Acclaimed singer-songwriter Todd Snider is dead at age 59 after suffering a period of severe illness and complications from a recent violent assault.

Snider’s company, Aimless, Inc. Headquarters, shared the news in an Instagram post on Saturday.

“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,“ the post reads. ”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 who let him into their lives and took him under their wings, who he studied relentlessly. Guy Clark, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Jeff Walker.”

Snider’s death follows reports of serious health and personal challenges s

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