Todd Snider - Live: Return of the Storyteller [2LP/ Ltd Ed Opaque Sky Blue Vinyl]

Live: Return of the Storyteller – Todd Snider's third live album and nineteenth overall - plays like a masterclass by one man with a guitar and a freewheeling imagination. Threading his husky-voiced 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.

1. Big Finish
2. (Col. Bruce Hampton Ret.)
3. Turn Me Loose (I'll Never Be The Same)
4. (East Nashville)
5. Play A Train Song
6. (Old Man Shakes Fist At Sky)
7. Too Soon To Tell
8. Like A Force Of Nature
9. (John Prine)
10. Handsome John
11. (Hard Luck Love Song)
12. Just Like Old Times
13. (Speakneck Speedball)
14. Roman Candles
15. The Very Last Time
16. Sail On, My Friend
17. (Being Outdoors)
18. Ballad Of The Devil's Backbone
19. Alright Guy
20. (Free Bird)
21. (Sock Water)
22. Just Like Overnight
23. (Alan Greenspan)
24. In Between Jobs
25. (Where Will I Go)
26. Working On A Song
27. Opening Statement