Carl Laes remembers the first time he booked Todd Snider at the Riverside Ballroom in 2003, but then again, how could he forget? Snider never showed. The Americana singer-songwriter got the flu and ...

“Life’s too short to worry / Life’s too long to hate,” the late Todd Snider wrote in “Ballad of the Devil’s Backbone Tavern” in 2000. Snider’s life proved shorter than his many admirers hoped. He died ...

Cook shares a wild yet touching story about a trip to Home Depot with Snider to buy plants, and Mead reflects on their status as musical pioneers in East Nashville. They also broach the subject of a ...

Though late singer-songwriter Todd Snider was born in Portland and spent most of the last three decades in Nashville, his career began in Memphis.