Name: Crank It, We’re Doomed
Brand: Todd Snider

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Limited edition

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2023-11-03

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Todd Snider

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Rock-Pop

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Thirty Tigers

Todd Snider is an American singer-songwriter, known for his captivating storytelling and folk-inspired music. Born on October 11, 1966 in Portland, Oregon, USA, Snider has been a prominent figure in the music industry for decades.

With a unique blend of Americana and country influences, Snider's music resonates with audiences worldwide. His honest and introspective lyrics have earned him comparisons to artists such as Slaid Cleaves, Hayes Carll, and Fred Eaglesmith.

Snider's discography includes critically acclaimed albums like "East Nashville Skyline" and "Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables." He has collaborated with notable musicians like Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark, and Alejandro Escovedo.

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Sometimes an artist makes a record, then decides not to release&nbsp;it. Neil Young and Prince are two artists who famously did that multiple times.&nbsp;Todd&nbsp;Snider&nbsp;is another artist who has done&nbsp;it, putting three albums on the shelf in a career now spanning three decades.

While&nbsp;Snider&nbsp;may not be as well known as Young or Prince, he is just as committed to his art, and his decisions to shelve those three records were artistic ones. But now&nbsp;Snider&nbsp;has decided to take one of those albums off the shelf. Sixteen years after&nbsp;it&nbsp;was recorded,&nbsp;Crank&nbsp;It,&nbsp;We’re&nbsp;Doomed&nbsp;will finally get its release via Aimless Records.

Snider&nbsp;was in the midst of one of the most creative periods of his career when he recorded&nbsp;Crank&nbsp;It,&nbsp;We’re&nbsp;Doomed&nbsp;in 2007. He was writing at a frenetic pace and experimenting with musical ideas he would develop more fully on later releases. He not only finished and recorded the 15 songs on&nbsp;Crank&nbsp;It&nbsp;that year, he also wrote and recorded the seven songs that appeared on&nbsp;Shit Sandwich, the digital-only EP released in 2010 by his alter ego Elmo Buzz &amp; the Eastside Bulldogs. The tracks on&nbsp;Shit Sandwich&nbsp;made up the bulk of&nbsp;Snider’s 2016 full-length release,

“It&nbsp;was very much a blur,” he says, looking back on that year. “A blur not because of the party going on, but because of how many songs I was coming up with.&nbsp;It&nbsp;was probably the pinnacle of my time making up songs. Like they were really coming at me, and I didn’t know what to do with them all.”

Crank&nbsp;It,&nbsp;We’re&nbsp;Doomed&nbsp;was supposed to be the follow-up to a pair of acclaimed records that had taken his career to another level —&nbsp;East Nashville Skyline&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Devil You Know. The album was mastered and ready to be manufactured when he decided to pull the plug on&nbsp;it.

When asked recently why he decided against releasing the album,&nbsp;Snider&nbsp;puts on his best movie trailer voice and says, “The year was 2007 —&nbsp; the sea was angry that year.”

Snider&nbsp;gets the laugh he’s going for, but the question remains because the&nbsp;why&nbsp;is not so easy to explain. His decision to shelve the record all those years ago was as much intuitive as&nbsp;it&nbsp;was the product of deductive reasoning.

“At the end, I was torn,” he says. “I felt like not only did I have all these story songs, sort of normal songs, there also were all these protest songs. And really that is where I lost the plot. I had too many scenes in the movie, and I had too many songs.&nbsp;It&nbsp;was all over the map. But I also remember feeling like&nbsp;it&nbsp;wasn't done either. Like&nbsp;it&nbsp;needed&nbsp;more&nbsp;songs.”

Snider&nbsp;had intended&nbsp;Crank&nbsp;It,&nbsp;We’re&nbsp;Doomed&nbsp;to be a double album with the Rolling Stones’&nbsp;Exile On Main Street,&nbsp;The Beatles&nbsp;(White Album) and Bob Dylan’s&nbsp;Desire&nbsp;as its sonic touchstones/boundaries, and&nbsp;it&nbsp;unquestionably shares some musical similarities with all three of those releases. But with 15 tracks totaling 49 minutes in length,&nbsp;Crank&nbsp;It&nbsp;does fall a bit short of double-album length.&nbsp;Exile&nbsp;has 18 tracks totaling 67 minutes, while the White Album has a whopping 30 tracks that run more than an hour and a half.

Although&nbsp;Snider&nbsp;decided to not release&nbsp;Crank&nbsp;It,&nbsp;We’re&nbsp;Doomed, he did include five of the tracks he recorded for&nbsp;Crank&nbsp;It&nbsp;on his next two albums (Peace Queer&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Excitement Plan), with three of the songs getting new titles. In addition, he recorded new versions of six other songs from the record which were released on&nbsp;The Excitement Plan&nbsp;and&nbsp;Agnostic Hymns &amp; Stoner Fables. Some fans, possibly many, will prefer the original versions of the songs on&nbsp;Crank&nbsp;It, which in some cases are dramatically different. The record also includes four other tracks no one outside the musicians and&nbsp;Snider’s inner circle have ever heard, and those recordings are pure gold.

Snider&nbsp;recorded&nbsp;Crank&nbsp;It,&nbsp;We’re&nbsp;Doomed&nbsp;at Eric McConnell’s East Nashville studio where he recorded&nbsp;East Nashville Skyline&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Devil You Know&nbsp;and was backed by the core of musicians he worked with on those albums: guitarist Will Kimbrough, drummer Paul Griffith, violinist Molly Thomas, and either McConnell or Peter Cooper on bass. He also brought in keyboardist Jimmy Wallace for the sessions.

At some point after&nbsp;Snider&nbsp;decided to put&nbsp;Crank&nbsp;It,&nbsp;We’re&nbsp;Doomed&nbsp;on the shelf, the stereo masters were lost. Over the years, both&nbsp;Snider&nbsp;and McCullough made efforts to locate the masters with no luck. The subject came up again recently when they met to discuss making another record together.

“We&nbsp;were sitting there just wracking our brains, ‘Where could&nbsp;it&nbsp;be,’ ”&nbsp;Snider&nbsp;recalls. “And finally Eric said, ‘I guess DeMain might have&nbsp;it.’ ”

McConnell was referring to mastering engineer Jim DeMain, and sure enough, DeMain had the masters.&nbsp;Snider’s mythic, lost album was found.

After hearing the record for the first time in more than a decade,&nbsp;Snider&nbsp;was no longer bothered by&nbsp;it&nbsp;being “all over the map.” So he shared&nbsp;it&nbsp;with a few friends and advisors, who recognized its historical importance and encouraged him to release&nbsp;it.

“I couldn’t see&nbsp;it&nbsp;conceptually back then,”&nbsp;Snider&nbsp;says. “But now I can see&nbsp;it&nbsp;was about a guy losing the plot.”

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