.  Particularly “she was a gold diggin’ bitch, and her mom was too”

the Late Great Todd Snider doing Rolling Stones Mick Jagger blues imitation   

 

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