NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Rolling Stone, USA Today, AOL, Time Out NY and others are already praising Todd Snider's seasonally themed song "America's Favorite Pastime," but there's much more to come this summer for this blue-collar poet.
Snider is currently touring and performing songs from 'The Excitement Plan' (out June 9th, Yep Roc), a touching personal album about luck and appreciating what one has. These sentiments strike a particular chord as they relate to the current economic problems our country is facing. The tour will hit major festivals including Bumbershoot and Bonnaroo in addition to an almost sold out night at NYC's Bowery Ballroom June 11th.
Snider will also reunite with the original Nervous Wrecks, his band from the 1990s, for Todd Snider's Nervous Wrextacular, a special show in Memphis on June 18th. David Zollo, Tommy Womack and Will Kimbrough will open.
Stream 'The Excitement Plan' here: https://www.reverbnation.com/toddsnider
"['America's Favorite Pastime'] grooving acoustic vignette... shows off his casual wit and tunefulness while keeping the narrative details thick." -Christian Hoard, Rolling Stone, 5/14/09
"a hardheaded, sharp-penned Americana songwriter [who] has a way with a punch line" - David Menconi, SPIN, June 2009
"If there's a Great American Songwriter nowadays-someone whose finger is simultaneously on the pulse of the country's history, modern folklore, politics, religion and the general zeitgeist, it's Snider." - Steve LaBate, Paste
"mixing sharp character portraits with brilliantly rambling statements of philosophy... Snider's sense of song structure is at once more ramshackle and more sophisticated than almost any other writer out there." -Ben Greenman, New Yorker, Goings On blog, 3/23/09
"a talent for viewing the world crookedly" -Jay Ruttenberg, Time Out NY The Volume blog, 4/17/09
Upcoming Todd Snider tour dates:
Wed May 27 Bijou Theatre Knoxville, TN
Thu May 28 The Dame Lexington, KY
Fri May 29 Southgate House Newport, KY
Fri Jun 5 The Birchmere Alexandria, VA
Sat Jun 6 Ashland Coffee and Tea Ashland, VA
Sun Jun 7 World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA
Tue Jun 9 Castaway's Ocean City, MD
Thu Jun 11 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
Fri Jun 12 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
Sun Jun 14 Bonnaroo Music Festival Manchester, TN
Thu Jun 18 Levitt Shell/Overton Park - Todd Snider's Nervous Wrextacular
Memphis, TN
Sun Jun 21 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Telluride, CO
Thu Jun 25 Acorn Theatre Three Oaks, MI
Fri Jun 26 The Intersection Grand Rapids, MI
Sat Jun 27 The Ark Ann Arbor, MI
Fri Jul 10 All Good Music Festival Masontown, WV
Thu Jul 16 Eddie's Attic Atlanta, GA
Fri Jul 17 Eddie's Attic Atlanta, GA
Sat Jul 18 The Orange Peel Asheville, NC
Sat Jul 25 10,000 Lakes Festival Detroit Lakes, MN
Fri Aug 7 The Crossroads Huntsville, AL
Sat Aug 8 Strutting Duck Auburn, AL
Sun Sep 6 Bumbershoot Festival Seattle, WA
