Imagine you’re driving down a rural two-lane road somewhere in the South, and you come upon a little beer joint. You pull over and go inside where there’s a band — three guitars, bass and drums and a couple of female backing vocalists — playing some dirt road blues. The mood is loose, the band is tight and the lead singer has a voice that sounds like he’s spent a lot of time traveling up-and-down dirt roads living and singing the blues. That’s the sound of High, Lonesome and Then Some., Todd Snider’s 15th studio album.

Produced by Aaron Lee Tasjan, Robbie Crowell, and Joe Bisirri, High, Lonesome and Then Some. is a stripped-down, juke-joint album of nine tracks, each of them steeped in the blues and loping along on what Todd calls a “slow choogle.” Listening to it slows your heart rate and makes you breathe more deeply; that was by design: “I wanted us to sound like we're so high that people think we should speed up,” Todd says of the recording process.

Tasjan, who modeled his early career on Snider’s, says he’s always wanted to learn Snider’s songwriting magic. “I thought that perhaps, getting to work with him on an album would be the perfect opportunity I'd been waiting on for 20 years to understand how he really does it. But do you know what I learned?” Tasjan says. “I learned that Todd Snider is a real, actual magician. And there would be no tricks. There was just Todd Snider and his real magic.”
Snider’s magic splits the album into two distinct parts: On side one, he’s pleading his case to someone for one more try, and to accompany him to Reno, Nevada — a trip that ultimately goes poorly. “It’s the idea of, ‘This is the life we’ve chosen, so let’s go out swinging,’” Snider says.

On side two, he shifts the perspective from himself to songs about the person he’s addressing, working through all kinds of baggage along the way. “I had a list of girls that I wanted to talk to,” he says matter-of-factly, “that I owed an explanation to.” Ultimately by album’s end, Snider finds someone new and essentially tells them, “Hey, this is who I am, and if you’re still up for it, let’s go.”

Released 10/17/25 through Aimless Records, High, Lonesome and Then Some. is available here now on Sea Glass colored vinyl LP and CD.

Preorders placed for local, event pickup are available as of Friday, October 17th, the day of our event with Todd Snider.

Event preorders for store pickup will be held for three months after the event date. Please pick up your copy of High, Lonesome and Then Some. no later than January 17th.