Todd Snider is aging like fine Kool-Aid, fine-tuning the songwriting to an eminently digestible delivery machine for moods, 'tudes and iconoclasty. The new album The Excitement Plan
fits like your favorite faded pair of baggy jeans, the ones you might try to replace, but never quite find that same shape. Produced by the legendary Don Was, nothing screams on this album, it's all just comfy stuff. Pay special attention to:
Greencastle Blues
- Introspective, sweet, easy
America's Favorite Pastime
- a sure to be classic; the saga of Dock Ellis pitching a no-hitter on LSD, enuf said
Doll Face
- in the Tom Waits trad, a gentle hard time story song
The Last Laugh
- immortally relatable in the pocket lyrics
Barefoot Champagne
- Dixieland infused, the male/female nexus considered….again
Don't Tempt Me
- a rousing co-write, and co-sing with Miss Loretta Lynn, honky tonk piano supplied by the amazing Jen Gunderman
-With love from Jessie Scott
