This Is The Worst Part of These Bailey Zimmerman Felony Charges
We always knew Bailey Zimmerman was a douchebag that was looking to take after Morgan Wallen. Now he’s got the felony charges to prove it.
On Monday (6-22), it was revealed that Bailey Zimmerman has a warrant out for his arrest in New Mexico for numerous infractions. Zimmerman was scheduled to appear on May 27th at the Sandia Resort and Casino in Albuquerque, but ended up cancelling the appearance only 40 minutes before doors were set to open. According to the affidavit, Zimmerman was stumbling and acting belligerent during the sound check for the show, throwing microphones on the ground and knocking parts of the drum kit over.
Zimmerman allegedly stormed off stage multiple times before he left the resort’s amphitheater entirely and returned to the resort portion of the property. Then as he was leaving, he spit in the direction of one of the resort’s security officers, and complained the SUV he was being chauffeured in was white instead of black. By the time he made it to the resort, he was allegedly so sloshed, he lost his shoe, had an injured and bloody knee, and had to lean on someone to get down the hallway.
After the show got cancelled, the resort kicked Zimmerman out, but he refused to leave, and they ultimately had to call the police. When police arrived, Zimmerman finally got on a bus provided by the resort, and left the premises. But that’s not where the drama ended.
The next day when room service went to Baily Zimmerman’s room, they found it completely trashed. According to the resort, the damages total some $16,000, and include the TV, phone, coffee table, two chairs (along with two other chairs missing), a hole and other damage to walls, and stains in the carpet. Zimmerman also allegedly ran up a $400 bar tab, and never paid. When both the resort and police tried to contact Zimmerman and/or his management to resolve the matter privately, they didn’t respond. That is when charges were filed.
The official charges against Bailey Zimmerman are felony-level Criminal Damage to Property, as well as Falsely Obtaining Services for the bar tab, a misdemeanor. The State of New Mexico officially issued a warrant for Zimmerman’s arrest on June 18th.
Whenever an incident like this comes up with a modern-day country star, the peanut gallery immediately begins to pipe up about how “This is the first ‘country’ (or) ‘Outlaw’ thing he’s ever done” or “this ain’t nothin’ compared to Johnny Cash and ‘No Show’ George Jones.”
Two wrongs don’t make a right though, and it’s no longer the ’70s. And though folks love to misremember the past, nobody thought George Jones was being a “badass” when he was missing shows and being locked up in mental institutions at the time. “No Show Jones” was not a term of endearment, it was a warning to people to not buy tickets to his shows.
That brings us to perhaps the worst part of this Bailey Zimmerman incident. After all, nobody was hurt, a felony charge for trashing out a hotel room seems a bit steep (and will probably be plead down anyway), and no matter how terrible the music of Bailey Zimmerman is, you do hope the best for him as a person. You hope he gets his personal life and any addiction or mental health issues he might be suffering from in order.
But the worst part of this situation is that Bailey Zimmerman postponed multiple shows due to the incident, and one of the shows was postponed last minute under what many feel like now was a false pretense. 40 minutes before the show at the Sandia Resort, Zimmerman (or likely someone representing him) posted,
“Y’all know there’s nothing I love more than getting out on the road and playing these shows for you, so it’s so hard for me to have to say this, but I have to reschedule tonight’s (5/27) and Saturday’s (5/30) shows. I have not been feeling well and have tried to power through, but I’m not able to give you all the show you deserve. I hate letting y’all down and was really looking forward to these shows, but I gotta take care of myself so I can get back out there stronger.“
Sure, maybe Zimmerman saying he’d “not been feeling well” isn’t exactly a bold faced lie. But it’s also not exactly the truth either.
Ever since the pandemic, music show cancellations and postponements have been on the dramatic rise, including often for excuses of health-related issues. In some respects, it’s good that the music industry is no longer governed by “the show must go on” mentality that ultimately has resulted in many overdoses and deaths, and other catastrophic outcomes for performers pushed to the brink. But at the same time, it feels like the homeostasis that exists when artists also take responsibility for their actions, or try to be responsible to their fans and do every thing they can to be on stage is also not being honored.
Though there are many reasons ticket sales seem to be plummeting in the United States in the supposed “Blue Dot Fever” trend, one of them is due to so many events being cancelled, and last minute. While fewer shows are selling out, fans have the luxury of waiting until the last minute to purchase tickets, sometimes hoping for falling prices, or not having to deal with the refund process in the case of a cancellation.
