Music Review

New Connection (2012)

Todd Snider
Reviewed by Alanna Nash | May 17, 2002
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Lead Performance: Todd Snider; Genre: Country

On his fifth album, the alt-country charmer is the perfect pub companion -- an affable, big-hearted poet, stoked on the absurdity of life. While he's built a reputation as a droll storyteller, equal parts Woody Guthrie and John Prine, his most affecting song here (''Waco Moon'') is a eulogy to Eddy Shaver, a sad victim of heroin and haplessness.

Originally posted May 17, 2002 Published in issue #654 May 17, 2002 Order article reprints

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