When Aaron Lee Tasjan reached out to Todd Snider, he was, by his own account, in the grip of the worst bout of imposter syndrome of his career. The late songwriter took him up on the call. Snider co-wrote a track called “The Real” with him, and the album that grew out of that period, Get Over It, Underdog (out in 2026 on Blue Elan Records), carries Snider’s name in its dedication. On Friday, November 13, Tasjan brings the GOIU Tour to Colony Woodstock.
About the Show
Get Over It, Underdog is Tasjan’s follow-up to Stellar Evolution, the 2024 record that Variety named one of the year’s best albums, a set critics described as pinballing “from synthwave to power pop, classic rock, glam to Americana, and elsewhere, sometimes within the same song.” The new album takes a different temperature. Where Stellar Evolution moved with what one reviewer called “glamorous alien space queen swagger,” Get Over It, Underdog substitutes “a melancholy minor-key warble and throb,” examining the mythology of the American underdog with “wit, urgency, and a deeply human perspective.” Tinnitist called it his most inspiring record to date.
His 2022 Grammy nomination for Best American Roots Song came alongside multiple Americana Music Association nods, including Song of the Year and International Album of the Year. Given that track record, the underdog frame the new album wears so deliberately reads as something more like a chosen posture than a description. The record wrestles with that tension, and does not seem to mind getting tangled in it.
Opening the night is Nashville-based Madeleine Kelson, whose debut album While I Was Away drew comparisons to Patty Griffin, Jason Isbell, and Brandi Carlile, and whose queer country anthem “The Way I Do” has logged more than 1.7 million TikTok views. NPR named her one of 10 Nashville artists on the rise; she followed the debut with the EP Where the Spirit Meets the Muscle in February 2024.
Venue & Logistics
Colony Woodstock has been hosting music in the Hudson Valley since 1929, when it opened as a hotel where guests stopped on their way to the Overlook Mountain House and stayed to dine and hear big bands in the great room. It is now a bar and music venue on Rock City Road in Woodstock, with live music running most nights of the week. Doors are at 6 p.m.; the show starts at 7 p.m.
Tickets
Tickets are $23 to $45. The show is open to all ages; those under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Buy tickets