RETURN OF THE STORYTELLER

Live: Return of the Storyteller u his third live album and nineteenth overall - plays like a masterclass by one man with a guitar and a freewheeling imagination. Threading his husky-voiced phrasing through a likable cosmic cowboy manner, he invites you on a tour of tunes humorous (oBig Finish,o and the have-meets- have-not oIn Between Jobso), Proustian (oPlay a Train Song,o oToo Soon To Tell,o and the lump-in-the-throat snapshot of John Prine on oHandsome Johno) and heart-worn (oLike a Force of Nature,o oThe Very Last Time,o oRoman Candleso). As the fifteen-song set unfolds, you can feel a tangible bond building between Snider and his fans. - While the album captures what Snider laughingly calls his osecond tour - because I went out on the road in '94 and never went home until the pandemico - it acts as both a summing up of a thirty-year career and a look ahead.