Crystal Wise
Taylor Sheridan
Somewhere between a smoke-filled poker game and a sunrise on the Montana plains, Taylor Sheridan had an idea. Maybe it was a melody drifting from a guitar left leaning against the bunkhouse wall. Maybe it was the way a song could roll through the air, lifting a story higher. Either way, the man behind “Yellowstone,” “1883,” and “Landman” is throwing his own kind of hoedown — this time, for real.
It’s called “Bosque Ranch Live,” and it’s happening Sept. 13, deep in the heart of Weatherford. For one night, the sprawling, cinematic ranch that’s played backdrop to Sheridan’s frontier sagas will trade horses for harmonies. On the bill: Drayton Farley, Kaitlin Butts, and Jackson Dean — each of them already baptized in the “Yellowstone” universe. Their songs have played over cattle drives, drilling rigs, and quiet, whiskey-soaked moments of reckoning. Now, they’ll be front and center, in front of a real-deal crowd.
Sheridan, ever the storyteller, sees it as a natural evolution.
A “Yellowstone-style” concert isn’t exactly a stretch. Fans have watched as Lainey Wilson, Zach Bryan, Ryan Bingham, and Shane Smith and the Saints turned a barbecue into a honky-tonk stage. In fact, Jackson Dean’s “Don’t Come Lookin’” and Kaitlin Butts’ “How Long” already have their own place in the “Yellowstone” songbook. Drayton Farley’s “American Dream” even landed in a tense “Landman” sequence.
But this time, it’s not a scene. It’s a night under the Texas sky, where every note played will bounce off the same dirt that’s been kicked up by cowboys, film crews, and horses alike.
And just like a Sheridan script, there are levels to this experience. General admission is $500 — a ticket to the ride, a Bosque Ranch hat, and a front-row seat to something that’ll probably be talked about for years. But for the high rollers, there’s a $1,500 VIP package that gets you the kind of deal Rip Wheeler might consider a fair trade: a night at the ranch in your RV, three catered meals, ten drink tickets, and a take-home stash of Bosque Ranch memorabilia.
Only 500 tickets are up for grabs. That’s it. It’s an intimate invitation to step inside the world Sheridan has built — not just on-screen, but in the dirt, in the air, in the music.
“My career is built on the art of storytelling,” he told Billboard. “And nowhere is the storytelling tradition more alive than in country music. My hope is that Bosque Ranch Live is a space where these stories can come to life and sets the stage for more events like it to come.”
