Todd Snider, an alt-country singer-songwriter, has died. Snider’s publicist confirmed to the New York Instances that Snider had died on Friday, November 14, in Nashville. The trigger was pneumonia. Snider was 59.
“How do we move forward without the one who gave us countless 90 minute distractions from our impending doom? The one who always had 18 minutes to share a story,” his report label, Aimless, Inc. Headquarters, wrote on social media. “We’ll do it by carrying his stories and songs that contain messages of love, compassion, and peace with us.”
Earlier this month, Snider canceled the remaining dates of a tour in help of final month’s Excessive, Lonesome and Then Some after he was concerned in an assault in Salt Lake Metropolis. An announcement posted to his social media account on November 3 mentioned that the singer had sustained “severe injuries” and that he could be unable to carry out for an “undetermined amount of time.”
Todd Daniel Snider was born on October 11, 1966, in Portland, Oregon. His dad and mom had been Vera Michele (Bassett) Snider, a homemaker, and Daniel Paul Snider, a builder. At 16, Snider left house and bounced across the nation. He finally landed in Memphis, the place he was signed to Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville label. Snider later joined John Prine’s Oh Boy Information.
Snider launched his debut album, Songs for the Every day Planet, in 1994. He rapidly established himself as a songwriter within the lineage of people and nation legends like Prine and was often called what he known as the “Nashville antihero.”
Snider launched at the least 15 albums throughout his profession, together with 1996’s Step Proper Up, 1998’s Viva Satellite tv for pc, 2000’s Blissful to Be Right here, and 2004’s East Nashville Skyline, extensively thought of a pillar of alt-country music.
Snider went to rehab a number of occasions for drug dependancy. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Snider described his last album, Excessive, Lonesome and Then Some, as “all heartache.”
“I wouldn’t say I’m better, and I don’t think I’m going to get better, but the last decade was hard in my personal life.”
