Ed Snodderly

Ed Snodderly

Genres: singer songwriter, All

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About Ed Snodderly

Ed Snodderly is a songwriter, singer and guitar picker, following in the footsteps of songsters as varied as A. P. Carter to Riley Puckett to Ray Davies. His songs beat with a strong sense of place and the heart of them is a fresh, creative twist to the listener’s ear. Combining outstanding musicianship with storytelling, the performances feel familiar, yet enlightening; like old ropes that pull the bells to ring. “The charts call it Folk/Americana. I feel it as American Southern music; could be New Hillbilly.” His upbringing was in the mountains of East Tennessee, where roads twist and the valleys open to the four-lanes rolling all the way to Nashville. Ed’s lyrics feel like a cross-pollination with those old mountain roads, radio station songs, and voices on small-town street corners. ”I consider some of my songs a giving-back to my culture. I appreciate the being raised in and the being part of a special place and time. I stay inspired to write and sing my views to this modern world.” In 2020 Ed was awarded a lifetime achievement award, presented to him from SERFA (Southeastern Region of Folk Alliance) for his contributions to southern folk music. The third verse in his song, “The Diamond Stream”, is permanently displayed in the rotunda on the wall in the Hall Of Honor at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. It reads… “So take down your box and bow And play the strings Whisper up your own travelin’ tune Listen to the sound that the water makes In the Diamond Stream The Diamond Stream”.

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