Overview
- Snider’s official accounts and label announced Saturday that he had "departed this world," with representatives confirming he died Friday; no cause of death has been released.
- Family and friends said he developed breathing trouble after returning to Tennessee, was admitted in Hendersonville, diagnosed with walking pneumonia, and transferred as his condition became "complicated."
- Earlier this month his tour was canceled after his team reported a violent assault outside a Salt Lake City hotel, which local police documented as an alleged assault.
- He was arrested in Salt Lake City on Nov. 2 following a hospital disturbance and booked on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct, threat of violence, and trespassing before being released on his own recognizance.
- A cornerstone of Americana and alt-country over three decades, he had just released High, Lonesome and Then Some in October as peers and fans began posting tributes.