Todd Snider At The Visulite
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Todd Snider, The Storyteller
With Gigi Dover

The Visulite
Wednesday March 16, 2010
Doors 7:30 PM / Music 8:00 PM

Tickets:  $20.00 Advance & DOS

Tickets can be purchased in advance at CD Warehouse (King's Drive), Manifest Discs, Sunshine Daydreams (NoDa), online at CarolinaTix, PayPal or Music Today and by phone at 1.800.594.TIXX or
704.372.1000
Todd Snider

"I'm broke as the Ten Commandments and sometimes I'm harder to follow..."
-from “Money, Compliments, Publicity” by Todd Snider
 
Initially The Excitement Plan (June 9th on Yep Roc Records) wasn't supposed to be about anything. I was just trying to come up with the best... most open hearted ... well-thought-out lyrics I could come up with. I wanted every song to be sad and funny at the same time, vulnerable and entertaining at the same time, personal and universal at the same time. I wanted every song to be as uniquely written as possible and then I wanted to perform them in a studio loose and rugged and hopefully as uniquely as I could. My hope is to be hard to describe and/or new…I'm not saying I am. I'm just saying that's the hope.
 
My producer, Don Was thought the best way to go for what I was talking about was live and spontaneous. So we set up at Henson studios in Los Angeles with myself on guitar, harp and piano. Greg Liesz on steel guitar and dobro. Don on upright bass, Jim Keltner on drums and Krish Harma engineering.
 
Then, with Don being the only one who'd heard the songs and me being the only one who knew them, we recorded completely live for just two and a half days.
 
As God is my witness and whether you even like this music or not, it was the most exciting, most challenging, most uninhibited and funnest time I've ever had making music…
 
- Todd Snider
 
The Excitement Plan’s laid- back groove and top- shelf lyrics are being called Snider's best work yet. "This music is sorta JJ Cale meets Jerry Jeff Walker sounding with words that would hopefully impress Shel Silverstein, Bobby Bare, Chuck Berry, Kris Kristofferson or Randy Newman,” Snider said. With his contributions of stellar guitar, piano and harmonica, his musicianship shares the spotlight as easily as his treasured lyrics. 

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A soulful, Southern songstress and a brilliant songwriter, Gigi is a breath of fresh air. Through imagery and melody, Dover brings sonic warmth, mystery, charm and even a bit of humor into her music, then delivers it with the passion, conviction and presence of a veteran rock chic. The music blurs the lines of rock, r&b, country (not new or alternative) and jazz, with a Southern, soulful vein consistently running through the middle. “The Great Depression of Rural Rock is finally over…The Avocado Sessions (2010) is here to feed the faithful as Gigi Dover & The Big Love have returned with their own blend of Southern sonic spices. Dover and Co. are once again unapologetically funky, serving up a tasty collision of American and soul,” says Lindsay Planner of All Music Guide, Music Tap Dot Net.

Gigi Dover

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