was working on his first record for New Door, UMG issued a selection of his Margaritaville and MCA back catalog. The collection, That Was Me: 1994-1998, was released on August 30, 2005, through their reissue arm, Hip-O Records. The compilation included seventeen tracks from all three of the albums distributed by MCA, including "Alright Guy" and "Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues," plus a previously unreleased cover of "Margaritaville, a breakneck rendition on which he was backed by the Nervous Wrecks. Snider's first release for New Door was The Devil You Know, the acclaimed follow-up to East Nashville Skyline released on August 8, 2006. Working again with co-producers Will Kimbrough and Eric McConnell, who both played multiple instruments on the album, Snider also was backed on the record by guitarist Tommy Womack, bassists Billy Mercer, Robert Kearns, and Dave Jacques, drummers Paul Griffith and Craig Wright, pianist Dave Zollo, violinist Molly Thomas, and legendary steel guitarist Lloyd Green. The record went to number four on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart. Robert Christgau gave it an A in his Consumer Guide and called it "better" than its predecessor. The record was named to several critics' year-end "best" lists, including a number 33 ranking in Rolling Stone'''s top 50 albums of the year, a number 25 ranking by No Depression magazine, and number 14 by Blender magazine. On October 20, 2006, Snider made a solo acoustic in-store appearance at Grimey's New and Preloved Records in Nashville, performing material from The Devil You Know. The performance was recorded and released by New Door on April 3, 2007, as Live With The Devil You Know At Grimey's Nashville 10.20.06. It was his final release on the New Door label. Launch of Aimless Records In 2008, Snider launched his own independent record label, Aimless Records. The label's first release was his eight-song EP Peace Queer, the most political record of his career. The title was inspired by the ’60s avant garde rock band The Fugs who had a line about killing "peace queers." As Snider tells it in the press bio for the album, he was kidnapped by an international league of peace queers who forced him to write the protest songs that appeared on the record. Three of the tracks on the EP were recorded at co-producer Eric McConnell's studio with backing from some of the musicians who worked on Snider's two previous albums, including