Acclaimed singer-songwriter Todd Snider is dead at age 59 after suffering a period of severe illness and complications from a recent violent assault.

Snider’s company, Aimless, Inc. Headquarters, shared the news in an Instagram post on Saturday.

“He relayed so much tenderness and sensitivity through his songs, and showed many of us how to look at the world through a different lens,“ the post reads. ”He got up every morning and started writing, always working towards finding his place among the songwriting giants that sat on his record shelves, those same giants who let him into their lives and took him under their wings, who he studied relentlessly. Guy Clark, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Jeff Walker.”

Snider’s death follows reports of serious health and personal challenges stemming from a violent incident.

Snider had recently “sustained severe injuries as the victim of a violent assault outside of his hotel,” according to a statement from Aimless, Inc Nov. 3. This incident made him cancel his “High, Lonesome and Then Some 2025″ tour dates.

Snider had been arrested in connection with a disturbance at the local hospital Nov. 2, but was released and formal charges were not filed against him, according to Fox 13 Salt Lake City.

In the days leading up to his death, Snider’s family and friends shared an update on Friday that he had been hospitalized in Hendersonville, Tennessee and diagnosed with pneumonia. His condition became more complicated, leading to a transfer to another facility.

Snider moved to Nashville in the 1990s from Oregon and began his career as a troubadour and a self-proclaimed “free spirit” before studying under famous icons including Jimmy Buffet and Billy Joe Saver, PEOPLE wrote.

In 2004, Snider released his “East Nashville Skyline” album which inspired the development of alt-country and Americana music.

“Today, put on one of your favorite Todd Snider records and ‘play it loud enough to wake up all of your neighbors or at least loud enough to always wake yourself up,’ Aimless, Inc. said on Instagram. ”We love you Todd, sail on old friend, we’ll see you again out there on the road somewhere down the line. You will always be a force of nature."