Todd Snider continues to poke the soft white underbelly of our collective complacency with the very sharp stick of his rapier wit. Caustic without being callous,angry without being strident,humorous without being sophmoric,Snider comes off as The Last Pissed-Off Troubador. His vast and varied catalog of work encompasses all the vagaries and vicissitudes that make up the American experience.
His Ann Arbor show was a tour de force of harnessed energy,aimed squarely at his adoring audience. They sang,clapped,laughed,hollered out requests and generally acted as Greek chorus for Snider's tales of losers,miscreants and dead-enders,with much of his ire aimed directly at himself. His self-deprecating humor is surely the most endearing of his many fine song writing qualities and the beautiful,intimate setting of The Ark only added to his connection with his audience. Please go and see this man the first chance you get. You wil not be disappointed.