Yellowstone is back in full-swing, and we’re inching closer each week to finally knowing the fate of the Dutton Ranch.
Of course (spoiler alert), Kevin Costner’s character John Dutton, the patriarch of the show, died in the first episode, so we’re continuing to see the fallout from all of that.
And with the show in it’s final half of the series finale, many of the fan-favorite actors have been making the rounds doing press and hinting at a very exciting ending… we’ll see what happens, but during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last week, Luke Grimes (Kayce Dutton), told a wild story about one of his live shows that went awry.
He put out his debut self-titled country album March, and played some pretty big country festivals over the last year or two, including including Pilgrimage Festival, Under The Big Sky Festival and even Stagecoach.
And at one of them (he didn’t say which specifically), he got a taste of how unpredictable it can be to perform for a big audience at a live show…
“Yeah, so you know, of course you’re always thinking before you go onstage, like, what could happen wrong on the stage. And I’m kind of like, we’re playing this big festival huge crowd.
I’m looking around kind of making sure everybody’s vibing, having a good time, and I see this one section of the audience, they are all worried and they’re pointing at the ground and something is clearly wrong. So we stop the show, call for the medic, turns out a guy had a heart attack. Again from what I know everything‘s okay, so I’m not being an a**hole telling this story.
So they bring out an ambulance, they have to empty out this whole part of the crowd, it’s like 30 minutes that we walk off stage. And then they come up and they say, ‘You’ve got time for one more song,’ and I’m like, well I don’t really feel like playing music anymore, but okay.”
He decided to play one last song to give the rest of the crowd their money’s worth, even though it was a little strange and the mood had obviously shifted considering what had just happened.
Again, Luke reiterates that everything is okay now with the person who had the medical emergency, but he explained that he told his band they’d play their normal closer.
Well, clearly, none of them were thinking too hard about it in the context of that set, and Luke noticed his manager waving his hands trying to get his attention as they started the song to stop them… because it’s called “Ain’t Dead Yet.”
As you can imagine, they quickly pivoted…
“So I’m like, ‘Let’s just do the closer boys.’ We always close with the same song… cause I felt bad, I wanted to kind of give them their money’s worth. So we go out, and we’re about to start playing the closing song, and I see my manager out of the corner of my eye being like, ‘Nooo!’
The song that we always play at the end’s called ‘Ain’t Dead Yet.’ And none of us thought about it. So stupid… yeah, we pivoted.”
And that is why it’s important to have a smart manager, ladies and gentlemen.
You can watch him tell the story himself here, it’s pretty funny, and all is well that end’s well, so to speak:
“Ain’t Dead Yet”
