“Busking up front and P-Funk in the back” is how Todd Snider describes his brilliant funk-folk mash-up First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder. Snider plays most of the instruments and sings all the vocals on an album that is easily his most musically adventurous in a career spanning a quarter-century. He uses the loose concept of a less-than-honest agnostic minister as the framework to address mortality from a variety of perspectives. Among them: Three of the record’s 10 tracks pay touching tribute to a trio of longtime friends who passed in 2019 and 2020 — Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine and Jeff Austin.
Best Funk-Folk Album
