Todd snider obit

Todd Snider Dies: Singer-Songwriter Who Inspired ‘Hard Luck Love Song’ Was 59

 

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Todd Snider, the singer-songwriter known for music like “Alright Guy” and “Late Last Night,” has died. He was 59.

The artist’s record company Aimless, Inc. announced that Snider died on Friday, after previously sharing that he had “trouble breathing” due to a case of walking pneumonia, following an attack in Salt Lake City.

“Aimless, Inc. Headquarters is heartbroken to share that our Founder, our Folk Hero, our Poet of the World, our Vice President of the Abrupt Change Dept., the Storyteller, our beloved Todd Daniel Snider has departed this world,” the company shared in a statement. “Where do we find the words for the one who always had the right words, who knew how to distill everything down to its essence with words and song while delivering the most devastating, hilarious, and impactful turn of phrases? Always creating rhyme and meter that immediately felt like an old friend or a favorite blanket. Someone who could almost always find the humor in this crazy ride on Planet Earth.”

They added in part, “We love you Todd, sail on old friend, we’ll see you again out there on the road somewhere down the line. You will always be a force of nature.”

Snider embarked on his High, Lonesome and Then Some Tour on October 30, before postponing several dates when he “sustained severe injuries as the victim of a violent assault” at his stop in Salt Lake City on November 1.

On Friday, Aimless shared “some difficult news” after Snider “began having trouble breathing” upon his return home from the hospital, for his doctors to discover he had been living with an undiagnosed case of walking pneumonia, requiring additional treatment.

Born October 11, 1966 in Portland, OR, Snider moved to Santa Rosa, CA after high school, taking up harmonica, before finding himself in Texas, where he discovered his passion for songwriting.

Since 1994, Snider has released 21 albums including his debut Songs for the Daily Planet, as well as New Connection (2002), East Nashville Skyline (2004), Peace Queer (2008), The Excitement Plan (2009) and Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables (2012).

Snider’s 2006 song “Just Like Old Times”‘” inspired the 2020 Justin Corsbie-helmed film Hard Luck Love Song, which stars Michael Dorman, Sophia Bush, RZA and Eric Roberts.