My Finest Hour

A personal recollection of the first time Todd Snider played 'Beer Run'

By Todd Snider

i remember the first time i played “beer run.” i was at a party with just me, john prine, guy clark, kris kristofferson, billy joe shaver and another guy whom i can’t name but he was in charge of artistic depth and underground street credibility at the time, and he’d brought the president of commercial arts of great import. it seemed like all the americana people that go to all the americana stuff were there. everybody had on secret laminates.