1. Tension
2. D.B. Cooper
3. Lonely Girl
4. Beer Run
5. Statistician's Blues
6. Waco Moon
7. I Can't Complain
8. The Ballad Of The Devil's Backbone Tavern
9. Easy Money
10. Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues
11. Long Year
12. Side Show Blues
13. I Spoke As A Child
14. Doublewide Blues
15. Broke
16. Beer Run (Bob and Tom version)
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Todd Snider really knows how to work a room. As a storytelling troubadour for the slacker set, he takes inspiration from the likes of Jerry Jeff Walker (as he explains in one of this solo concert album's deadpan introductions) and Robert Earl Keen and applies it to a selection of shaggy-dog stories, talking blues, and slices-of-life gone askew. One of his earliest signature tunes, "Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues," has now outlived grunge by too long, but the more recent "Waco Moon," inspired by the death of guitartist Eddy Shaver, shows that Snider's songwriting is good for a whole lot more than laughs. Some of his most engaging songs such as "Beer Run" seem to have practically written themselves, while others such as "Tension" and "Statistician's Blues" sound like songs that were just waiting to be written. It's an integral part of Snider's engaging appeal that he makes it all seem so effortless. As with Keen, the challenge for Snider is balancing the easy laughs with his more serious progression as a songwriter. --Don McLeese
Album Description
Todd Snider has built a reputation as a great live performer who tours relentlessly. Near Truths and Hotel Rooms, his third release for Oh Boy Records (his sixth overall) is an all live collection of songs and stories that represents a typical evening with Snider, his guitar, and his imagination. Co-produced by Snider, this 23-song disc combines his witty songwriting with his engaging storytelling. Recorded in several different locations over eighteen months. It includes an alternate version of 'Beer Run' recorded on the air during one of Todd's many appearances on the syndicated morning radio program Bob & Tom. 2003.
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Near Truths and Hotel Rooms Live
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2003-05-13)
- Publisher: Oh Boy
- Label: Oh Boy
- Format: Live
- Studio: Oh Boy
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 23 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #4655
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Summary: awesome 2008-10-19
Comment: This is the best album ever. Some of his songs are short, some are long, some are sad some are funny, and sometimes he goes for as many as 18 mins in between the songs, unless you yell at him then hell just shut up and play
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Summary: Excellent 2008-06-18
Comment: This is really an amazing album.
It was recommended to me. I didn't know Todd Snider before listening to it. It blew me away. It reminded me of the folk songs I used to listen to when I was a kid, but updated for the modern times.
The funny songs are funny. The serious songs are touching. (They make me wonder what sort of life Todd Snider has lived.) Yes, one or two duds (D.B. Cooper, Easy Money), but with so many great songs, it still deserves 5 stars, especially because...
The patter between songs is what really turns this into a great live album. This is the kind of thing you will not get on studio albums, or even on most live albums. Todd Snider is a real entertainer, and his introductions to the songs are the highlights of the album.
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Summary: Possibly the funniest recording with real musical content ever! 2008-05-15
Comment: Todd writes incredible songs, and tells great stories in between. It's a fantastic singer/songwriter album. My favorite, in fact.
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Summary: storyteller 2007-08-23
Comment: If you like Harry Chapin, Willy Nelson, Or Kristofferson, you are going to love this CD.
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Summary: Amazing Quality! Powerful Performances! PERFECTION! 2007-04-02
Comment: It wasn't until I decided to download free music by Todd Snider that I realized I needed to buy every album he has ever made. Little by little I discover a near missed opportunity - now found. Near Truths is the place to start a TS collection. When I first heard this I wondered where the heck have I been all these years? How did these few artists get overlooked during that time? I guess the ninties was my version of the sixties. This guy exemplifies what yesterday is today. The real "new breed" of America. Not many ever "get it" but this one does.
A real treat and
I predict soon to be huge
"the singer"
will be very well known and widely accepted.
cheers to Todd Snider for a well dressed future
your fifteen years of not working finally paid off!
Wait a minute!
this album plays almost as a greatest hits collection
it's very well done and nicely sequenced. A rarity for today.
Pick this one up first and I promise it will enhance your
buying power and mind control you into buying ALL the
Todd Snider releases.
You Have Been Warned!
Contains High Quality Singer Songwriter Backward Messages
Used To Trick You Into Thinking Long Enough To Buy More
Todd Snider Records.
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