East Nashville Skyline
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East Nashville Skyline is a studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Nashville, TN, singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Todd Snider
Todd Snider
Todd Daniel Snider is an American singer-songwriter with a musical style that combines Americana, alt-country, and folk.-Biography:...

. The album was released in 2004.

Songs

The album contains a variety of songs, most of them concerning moments in Snider's past, such as his addiction rehab and various other troubles throughout his life. The Song "Age Like Wine" is a retrospective of his life, and Snider recounts his jailing in "Tillamook County Jail". The song "Ballad of The Kingsmen
The Kingsmen
The Kingsmen is a 1960s garage rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States. They are best known for their 1963 recording of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie", which held the #2 spot on the Billboard charts for six weeks...

" concerns the controversy surrounding their hit song "Louie Louie
Louie Louie
"Louie Louie" is an American rock 'n' roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955. It has become a standard in pop and rock, with hundreds of versions recorded by different artists...

".

Track listing

All songs by Todd Snider, except where noted.
  1. Age Like Wine - 1:46
  2. Tillamook County Jail - 3:07
  3. Play a Train Song - 4:09
  4. Alcohol and Pills (Fred Eaglesmith
    Fred Eaglesmith
    Frederick John Elgersma , known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter, one of nine children raised by a farming family in rural Southern Ontario. As a teenager Eaglesmith hopped a freight train out to Western Canada, and began writing songs and...

    ) - 4:38
  5. Good News Blues (Billy Joe Shaver
    Billy Joe Shaver
    Billy Joe Shaver is a Texas country music singer and songwriter. Shaver's 1973 album Old Five and Dimers Like Me is a classic in the outlaw country genre.-Biography:...

    ) - 3:13
  6. The Ballad of the Kingsmen - 5:03
  7. Iron Mike's Main Man's Last Request - 3:15
  8. Conservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males - 3:17
  9. Incarcerated - 2:10
  10. Nashville - 2:26
  11. Sunshine - 4:58
  12. Enjoy Yourself (Herb Magidson
    Herb Magidson
    Herbert A. "Herb" Magidson was an American popular lyricist. His work was used in over 23 films and four Broadway reviews. He won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1934....

     and Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...

    ) - 3:27

Charts

East Nashville Skyline sold well for Snider. The following are its positions on national charts:
Year Album Chart Positions
US
Billboard 200
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US Heat
Top Heatseekers
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US Indie
2004 East Nashville Skyline 44 28
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