{"id":293739,"date":"2025-11-15T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293739\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:08:11","slug":"todd-snider-americana-and-alt-country-singer-songwriter-dies-at-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293739\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Snider, Americana and alt-country singer-songwriter, dies at 59"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Todd Snider<\/a>, a singer whose thoughtfully freewheeling tunes and cosmic-stoner songwriting made him a beloved figure in American roots music, has died. He was 59. <\/p>\n

His record label said Saturday in a statement posted to his social media accounts that Snider died Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere do we find the words for the one who always had the right words, who knew how to distill everything down to its essence with words and song while delivering the most devastating, hilarious, and impactful turn of phrases?\u201d the statement read. \u201cAlways creating rhyme and meter that immediately felt like an old friend or a favorite blanket. Someone who could almost always find the humor in this crazy ride on Planet Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snider\u2019s family and friends had said in a Friday statement that he had been diagnosed with pneumonia at a hospital in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and that his situation had since grown more complicated and he was transferred elsewhere. The diagnosis came on the heels of the cancellation of a tour after Snider had been the victim of a violent assault in the Salt Lake City area, according to a Nov. 3 statement from his management team.<\/p>\n

But Salt Lake City police later arrested Snider himself when he at first refused to leave a hospital and later returned and threatened staffers, the Salt Lake Tribune<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n

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The scrapped tour was in support of his most recent album, \u201cHigh, Lonesome and Then Some,\u201d which released in October. Snider combined elements of folk, rock and country in a three-decade career. In reviews of his recent albums, The Associated Press called him a \u201csinger-songwriter with the persona of a fried folkie\u201d<\/a> and a \u201cstoner troubadour and cosmic comic.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

He modeled himself on \u2014 and at times met and was mentored by \u2014 artists like Kris Kristofferson<\/a>, Guy Clark<\/a> and John Prine<\/a>. His songs were recorded by artists including Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joe Shaver and Tom Jones. And he co-wrote a song with Loretta Lynn<\/a> that appeared on her 2016 album, \u201cFull Circle.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cHe relayed so much tenderness and sensitivity through his songs, and showed many of us how to look at the world through a different lens,\u201d the Saturday statement from his label read. \u201cHe got up every morning and started writing, always working towards finding his place among the songwriting giants that sat on his record shelves, those same giants who let him into their lives and took him under their wings, who he studied relentlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snider would do his best-known and most acclaimed work for Prine\u2019s independent label Oh Boy in the early 2000s. It included the albums \u201cNew Connection,\u201d \u201cNear Truths and Hotel Rooms\u201d and \u201cEast Nashville Skyline,\u201d a 2004 collection that\u2019s considered by many to be his best. <\/p>\n

Those albums yielded his best known songs, \u201cI Can\u2019t Complain,\u201d \u201cBeer Run\u201d and \u201cAlright Guy.\u201d <\/p>\n

Snider was born and raised in Oregon before settling and making his musical chops in San Marcos, Texas. He eventually made his way to Nashville, and was dubbed by some the unofficial \u201cmayor of East Nashville,\u201d assuming the title from a friend memorialized thusly in his \u201cTrain Song.\u201d In 2021, Snider said a tornado that ripped through the neighborhood home to a vibrant arts scene severely damaged his house.<\/p>\n

Snider had an early fan in Jimmy Buffett<\/a>, who signed the young artist to his record label, Margaritaville, which released his first two albums, 1994\u2019s \u201cSongs for the Daily Planet\u201d and 1996\u2019s \u201cStep Right Up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Todd Snider, a singer whose thoughtfully freewheeling tunes and cosmic-stoner songwriting made him a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1927,7569,88,793,153628,153627,25360,131409,85003,152186,153629,216,13691,3509,3831,2232,45570,2219,1022,2222,153558,153626,1059,795,3325,3324],"class_list":{"0":"post-293739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ap-top-news","9":"tag-celebrity-deaths","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-guy-clark","13":"tag-jerry-jeff-walker","14":"tag-jimmy-buffett","15":"tag-john-prine","16":"tag-kris-kristofferson","17":"tag-local-news-for-apple","18":"tag-loretta-lynn","19":"tag-music","20":"tag-nashville","21":"tag-notable-deaths","22":"tag-or-state-wire","23":"tag-oregon","24":"tag-salt-lake-city","25":"tag-tennessee","26":"tag-texas","27":"tag-tn-state-wire","28":"tag-todd-snider","29":"tag-tom-jones","30":"tag-tx-state-wire","31":"tag-u-s-news","32":"tag-ut-state-wire","33":"tag-utah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}