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| | Todd Snider: East Nashville Skyline: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Suffice it to say, Snider has released the wittiest and feistiest album of his career, one that distills the wit, melody, and bristly songwriting of his previous albums into a dozen concentrated songs bolstered by a rowdy backing band that includes long-time cohort Will Kimbrough. |
 | | "Nashville" purports to defend the city against its detractors, but the song rolls along on Craig Wright's Memphis boogie piano and extols the virtues of Texas country music and Bluff City piano player Jason D. Williams. |
 | | But "there ain't nothin' wrong with Nashville," Snider sings, "that we can't fix in the mix." Similarly dodgy, the timely "Conservative Christian, Right Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males" (that title just sings itself) isn't just about how those extremists blame "tree-huggin', peace-lovin', pot-smokin', porn-watchin' lazyass hippies like me" for the country's problems. |
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