Rue Snider Announces New EP, Speak My Mind, Available Today

Courtesy of the Artist

BROOKLYN, NY (Press Release)- Folk-punk/Americana singer songwriter Rue Snider will release Speak My Mind, an EP including three brand new songs, on  March 3, 2017. The tracks were recorded at The Bomb Shelter in Nashville, TN and produced by Andrija Tokic. Tokic is the engineer and/or producer behind numerous records and singles including “Boys and Girls” by Alabama Shakes, “The Spirit Moves” by Langhorne Slim, “Dead Flowers” by Caitlin Rose, and “Look Out Mama” by Hooray for the Riff Raff. Also featured on the tracks are multi-instrumentalist Jon Estes (John Paul White, Phosphorescent) and Grammy Award winning drummer Derrek C Phillips.

The title track “Speak My Mind” was written in a basement apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn the day after the 2016 election. Rue was in New York City to vote and like 66 million other Americans was dismayed by the result. The track is a response to the tone Donald Trump employed in his campaign for America’s highest office. It acknowledges the racism and misogyny in the Alt Right and asks the question “What do you say to kids?” when the language coming out of the White House ridicules minorities, women, and the disabled.

"I grew up listening to people like Bob Dylan, Ani Difranco, and Bruce Cockburn who were all unafraid to speak truth to power,”  says Rue. “That’s the tradition I’m coming out of. I wrote a lot of really bare, honest songs about myself on the first two records. Now I’m trying to take that same honesty and focus it on things outside of myself a little bit.”

Speak My Mind  also includes the songs, “One More American” and “Moving Me.” The former is a politically driven rock song addressing police brutality. The latter is a Motown inspired mid tempo ballad about desire.

Rue Snider has  made appearances at SXSW, Folk Alliance International, and North East Regional Folk Alliance, and shared the stage with Lydia Loveless, Tom Maxwell (Squirrel Nut Zippers), Tropic of Pisces, Superhuman Happiness, Benjamin Scheuer ("The Lion"), Blue Healer, Donna Missal, and Walter Salas-Humara (the Silos). He is currently on the road finishing the tour in support of  Broken Window.

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