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Tyler Childers – Snipe Hunter

Florian Buechtingby Florian Buechting

Tyler Childers - Snipe Hunter

Tyler Childers - Snipe Hunter
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For his new album Snipe Hunter, Tyler Childers used a very special marketing strategy. He even set up a brand new instagram account named The Hickman Holler Hunting Club for it. The album is named to be the signature artistry Tyler Childers has cultivated throughout his esteemed career, while continuing to push his own creative boundaries. Some of the of the songs have been written way before the release on 25th July 2025, but have at least never been released in a Snipe Hunter-alike version.

 

Tyler Childers – About The Artist

Tyler Childers is a US-American country and Americana artist, who is originally from Kentucky. He was born on 21st June 1991 in Lawrence County and grew up in Louisa in that state. His career started (stereo)typically in a church choir before he started to write songs in teenage years. In 2010 he started to pursue a professional career. A year later, he released Bottles and Bibles, his debut album. Especially the two albums released thereafter, Purgatory (2017, platinum record in the USA and Canada) and Country Squire (2019, golden record in these countries), were very successful. However, apart from the debut one, all Tyler Childers records made it to the US Country Album Top 10. Snipe Hunter is his seventh one overall.

 

Tyler Childers – Snipe Hunter – Track by Track

The thirteen song album lasts 54 minutes.

1. Eatin’ Big Time

I shared Cody Jinks’ new album released that weekend before. The first tunes of Snipe Hunter could have been part of a Jinks country rocker as well. However, Tyler Childers finally sounds more indie-alike, rougher, less flat. The lyrics of this opener also cause the good, old explicit lyrics button. There is a touch of rock’n’roll in this one. Tyler Childers’ 2025 album kicks off in a promising way, indeed.

2. Cuttin’ Teeth

At least the melody is more gentle and harmonic at the second song of the album, Cuttin’ Teeth. Childers combines traditional country tunes with the warmth and harmony of a Christmas song in here. The chorus comes with slightly alternating lyrics. A nice one.

Fronting him, a country band
Roaddoggin’ in a stripped out van
Bummin’ powder in the barlight
When they were cuttin’ teeth

3. Oneida

Tyler Childers only shared two of the thirteen songs before the album release (at least in that specific version). Oneida is one of them. The song starts very calm, more or less just featuring the artist’s voice and a guitar. The arrangement gets wider with the first chorus. A really nice one.

4. Getting To The Bottom

Getting To The Bottom is a nice example, how Tyler Childers is following a rather traditional style of country music, which still does not feel outdated. The melody could have been a 1970’s song, but the rhythm and groove make it feel catching and easy. The gentle country song with Southern rock attitude turns out being a bit more on the heavy side in regards of the lyrics.

Do their livers scream for water?
Are their brains about to swell
Through the soft part of their temple
While they grind their teeth like hell?
Are they talking o’er each other?
Leavin’ neary a stone unturned
Getting to the bottom of an angst hard-fought to learn

5. Bitin’ List

To put it plain, I just don’t like you
Not a thing about the way you is
And if there ever come a time I got rabies
You’re high on my bitin’ list

The fine irony in the song and the stomping rhythm make Bitin’ List a funny honky tonk track. The playful melody adds to the enjoyment. Enjoy a three minute smile with Tyler Childers.

6. Nose On The Grindstone

Nose On The Grindstone has not only been one of the feature single. Childers released that track as part of his 2017 OurVinyl Sessions. The song reminds of his father, who worked like a mule mining Pike County coal. The acoustic-alike setting leads to a very personal touch. One of these tracks, which makes you pause and listen to its story.

7. Watch Out

After this rather quiet moment, guitar riffs jolt you and prepare you for Watch Out. The country rock track has a lovely and catching groove. In later parts, the song has a bit more of a virtuous touch, which you find in other tracks of the album as well. Overall, it’s a really nice listen.

8. Down Under

The typical Tyler Childers way of looking at things is heading to Australia. For example, he states
Koala bears get livid when they don’t eat eucalyptus
Most of them carry syphilis – or chlamydia, what’s the difference? In the second stanza, he warms Kangaroos can whoop up on ya, they’d rather fight than watch ya. The chorus sums it up with Down under is forever and a day – and you enjoy these almost five minutes with a smile in your face.

9. Poachers

Poachers has a nice folk music touch. The track even features an accordion. The lyrical style of the song is a typical Tyler Childers narration, driven by the present waltz-alike rhythm. Snipe Hunter might here and there go for heavier topics, but Tyler Childers makes it feel easy.

10. Snipe Hunt

Let’s go on a Snipe Hunt on Snipe Hunter next. The (in fact) title track is taking you on a fast-paced country music ride with intense and rich instrumentation. The vocal distortion again rather reminds of indie sounds and here and there makes the lyrics harder to understand than necessary. Nonetheless, the song is enjoyable. The wild energy of the song leads to a catch.

11. Tirtha Yatra

Tirtha Yatra is a Sanskrit word, meaning you do a pilgrimage to a holy site. When Childers stated I wanna go to India, it rather sounds like he wants to saddle a horse for that. Regarding the lyrics, he knows quite a bunch about the country already. So, enjoy the ride with him!

We’d play Louisville Breakdown
We’d play Shelvin Rock
We’d sing Hare Krishna
We’d play a song by God

12. Tomcat And A Dandy

Just in line with the song before, Tomcat and a Dandy starts with a Hare Krishna chant. The choir stays in the background and Childers is singing on top of it. The instrumentation in here is limited, the most prominent one is the fiddle. Finally, Kentucky country meets India – haven’t you ever dreamed of that mash-up?

13. Dirty Ought Trill

The 54 minute Snipe Hunter closes with country rock – and without religious references. The song, however, keeps a certain chant-alike style. Tyler Childers farewells from the listener with virtuosity.

 

Tyler Childers – Snipe Hunter – Spotify

Here is the album on Spotify:

 

Tyler Childers – Snipe Hunter – My View

An artist is doing his thing – that’s how I would sum up Snippe Hunter. Tyler Childers released a hilarious album, which is daring to go for different topics and sounds. Here and there, the album might confuse you, but if you take it as it is, it is really entertaining. Thus, I really like it.

Favorite Song: Bitin’ List

 

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