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The Snider Files

'Casal Called This a Poem'

A previously unpublished poem by Todd Snider

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Daryl Sanders
Jun 08, 2024
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Neal Casal and Todd Snider during Hard Working Americans’ performance at a downtown Nashville block party in May 2016. (Photo by Stacie Huckeba)

By Daryl Sanders

I got an email from Todd Snider yesterday morning in which he shared another of his unpublished poems and the story behind it. He wrote the poem after Hard Working Americans and Chris Robinson Brotherhood appeared in August 2015 at the 17th annual NedFest in Nederland, Colorado.

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