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When Todd Daniel Snider died on November 14th at the age of 59, it left a huge, gaping void in the songwriting community that won’t soon be filled, if ever. Though some impromptu gatherings and benefits have happened in the wake of his passing, one the size of Texas will happen on Friday, March 20th.
Scheduled to transpire at Willie Nelson’s Luck, Texas just outside of Austin, the “Todd Snider Rules!” tribute will see some 25+ artists take the stage to pay homage to a songwriting patron saint as part of the greater festivities surrounding SXSW. The tribute will happen the day after Willie Nelson’s annual Luck Reunion, both of which will take advantage of the superb talent in town.
“I wouldn’t be anywhere in music if I hadn’t stumbled onto Todd when I was a teenager. The coolest, the funniest, the wittiest. There’s a hole in my family’s heart without him here,” says Cody Canada, who is scheduled to perform, and hasn’t taken a stage since Todd’s passing without singing one of his songs in tribute…