Seven-time Grammy nominee Tyler Childers offers up a wandering troubadour's bounty of observations, lessons and musings he's collected, and threads them through his new album, Snipe Hunter, out today (July 25) on Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records.

Tyler Childers has always seemed comfortable in his contradictions. He’s an old-soul traditionalist whose throwback ballads regularly go TikTok viral; a recovering alcoholic who still releases some of the 21st century’s best drinking music; a stadium-sized star who hasn’t performed his most popular song in a half-decade.

Leave it to Childers to call upon such rural mischief as a means of reflection, both worldly and personal, Herald-Leader music columnist Walter Tunis writes.