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Show Review: January 19th @ the Belly Up<\/p>\n
by Matt Powers<\/p>\n
Walking on stage with a beaming smile and bizarre prisoner-theater garb it was clear that Tood Snider\u2019s concert on January 19th would be an entertaining experience. And entertaining it was.<\/p>\n
\tSnider opened with the novelty song \u201cStatistician\u2019s Blues,\u201d a recitation of statistics that was fairly clever and thoroughly disarming. One would expect the concert to evolve in a serious direction, as Snider would gradually incorporate more substantive songs into his act.<\/p>\n
\tHe didn\u2019t. And the show steadfastly followed the opening promise: it remained an act.<\/p>\n
\tNot a bad act either. Snider\u2019s between-song storytelling \u2013 both folksy and irreverent \u2013 was refreshingly original and evident in his songwriting, especially \u201cConservative Christian Right-Wing Repubilcan\u201d (where Snider celebrates his \u201cporn watchin\u2019 lazy-ass hippie lifestyle\u201d). Snider also let some poignant moments in, including the elegiac \u201cDB Cooper\u201d and a Fred Eaglesmith cover.<\/p>\n
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\tBut the deep moments were few and the joke got old. Almost the entire concert was driven by kitsch appeal, an aesthetic that can only remain fresh if used intermittently among weightier material. Unlike, say, Ben Folds, who balances this dynamic flawlessly, Snider\u2019s homespun tales never achieved the off-kilter Americana that Folds masters.<\/p>\n
\tNot that Snider doesn\u2019t have substantive songs in his repertoire. \u201cFeel Like Fallin\u2019 in Love,\u201d \u201cLonely Girl,\u201d and the excellent George Bush satire \u201cYou Got Away With It\u201d all showcase his artistic talents. But Snider eschewed these songs in favor of jocular ditties, playful tunes that aspire to anything more than mere entertainment.<\/p>\n
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[live music] Todd Snider Show Review: January 19th @ the Belly Up by Matt Powers Walking on stage with a beaming smile and bizarre prisoner-theater garb it was clear that Tood Snider\u2019s concert on January 19th would be an entertaining experience. And entertaining it was. Snider opened with the novelty song \u201cStatistician\u2019s Blues,\u201d a recitation of statistics that was fairly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-todd-snider-show-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":184,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2006\/11\/14\/corporate-circus-show-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":0},"title":"Corporate Circus show review","author":"admin","date":"November 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Corporate Circus @ Dream Street, San Diego \u2013 11\/3\/06 review and cellphone pic by James Sims [kissing girl gif courtesy of the Corporate Circus myspace. ~Ed.] Midway through a song in a set that, had I been slightly later, I would have arrived half-way through, bass player Todd stops to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "archive"","block_context":{"text":"archive","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/archive\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Image hosted at PICTUB.com","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pictub.com\/users\/2006\/03\/26\/reviewer\/albums\/rvur_33\/photos\/rvur33showsjamescorpcirc.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pictub.com\/users\/2006\/03\/26\/reviewer\/albums\/rvur_33\/photos\/rvur33showsjamescorpcirc.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pictub.com\/users\/2006\/03\/26\/reviewer\/albums\/rvur_33\/photos\/rvur33showsjamescorpcirc.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":204,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2006\/12\/22\/me-first-and-the-gimme-gimmes-show-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":1},"title":"Me First and The Gimme Gimmes show review","author":"admin","date":"December 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, HOB San Diego \u2013 12\/12\/2006 \u201cThis one\u2019s a cover\u2026\u201d Recollected by Kerin Van Hoosear I knew this was going to be good. 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