Snider,Todd Return Of The Storyteller CD

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. [Colbruce 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. [Spreadneck 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