[FairRetailRecordings] #0094 -- Todd Snider -- Looking For A Job

#0094

Seems like a lot of my friends are in transitional phases with their jobs (many looking to leave, some leaving already for better things and others leaving due to cuts). Well, whatever the reason, everyone here at FRR HQ wishes you the best in your endeavors and we wish you the happiness and satisfaction that can only come from telling the boss to take this job and shove it (or whatever the politically correct 2010 version of that is). We always take solace in these words from Snider's Looking For A Job:

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boomtown work ain't hard to come by

boomtown workers are

you might be the one running the show but

that don't mean you're in charge

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I was looking for a job when I found this one
don't need the work like you need the work done
you look like you're under pressure
I was already looking for a job two weeks ago when I met you, remember?

......

Artist: Todd Snider

Date: 2008.04.16

Venue: Cheatham Street Warehouse

Track: Lookin' For A Job

Enjoy. And support your local music scene.

[FairRetailRecordings] #0088 -- The Devil Makes Three -- Play A Train Song

#0088

Trying to get this out on Friday [what happened to my Friday?]. DM3 does a Snider song (thanks to my friends in Chi-Town for this one). Yes!

Artist: The Devil Makes Three

Date: 2009.06.04

Venue: The Beat Kitchen

Track: Play A Train Song

Enjoy. And support your local music scene.

[FairRetailRecordings] #0087 -- Todd Snider -- Play A Train Song

#0087

Is a song about a guy wanting to hear a train song actually a train song like "Wreck Of The Old 97"? I suppose the train song tent is large enough that there's no harm to including a few fringe train songs on the official podium of train songs. Why the hell not?

Incidentally, in this song, Todd Snider has one of my favorite lines ever in song: "girl, you're hotter than the hinges hanging off the gates of hell."

Artist: Todd Snider backed by members of the South Austin Jug Band

Date: 2006.06.11

Venue: Threadgill's South

Track: Play A Train Song

Enjoy. And support your local music scene.

Download Todd Snider's Peace Queer From The Man Hisself. Do It Now.

http://www.toddsnider.net/store/product/1/Peace-Queer

Add the digital download to your basket and check out. Just that simple. You won't be disappointed.

"Is This Thing On?" and the spoken version "Is This Thing Working?" are both fantastic.

Recommended Listening...The Stillwater Pioneers...Archive.org

One of the finest bands in Austin is the Stillwater Pioneers. Part jam-band, part outlaw country, part singer/songwriter-fare. Already a rag-tag lot with varied musical interests, they can now add to that list an absentee singer/songwriter in Johnny Dango who is moving to the coast...Corpus Christi to be exact to be a sports reporter. Hopefully, Dango can show off his reporting chops, advance and get back to the 512 in short order. They're still going to be playing around Austin but they'll most likely be expanding to include a few shows down in Corpus, Port A., and other points south.

Their new cd "Let's Go Pioneering" is easily the best cd to find its way into my collection so far this year.

This is a great little show from the Mean Eyed Cat from August 2007 where you can hear them do a bunch of great covers including Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, Todd Snider, Hank Williams, John Prine, Townes Van Zandt and the Georgia Satellites in addition to a slew of the tracks from their record. There's also a great cover of the NWA classic "Automobile".

Recommended tracks: 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 22, 24, 25, 27.