11 New, Unheard Songs Accompany Tyler Childers Album “Snipe Hunter”
Ahead of the release of the new Tyler Childers album Snipe Hunter on July 25th, the 7-time Grammy-nominated Kentucky songwriter has released a studio version of the fan favorite song “Oneida,” along with a live performance video (see below). Childers has also revealed the full track list for the album, which previously was unknown for the RCA Records release.
Childers has been performing “Oneida” for nearly a decade, first revealing the song on his second Red Barn Radio session released in 2016. The song finds Childers smitten with an older woman who may or may not be willing to reciprocate that affection. It comes after Childers also released the long-standing live standard of his concerts, “Nose to the Grindstone” as the lead single off of Snipe Hunter.
But there is good news for Childers fans who’ve been thirsting for some actually new, unheard songs from him, especially since most of his recent albums have included previously-heard material and cover songs. Along with “Oneida,” we also get the track list for the Rick Rubin-produced record, and it includes entirely new titles, aside from “Oneida” and “Nose To The Grindstone.” That means the 13-track album has 11 new songs, though some of these might have been heard in concert previously, and crude versions of “Snipe Hunt” have been kicking around for a while on YouTube.
Good luck finding previous versions of the Tyler Childers songs “Tomcat and a Dandy” or “Dirty Ought Trill,” though they sure do give you old Kentucky vibes. The lead track “Eatin’ Big Time” references back to a sort of inside joke Childers and his entourage used to drop on social media that roughly translated to living high on the hog. “Tirtha Yatra” references pilgrimages to India often for Hindu or Buddhist studies—something Childers has participated in recently.
Though many will be excited to get a slew of new songs from Childers, others might be disappointed that some other fan favorites are not on the album. With Childers recently performing fan favorite “Jersey Giant,” which has been turned into a mega hit by multiple other artists, some assumed it would be on the new album. And sorry to those who are fans of self-pleasure, but “Waylon on My Willie” also didn’t make the cut. They’re have to settle for revisiting “Ever Lovin’ Hand.”
Snipe Hunter is currently available for pre-save/pre-order.
TRACK LIST:
1. Eatin’ Big Time
2. Cuttin’ Teeth
3. Oneida
4. Getting to the Bottom
5. Bitin’ List
6. Nose on the Grindstone
7. Watch Out
8. Down Under
9. Poachers
10. Snipe Hunt
11. Tirtha Yatra
12. Tomcat and a Dandy
13. Dirty Ought Trill
July 2, 2025 @ 9:24 am
Welp, the click track has killed Tyler Childers dead. “Oneida” doesn’t swing.
I liked Tyler when he had a beard and felt like buckshot. Now we have him in a suit, playing a Collings, sporting a redneck ascot, and wrapped in a gauzy string section. I thought “Oneida” would take on “Mrs. Robinson,” but it sounds neutered and bled to death.
Has everyone taken shots that turn them into robots and zombies?
July 2, 2025 @ 10:15 am
Clearly, Rick Rubin is the new Phil Spector.
July 2, 2025 @ 12:11 pm
man, do we have to hate on the collings? those things rip
July 2, 2025 @ 12:59 pm
Collings definitely rip, but they are pricey and don’t have a lot of history yet.
July 2, 2025 @ 2:14 pm
Then why does it matter? Martins are pricey too – that’s what he used to play as main guitar. Seems like a proxy for what you don’t like but I don’t get it
July 2, 2025 @ 3:02 pm
Tell me you’re joking. Please. The late Bill Collings founded his guitar company in 1973; that’s over half a century of “history.” They make some of the best guitars out there. And “pricey”? Go price some other American-made small-shop guitars and you’ll think the $6K for a Collings D1 is reasonable.
July 2, 2025 @ 3:59 pm
Replying to Heyday,
Yes Collings are sweet. I tried one out, it’s killer. No real criticism from me, but I think Cornman is critiquing the slick photo of Tyler looking very trendy with the ensemble and a very hipster guitar and uppity outfit. Perhaps Cornman is saying ” Don’t get above your raising”
I’ve got some nice guitars myself including a couple vintage Gibsons. My one modern acoustic is a Larrivee which for the money is tough to beat. Its half the price of a Collings, it’s a handmade American instrument and for whatever reason is not on the radar for many players. But it rings nice.
July 2, 2025 @ 5:01 pm
For the record, the cover of “Snipe Hunter” portrays Childers as a sort of bored, aloof aristocratic surrounded by his outdated and dusty finery. I think that’s probably the motif they also tried to capture in this live video as a theme to the album. I don’t think Tyler Childers walks around in ascots, and you certainly don’t see him doing that in concert. He’s wearing jean jackets.
