CD - Todd Snider - My Second Rodeo

Due out on October 9th, just days before what would have been his 60th birthday, My Second Rodeo is a 10-song collection of brand new songs that Snider had recorded last fall just before his passing. The album’s lead single “Solid Country Gold” is out now, which Snider co-wrote with Jack Ingram in August of 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 eleven songs in October of twenty twenty five,” wrote Snider in an email to producer/engineer and longtime friend Joe Bisirri. “Save this.”

Over the course of the last year, Bisirri and co-producer Robbie Crowell did just that, as they painstakingly worked to complete My Second Rodeo, an album of all-new original Todd Snider songs. The album isn’t a hodge-podge of outtakes and B-sides, it’s the realization of Snider’s very distinct vision for the follow-up to 2025’s critically acclaimed High, Lonesome and Then Some. He was determined to record an album of songs that deconstructed country music. My Second Rodeo is that album.

“This album is a glimpse into the creative outpouring from Todd in September and October of 2025,” stated 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.”