![]() Snider’s new songs are inspired by a major change in his life. After the Memphis date, he plans to begin work on a new solo album, his first since 2012’s “Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables” (though, technically, he recorded and scrapped an album last year). The Levitt Shell show comes in between a sudden flurry of recording activity for Snider. On Saturday, Snider will host and headline the fourth edition of his mini-festival at the Levitt Shell along with Hiss Golden Messenger, Elizabeth Cook, and Chicago Farmer. And those are two things I can’t stand.”Ī critical and cult favorite, the ever-eccentric Snider has, for the past 20 years, built a catalog of deeply humane funny-smart story songs. “I see old friends there, but when I see them they’re like ‘Dude when did you start playing guitar?’ To them, it’s like I’ve just come from JV football practice. “I mean, I love to go back to Portland,” says Snider. When I was about 20, I moved to this town, and said I wanted to be a songwriter, and everyone in Memphis said, ‘Alright.’ So for that reason I see that as my hometown. The first time I grew up it had nothing to do with what I wanted to be. “I was there about four years, but for me those were the years I really grew up. Snider, who launched his career in the Bluff City in the late '80s, says the city holds a special place for him. When Todd Snider comes to Memphis for his annual “What the Folk” show this week, it will feel - as with all the other times he’s played in town - like a homecoming.
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