Todd Snider
That Was Me – 1994-1998
Hip-o Records
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This is a wonderful collection of 18 songs from Snyder’s first 3 albums, plus a previously unreleased cover of Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville”. It is a good sampling of Snyder’s classic, brutal honest wit; he has this way of taking issues and using his satiric sense of humor to absolutely skewer the target, including his own foibles. He is truly an iconoclast with the most wildly unpredictable imagination that is his alone. He has been, for good reason, a darling of critics and other performers, and he here shows
the full range of his alt-country and folk roots with his band, The Nervous Wrecks. Just give a listen to “Doublewide Blues,” “Hey Hey,” and Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues,” and see if the man isn’t right on the money.