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Posted By Mike Orren in Square Pegs on December 29, 2008

I caught my personal poet laureate, Todd Snider, twice at The Granada this weekend. I won't bore you with a long-form review, since my raves about his music are exceedingly well-documented.

However, there are a few things worth noting:

  • Friday night attendees got a freewheeling, albeit messy show with at least one new song. (To be fair, sounds like a flight delay prevented soundcheck from occurring.)


  • Saturday show was less spontaneous, but far higher quality in terms of sound and coherence. You could really hear the difference on the few repeated songs from the night before.


  • Friday opener, Austin's Dedringers instantly became my favorite new band. They sound as if Dan Baird got together with Jason and the Scorchers back when both were still younguns.


  • Saturday's extended jam on "Alright Guy" included the coda to the stalker story Scott Miller shared with us a year and a half ago. Turns out the Dallas woman was just trying to get Todd to say hello to her son -- and happened to use language very similar to that of the unrelated Nashville stalker.


  • And finally, Friday's crowd was treated to a second encore cover song that most found hilarious. Unfortunately, based on my informal survey, they weren't aware of the source -- one of the great television music performances of all time:



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Scott Miller, says:

Thanks, Mike.

That explains so much. Wish I could have made Saturday's show as well.

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