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Sometimes an artist makes a record, then decides not to release it. Neil Young and Prince are 2 artists who famously did that multiple times. Todd Snider is another artist who has done it, putting 3 albums on the shelf in a career now spanning 3 decades.

While Snider may not be as well known as Young or Prince, he is just as committed to his art, and his decisions to shelve those three records were artistic ones. But now Snider has decided to take one of those albums off the shelf. Sixteen years after it was recorded, Crank It, We’re Doomed will finally get its release via Aimless Records.

Snider was in the midst of one of the most creative periods of his career when he recorded Crank It in 2007. He was writing at a frenetic pace and experimenting with musical ideas he would develop more fully on later releases. “It was very much a blur. A blur not because of the party going on, but because of how many songs I was coming up with. It was probably the pinnacle of my time making up songs. Like they were really coming at me, and I didn’t know what to do with them all.”

Crank It, We’re Doomed was supposed to be the follow-up to a pair of acclaimed records that had taken his career to another level — East Nashville Skyline and The Devil You Know. The album was mastered and ready to be manufactured when he decided to pull the plug on it.

When asked why he decided to shelve it, Snider puts on his best movie trailer voice and says... see post: https://toddsnider.net/biography/