Nashville musician Todd Snider, a singer-songwriter known for his blend of humor and story, died on Friday. He was 59 years old.

News of Snider’s death was confirmed by his official social media accounts on Saturday. Local fans soon started gathering outside of the Purple Building in East Nashville — where Snider made music and filmed a documentary — to pay their respects, leaving flowers and wearing t-shirts bearing the musician’s name.

“He relayed so much tenderness and sensitivity through his songs, and showed many of us how to look at the world through a different lens,” Snider’s Instagram account wrote in a tribute.

“He got up every morning and started writing, always working towards finding his place among the songwriting giants that sat on his record shelves, those same giants wh

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