by the band's own label on February 22, 2012. Also in 2012, Aimless released a pair of albums by Snider. The first, Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, was released on March 6 and included nine original songs plus a cover of Jimmy Buffett's "West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown." The album's themes of economic inequality were widely noted. The East Nashvillian said Snider was a "one-man Occupy Wall Street" on the record. Rolling Stone called it "Occupy Nashville." Snider recorded the album at Eric McConnell's studio with McConnell co-producing and engineering as well as playing bass. Snider, who played acoustic and electric guitar and harmonica, was also accompanied on the record by violinist/backing vocalist Amanda Shires, Great American Taxi keyboardist Chad Staehly, and drummer Paul Griffith. In addition, Jason Isbell contributed slide guitar and backing vocals to "Digger Dave's Crazy Woman Blues." The record earned an A grade in Robert Christgau’s Consumer Guide. American Songwriter gave it four-and-a-half stars. The album landed on three different Billboard charts. It was number six on the Americana/Folk Albums chart, number 15 on the Independent Albums chart, and number 23 on the Top Rock Albums chart. It also made a number of year-end lists, most notably number five on Christgau's "Top 102 Albums of 2012." It also was ranked number 11 on American Songwriter’s "Top 50 Albums of 2012," number 40 on both The Village Voice’s Pazz and Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2012, Paste’s "50 Best Albums of 2012," and number 47 on Rolling Stone’s "Top 50 Albums of 2012." The following month on April 24, Aimless released Snider's tribute album honoring one of his early mentors, Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker. Produced by Don Was, Snider was backed on the album by the members of Great American Taxi (Vince Herman, acoustic guitar, mandolin, backing vocals; Chad Staehly, keyboards; Brian Adams, bass, backing vocals; Jim Lewin, electric guitar, backing vocals; and Chris Sheldon, drums, backing vocals.) In addition, Kix Brooks, Elizabeth Cook, and Amy LaVere were guest vocalists on the album. PopMatters called the album "Snider's love letter to Jerry Jeff Walker." The album went to number 13 on the Billboard Americana/Folk Albums chart. Hard Working Americans In 2013, Snider cofounded the jam band supergroup Hard Working Americans with Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools. The band's lineup was Snider on vocals, Schools on bass, Neal Casal on guitar,