In one of his best songs, Todd Snider calls himself "a tree-hugging, peace-loving, pot-smoking, p***-watching, lazy-ass hippie." Snider is all those things, to be sure, but he's also one of America's best songwriters – skilled at shambling country-folk tunes about poor folks, right-wing crapulence and his own screw-ups.
With the publication of I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like, Snider is now an author as well. The book, a collection of remembrances from more than 20 years as a touring singer-songwriter, features appearances from several of Snider's musical heroes. In this exclusive excerpt, it's Jimmy Buffett, for whom Snider served as opening act in 1995. The scene below was probably a bit painful for Snider to write about – as you'd expect for an incident where the "Margaritaville" guy launches a pineapple at your head. But, like many of Snider's stories, this one is funny and sweetly endearing as well as a little embarrassing.
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