July 2, 2025 @ 11:50 am
“I liked Tyler when he had a beard and felt like buckshot.”
You people are wild. “Oneida” was written and performed 12 years ago when Tyler was bearded and felt like buckshot (click below). You don’t even know what you are trying to complaining about.
https://youtu.be/xBoQfiJEqj8?si=IhaRQDVTaDpB0Q1k
July 2, 2025 @ 1:04 pm
Hop, we know. You’re missing the barn.
The video you link to has the swing and the smell of sassafras that we miss.
You listen to a lot of music. You’re telling me the new version of “Oneida” isn’t lifeless by comparison?
No one should be afraid of honest criticism.
July 2, 2025 @ 3:09 pm
The song sounds great; I think you’ve just been listening to a live acoustic version of the song for the better part of a decade now and gotten too used to it to accept a professional studio version. His voice is much better now that he’s gotten sober and the fiddle solo is great. Also unless I’m not hearing something, its instrumentation is just guitar, bass, pedal steel, fiddle, piano, and drums. That doesn’t strike me as a “gauzy string section.”
July 2, 2025 @ 3:09 pm
“Has everyone taken shots that turn them into robots and zombies?”
You Are a bad, bad, boy 😉.
Getting ready to click on the link, Hop. provided.
July 2, 2025 @ 4:35 pm
Collings are, for my money, the best-made acoustic guitars on the market for at least a decade now! Don’t hate the player.
July 3, 2025 @ 9:37 am
What are talking about?
July 2, 2025 @ 9:24 am
By my count itss 8 unheard songs for those who delve the depths of youtube and soundcloud. Nose, Oneida, Cutting Teeth, Tomcat and Snipe Hunt can all be found on youtube.
If the rest of the album is in line with that group it should be a very country album in line with Purgatory and Country Squire.
I will point out though, the Vinyl is a double vinyl, so there is plenty of space for additional tracks if he wants to throw us a bit of mis-direction (a snipe hunt if you will).
July 2, 2025 @ 9:59 am
Childers might have played some of these songs recently in concert ahead of the album or something along those lines. I would still consider those unreleased, and unheard by most people. What I’m speaking about here is songs that we’ve already heard versions of previously, like “Oneida” and “Nose To The Grindstone” that anyone can go on Spotify and hear, or that have been worn out live for years like “Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven.” There are 11 songs native to the “Snipe Hunter” project where this album is where they will live in the Tyler Childers universe.
July 2, 2025 @ 9:24 am
Even if the rest of the album falls flat, this will be worth the pre-order for a proper studio version of “Snipe Hunt.”
July 2, 2025 @ 9:26 am
He’s played Tom Cat in the past. Not sure about any others
July 2, 2025 @ 9:37 am
A studio version of Jersey giant would have been neat but overall this seems like everything fans have been wanting. I’m excited!
July 2, 2025 @ 9:43 am
Tyler Childers has now gone Hari Krishna, hoping it will make him the new Beatles.
July 2, 2025 @ 9:57 am
You don’t need much luck finding live versions of “Snipe Hunt”, its as easy as finding “ashes” in the Bible. He’s been playing that one for almost a decade.
July 2, 2025 @ 10:15 am
Fair point about “Snipe Hunt,” and I put a note in the article proper about it. But I honestly think to most regular Tyler Childers fans, that will be a new song to them. The most popular video of that song on YouTube is Childers playing it in a green room and forgetting the words. Anyone can navigate to DSPs and hear proper versions of “Oneida” or “Nose To The Grindstone,” or go to YouTube and see professionally-produced versions of a song like “Take My Hounds To Heaven” or “Percheron Mules” before they were properly released.
I guess this gets down to a semantics argument, but having criticized Childers for releasing albums with so much previously-heard material, I felt it was important to point out many of these songs are properly “new.” But I guess it shouldn’t be surprising when super fans come to needle you over exactly what “new” means.
July 2, 2025 @ 12:29 pm
I’ve seen him 8 times over last few years and he never played it. He last played it in 2019.
July 3, 2025 @ 6:22 am
Tyler’s setlists vary by region. If your catch him in Kentucky or West Virginia, they tend to be a lot deeper and less hits than other regions.
I thought “Nose on the Grindstone” got played nightly, then someone in the SCM comment section typed something on the lines of “I saw Tyler last night and I knew every song… it wasn’t any of these deeper cuts.” I pulled up that set list for Austin, TX and he was correct. Tyler didn’t even play “Nose on the Grindstone.” That’s when I notice he’s very conscious of where he’s playing and what songs to play. It’s no surprise he played “Jersey Giant” in Lexington a couple months ago.
