• Alt-country musician Todd Snider died Friday at 59.
• The singer-songwriter was arrested and hospitalized for what he referred to as a "violent assault" in Salt Lake Metropolis.
• Snider was additionally identified with "strolling pneumonia" after getting back from the hospital.

Todd Snider, a beloved Americana musician whose profession spanned 4 many years, has died.

The singer-songwriter died on the age of 59 on Friday, his official social media accounts introduced on Saturday morning.

A reason for loss of life was not instantly supplied, although Snider's social media had introduced simply someday earlier than that he was identified with "strolling pneumonia" after spending time within the hospital because of "extreme accidents because the sufferer of a violent assault" earlier this month.

The posts prompt that Snider's pneumonia predated the alleged assault however that he was not identified with it till he went to the hospital for his accidents.

"Aimless, Inc. Headquarters is heartbroken to share that our Founder, our Folks Hero, our Poet of the World, our Vice President of the Abrupt Change Dept., the Storyteller, our beloved Todd Daniel Snider has departed this world," a submit on Snider's Instagram mentioned. "The place do we discover the phrases for the one who at all times had the suitable phrases, who knew distill all the things right down to its essence with phrases and tune whereas delivering probably the most devastating, hilarious, and impactful flip of phrases?"

The submit memorialized Snider's songs as vessels of "tenderness and sensitivity," noting that he "confirmed many people how to take a look at the world by means of a special lens."

The submit concluded, "At this time, placed on one among your favourite Todd Snider data and 'play it loud sufficient to get up all your neighbors or at the least loud sufficient to at all times wake your self up.' We love you, Todd. Sail on, previous good friend. We'll see you once more on the market on the highway someplace down the road. You’ll at all times be a power of nature."

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Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell posted a short tribute to Snider on Threads on Saturday. "Freak flags at half-staff for the Storyteller and all of the songs he nonetheless had left to put in writing," he wrote. "I positive did love him."

Fiona Prine, the spouse of legendary songwriter John Prine, additionally shared her condolences within the feedback of the submit asserting Snider's loss of life. "We’re devastated that Todd has left us means too quickly. He’s now within the arms of Boundless Love. We are going to miss you, good friend, in so, so some ways," she wrote. "The Prine household ship deep condolences to his household and all those that beloved him."

Producer Butch Walker additionally shared his reminiscences of Snider in a remark. "That is the worst information this a.m.," he wrote. "He was such a candy man with a mind larger than most. Love you, Todd. Thanks on your contribution to artwork and intelligence on this typically shallow world."

Earlier this month, Snider was arrested in Salt Lake Metropolis, in keeping with jail data that point out he was booked on fees of disorderly conduct, menace of violence, and felony trespassing. Police informed PEOPLE on the time that he was "making threats to assault employees members" on the hospital the place he was being handled for his accidents after the alleged assault and arrest.

Snider canceled the remaining dates of his Excessive, Lonesome, and Then Some Tour after the incident, along with his social media account asserting that he can be "unable to carry out for an undetermined period of time."

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Born in 1966 in Portland, Ore., Snider moved to San Marcos, Texas, as a younger man, and noticed nation musician Jerry Jeff Walker carry out at a live performance that impressed him to be taught guitar and develop into a songwriter. After honing his musical abilities, Snider relocated to Memphis and landed a weekly gig on the Every day Planet membership, which finally resulted in his 1994 debut album, Songs for the Every day Planet.

Snider linked with songwriter Keith Sykes, who in flip led him to Prine, who grew to become a valued mentor, and Jimmy Buffet, who finally signed Snider to his Margaritaville Information label. He went on to launch 20 extra solo albums throughout a number of completely different labels. His 2004 document, East Nashville Skyline, helped him develop into a key determine within the alt-country and trendy Americana scene.

Snider was additionally a founding member of the group Laborious Working People, which additionally featured Widespread Panic's Dave Faculties and Duane Vehicles. The group launched two studio albums and two dwell albums within the mid-2010s.

Snider's songs have been carried out by quite a lot of different artists, together with Loretta Lynn, Tom Jones, Billy Joe Shaver, Walker, Sykes, Robert Earl Eager, Gary Allan, Pat Inexperienced, Jack Ingram, and Rick Trevino.

The musician additionally appeared on a number of episodes of the Grownup Swim cartoon Squidbillies and sang the theme tune for the collection. His 2006 tune "Simply Like Previous Instances" impressed the 2020 movie Laborious Luck Love Track. He additionally penned the 2014 e book I By no means Met a Story I Didn't Like: Principally True Tall Tales.

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