Todd Snider’s Final Album, My Second Rodeo, Completed by His Collaborators

Todd Snider spent his last weeks talking about the next record. My Second Rodeo, a 10-track album of original songs, now arrives as the final studio work he was directly involved in, though he did not live to see it finished. Snider died on Nov. 14, 2025, at 59.

The record extends the sound he was chasing on High, Lonesome and Then Some, released in October 2025. Snider called it “slow choogle,” a deliberately plodding country mode he wanted to refine on the next album. He was already in pain from spinal stenosis when that record came out and had said the tour behind it would likely be his last. It was canceled two weeks after release, following an incident in Salt Lake City that left him hospitalized and jailed and remains unclear.

Producer Robbie Crowell estimated the new album was 70 percent finished at the time of Snider’s death. Crowell, engineer and producer Joe Bisirri, and songwriter Aaron Lee Tasjan, on guitar, spent the following year completing the rest. Tasjan said he was surprised at how fully realized the material was despite Snider’s absence, and that it felt like the record Snider would have made.

The release was timed to what would have been Snider’s 60th birthday and a Todd Snider Day in East Nashville, where the street outside his Purple Building studio was renamed Todd Snider Way and a block party featured his band the Eastside Bulldogs alongside Hayes Carll, Elizabeth Cook and Tommy Womack. A week earlier, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco hosted a “Todd Snider Rules!” set.

“Sitting side stage, alone, watching these people just show up, it made me feel like East Nashville’s about to be on fire for Todd,” his brother Mike Snider said of the block party.