Todd Snider

Release Date: 09/23/2022
Format: 2 X LP
Label: Aimless Records
Release type: Indie Exclusive Opaque Blue Vinyl LP Pressing.

Live: Return of the Storyteller - his third live album and nineteenth overall - plays like a masterclass by one man with a guitar and a freewheeling imagination. Threading his husky-voiced phrasing through a likable cosmic cowboy manner, he invites you on a tour of tunes humorous ("Big Finish," and the have-meets- have-not "In Between Jobs"), Proustian ("Play a Train Song," "Too Soon To Tell," and the lump-in-the-throat snapshot of John Prine on "Handsome John") and heart-worn ("Like a Force of Nature," "The Very Last Time," "Roman Candles"). As the fifteen-song set unfolds, you can feel a tangible bond building between Snider and his fans. - While the album captures what Snider laughingly calls his "second tour - because I went out on the road in '94 and never went home until the pandemic" - it acts as both a summing up of a thirty-year career and a look ahead.

1. Big Finish
2. [Col. Bruce Hampton Ret.]
3. Turn Me Loose
4. [East Nashville]
5. Play a Train Song
6. [Old Man Shakes Fist at Sky]
7. Too Soon to Tell
8. Like a Force of Nature
9. [John Prine]
10. Handsome John
11. [Hard Luck Love Song]
12. Just Like Old Times
13. [Speakneck Speedball]
14. Roman Candles
15. The Very Last Time
16. Sail on, My Friend
17. [Being Outdoors]
18. Ballad of the Devil's Backbone Tavern
19. Alright Guy
20. [Free Bird]
21. [Sock Water]
22. Just Like Overnight
23. [Alan Greenspan]
24. In Between Jobs
25. [Where Will I Go]
26. Working on a Song
27. Opening Statement