Sitting in Oli’s living room in Algete, Spain, I first heard Todd Snider singing “Iron Mike’s Main Man’s Last Request.” And God how I laughed with that song, and still sitting there stunned at how intimately Snider inhabited that character. He made real the subtle yet blunt reality of working class life, something that most people who talk or sing about poor folk have little real connection to. Snider's standing with, not singing about. Tonight I heard his most recent album, The Excitement Plan, for the first time, and found “Corpus Christi Bay” -- another perfectly sketched story of a man and the world he lives and that lives him. Here's a bit of America for you.
Todd Snider - Corpus Christi Bay [buy it at Snider's site]
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