“There was always something he was chasing,” says Robbie Crowell, who oversaw Snider's posthumous release My Second Rodeo with Joe Bisirri and Aaron Lee Tasjan

Before what would become Todd Snider ’s final album hit a single streaming site or record-store shelf, the troubadour was already speaking with excitement about another one he had in the works. High, Lonesome and Then Some , released in October 2025, had been a sonic experiment in slow, mellow country melodies. “Now, we feel like we got it,” Snider told me at the time, “so now, I’m working on a new record.”

Barely a month later, that enthusiasm gave way to tragedy. Snider died on Nov. 14, 2025, at 59. His death happened two weeks after his release tour for High, Lonesome and Then Some was canceled following Snider’s involvement in a still-unclear incident in Salt Lake City that landed him in a hospital and in jail.…