With all that said, I’m happy I was wrong and there will be new songs on this album. The first too singles were too familiar and weren’t giving any juice or excitement to the project.
A few days after the release of “Nose on the Grindstone” an EPK was released with footage of Tyler singing that songs throughout the years intertwined with clips of the boys and Rubin working on the album in what appears to be a lighthouse on a beach. Some of these clips show Tyler writing and that gave me hope for some new songs ….
https://youtu.be/JAR47Jt-OJA?si=xIWHGsRuvXF7EX9O
July 2, 2025 @ 10:37 am
Damn, this is good!
July 2, 2025 @ 11:53 am
Not related to this, but; what happened to the Country History X series?
Or maybe it’s time for the Country History XXX? Quite a few stories right there…
July 2, 2025 @ 12:43 pm
Thanks for the interest. Just posted a new episode last month about Johnny Rodriguez and his murder trial:
https://savingcountrymusic.com/life-death-love-and-murder-the-ballad-of-johnny-rodriguez/
There was some weird thing uploading the audio to DSPs, then I was on the road and couldn’t get it sorted out. I’ll try to get the audio up for it ASAP, but you can find the episode on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/-FuY4RdmzGE?feature=shared
July 2, 2025 @ 1:21 pm
Thank you!
Keep them coming.
July 2, 2025 @ 12:05 pm
I’m bummed that Jersey Giant, Her and The Banks and 22nd Winter didn’t make it but there’s always a chance they make a later album. Either way, this is probably most excited I’ve been for a Childers album since Country Squire.
July 2, 2025 @ 12:25 pm
I’m all for some new songs to add to his live shows which have become a bit predictable over the last couple of years. I saw him in April and a few times could just tell which song was coming next, esp towards the end. They guy has so many good ones and now some more. The singles both sound great.
July 2, 2025 @ 1:25 pm
I’m excited now! The release of Nose and Oneida were utterly underwhelming for me, the unreleased versions have an x factor to them that the released versions are simply lacking.
The other 11 songs will be entirely new to me (I don’t have time to go digging as others have described), I truly cannot wait!
July 2, 2025 @ 2:47 pm
Crazy the level of whining on this article! I also cannot wait
July 2, 2025 @ 3:57 pm
W O W. REALLY liking this recently released version of “Oneida”. Major depth and emotion.
The acoustic version has a lot of depth as well.
But, this recent version of “Oneida” is hitting on all cylinders. Even the muddied signal, or what i am hearing as muddied doesn’t bother me. And, that is rare.
July 2, 2025 @ 5:25 pm
For the most part, this is the worst comment section I have ever read on this site. Holy cow you whiny little yappie dogs that just cannot believe that you are not getting your own personal version of Tyler Childers. “he hasn’t been any good since he quit drugs”. “he owed me more original songs and I spent as much on that one album as I would have with four big Max on the bill.” “I saw him play that song before he got popular and I don’t seem to have any understanding that exactly how he portrayed himself nine years ago was not actually the artist that he desired to be at that time and he had to do it to put food on the table and get to the next level and now he is at the next level, I am mad”.
I hope everyone can understand that the one thing he has not done has been turning away from country and his live shows are so incredibly fantastic and will continue to be.
July 2, 2025 @ 7:10 pm
My money is on that dude doing multiverse or even ego death amounts of magic mushrooms from time to time.
July 2, 2025 @ 7:17 pm
You can’t please all the people all the time. Seems to me getting Rick Rubin at least shows he is very serious and wants to put out something substantive. I didn’t really get some of the material that him and the food stamps were producing themselves. Not that it wasn’t good, but didn’t seem as cohesive and direct as the Sturgill productions. More DIY. So I’m hooked on what’s coming.
July 2, 2025 @ 7:23 pm
I just want to say that I’ve been Tyler fan for many years. I really like the sound of the two songs out, but I have heard them so many times, they don’t really excite me personally. Maybe they will reach new listeners and have an affect because they are damn good songs
July 2, 2025 @ 7:36 pm
5 songs labeled “explicit”. Oh my goodness.
July 3, 2025 @ 4:51 am
Oneida reminds me of the relationship between young Julien Sorel and Madame de Renal in Stendhal’s The Red and the Black. Beautiful song.
July 4, 2025 @ 6:39 am
…truly special. as a big fan of loretta’s “van lear rose” i can hardly wait to hear what another unsual production approach, albeit from a different producer of course, is going to yield here. the wait hasn’t gotten any easier after “oneida”.