John Foster performed a sold-out present at The Texas Membership in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, over the weekend, and shared footage of his pre-show hangs together with his band earlier than they took the stage. Because the American Idol runner-up famous in his caption, he wasn’t sporting his signature cowboy hat within the behind-the-scenes clip.
“Right here’s a uncommon glimpse of me and not using a hat on—I feel we’re all shut sufficient now that y’all are allowed to see that!” Foster captioned the publish. “This can be a clip of some jamming the band and I did earlier than our sold-out present at @thetexasclub. ‘Sing all night time lengthy’ is strictly what we did, and we had an absolute blast. Thanks, thanks, thanks!”
Foster at all times wears a cowboy hat when he’s performing. “My hat stays on at all times,” he beforehand advised The Advocate. “I don’t often put on it very a lot outdoors of the stage, however after I’m on stage, I’ve had that hat on for … gonna be three years in July. [For] each single efficiency and for just about each single efficiency, I’ve had that hat on since my very first gig. So there’s no method I can go on that stage with out it.”
Amid his American Idol journey earlier this yr, Foster took to TikTok to clarify why his hat is so particular to him. He acquired the cowboy hat at an vintage store in Gruene, Texas, after “[hitting his] head on one thing that was hanging.”
As Foster defined, “I pulled it down and it was this outdated cowboy hat. Conventional cowboy hats by no means actually look good on me, like, issues like this. It was in my thoughts that perhaps I wanted to put on a cowboy hat as a result of I used to be entering into nation music significantly. Quite a lot of my favorites wore cowboy hats, [like] George Strait, Alan Jackson, nevertheless it by no means actually seemed good on me.”
He determined to do that one on simply to see, and “lo-and-behold, I put it on, and it match,” he shared, including, “I used to be like, ‘Properly, this should be an indication to get this.’ I began sporting it at reveals and gigs and it seems to be beat up and stuff as a result of it’s performed many a gig.”