Todd Snider , a driving force of the alt-country scene over the last two-plus decades, has died at the age of 59.

The news of his passing was confirmed by Snider’s label, Aimless Records , which wrote a lengthy post in honor of their “Vice President of the Abrupt Change Dept.” The post when on to say that Snider was someone “who could almost always find the humor in this crazy ride on Planet Earth,” and that he created “rhyme and meter that immediately felt like an old friend or a favorite blanket.”

A cause of death was not immediately shared. However, prior to his passing, Snider had been receiving extensive treatment for walking pneumonia that had only recently been diagnosed.

Todd Daniel Snider was born on October 11th, 1966 in Portland, Oregon. By the mid-80s, he’d relocated to t

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