Name: I Believe To My Soul by Gov't Mule in Gov't Mule
Duration: 4 min 46 s
Description: 08-21-2010 Cabooze Plaza, Minneapolis, MN http://www.muletracks.com/

Great! Great!  Warren, you're amazing man!

Great drivin force - nice nice frickin nice

Gov't Mule

Allman Brothers Band 2013-08-20 - The Sky Is Crying

Paint This Town

Roy Williams, Abby Hollander, Jeff Picker (feat. birds)

John Prine - Paradise

08-21-2010 Cabooze Plaza, Minneapolis, MN http://www.muletracks.com/

I Believe To My Soul

06-05-2010 Mountain Jam, East Stage, Hunter, NY http://www.muletracks.com/

Gameface

01-26-2010 The Music Farm, Charleston, SC http://www.muletracks.com/

Beautifully Broken

2011-06-04 Mountain Jam, Hunter, NY is available now @ http://www.muletracks.com/

Banks Of The Deep End

Abby the Spoon Lady (one of the few professional musical spoon players in the country) and Banjo Ben perform their outstanding version of the folk-music standard "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" in downtown Asheville, NC.

Abby The Spoon Lady and Ben Shirley - "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss"

John Prine - Dual Custody

2009-12-11 The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC w/ with Brad Whitford, Ron Hollaway & Fred Eltringham is available @ http://www.muletracks.com/

Politician

Recorded at Severance Hall on September 21, 1997, JOHN PRINE performs LAKE MARIE.

John prine - lake marie (cleveland 9/21/97)

Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is Todd Snider’s inspirational album.

“I want to inspire people,” Snider says. “I want to inspire them to leave home, to do things traditionally considered wrong. If you listen to my record and vandalize your school, godspeed. If you listen to my record and punch your stepdad, thank you, you’ve made me feel better about
what I do. I don’t believe in the American dream, and family values can suck my asshole’s balls.”

Snider says this while smiling, because he says most things while smiling, because he knows family values are unlikely to do such a thing, and because he’s on the happy back end of happy hour at a favorite East Nashville bar. He’s laughing but not necessarily kidding, and Agnostic
Hymns & Stoner Fables is anything but a nice, folk/Americana troubadour album. It’s not a nice anything.

It is jagged, leering, lurching and howling, and filled with unhappy endings both experienced and intimated: “It ain’t the despair that gets you, it’s the hope,” he sings in the album-closer, “Big Finish.” That Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is also roaringly funny is tribute to Snider’s unique sensibilities, and to his standing as what Rolling Stone magazine calls “America’s sharpest musical storyteller.” Anguish without laughter is boring, like intensive care without morphine, and Snider has never been within 100 miles of boring. Also, he didn’t earn the
attention, friendship and fandom of American musical giants like Kris Kristofferson and John Prine by writing mopey protest songs.

Anyway, these aren’t protest songs. They’re inspirational. We’ve covered that already, right? It’s populated mostly by losers in the midst of losing, with a couple of spotlight appearances from the humbly anointed 1 percent. The result is something disconcerting, cracked and wholly original. It’s something that stands apart from the music of Snider’s heroes, and from Snider’s own, much-celebrated past. Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is Snider’s 12th album (14th, if we count a “best of” set and a collection of B-sides and demos.

Snider doesn’t talk around the vulnerable part, or the angry part, or the part about how everything we’re taught about goodness and righteousness and capitalism, about God and family values winds up exploding into violence and chaos, wonder and longing. He doesn’t talk around how the whole deal is enough to make you vandalize your school, punch your stepdad, or make lewd suggestions as to just what family values might do in their spare time. And he doesn’t talk around the part about how he doesn’t know any more than you do about any of these things, or the part about how he might be wrong. It’s just that nothing has been delivered yet, nothing revealed. It is, as he sings, too soon to tell.

Here are 10 new songs for the waiting room. They’re here to inspire.

06 In Between Jobs

Allman Brothers Band ~ Seven Turns

Fresh from the Oh Boy Archives, here is an early studio version of the song "Lake Marie." It dates to 1993 and features just John Prine on guitar and vocals.

I Believe To My Soul

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