An intimate look at the making of Snipe Hunter. Today, Tyler Childers is giving fans a detailed behind-the-scenes look at Grammy-nominated album, which is up for Best Contemporary Country Album at the 2026 Grammy Awards. He is also nominated for Best Country Song for “Bitin’ List,” Best Country Solo Performance for “Nose on the Grindstone,” and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Love Me Like You Used To Do” with Margo Price. Of course, the record was produced by Rick Rubin, a legendary producer who has worked with everyone from Beastie Boys and Run DMC to Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica, and he has a reputation for pushing artists well outside of their comfort zones and creating real magic. As was expected, they delivered something very unique and creatively different than anything Tyler has done before. And this look at their process is fascinating, which comes in the form of a 10-minute mini-documentary that features footage from throughout the recording process, as well as exclusive new commentary from Childers, producers Rick Rubin and Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn and mixing engineer Shawn Everett. It looks like they had cameras rolling for a lot of the process, so you see a ton of their recording process, which is fascinating because Rubin and Childers are generationally great creatives. To see them working together is utterly fascinating, and Tyler explained how he viewed this whole journey: “I was texting back and forth with Rick, just telling him about this trip that I took when I was 15 with my uncle to tour (Jack) Kerouac’s birthplace. There was a statue there that had a bunch of drawings on it, made to represent the melding of Kerouac’s biggest beliefs, his Catholic raising, and that’s really what I was trying to do with this album. How do I fold my catalog into itself? Make this snapshot of that blended oneness. Working with Rick, it just felt like going on a road trip with somebody who was just excited to be on the road trip. Didn’t really have any preconceived notions of where we were gonna stop, and was just as ready to hear about places that we should see along the way as much as much as he was excited to suggest things that we could do.” Rubin called it a “blessing” to work with an artist like Tyler: “I first heard him when he put out his first album, there was some energy in his voice that sounded so different than anyone else. And any opportunity to work with someone that great is a blessing. I would always ask him to either play it for me on guitar by himself, or to make just an acoustic demo of him playing the song so that we could hear the song without the interpretation of what the band, or any band, brings to it.” He says there were some songs that they would record every day for a week, then go back and listen to the different versions and pick the one that was “undeniable” in terms of being exactly what they were searching for: “There were some songs that we would do every day for, I don’t know, a week, and then listen to the differences between the different takes form day to day without even aiming for anything different. Just to see, energetically, what was different on that day. And then we’d just do performances until they sounded undeniable. All the records we make are merely reflections of who we are in that moment. If he was to make an album with these same songs in five years, it would probably be a very different album The approach tells you a lot about where they’re at in their trajectory.” It clearly worked for them, because they ended up with a fantastic album, and Tyler says it’s really the culmination of everything he’s been “hunting” for creatively: “You know, I’m still that same clubfoot kid at the dead end of a hall. How do you express that creativity sonically? It’s always been that snipe that I’ve been hunting for.” They recorded the album in Malibu and Hawaii, and you see some gorgeous scenery from that landscape as well, and you can watch the entire video here: Tyler will embark on a 2026 tour that kicks off in March in Europe. Tyler Childers 2026 Tour Dates March 3—Dublin, Ireland—3Arena March 6—Glasgow, U.K.—OVO Hydro March 8—Manchester, U.K.—AO Arena March 10—Brussels, Belgium—Ancienne Belgique March 13—Paris, France—Salle Pleyel March 15—Berlin, Germany—Uber Eats Music Hall March 17—Copenhagen, Denmark—K.B. Hallen March 21—Amsterdam, Netherlands—AFAS Live April 23—Dallas, TX—Dos Equis Pavilion* June 4—Birmingham, AL—The Coca-Cola Amphitheater~ June 5—Greenville, SC—Bon Secours Wellness Arena~ June 7—Lexington, KY—Railbird Festival June 10—Darien Center, NY—Darien Lake Amphitheater† June 11—Hershey, PA—Hersheypark Stadium† June 13—Columbus, OH—Buckeye Country Superfest July 9—St. Louis, MO—Hollywood Casino Amphitheater‡ July 12—Chicago, IL—Wrigley Field# July 14—Kansas City, MO —Morton Amphitheater§ July 15—Des Moines, IA—Casey’s Center§ July 18—Boulder, CO—Folsom Field# (presented by AEG) September 30—Sacramento, CA—Golden 1 Center§ October 2—Seattle, WA—Climate Pledge Arena§ October 3—Portland, OR—Moda Center‡ *with special guests TBA and Scott T. Smith ~with special guests Evan Honer and Scott T. Smith †with special guest Evan Honer ‡with special guests Wednesday and Scott T. 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