'Joe's Blues' / 'You Never Even Called Me By My Name'

Another rare recording from Todd Snider and the Nervous Wrecks' appearance at the Fillmore Live Club in Italy in May 1995

Nervous Wrecks bassist Joe Mariencheck, center in the above photo from a show in Memphis, thought he had written the perfect country-and-western song when he brought Todd Snider “Joe’s Blues.” (Photo by Anita Webb)

By Daryl Sanders

As we can tell from the setlists available from Todd Snider and the Nervous Wrecks’ 1995 European tour, in those days Snider liked to segue from one of his own songs into well-known songs by other artists. The band did that twice during their set at the Fillmore Live Club in Cortemaggiore, Italy, on May 24, 1995.