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Songs For The Daily Planet (CD)

By: Todd Snider (Artist)

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Todd Snider Artist Snapshot:

Country singer/songwriter Todd Snider is known for his storytelling songs and sharp wit. He debuted in 1994 with the album SONGS FOR THE DAILY PLANET, which established his reputation as a trenchant songsmith. Over the years, his sound would drift between rock, country, and folk, but his songwriting remained as hard-hitting as ever. Snider's 2006 album, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, which included a number of songs with a political edge, was one of his best-received ever, widening his audience outside the alt-country cult status he'd already attained.

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DISC 1 for Songs For The Daily Planet (CD) Album By Todd Snider (Artist)
1   My Generation (Part 2)
2   Easy Money
3   That Was Me
4   This Land Is Our Land
5   Alright Guy
6   I Spoke As A Child
7   Turn It Up
8   Trouble
9   Alot More
10   You Think You Know Somebody
11   Somebody's Coming
12   Joe's Blues / Talkin' Seattle Grunge Blues - (hidden track)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (5/4/95, p.70) - "...his refusal to take himself too seriously saves his insights from preachiness..."
Entertainment Weekly (11/25/94, p.77) - "...Memphis' Snider shows plenty of lyrical savvy on boozy R&B and Springsteen-style whimsy. When he gears down for a ballad about abused children ('You Think You Know Somebody'), he actually becomes moving..." - Rating: A-
Musician (6/95, pp.75-79) - "...The musical styles flit from barroom country to SoCal period rock...mandolins and distorted slide guitars side by side in an approach well-defined by Hiatt and Mellencamp. Snider's lyrical cleverness constantly flirts with his ability to take an idea and develop it..."

Title Note

Personnel: Todd Snider (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica); Peter Hyrka (acoustic guitar, mandolin, violin, accordion); Eddy Shaver, Doug Lancio (guitar); Mark "Hoot" Marchetti (vibraphone); Edgar Meyer (acoustic bass); Joe Mariencheck (bass, background vocals); Joe McLeary (drums); Terry McMillan (percussion); Tom Littlefield, Harry Stinson (background vocals); Michael Utley, Ashley Cleveland, Marshall Chapman.

Recorded at Soundstage Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. Includes liner notes by Todd Snider.

Todd Snider brings a hip sensibility to his rocking brand of country music. The style is strictly alternative country, melding the best of rockabilly, folk, rhythm & blues and modern rock, with a "deep country" musical groove.

For R&B fans, there's "Easy Money" and its blistering guitar attack, which, incidentally, is red-hot throughout SONGS FOR THE DAILY PLANET. For those who follow current college radio charts, there's the talking blues of "My Generation (Part 2)," a humorous litany of contemporary cultural icons. "That Was Me" is pure country, with its husky vocal and "regular guy" theme. The blues shuffle "Trouble" is a saucy track, while "You Think You Know Somebody" is a post-Dylanish ballad. And on the jazzy, Tom Waits-ish "Joe's Blues," Snider "slips on the dark shades" and gets his fingers a-snapping.

Todd is a first-rate songwriter, ready to join the league of cutting-edge country boys like Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt and Steve Earle. He also exhibits qualities of rough-edged heartland crooners like John Mellencamp ("This Land Is Our Land"). Snider's lyrics are insightful, clever and often humorous, and his performance is energetic, emotional and wide-ranging.

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