Gonzo troubadour Todd Snider is the de facto leader of Hard Working Americans, a band that evolved out of his friendship with Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools. The group’s self-titled debut began as a collection of Snider’s favorite songs, many from past tourmates like country traditionalist Kieran Kane (“The Mountain Song”) and the Bottle Rockets’ Brian Henneman (“Welfare Music”). Two of the album’s most memorable tracks (“Another Train” and “I Don’t Have A Gun”) are credited to Will Kimbrough, who played in Snider’s ’90s backup band, the Nervous Wrecks. Snider and Schools will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new feature on them.
Snider: it was supposed to be a documentary about east nashville songwriters
but then a lot sorta showed up and we ended up with a movie.
if you want to know what it’s like to live in east nashville
watch the movie the ambition around here seems to be to be yourself
and avoid ambition … we are mostly musicians and artists
but we are lots and lots of other things too. it’s not an artsy snooty
eye rolling area at all, its more of a well fuck yeah why not kind of area
and if there is one thing we are it’s free
and if there is one thing we are not it’s sorry.
how we got it together to make a movie i will never know
but we did.
also i have to say i wrote a book too.
It’s for a company called da capo and they asked me
to mention it
its called i never met a story i didn’t like
and it comes out in april.
