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Meticulous and exhaustive research has shown that singer/songwriter Todd Snider has performed in Santa Cruz about -- tabulating, tabulating -- 10,000 times, give or take. And Snider's feelings about the place are not very complicated.

"My favorite place, bar none," he said. "Everybody who knows me knows it. I can't ever wait to get there."

Snider plays live again at the Rio Theatre on Friday, this time in the wake of a new double-disc live album titled "The Storyteller," and perhaps never in the annals of Western civilization has a work of art been so aptly titled.

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