08/27/2026
Todd Snider’s ‘My Second Rodeo’. October 9.
This is a story about a man who told everybody he was looking for something that didn’t exist.
“But I guess seeking is fun,” he said.
Last September, Todd Snider went back to the Purple Building on 11th Street in East Nashville with an idea he could not shut up about. He called it the sound of country music ten years from now. Country music pulled apart and put back together, slow and swampy, with New Orleans horns.
He believed in it so hard he was planning a double album.
He cut it the old way. The stubborn way. Voice and guitar first. Todd alone in the room. No click track. No band.
Everything else came later, with one instruction:
Follow him.
Wherever the song swerved. Whatever he did with the time. Follow him.
October 1, in an email to his producer:
“i honestly think we’re doing something important that is going to affect this town for a long time.”
October 9:
“ive never been more excited about art i was working on.”
A little over a month later, he was gone.
But here’s the thing about a man who insists on being recorded first.
He was still there.
On every song. His voice and guitar out front, leading.
He had left emails, voice memos, demos. A whole map.
So his band went back into the Purple Building and did what Todd had asked them to do.
They followed him.
The song where he found that sound is called “Solid Country Gold,” and it is out today.
My Second Rodeo arrives October 9, one year to the day after Todd wrote that he had never been more excited about the art he was making. Two days before his 60th birthday.
His last album. His second rodeo.
Available digitally, on cd, and vinyl, including a limited purple vinyl pressing exclusive to Nashville record stores. We are ecstatic to be one of those stores as die-hard Todd fans and fellow Nashvillians. Grab one now through the product tag.
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