Snipe Hunter: Tyler Childers

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Written By Maya Ekman

Snipe Hunter

Tyler Childers

While Tyler Childers’s past albums each tend to stick to one specific feel, Snipe Hunter is energetic and unexpected in both sound and lyric. The album has both pretty country ballads and quirky songs with surprising lyrics. “Eatin’ Big Time” and “Cuttin’ Teeth” are about money, hard work, and pride, but then comes “Oneida,” a sweet and blushing love song from a younger man to an older woman, and a rerecorded version of “Nose on the Grindstone,” which adds emotional instrumentals to one of Childers’s most beautiful and popular tracks. Snipe Hunter has some comedic songs too, though, like “Bitin’ List” and especially “Down Under,” about Australia’s variety of scary wildlife. Many of Snipe Hunter’s other songs include themes of Appalachian life or references to Childers’s past albums. Quirky songs might not be for everyone, but it’s clear that Snipe Hunter reflects a newfound freedom in Childers’s music.

-Maya Ekman

Maya Ekman

An aspiring writer and poet, Maya is in her fourth year of studying English at Lakehead University. When she’s not taking solo hikes or road trips or creating handmade beaded jewelry for her business, Sol Parlor, Maya can be found reading at Hazelwood Lake with her dog, Nilla.

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