His Wikipedia page describes Todd Snider as "an American singer-songwriter with a musical style that combines American, alt-country and folk.
Well, this one is a rocker, plain and simple.
The song is the perfect musical companion to the films Margin Call and The Big Short, which in very different ways tell the story of the 2008 market collapse. Here, that collapse reaches all the way to a high school teacher, down in Arkansas. And the story doesn't have a happy ending.
It's one of the catchiest refrains you'll hear - listen to this song a few times, and I promise you won't be able to get the phrase "Good things happen to bad people" out of your head. The year it was released, that phrase was the perfect description of someone who unfortunately spilled over into my life from time to time, so the song had particular resonance.
Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #11 - "New York Banker," Todd Snider.
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