Posty Goes Country, the long-awaited pivot from Post Malone, officially kicked off as the musician took the stage at Stagecoach 2024. The California country music festival welcomed the pop hitmaker on Saturday night for a set full of surprise covers.
Post Malone had a bevy of guests on tap, including Brad Paisley, who performed his own “I’m Gonna Miss Her” along with Vince Gill’s “One More Last Chance” and a set-closing rendition of Alan Jackson’s “Chattahoochee.”
Earlier in the set, Dwight Yoakam appeared alongside Malone to perform his “Little Ways” with the singer, and Sara Evans dropped by to sing her “Suds in the Bucket.” On his own, Malone delivered covers of Tyler Childers (a set-opening “Whitehouse Road”), Tim McGraw (“Don’t Take the Girl”), Randy Travis (“Three Wooden Crosses”), George Strait (“Check Yes or No”) the late Toby Keith (“Who’s Your Daddy?”) and more.
Malone did not perform any of his own originals during the Posty Goes Country set.
Ahead of the festival, Malone teased his forthcoming collaboration with Morgan Wallen, although the latter did not show up during Malone’s set. (Maybe Malone will show up during Wallen’s Sunday night headlining gig at Stagecoach?)
The duo’s first snippet arrived in March, with the second coming in hot on the eve of Stagecoach’s opening night. “It ain’t like I can make this kind of mess all by myself/Don’t act like you ain’t helped me pull that bottle off the shelf/Been deep in every weekend, if you couldn’t tell,” Malone sings in the upbeat country chorus. “They say teamwork makes the dream work/Hell, I had some help.”
In 2022, Malone told Howard Stern: “To be honest, there’s nothing stopping me from taking a camera or setting up in my studio in Utah and just recording a country album and putting it on fucking YouTube. Maybe I’ll face some repercussions afterward from the label and shit, but there’s nothing stopping me from doing that. I’m allowed to do that.”
The musician tested the waters of the genre with a few appearances alongside prominent country artists at events like the CMA Awards, as well as covers of country classics like Hank Williams’ “Honky Tonk Blues.” Malone also suited up for an appearance on “Levii’s Jeans,” a deep cut on Beyoncé’s new country-flipping album Cowboy Carter.
Something tells us his label can’t possibly be too upset about any of this.