Side A
Artist	Song
Todd Snider	Age Like Wine
Todd Snider	Horseshoe Lake
Todd Snider (with John Prine)	Crooked Piece of Time
Todd Snider	Maybe You Heard
Todd Snider	Long Year
Todd Snider	I Spoke As A Child
Todd Snider	If Tomorrow Never Comes
Todd Snider	Nervous Wreck
Todd Snider	The Devil You Know
Todd Snider	Side Show Blues
Todd Snider	East Nashville Skyline
Todd Snider	Missing You
Todd Snider	You Think You Know Somebody
Todd Snider & Jack Ingram	Old Friend
Todd Snider	Iron Mike's Main Man's Last Request
Todd Snider	Just In Case
Todd Snider	Play A Train Song (live acoustic version)
Todd Snider	Doublewide Blues
Todd Snider	The Ballad of the Kingsmen
Todd Snider	From A Rooftop
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Todd Snider	Waco Moon
Todd Snider	Can't Complain
Todd Snider	Happy To Be Here
Todd Snider	The Devil You Know (live at Grimey's)
Todd Snider	Tension (live)
Todd Snider	Ballad of the Devil's Backbone Tavern
Todd Snider	Tillamook County Jail
Todd Snider	That Was Me
Todd Snider	D.B. Cooper
Todd Snider	Statistician's Blues
Todd Snider	Keep Off the Grass
Todd Snider	Late Last Night
Todd Snider	Looking For a Job
Todd Snider	If Tomorrow Never Comes (live at Grimey's)
Todd Snider	Vinyl Records
Todd Snider	Thin Wild Mercury
Todd Snider	Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues
Todd Snider	Carla
Todd Snider	Enjoy Yourself
Todd Snider	Happy New Year

Comment:

"If you've never heard me play before, my name's Todd Snider. I've been driving around fifteen years, makin' this shit up and singin' it for anybody that'll listen to it. Some of it's sad, some of it's funny, some of it's short, some of it's longer than others, and sometimes I'll go on for as many as eighteen minutes in between the songs. Sometimes I'll tell a story about why I came up with one song, and then I'll come back to town a few months later and tell a whole other story about it. So if I do that, I'm sorry."I could go on a long-winded treatise on Todd Snider's music, but his own description seems most fitting, and much more succinct. And while some of his songs are sad and others are funny, some have the relatively unique distinction of being both at the same time, much like John Prine's. In fact, Snider has molded himself rather successfully in Prine's image, but with distinct rock `n' roll tendencies. Alongside the more wistful, folky ballads sit some raucous barnburners too. And "Beer Run" (not included here) while it has increased his audience, has also given him an unfair rap as a comedy performer to some. Many of his songs seem to give equal, and surprising, poignancy to a variety of topics - be it support groups, absent friends, or the troubles of belonging to Mike Tyson's entourage (no, really).I first heard "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues" on the radio back in '98 or '99, but didn't really care for many of the other songs on the album. Then, by happenstance, I caught his live show a couple of years later, which really showed him in his element. Snider's stage presence is unassuming but very charismatic and, much like Prine, he enhances many of his numbers with anecdotes. Much of his strength, I think, lies in acoustic performance, and I've included several live and acoustic versions here in lieu of, or in some cases in addition to, the album versions. Some of those album cuts just come off as a little too polished for me, not to mention they tend to obscure some good lyrics.Incidentally, "If Tomorrow Never Comes" is not the Kent Blazy-penned song of the same name, made famous by Garth Brooks. It is, however, purposefully titled, and references Blazy's "borrowing" from Todd's "Beer Run" to write a very similar song for Garth Brooks and George Jones ("You can't prove anything but one thing's true/If you can steal from me, I can steal from you."). Mix title taken from "Age Like Wine."

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