Snider’s new album, Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3, is a sparse, acoustic collection of witty blues originals and nostalgic remembrances of old Nashville — recorded, as its title suggests, at Johnny Cash’s Tennessee cabin — that also marks a musical homecoming of sorts for Snider after a series of detours in garage rock and jam bands.

“I’ve always thought of myself as like a Ramblin’ Jack Elliott type of guy,” he says. “Even though I’ve never made a record like this before, I’ve always toured like that. I have always thought, ‘that’s what I do.” And if I do something else, it’s just something else: a jam band, a rock record, anytime I deviate from that, I think of it as a deviation.”