Todd Snider - Near Truths and Hotel Rooms Live
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Artist: Todd SniderBrand: Todd
Edition: 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)
Music reviews of Near Truths and Hotel Rooms Live
Music Review: Folk with a real edge
Rating: 5 Stars
Just a great album. I happened to be listening to a country and folk program on the radio and heard a track off this. They were talking about the album as a good one, so I took the risk and bought it based on the one track (Ballad of the Devils Backbone Tavern) and the lead-in to it. I loved the entire album and am now going to sample some of his studio albums. Hopefully they can stand up to this one. If Todd Snider was in my town I'd sure go and listen to him based on this Live album alone. I have even heard my husband (whos not a fan of this genre) giggling to himself a few times on some of the more witty tracks.
Description of Near Truths and Hotel Rooms Live
Todd 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.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 McLeese
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