Todd Snider’s My Second Rodeo is out now. One more album. One more story. 💜
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Todd Snider's My Second Rodeo is out today, and friends, all of us at Aimless Inc. are a little amazed we get to share this with you. Where do we even begin? The beginning.
Todd saw Jerry Jeff play a Texas dance hall and that was it. That was the gig. He went at it barefoot the rest of his life, blowing the whole thing up every few years just to see if it was still him when the smoke cleared.
You see, our favorite folk hero never bought into the American Dream. He lived ours instead. The Americana Dream. The one where you freewheel and don't take yourself so seriously. Or at least that's what you let people think.
And last fall, he was at it again. Reinventing and rhyming. Ripping country apart and slapping it back together with horns, singers and juicy grooves around that unmistakable voice. He got it about seventy percent home and left a map that helped Joe Bisirri, Robbie Crowell and his ace band bring it the rest of the way.
Getting to put the whole thing in your hands now is a really strange and fuckin' cool gift to leave us. Because what you're about to hear... is what Todd wanted you to hear.
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Sending this one up to @BobWeir on his birthday. This is “I Need a Miracle” live from the Purple Building’s The Get Together, Episode 1 on January 3, 2021.
You were a miracle to us, Bobby. You are the music, the music never stops, and we’ll never find the right words, enough lyrical clichés or @BillyStrings licks to tell you what you mean to us.
We love you, Ace. You made records, and we made a life out of them.
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From all of us at Aimless, Inc.
“Nobody’s ever deserved there to be a heaven more than John Prine.” - Todd Snider
This is “Paradise,” live from the Purple Building’s First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder Sunday Service on October 25, 2020.
Happy 80th birthday, Handsome John, from your friends at Aimless Inc., where every day is John Prine Day - but especially (and officially) this one. 💜
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"Freewheelin' (Every Day at a Time)" begins with a man leaving home bound for glory. He climbs, crashes, gets lost and keeps going.
Along the way, people lose their shit, break out in fights and get high with friends. "Solid Country Gold" makes fun of country hits by being one. It gets people who can't agree on anything in the same room singing together. Nobody's changed their mind. They just agree on the chorus.
Elsewhere, the country can barely hold together long enough to mourn another shooting. The gap between rich and poor keeps widening, and people turn up at church to pray for protection. Protection from one another. Some of this will piss you off. As Todd wrote on another release day:
"i'm sure these bold statements will cost me record sales but some things are more important than record sales"
Then the title track puts a cowboy in a pickup listening to a country song about a cowboy in a pickup. And on the same record, Todd would like to know whether your monkey can do the splits, and whether you'll make him do it!
By "The Moon Tonight," we're looking up at the sky, watching people dance and spill their beer. All those troubles are still there, but fuck it. So is this beautiful evening.
On Sunday we'll shut the block down in East Nashville for Todd's 60th birthday, his jams and his friends and neighbors and whoever wanders up, horns out in the street, kids underfoot, beer in the sun, and a big green sign going up over all of us with his name on it.
Todd Snider Way. You spent your life leaving. Now you’ve got an address.
Today, we get to listen together. We've had our time with this record. Now you get yours. Find your song on it. Call somebody and say, "You've got to hear this part, this shit is about us!"
Play it loud for somebody you love. And if it makes you want to dance, for God's sake, dance.
Thank you for being here with us. With Todd.
Hold onto each other. And then let go.
Take it easy, but take it.
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Aimless, Inc.
P.S. Joe, Robbie, Aaron Lee, Brooke, Nikki, Alicia, Emmanuel, Roy: thank you. He trusted you, and he was right.
Listen to Todd Snider's My Second Rodeo.
toddsnider.net/mysecondrodeo
Some urgent news from the war room at Aimless, Inc. The Tennessean reports:
"A bustling street in the heart of East Nashville will be renamed in honor of Todd Snider, highlighting the impact of an enigmatic singer-songwriter..."
The facts, for those who prefer them: On Sunday, October 11, the block outside the Purple Building becomes Todd Snider Way. It would have been his 60th birthday. His last record will be two days old. His band and his friends will play in the street from 4 to 8 pm Central, and it won't cost you a thing, which is more than we can say for the record.
Signs are being made. The great unwashed are unwashing. We'll have rolled our joints on the head of a pin in a hurricane and smoked more of them by 9 a.m. than most people do all day, so who knows what'll happen by 4.
Story and party details down below. Please enjoy.
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Aimless, Inc.
Todd Snider - Freewheelin' (Every Day at a Time) 💜
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“I'm working on a song called Freewheelin' right now. I think I've only just been playing it the last few days. I’ve had it going for 15 years.”
Here’s TS at home, playing “Freewheelin’ (Every Day at a Time),” from his new album My Second Rodeo, out this Friday, October 9.
We’re grateful to get to share one more Todd Snider record with you.
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Aimless, Inc.
"Freewheelin' (Every Day at a Time)" is out now.
All of us at Aimless, Inc. want to send our hearts out to you for riding this wave with us.
toddsnider.net/freewheelin
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Aimless, Inc.
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Todd Snider Way rules. @ToddSnider
Todd Snider Is Getting A Street Named After Him For His 60th Birthday: liveforlivemusic.com/news/an…
Greetings from Aimless Television HQ. We may have let the morning get away from us.
