East Nashville Skyline

Amazon.com
East Nashville lies just across the Cumberland River from the mansions and skyscrapers Music Row built, but for Todd Snider it may as well be in outer space. On his seventh album, he paints a word-drunk, smart-ass, but always affectionate portrait of this gritty neighborhood--the dead-end dives, low-rent bungalows, and musicians barely scraping by--with a freewheeling comedic spirit as true to country as it is to rock & roll. He gives Mike Tyson a chummy hug, flips off the moral majority, fails to decipher "Louie, Louie," and turns an attempted suicide into a bittersweet recognition of human folly. Producer Will Kimbrough keeps the sound loose and tipsy, sometimes whittling back to a single acoustic guitar, which is just right for Snider's funniest, sharpest, and most life-affirming album yet. --Roy Kasten

East Nashville Skyline,Todd Snider,Oh Boy,Alternative Country,Americana,Folk-Rock,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,Singer/Songwriter

---

East Nashville Skyline

Average customer rating: Top Shelf! All you want and a lil bit more Songs to LISTEN to This guy should be way more well known... worth it just for "Iron Mike" alone

East Nashville Skyline Todd Snider Manufacturer: Oh Boy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Near Truths and Hotel Rooms Live The Devil You Know That Was Me: The Best of Todd Snider 1994-1998 Happy to Be Here Songs for the Daily Planet ASIN: B0002IQCC0 Release Date: 2004-07-20

Tracks:

1. Age Like Wine
2. Tillamook County Jail
3. Play A Train Song
4. Alcohol And Pills
5. Good News Blues
6. The Ballad Of The Kingsmen
7. Iron Mike's Main Man's Last Request
8. Conservative Christian, Right Wing, Republican, Straight, White, American Males
9. Incarcerated
10. Nashville
11. Sunshine
12. Enjoy Yourself

Amazon.com

East Nashville lies just across the Cumberland River from the mansions and skyscrapers Music Row built, but for Todd Snider it may as well be in outer space. On his seventh album, he paints a word-drunk, smart-ass, but always affectionate portrait of this gritty neighborhood--the dead-end dives, low-rent bungalows, and musicians barely scraping by--with a freewheeling comedic spirit as true to country as it is to rock & roll. He gives Mike Tyson a chummy hug, flips off the moral majority, fails to decipher "Louie, Louie," and turns an attempted suicide into a bittersweet recognition of human folly. Producer Will Kimbrough keeps the sound loose and tipsy, sometimes whittling back to a single acoustic guitar, which is just right for Snider's funniest, sharpest, and most life-affirming album yet. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews:

Top Shelf!.......2007-06-26

Todd's masterpiece IMHO.... Every song is killer! (The flow is flawless as well).

Love you brother... Keep up the good fight.
Peace, mOOn

All you want and a lil bit more.......2006-08-06

This is all you want from a great songwriter/singer and a lil bit more with quirky phrasing, catchy tunes, great playing and an outlook most of us who follow this young man can identify with.
This is another fine CD from a guy we want to hear more from right NOW!

Songs to LISTEN to.......2006-07-07

I have always loved gritty, witty lyrics that make you feel you have lived what the author sings about. Either that, or you swear he was there with you when you experienced this or that series of events. Todd Snider rolls up life with the burrs, warts, fall-down-laughing-on-the-ground funny times, and sheer tragedies into a few pithy lines and then just comes and attacks you with them. I just discovered this guy last year, and felt like I did when I discovered Townes Van Zandt. I think all his stuff is phenomenal
By the way, I AM a conservative Christian, right wing Republican, straight white American male. I and my compadres don't find the song nearly as offensive as some people here seem to hope. The whole genre of the song is a satire and poking fun at a class of people. I thought it accurate (in fact, he dead on nails us) and funny, not mean spirited or hateful. In that it is actually welcome, unlike so much of the screaming across todays cultural divides from both the right and left.
Any suggestions of reviewers for artists in same genre as Todd are HAPPILY received at eddie.gilchrist@gmail.com

This guy should be way more well known..........2006-02-24

Todd Snider is probably as close to Woody Guthrie as we're gonna get in this generation. The songs are clever or heartfelt or whatever, but they're always real. All of his CDs are great, this one especially.

worth it just for "Iron Mike" alone.......2006-02-01

Todd doing what he does best--story-telling troubadour and occasional rocker. Just a very fun CD all around, unless of course you're a Conservative Christian, Right Wing, Republican, Straight, White, American Male or you work in the Tillamook County Jail. Then you may not find it all that amusing.

Rap Music:

1. Enrique
2. Everyone Is Here
3. Eye in the Sky
4. Falling into You
5. Finger Eleven
6. Franks Wild Years
7. Freak Out [Original recording remastered]
8. Ghosts of the Great Highway
9. Greatest
10. Greatest Hits [Explicit Lyrics]

Rap Music

rap music

Recommended Music:

2 Step: The Best of Underground Garage [Import]

Classic for Romance

Fiery Embrace

Music: Stas #1,7,2 / Allegro Op.43 / Swan

Electric Wizard [Import]

Factors in the Game

God's Given Touch

Days of Wine & Roses

Fresh Horses

Coleccion Inolvidable [Import]

Fusion

EP

Depth Charge 5 [Import]

Breath of Heaven

Optimystique