Todd Snider Is the Devil You Know
Posted: November 2, 2008 6:45 am
Todd Snider Is the Devil You Know
“You know, Jack Ingram still owes me money? He’s owed me $7.50 for years. He was just at my house for like NINE hours, and I know he has the money. He gets some sort of perverse pleasure out of not paying me, and I know he has it. If he doesn’t have it now....”
“He never will?” I ask.
“Yeah,” Snider says in the stony drawl that his fans have come to love. “Can you tell him I said that?”
Done.
Todd Snider has a vivid memory when it comes to stories that I am pretty sure have never happened. I am just as certain that some of the most outrageous moments on his records have been lived, re-lived, regretted, but in most cases enjoyed. He has traveled the world, been incarcerated in his hometown, seen friends become stars, seen friends die, married, and survived a major record label… twice. He has lived up to the infamous Gary Allen advice to “remain mobile and keep life open”, and all of it has become an indelible part of his wildly popular live show.
And right now he is telling me about how friend Jack Ingram has a diabolical plan to drive him insane by refusing to pay back a seven dollar debt. Moments after his treatise on his country star friend, he asks me if I know his road manager Dave Hixx.
“Dave? You know him? He is my arch enemy. He is trying to kill me, you know.”
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/64 ... hville-tn/
“You know, Jack Ingram still owes me money? He’s owed me $7.50 for years. He was just at my house for like NINE hours, and I know he has the money. He gets some sort of perverse pleasure out of not paying me, and I know he has it. If he doesn’t have it now....”
“He never will?” I ask.
“Yeah,” Snider says in the stony drawl that his fans have come to love. “Can you tell him I said that?”
Done.
Todd Snider has a vivid memory when it comes to stories that I am pretty sure have never happened. I am just as certain that some of the most outrageous moments on his records have been lived, re-lived, regretted, but in most cases enjoyed. He has traveled the world, been incarcerated in his hometown, seen friends become stars, seen friends die, married, and survived a major record label… twice. He has lived up to the infamous Gary Allen advice to “remain mobile and keep life open”, and all of it has become an indelible part of his wildly popular live show.
And right now he is telling me about how friend Jack Ingram has a diabolical plan to drive him insane by refusing to pay back a seven dollar debt. Moments after his treatise on his country star friend, he asks me if I know his road manager Dave Hixx.
“Dave? You know him? He is my arch enemy. He is trying to kill me, you know.”
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/64 ... hville-tn/