Snipe Hunter by Tyler Childers

Snipe Hunter, Tyler Childers' seventh album, came out on July 25, 2025 on Hickman Holler Records and RCA, with Rick Rubin in the producer's chair. That's a pairing that could have gone slick; instead Childers sounds as loose and ornery as ever, his neotraditional country still shot through with bluegrass, folk and honky-tonk, and Rubin mostly stays out of the way of that voice.

It's been a long climb since Purgatory, the 2017 breakthrough that won him an Americana Music Award, and this one drew widespread critical acclaim. "Nose on the grindstone" was the track that found its way onto the countdowns, carrying Childers' drawl to listeners well outside country radio.

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