The truth comes out. The Yellowstone effect impacted many artists’ careers in the country realm, as creator Taylor Sheridan featured many up-and-coming country stars and highlighted some of his personal favorites on the show. While the show brought stars like Zach Bryan, Ryan Bingham, Uncle Lucius, Whitey Morgan and the 78’s, and more to our big screens, no one was hit harder with the Yellowstone effect than the East Texas Southern rockers, Whiskey Myers. The whole band made an appearance on Yellowstone to play the song in a bar while Rip and Beth dance in Season one, during episode four (one of the best scenes on the whole series, if we’re being honest). Right after that episode (called The Long Black Train if you want to go back and rewatch it now) aired in 2018, Whiskey Myers’ Mud record went #1 on the iTunes country chart and Top 20 on the all-genre chart, garnering them a swath of new fans from all over the country. Throughout the series, Whiskey Myers had several songs featured, including “Deep Down In The South,” “Headstone,” “Mud,” “Frogman,” and others. Frontman Cody Cannon told Whiskey Riff that they never could’ve imagined the impact it would have on their career from that point on: “It was pretty overwhelming, pretty life-changing. We never had the opportunity to have a platform to reach millions and millions of people at one time, you know? I mean, you have social media and stuff, but it’s just different to be on everybody’s TV at once. So we just never had that format, ever. And then to get the reaction that we had, it’s just humbling, and you’re honored to kinda get that.” However, blowing up was exactly the plan for the band… if they were being honest, they had an ulterior motive. Cody says they just thought they’d at least get to meet Kevin Costner… and that was reason enough to agree to do it when Taylor Sheridan gave him a call: “We didn’t go into to it, though, thinking anything, man, honestly. We just thought we were gonna get to meet Kevin Costner.” They decided to go for it after talking to creator Taylor Sheridan, and the rest, as they say, is history. Except for the fact they didn’t actually get to meet Kevin because he wasn’t on set the day they filmed their scene: “You know, Taylor Sheridan, I talked to him on the phone, and he kinda told me what the show was about and who was on it and stuff, and I was like, this sounds pretty cool. And then, you know, we were talking about it and we were like, let’s go do it, maybe we’ll get to meet Kevin… hey, he wasn’t even there, but it worked out really good.” Of course, timing is everything, and it all lined up perfectly when they agreed to do the episode: “It was a good career move, but we were just happy to be apart of it. It’s amazing that everybody kinda gravitated to it, it was just I guess the right moment, right show, right song, right band.” That about sums it up perfectly… Sadly, the men of Whiskey Myers never got to meet Kevin Costner, and he wasn’t even on set the day they shot their scene for Season 1, Episode 4. I think what happened to their careers after being featured in Yellowstone is far better than meeting Kevin Costner… And while you’re here, here’s the Yellowstone music video for “Stone”: The post Whiskey Myers Just Wanted To Meet Kevin Costner When They Agreed To Let Taylor Sheridan Feature Their Music In ‘Yellowstone’ first appeared on Whiskey Riff.