Todd Snider has apparent his hard-living physique on such albums as 2004's East Nashville Skyline and his latest, Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables. But Snider, a adherent of singer-songwriters like abutting acquaintance John Prine, saves his best belief for the stage, absorbing crowds not just with his songs, but with darkly amusing spoken-word tales of addiction, music business struggles and activity on the road. He afresh appear a book of what he describes as "mostly accurate alpine tales" blue-blooded I Never Met a Adventure I Didn't Like. And, like Snider himself, it's a pisser.
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Inspired by Steve Martin's adventures Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Snider sat down with his editor and his admired activity and let loose.
"I was just smoker blockhead and reminiscing," Snider tells Rolling Stone Country. "My administrator came to me and said, 'They'll accord you this abundant money if you say 90,000 words and let somebody abroad blazon them.' I was like, 'Fuck, I say 90,000 words a day.'"
The abrupt Snider recalls adverse gigs, onstage meltdowns (including an abominable one in Los Angeles) and aware acquaint he abstruse from touring with Prine, who abstracts noticeably in the generally accessible I Never Met a Adventure I Didn't Like.
"It's embarrassing," Snider says matter-of-factly. "One affair I abstruse from John Prine is if you're not awkward yourself, afresh I don't know. You don't wish to just be that guy, aggravating to present themselves as the absolute product. I'm not a product. You know, like Kathie Lee Gifford blazon people. I just saw her on TV. And if she wrote a book, I bet you it would just be abounding of her not anytime authoritative mistakes."
After years of harder boozing - "I'd get up in the morning and accept a bottle of wine and a joint" - Snider no best drinks, but not because he doesn't wish to. "I'm not sorry. I abdicate bubbler because my physique didn't wish it anymore. Not my brain. My academician is still good. If anyone gives me drugs, I yield it. I just like active like that. That's my thing, I accept fun. I don't try to acquaint added humans what to do. I like to get top and go fucking watch awe-inspiring shit."
With I Never Met a Adventure I Didn't Like abutting with readers and critics, Snider says he's already been asked to address a additional one. At Rolling Stone Country's request, he shares one adventure -featuring country rough-houser Billy Joe Shaver and his backward son, guitar hero Eddy Shaver - that he's abiding will accomplish the final edit.
"Me, Billy and Eddy were authoritative up a song alleged 'Deja Blues,' and we were all appealing high. We were accepting buzzed, too. We absitively to go over to this abode alleged Idle Hour, which is a asperous place, but it's on 16th Avenue [on Music Row in Nashville], so in my mind, I'm like, how asperous could the roughest abode on 16th Avenue be?" Snider begins in his raconteur way.
"But we go there, and I gave somebody the payphone amount cerebration they were calling me - and not cerebration there was biologic activity traveling on. The payphone rang and I got up, and the guy abaft the bar said, 'Don't acknowledgment that.' I don't apperceive why I didn't accept to him. I had my aback to him if he said it and I anticipation he was just getting funny, so I best it up. Somebody asked, 'John?' I went, 'no,' and they afraid up," Snider continues. "When I angry aback to face the bar, the guy had a button fucking shotgun acicular at me."
Enter Billy Joe Shaver.
"Billy Joe stood up and said, 'Now delay a minute, you guys.' The bartender said, 'I apperceive who you are, Mr. Shaver, and if you're allurement me to let this guy out of here, I will.' He said, 'I am, I am. We're gonna go,'" Snider recalls with a blow of relief. "We absolved out, got in the van and Billy got so mad at me.
"I will never acknowledgment addition payphone in a dive bar again."
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