TODD SNIDER - AGNOSTIC HYMNS AND STONER FABLES (LP)

Todd Snider Agnostic Hymns And Stoner Fables on LP

Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is the newest studio offering from East Nashville's subversive, fearless, rebel-rousing songwriter Todd Snider. Last year's double live album The Storyteller earned accolades from Rolling Stone to NPR and his new set finds him pushing even more of society's buttons. "I want to inspire people," Snider says. "I want to inspire them to leave home, to do things traditionally considered wrong. If you listen to my record and vandalize your school, godspeed.”

Recording the album in under a week, Snider and co-producer Eric McConnell recruited other great East Nashville musicians to create a sound that didn't replicate anything they'd done together previously. "I told them I wanted to make a mess," Snider says. The result stands as something disconcerting, cracked and apart from the music of Snider's heroes, and from Snider's own celebrated past.

On Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, Snider paints a world where begging turns to mugging, where investment turns to ruin, where babies grow into felons, where honesty is blunt trauma. Highlights include "New York Banker," a ballad about the warped karma of the financial crisis, a love song called "Brenda" about an unexpected musical couple and the album's lone cover in Jimmy Buffett's "West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown.”

"America's sharpest musical storyteller." - Rolling Stone

"He's a king-hell musical storyteller, possibly the greatest of his generation." - Pastemagazine.com

Todd Snider Agnostic Hymns And Stoner Fables Track Listing:

1.  In the Beginning
2.  New York Banker
3.  West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown
4.  Precious Little Miracles
5.  The Very Last Time
6.  In Between Jobs
7.  Brenda
8.  Too Soon To Tell
9.  Digger Dave’s Crazy Woman Blues
10. Big Finish