Chris Young‘s generosity knows no limits. The Tennessee native just left a $2000 tip while at a Myrtle Beach bar, ahead of his performance.

According to The Sun News, Young visited 8th Avenue Tiki Bar and Grill, prior to performing at the Carolina Country Music Festival on Friday, June 6, where he was taking the stage right before headliner Lainey Wilson. Young racked up a $200 bill, which Young paid as he was leaving, adding a $2000 tip.

It was a pleasant surprise,” bartender Shawn Conklin says. “It kind of made the night.”

 

8th Avenue Tiki Bar & Grill shared a photo of Young visiting, captioning it with “When a country legend walks into your tiki bar… you pour the good stuff.Thanks for swingin’ by.”

8th Avenue Tiki Bar & Grill must be a popular place. Jelly Roll’s band visited visited one day later.

This isn’t Young’s only recent display of generosity. Last month, Young replaced a musician’s guitar after it was badly damaged by United Airlines. Nashville artist Sam Hayes lost his guitar when Young called him with a generous offer to buy him a brand-new one.

“He said, ‘Do you want an Epiphone or a Gibson?’” Haye tells WSMV. “And for those that don’t know, there’s a massive difference between the two price-wise. I laughed and he said, ‘No, I’m not kidding. Which one do you want?’”

For Young, it was just a chance to pay forward what someone had once done for him.

“A long time ago, when I was living in Texas, I had my guitar broken on a flight,” Young recalls. “I know what that feels like, so I was just trying to help out a friend. In the country music industry, we try to take care of each other. I hope one day someone else will repay in kindness after hearing about this.”

Hayes was touched, but perhaps not surprised, by Young’s gift.

“That just goes to show who Chris is, and how he understands just the whole community and what music is to the folks that do it for a job and a dream chase,” Hayes says.

Young is putting the finishing touches on his new album, his first on Black River Entertainment.

“I think this is really just about having a whole lot of freedom,” Young tells Audacy. “The ability to, if I wanna do a song where I’ve just got steel guitar all over it, that’s totally fine. If I want to do something where I’m standing in the studio with two of my good friends, stomping with a mic set up next to our feet to get part of a track that we want like a stomp clap thing, and all of us just like laughing, telling jokes and goofing off, that’s totally okay.”

“You get to just make art,” he adds. “It’s never perfect. It’s always abandoned, but you work as hard on it as you possibly can.”

The new record includes his hit single, “Til the Last One Dies.” Find all of Young’s music and upcoming shows at ChrisYoungCountry.com.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of the CMA