Posthumous Todd Snider slated for October

"My Second Rodeo" is a 10-song collection of brand new songs that Snider had recorded last fall just before his passing. The lead single "Solid Country Gold" is out now, which Snider co-wrote with Jack Ingram in August 2025 and would ultimately become the spark for My Second Rodeo. He called it "the sound of country music 10 years from now," a rhythmic, blues-based shuffle augmented by horns, background vocalists and Snider's own hand percussion.

"I finished 11 songs in October of 2025," wrote Snider in an email to producer/engineer Joe Bisirri. "Save this."

Over the course of the last year, Bisirri and co-producer Robbie Crowell did just that, as they worked to complete the record, the follow-up to 2025's "High, Lonesome and Then Some."

"This album is a glimpse into the creative outpouring from Todd in September and October of 2025," said Bisirri. "His 'sound of country music 10 years from now' meant taking his favorite country music tropes, dismantling and reassembling them over stretched-out, swampy grooves with New Orleans-style horns. He was so sure of this sound, feel and his studio band's pliability that he insisted on recording his vocal and guitar first, with no accompaniment or click track. Todd wanted the band to record after him, so they would have to follow his lead wherever it went."

"Todd had an amazing knack for knowing where he wanted to go next musically," said Crowell. "Helping to realize that vision was always one of my favorite things to do. It was always left of center, unexpected

"My Second Rodeo" was recorded at Snider's East Nashville studio/hangout, The Purple Building. The album also includes a completed version of "(I Got That) Deja Vu," which he had co-written with the late country outlaw Billy Joe Shaver many years before.

Bisirri, Crowell and Aaron Lee Tasjan recorded their parts after him along with vocalists Brooke Gronemeyer, Nikki Barber and Alicia Gail, and horn players Emmanuel Echem and Roy Agee.

"He heard this album get to the 70-percent mark," said Bisirri. "The last 30 percent took so much longer because we were trying to follow his road map of voice memos and emails as close as we could, all the while questioning and re-questioning. Ultimately, Todd showed us where to go."

"Todd was one of my best friends, hero and inspiration," said Ingram. "He was everything whoever's reading this thinks and says he was. All of him... the good, the bad and the beautiful. Stoned, sober and stupid - I love and miss all of my good man (aka- Elmo Buzz, Tipsy Gypsy, The Reno Flash, whatever you call him, him too)."

The track list is:
1) Freewheelin' (Every Day at a Time)
2) Solid Country Gold
3) (I Got That) Deja Vu
4) Can Your Monkey Do the Splits
5) Stoner Yodel Number 3 (Give Me a D for Gym Glass)
6) The Manifesto
7) One Nation Under Fire
8) My Second Rodeo
9) Sunday Go to Meeting Looking
10) The Moon Tonight