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"In the short time I've known Clark I've found him to be a true-blue genuine guy and a reliable and great friend. He's got a unique and interesting slant on life in his songs and in his living. And, last but not least, as a singer, well, Clark is a fascinating tunesmith and the genuine article." Tom Pallardy

(Tom is a successful Nashville producer, songwriter and teacher. He also let me to paint his house to pay my rent in Nashville. He produced my "Hubcap" recording session).

Some more about me...

I was born and raised in Seattle.

I started as a touring musician using my nickname,"Stovepipe." I did frequent tours up and down the west coast as well as in Nashville and Atlanta.

I settled down and raised my son Ty in the Edmonds area of greater Seattle. I was a building contractor there for many years.

But the music just wouldn't die! So I'm back doing it again.

When my son entered college, I sold my business and I moved to Nashville to hone my writing craft. I also met a wonderful woman from Munich and over time moved to Europe.

And now, not only do I have the love of writing and performing, but the travel bug as well. I also enjoy teaching native German speakers the language of business English.

Lets see. I have three cities where I hang my hat.... Seattle, Munich & Nashville.

I am a Tour Guide during the summer in and around Munich. I teach business English throughout the year. I am also a touring musician. And I help my son with property management in Seattle. I travel a lot!

But my first love is songwriting.

I have been a beekeeper, building contractor, college-level baseball umpire, horticulturist, dog-walker, fundraiser, short-order cook, lecturer, youth coach, truck driver and father.

I have slept in 47 States and drained bank accounts in two currencies - dollars and euros. The journey continues!

Part Waylon Jennings, part Gordon Lightfoot. Part John Prine, part Tom Waits. Clark Snyder is another one of those accomplished lyricists who knows how to take the mundane imagery of the modern world and make it seem somehow timeless…somehow poetic. It’s a talent secured by those who are able to see the beauty and irony in almost anything. Sung in a deadpan baritone with just a hint of twang, and with comic metaphor in songs like “Hubcap,” sung from the point of view of a lost hubcap on the side of the road longing for his companion Chevy Malibu, Snyder recalls a lyrical adventurousness and focus usually associated with people like those mentioned above. This lyrical cleverness continues on songs like “The Parts I Like,” which admits it’s ok not to know all the lyrics, so long as you sing along to the parts you like. With a simple, sparse production predominated by Snyder’s vintage Gibson B-25 acoustic, A Complicated Cake is one album that can never be accused of being insincere. Far from being “complicated,” it is Cake’s simplicity that is its greatest asset. A couple of the songs seem to have been written as gifts for various occasions. It is as simple as the satisfaction felt after finishing cutting the grass on a blazing summer day, or as fresh as the glass of lemonade with which you quench your thirst. There doesn’t have to be much more to it than that. A good song speaks for itself. It comes from one heart in a spontaneous act of reaching out to another. This is what Snyder has accomplished here… at least the reaching out part. The rest is up to you. Brad Linzy news4u0nline (Brad gave me some more national exposure)