Morgan Wallen returns to stage for first time since N-word scandal
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Morgan Wallen is getting back to work for the first time since January, when the bottom fell out on his career after video emerged of him using the N-word.
The 28-year-old country singer performed Wednesday night at Kid Rock’s honky tonk bar in Nashville, Tennessee, singing “Whiskey Glasses” and “Wasted on You” with the band, according to The Tennessean.
“Everyone was just floored,” Daniel Kensy, who happened to be at the bar, told the newspaper. “Morgan really wanted to be playing his music for the people. Definitely could sense it ... the overall feeling was tremendous.”
Wallen called the video, which emerged in February, a “drunken bender,” but said there are “no excuses to use this type of language, ever.”
“The video you saw was me on hour 72 of a 72-hour bender, and that’s not something I’m proud of,” he said in an apology video several days later.
“I let so many people down...I let my parents down and they’re the furthest thing from the person in that video. I let my son down, and I’m not OK with that.”
He dropped out of Luke Bryan’s Proud To Be Right Here tour, which was supposed to launch last summer, and several country music festivals.
His label, Big Loud Records, indefinitely suspended his contract, the Academy of Country Music and Billboard awards said he wasn’t eligible for their trophies and he was briefly banned from most radio stations.
