SNIDER

a musician,” he said, without a hint of irony.

At this point, Snider is content to keep churning out albums and gushing over the

recent resurgence in alt-country interest.

Kacey Musgraves, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, Sturgill Simpson — he is obsessed with them all.

“I think the generation right after mine is the best since the ’70s. I think my generation, we were OK; we weren’t righting the ship,” he said. “I’m not the kind of guy who is going to put a bunch of posters in my house, but if I was 20 now I’d be more interested in singing than when I was 20 the first time.”

— Julia Oller joller@dispatch.com @juliaoller