Today we’re releasing a new Todd Snider song, premiering a film, turning on a television station, announcing a free block party and naming a street after your favorite Folk Hero.
Other than that, not a lot going on.
The stretch of 11th Street outside the Purple Building will become Todd Snider Way on October 11, the day Todd would have turned 60.
We’ll be out there that weekend for a free block party with Chicago Farmer, the Eastside Bulldogs and a whole lot of Todd’s favorite people.
Today, “Freewheelin’ (Every Day at a Time)” goes out into the world.
At high noon Central, its new film will premiere on Aimless Television. That’s Todd’s television station, inside Jon Griffin’s tree. The film plays first. Then the television keeps going through performances, stories, films, music videos and whatever else Aimless decides belongs on television that day.
You do not pick the next video. Aimless does.
Todd wanted his own TV station. Now he has one.
The door opens at noon Central.
Watch at toddsnider.net
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Aimless, Inc.
Film assembled by Alex Moura from years of footage by Joel Dean Roderick II and Stacie Huckeba, with material from the Aimless Archive and beyond. Artwork by Jon Griffin.
Greetings from Aimless, Inc. HQ.
We have been building a room inside Jon Griffin’s tree, just through the little purple door on Todd’s website. There is a television in there.
For over a decade, Todd wanted his own TV station, and he kept after us about how to make it happen. He spent years asking people to keep the cameras rolling and left behind enough footage to keep a station running for a very long time. Whole films and performances, music videos, and the misadventures of what he called “a flamboyantly fucked-up person,” told with perfect rhyme and timing.
Todd was already calling his broadcasts Aimless Television. We’re keeping the name until somebody comes up with a worse one. We think that television belongs inside Todd’s world. It is not YouTube. It is not another app. It is a television inside a tree.
Every visit will begin with the new “Freewheelin’ (Every Day at a Time)” film. The song begins with a man leaving home bound for glory and fighting his way “from just another likely story to a cautionary tale.” He climbs, crashes and sets out looking again.
In August 2025, Todd said the thing he was seeking didn’t exist. “But I guess seeking is fun.”
For the film, we’re going seeking with him. When it ends, the television will keep going. The channel can head off in different directions, running for hours and hours and hours. You do not pick the next video. Aimless does.
“Freewheelin’ (Every Day at a Time)” is out Wednesday, September 16. The door opens at high noon, Central Time. Todd will be on.
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-Aimless Inc.
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I played electric guitar on this new jam by my old running buddy.
My Second Rodeo. October 9.
This is a story about a man who told everybody he was looking for something that didn't exist.
"But I guess seeking is fun," he said.
Last September, Todd Snider went back to the Purple Building on 11th Street in East Nashville with an idea he could not shut up about. He called it the sound of country music 10 years from now. Country music pulled apart and put back together slow and swampy, with New Orleans horns on it. He believed in it so hard he was planning a double album.
And he cut it the old way. The stubborn way. Voice and guitar first, alone in the room. No click track. No band. The band came in later and had one instruction: follow him. Wherever the song swerved, whatever he did to the time — follow him.
October 1, in an email to his producer: "i honestly think we're doing something important that is going to affect this town for a long time."
October 9: "ive never been more excited about art i was working on."
A little over a month later he was gone.
But here's the thing about a man who insists on being recorded first. He was still there. On every song — his voice, his guitar, out front, leading. He'd left emails, voice memos, demos. A whole map. So his band went back into the Purple Building and did the only thing Todd ever asked of them.
They followed him.
The song where he found the sound is called "Solid Country Gold," and it's out today.
The album arrives October 9. The same day he wrote he'd never been more excited. Two days before his 60th birthday.
His last album. His second rodeo.
toddsnider.net
My Second Rodeo. October 9.
This is a story about a man who told everybody he was looking for something that didn't exist.
"But I guess seeking is fun," he said.
Last September, Todd Snider went back to the Purple Building on 11th Street in East Nashville with an idea he could not shut up about. He called it the sound of country music 10 years from now. Country music pulled apart and put back together slow and swampy, with New Orleans horns on it. He believed in it so hard he was planning a double album.
And he cut it the old way. The stubborn way. Voice and guitar first, alone in the room. No click track. No band. The band came in later and had one instruction: follow him. Wherever the song swerved, whatever he did to the time — follow him.
October 1, in an email to his producer: "i honestly think we're doing something important that is going to affect this town for a long time."
October 9: "ive never been more excited about art i was working on."
A little over a month later he was gone.
But here's the thing about a man who insists on being recorded first. He was still there. On every song — his voice, his guitar, out front, leading. He'd left emails, voice memos, demos. A whole map. So his band went back into the Purple Building and did the only thing Todd ever asked of them.
They followed him.
The song where he found the sound is called "Solid Country Gold," and it's out today.
The album arrives October 9. The same day he wrote he'd never been more excited. Two days before his 60th birthday.
His last album. His second rodeo.
toddsnider.net
Todd Snider's Best Of All My Songs 6LP Box (Purple Edition)
From Todd: "i consider this six album vinyl project to be the best record i've ever put out. its where i would suggest someone started listening if they'd never heard me before."
The original black pressing sold out fast and it's been the most requested item in Todd's catalog ever since, so we pressed 1,500 more.
Pre-order exclusively in the official TS Shop with shipments arriving June 26.
Pre Order: toddsnidershop.com/collectio…
