‘Pick Up a Twelver On the Way Over’
How Todd Snider seized creative control of his music and put his neighborhood on the national map
By Daryl Sanders
On July 20, 2004, Oh Boy Records released East Nashville Skyline, Todd Snider’s sixth studio album. It was a pivotal record, arguably the most important of Snider’s career. On it, he not only asserted his right to control his art, the barefoot hippie folksinger also launched his beloved East Nashville onto the national stage.