Submit Malone‘s nation streak continues to be going sturdy. On Wednesday night time, the musician took the stage on the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville for a shock efficiency throughout radio and tv persona Bobby Bones’ annual Million Greenback Present live performance. His contribution to the country-centric set was an acoustic cowl of Hank Williams’ 1952 report “Honky Tonk Blues.”
“Nicely, I left my dwelling down on the agricultural route / I instructed my paw I’m going steppin’ out / And get the honky-tonk blues,” Malone sang, strumming the tune on guitar. His look rounded out the occasion which additionally featured performances from Bones’ band, the Raging Idiots, Sam Hunt, Jon Pardi, Megan Moroney, Nate Smith, Ian Munsick, Ben Rector, Mat Kearney, Edwin McCain, and Lauren Watkins.
The singer’s Submit Goes Nation marketing campaign started months in the past as he started to collaborate extra continuously with figures within the style, together with Hardy and Morgan Wallen, in a tribute efficiency to Joe Diffie on the 2023 CMA Awards. He additionally seems on Hixtape Vol. 3: Difftape, Hardy’s tribute album to Diffie. Up to now, he’s lined songs from Brad Paisley, Johnny Money, Sturgill Simpson, and extra.
Final week, Malone embraced the nation denim aesthetic as he appeared as a featured artist on “Levii’s Denims,” a deep minimize on Beyoncé’s country-driven new album Cowboy Carter. Within the coming weeks, he’ll seem alongside Taylor Swift on a tune titled “Fortnight” from her forthcoming album The Tortured Poet’s Division, out April 19.
“To be sincere, there’s nothing stopping me from taking a digital camera or establishing in my studio in Utah and simply recording a rustic album and placing it on fucking YouTube,” Malone instructed the Howard Stern Present in 2022. “Possibly I’ll face some repercussions afterwards from the label and shit, however there’s nothing stopping me from doing that. I’m allowed to try this.”
