Todd Snider - Return Of The Storyteller - DOUBLE LP

Live: Return of the Storyteller – his third live album and nineteenth overall - plays like a masterclass by one man with a guitar and a freewheeling imagination. Threading his huskyvoiced phrasing through a likable cosmic cowboy manner, he invites you on a tour of tunes humorous (“Big Finish,” and the have-meets- have-not “In Between Jobs”), Proustian (“Play a Train Song,” “Too Soon To Tell,” and the lump-in-the-throat snapshot of John Prine on “Handsome John”) and heart-worn (“Like a Force of Nature,” “The Very Last Time,” “Roman Candles”). As the fifteen-song set unfolds, you can feel a tangible bond building between Snider and his fans. While the album captures what Snider laughingly calls his “second tour - because I went out on the road in '94 and never went home until the pandemic” - it acts as both a summing up of a thirty-year career and a look ahead.

Side A : Big Finish / (Col. Bruce Hampton Ret.) / Turn Me Loose (I'll Never Be The Same) / (East Nashville) / Play A Train Song / (Old Man Shakes Fist At Sky) / Too Soon To Tell
Side B : Like A Force Of Nature / (John Prine) / Handsome John / (Hard Luck Love Song) / Just Like Old Times / (Speakneck Speedball) / Roman Candles
Side C : The Very Last Time / Sail On, My Friend / (Being Outdoors) / Ballad Of The Devil's Backbone / Alright Guy / (Free Bird) / (Sock Water)
Side D : Just Like Overnight / (Alan Greenspan) / In Between Jobs / (Where Will I Go) / Working On A Song / Opening Statement