Title: Return Of The Storyteller Artist: Todd Snider Label: Aimless Records Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 793888438507 Genre: Singer/Songwriter, Folk Release Date: 2022-09-23 Number of Discs: 2
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.
Tracks: 1.1 Big Finish 1.2 [Col. Bruce Hampton Ret.] 1.3 Turn Me Loose 1.4 [East Nashville] 1.5 Play A Train Song 1.6 [Old Man Shakes Fist At Sky] 1.7 Too Soon To Tell 1.8 Like A Force Of Nature 1.9 [John Prine] 1.10 Handsome John 1.11 [Hard Luck Love Song] 1.12 Just Like Old Times 1.13 [Speakneck Speedball] 1.14 Roman Candles 1.15 The Very Last Time 1.16 Sail On, My Friend 1.17 [Being Outdoors] 1.18 Ballad Of The Devil’s Backbone Tavern 1.19 Alright Guy 1.20 [Free Bird] 1.21 [Sock Water] 1.22 Just Like Overnight 1.23 [Alan Greenspan] 1.24 In Between Jobs 1.25 [Where Will I Go] 1.26 Working On A Song 1.27 Opening Statement
