Singer songwriter and Americana vet Todd Snider died on Friday attributable to problems from pneumonia. He was 59. A press release was shared as we speak on his web site:
Aimless, Inc. Headquarters is heartbroken to share that our Founder, our Folks Hero, our Poet of the World, our Vice President of the Abrupt Change Dept., the Storyteller, our beloved Todd Daniel Snider has departed this world. The place do we discover the phrases for the one who at all times had the proper phrases, who knew tips on how to distill all the things all the way down to its essence with phrases and track whereas delivering essentially the most devastating, hilarious, and impactful flip of phrases? All the time creating rhyme and meter that instantly felt like an outdated pal or a favourite blanket. Somebody who may virtually at all times discover the humor on this loopy trip on Planet Earth.
He relayed a lot tenderness and sensitivity by his songs, and confirmed many people how to have a look at the world by a distinct lens. He received up each morning and began writing, at all times working in the direction of discovering his place among the many songwriting giants that sat on his report cabinets, those self same giants who let him into their lives and took him underneath their wings, who he studied relentlessly. Man Clark, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Jeff Walker.
How can we transfer ahead with out the one who gave us numerous 90 minute distractions from our impending doom? The one who at all times had 18 minutes to share a narrative. We’ll do it by carrying his tales and songs that include messages of affection, compassion, and peace with us. At the moment, placed on one in all your favourite Todd Snider data and “play it loud sufficient to get up your entire neighbors or a minimum of loud sufficient to at all times wake your self up.” We love you Todd, sail on outdated pal, we’ll see you once more on the market on the street someplace down the road. You’ll at all times be a pressure of nature.
“Like A Power of Nature”
If we by no means get collectively once more
Forgive me for these fools I’ve been
See in the event you can keep in mind me when
I used to be listening to my higher angels
It’s like a pressure of nature
Coming over me
I can’t maintain myself from shifting
It’s like a pressure of nature
Might your hope at all times outweigh your doubt
Till this outdated world lastly punches you out
Might you at all times play your music
Loud sufficient to get up your entire neighbors
Or could you play a minimum of loud sufficient
To at all times wake your self upTodd Daniel Snider
October 11, 1966 – November 14, 2025
On Friday information that he was hospitalized was shared as effectively: “After Todd returned residence to get better final week, he started having bother respiration and was admitted to the hospital in Hendersonville, TN. We realized from his docs that he had been quietly affected by an undiagnosed case of strolling pneumonia.”
Todd had been on tour — his final present being October 30 in Los Angeles — which had been minimize quick after being mugged within the Salt Lake Metropolis space. After being handled for accidents, Snider himself was arrested; in response to authorities, he refused to depart the hospital and threatened hospital staffers. “He simply stated his complete physique hurts after which he stated he wished a spot to sleep in a single day,” a nurse stated in a police physique digital camera video. When he was advised he couldn’t keep there, “that’s when all the things escalated.”
Todd Snider was born in 1966 in Portland, OR and moved to Texas within the mid-’80s the place he was impressed by seeing Jerry Jeff Walker play and determined he wished to be a musician, additionally taking affect from John Prine (to whom he can be often in contrast), Shel Silverstein, Kris Kristofferson, and others. It wouldn’t be for an additional decade until he launched his debut album, Songs for the Day by day Planet, in 1994. After three albums of MCA, Todd signed to Prine’s Oh Boy Information in 2000 and by the tip of that decade he’d launched his personal label, Aimless, the place he launched the remainder of his discography, together with Excessive, Lonesome and Then Some, his fifteenth album which got here out in October.
Relaxation in peace, Todd