Todd Snider - Return Of The StorytellerLive: Return of the Storyteller his third live album and nineteenth overall plays like a masterclass by one man with a guitar and a freewheeling imagination. Threading his husky voiced phrasing through a likable cosmic cowboy manner, he invites you on a tour of tunes humorous ("Big Finish," and the have meets have not "In Between Jobs"), Proustian ("Play a Train Song," "Too Soon To Tell," and the lump in the throat snapshot of John Prine on "Handsome

So come drop by

and the studio textures of Eno/Cale/Roxy '70s art rock

The Griffin Brothers

country and rockabilly

From "Tired Of Your Jive" to "I Know What You're Puttin' Down" to the unequivocal "Baby Get Lost

In a desolate world where the safest form of transporting cargo is by zeppelin

Once upon a time

tone your core

- While the album captures what Snider laughingly calls his "second tour - because I went out on the road in '94 and never went home until the pandemic" - it acts as both a summing up of a thirty-year career and a look ahead

he also caught up with the emerging night scene in the city of Cotonou

owner Ray Dobard's release schedule reflected the evolution of black popular music

but he has added a new patina and