★★★★★
The Storyteller Aimless Records Rating: You've probably heard this truism before, "To fully appreciate this artist, you have to see him play live." In most cases, that turns out to be an exaggeration, if not untrue. It's only the rare performer who can eclipse his recorded material, and offer his audience something transcendent, something intangibly special. Bruce Springsteen immediately jumps to mind as the obvious archetype, but there are many more, of course...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Good news: Todd Snider's released two albums in the span of two months. One collects songs associated with his hero Jerry Jeff Walker. It's lovingly curated, shambolic in all the right places, and celebrates the Texas troubadour's 70th birthday in high style, with an emphasis on the high. The other is Snider's most pointedly political work...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2012-07-16
★★★★★
One night we were sitting there listening and Trogg put on this CD of this guy I'd never heard before. Jerry Jeff Walker. Who some of you might have heard of... If you haven't ever heard of him the main thing that people know him for is the song "Mr Bojangles" but he's got a ton of great songs. And, I had never heard that kind of music before. I got so excited and I told my friend I said "this is it, for me, you know?" He said "well, he's playing at this place called Gruene Hall...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-05-24
★★★★★
This labor of love needed more work. Todd Snider released a fine new album of original material just last month, and on "Time As We Know It," he pays homage to a singer he has admired since his teens, Jerry Jeff Walker. Both artists are known for their casual approach to the recording process, but this is a slapdash, ramshackle effort, with arrangements so loose they risk unraveling...
- www.boston.com
2012-04-26
★★★★★
It's probably no shock for Todd Snider followers to discover that he was/is heavily influenced by veteran gonzo country singer/songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker. Snider has been carrying on Walker's scraggly Texas-styled country/Americana tradition since he started, without specifically acknowledging it... until now. He and some musical friends along with co-producer to the stars Don Was, kick back and sling out 14 Walker tracks that range from the iconic ("Mr...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2012-04-19
★★★★★
"It ain't the despair that gets you--it's the hope." On Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, Nashville singer-songwriter Todd Snider has opened up a can of bitter. This isn't to say that his satiric side or self-deprecating tendencies have faded--there just seems to be more for Snider to be jaded about, specifically with unemployment, corporate greed, human exploitation, and the crime these things can bring about...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-04-02
★★★★★
Aimless Todd Snider bestowed the title Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables on his twelfth album for a reason. The songs come from a thoroughly contrarian pointof-view and let listeners who identify with underdogs (i.e. most of us) in on the joke. For nearly two decades, Snider's been a consistently witty, politically provocative blues-talking folk-rocker. Here, he plays the part of a winking, pot-stirring anarchist...
- www.relix.com
2012-03-22
★★★★★
From the title, you'd have no idea that Todd Snider's 12th album was any different from his others, which contain plenty of agnostic hymns and bounties of stoner fables. But it's keyed lyrically around the economy and musically around Amanda Shires, a helpful vocalist and a relevatory violinist, which in no way means it's sappy--this is his darkest album ever...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2012-03-15
★★★★★
Chock full of songs about crooked bankers, the pleasures of recreational drugs and the evils of organized religion, Todd Snider's reputation as America's favorite alt-folk shit disturber remains firmly intact with the release of his newest album Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables. Over the past decade or so, Snider's musical direction has evolved considerably from the early John Prine-influenced acoustic story songs that he performed on his first few records...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2012-03-15
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