I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like: Mostly True Tall Tales

"Todd Snider's compressed story songs are so vivid and knowing that they seem completely plausible…. But the most compelling character may be Snider: a lowlife Randy Newman."—Rolling Stone

"Okay, so he looks a bit like Beck, twangs and rambles like John Prine or Bob Dylan, crafts a song like Arlo Guthrie, and tells a deadpan joke in the vein of Zach Galifianakis, but Tennessee songwriter's songwriter Todd Snider is a rare performer who can at once channel tradition and still step poignantly—and hilariously—out of its shadow…. He's a king-hell musical storyteller, possibly the greatest of his generation.”—Paste Magazine

For years, Todd Snider has been one of the most beloved country-folk singers in the United States, and he's been compared to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, John Prine, and dozens of other household names. Snider has become not only a new-century Dylan but a modern-day Will Rogers, an everyman whose intelligence, self-deprecation, experience, and sense of humor make him a uniquely American character. In live performance, Snider's monologues are cheered like his songs. But never before has he told the whole story. Running the gambit from personal memoir to shaggy-dog comedy to rueful memories of his troubles and triumphs with drugs and alcohol to sharp-eyed observations from years on the road, I Never Met A Story I Didn't Like is for fans of Snider's music, but also for fans of America itself: the broad, wild country that has produced figures of folk wisdom like Will Rogers, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Tonya Harding, Garrison Keillor, and more. There are storytellers and there are performers and there are stand-up comedians. And then there's Todd Snider, who is all three in one, and something else entirely.