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Todd Snider, Influential Americana Songwriter, Dies at 59

The label announced his death a day after relatives disclosed a pneumonia diagnosis.

Overview

  • Aimless, Inc. said Snider died Friday at age 59, a statement media outlets corroborated, with no cause of death released.
  • Family and friends said doctors discovered he had been quietly suffering from walking pneumonia after he was admitted in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
  • His condition was described as "complicated," and he was transferred for additional treatment, according to the family’s statement.
  • Earlier this month his tour was canceled after what his team called an alleged assault in the Salt Lake City area, followed by a separate hospital incident where police booked him on misdemeanor charges.
  • Snider had just released the album High, Lonesome and Then Some in October, capping a decades-long career that helped shape alt-country and Americana.