Kevin Costner & Modern West, "Tales from Yellowstone," came to Queen Creek on Sunday with a lot of local fanfare.
After Saturday's concert-filled day at the Good Life Festival on Schnepf Farms, Costner and his band took the stage at 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 7, the same evening his popular “Yellowstone” television show premiered its fourth season on the Paramount Network. "Yellowstone" features the Dutton family with Costner in the starring role as the tough, enduring patriarch, John Dutton, who owns the largest contiguous ranch in the USA.
A portion of the proceeds of Kevin Costner & Modern West, “Tales From Yellowstone,” benefited the Oliver Patch Project. Oliver Patch Project works to empower children with pediatric cancers through the power of patches to support their journey of treatment with positivity and accomplishment.
Costner, a two-time Academy Award-winning actor and later musician, took his band on the road, arriving at Schnepf Farms to perform songs written by Costner and co-writers, with special focus on performances of the latest album, Tales from Yellowstone. The band has played together since 2007 and this playlist, inspired by the character Costner plays on the show, was originally released in 2020. They’re finally touring with this musical lineup and Queen Creek made the tour.
Costner has said some of the album’s songs were inspired by his own life experiences and others are specifically inspired by Dutton, the TV character. In a recent story posted on WideOpenCountry.com, Costner shares that the album’s song “Won’t Stop Loving You” is about Dutton losing his wife.
“It begins to sum up how he (John Dutton) feels," Costner said about the song. "This man is about the land. And when you share the land with your partner, every place you ever go, you see her on it. He’s a man going forward, but you never forget the moment; it’s immovable. I didn’t have to look any further than my own life to find what was the strength of it for me.”
