Chris Young gave away another guitar, and it wasn’t cheap. Only a little while after donating a guitar to musician Sam Hayes, whose own guitar was badly damaged by an airline, Young has given away another one, this one to a young fan at one of his shows.

Last month, Young gave a generous tip while in North Carolina, to perform at the Carolina Country Music Festival, but his generosity didn’t end there, as he now reveals, for the first time.

“It’s me and then Lainey [Wilson], and that’s the end of the night,” Young recalls on the In The Blind podcast. “I just had like a crap week of stuff, just life stuff….I went out. I went and had lunch, had a couple of my friends with me. I was like, ‘I’m picking up the tab. Let’s go out and have some food.’ And everybody that came up was there for the show. I took a bunch of photos with people, and I tipped the staff – it’s been posted, so I don’t feel like I’m humble-bragging – I tipped them $2000. A bunch of people wrote articles on it, and I was like, ‘Well, that’s really cool that they. appreciated it.’ The bar posted something about it. They were like, ‘Thank you so much for coming in to the restaurant.'”

 

It was Young’s next act of generosity that he now says hardly anyone realized what happened, except for those on stage with him that night.

“I went out and had one of my favorite shows that I’ve done all year,” Young remembers. “The crowd was incredible. They were so good.”

Chris Young Gives Away A Guitar

The fact that the show was going so well was surprising even to Young, who was playing without his guitar player, Kevin, whose mother had just passed away.

“He’s my band leader for a reason,” Young shares. “And my guitar tech stepped up, knew the entire show, and is also a player. He goes, ‘Let me woodshed. I’ll take care of it.’ He had no rehearsals. He went out in front of 40,000 people and just crushed it. … You would have no idea that this guy didn’t play the show before, and he saved my band. So at the very end of the show, I see a little kid in the crowd. No one talked about this. They talked about the thing earlier where I tipped the servers. So I sign a guitar, and I give it to a little girl that’s in the crowd.

“I grab one of my guys and said, ‘Make sure to take her the case, because it’s got paperwork in it,'” he continues. “He was like, ‘What?’ I’m like, ‘I just gave her an $18,000 Masterbuilt Strat.”

The Fender guitar might not have been appreciated to anyone but a musician. But Young knows the value of the instrument, which is suprisingly why he was so excited to give it away.

“I don’t think anybody had any clue; I don’t think I’ve said it anywhere until right now, but I just signed it … That’s a really nice guitar,” Young reveals. “But I was having such a great time on stage, it was one of those moments when I was amped up, and I was just like, ‘You. I want you to remember this.'”

“Those moments don’t happen every night,” he adds.

Young’s I Didn’t Come Here To Leave album will be out on October 17. He will embark on his It Must Be Christmas Tour on November 20. Find all of his music and upcoming shows at ChrisYoungCountry.com.