Get Morgan Wallen’s Piano to God’s Country

While performing his album I’m the Problem on his Still the Problem tour, Morgan Wallen is proving that he…wait for it…might have more problems! This time, the problem was with a malfunctioning piano, which unfortunately met its fate Friday night, face down onstage in Denver during Wallen’s encore. RIP.

Based on accounts from concertgoers via Rolling Stone, it appeared that Wallen was unable to hear his piano mid-“Sand in My Boots” (an actual name of one of his songs, believe it or not!). He continued the song a cappella, eventually walking back to the piano and flipping it over in a rage. Hey, it happens, Morgan. I, too, threw my LeapFrog Learn & Groove Jazzy Saxophone to the ground when it wasn’t working properly. Granted, I was a toddler, but still!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Not pictured: the poor sound guy who maybe or maybe isn’t going to get pushed after Wallen walks off stage.

Could a country singer flipping a piano be our 2026 equivalent of a rockstar smashing their guitar? Maybe, but the most likely possibility was that Wallen was frustrated and flipped (literally). After taking a gander at Wallen’s track record, outbursts like this do not raise either of my brows: In 2020, he was charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct at Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk, and last year he stormed offstage after his SNL debut, infamously declaring on his Instagram story, “Get me to god’s country.” 

Plus, in 2024, he was arrested for throwing a chair off the rooftop of a Nashville bar, and sentenced to two years’ probation. So yes, he does love throwing shit! And so did the crowd, apparently, who erupted in applause at the humiliating expense of the innocent(!) piano. Granted, public intoxication and disorderly conduct at Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk is expected—née encouraged—but try not to be a grown man still throwing things to the ground like a toddler.

More importantly, is the piano okay? Thanks to the internet, we have multiple angles of the piano as it flies to the ground, each more heartbreaking than the last. After being shoved to the ground, the piano was left there utterly humiliated, sitting lifeless on stage for the remainder of Wallen’s encore (And suffering the ultimate punishment: being forced to listen to even more of his discography).

Seeing this once-perfectly-good piano now deformed and deceased is too much to bear. Get this piano to God’s country.