One problem though is presales determine a lot when it comes to touring. If everyone is a walk-up customer, it makes tours look undersold, which can in turn create more cancellations. This is affecting artists from the arena and stadium level, all the way down to the listening room level. And even when performers say they’re “sick,” or their “van broke down,” the public has become increasingly distrusting, because sometimes the real reason is the performer went on a bender like Bailey Zimmerman, and couldn’t make the show, feigning illness to not face the public backlash.
But the truth often comes out. It has now for Bailey Zimmerman. And even though he deserves grace and forgiveness just like the rest of us, it’s easier to excuse the fall from grace from a daytime bender at a casino than it is the reason given about why the shows were postponed.
Trust between the music industry, touring artists, and the public is eroding. Ticketholders have been burned so many times, they’re becoming tiresome of the whole process during a time period where expendable income is drying up for many. That’s why it’s becoming easier and easier for consumers to choose to stay home, and harder for musicians to fill the requisite amount of seats to create profitable tours.
Performer River Shook just had to cancel the first two shows for their upcoming tour due to low ticket sales. “I could give you a bulls-it reason about my van breaking down or whatever, but I’m not going to start lying to y’all now,” River said in an Instagram post. “This is an industry wide problem right now. All kinds of artists at all different levels are having to cancel shows.”
Touring is especially difficult right now with elevated gas prices and everyone except those in the top tier of the economy struggling. But it’s only going to become more difficult if artists and the industry don’t start being honest and telling the truth to the public. That credibility is critical to the live music ecosystem continuing to function.
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June 23, 2026 @ 7:55 am
Just look at this a**hole.
June 23, 2026 @ 3:27 pm
He is not a ass hole
June 23, 2026 @ 7:57 am
He is not the first and will not be the last. He clearly has a problem. Not an excuse in the past or now. People pay a lot of money for tickets and that is only part of the cost for many. Travel and hotel costs are not always refundable. I know I have recently been caught by a cancellation. It does make one less willing to book in advance,
June 23, 2026 @ 8:05 am
Country fans are often from the country. That means travel expenses are often involved when they go to see artists in the big city. This means cancellations aren’t a zero sum game just because you get a refund.
June 23, 2026 @ 8:08 am
As usual, Trigger is spot on.
June 23, 2026 @ 8:14 am
LGBTQ acts will invariably have low ticket sales in more conservative regions.
River Shook, Sarah, or whatever “they” call themselves should consider sticking to “Pride” events where at least ticket sales are guaranteed, for now.
June 23, 2026 @ 9:09 am
If you think Nashville is a more “conservative region,” clearly you’ve never been there.
Did Post Malone and Jelly Roll have to cancel the first leg of their stadium tour because they’re LGBTQ?
June 23, 2026 @ 10:01 am
I am not speaking of democrat gentrified Nashville. Shook’s cancelled tour is largely off the beaten path in a lot of red regions where her activist politics isn’t especially welcome. Hence the low ticket sales.
But Sarah Shook has had low ticket sales for over a decade. Transitioning and becoming an “activist” will only drive them lower.
Maybe she can go on Hook.
You can give her the special golden patch and call it Shook on Hook.
June 23, 2026 @ 10:40 am
Shook didn’t cancel their tour. They cancelled the first two stops, one of which is Nashville, which completely undercuts your theory. So does the fact that Post Malone/Jelly Roll had to cancel. So does the fact that Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic is only sold 30%, even though Billy Strings sold out the local arena the last time he came through Austin, and twice.
River Shook is right, this is an industry problem. You can try to inject politics into this all you want, but it’s a red herring. A lot of people were asserting the reason the Post Malone/Jelly Roll run was cancelled is because they “code MAGA.”
The reason I featured River’s words is because unlike Baily Zimmerman, River didn’t lie. Joshua Ray Walker also had some really good posts talking about this issue of low ticket sales.
The entire point of this article was to highlight how distrust is eroding the entirety of the live music business. Who gives a shit who River wants to sleep with?
In a world of Bailey Zimmermans, be a River Shook. Or don’t, and watch the entire business model of live music implode.
I’d love to have River Shook on The Hook, because I don’t give a shit about anyone’s politics. Is their music good?
June 23, 2026 @ 11:30 am
I have tickets to see The Old 97s with River Shook opening in August. Really looking forward to seeing River live for the first time.
June 23, 2026 @ 12:26 pm
River Shook virtue signaled about not lying, which is more detestable than lying. The fact is they/them’s “non-binary” monotone crooning doesn’t cut it. They/them’s first album drops in three days, hence the virtue signal victim posturing.
If Willie Nelson suddenly came out in a dress as Willamena and sang in falsetto his ticket sales would go down.
You seem to want to blame a couple of random LGBTQs low ticket sales on Baily Zimmerman’s drinking problem and pretend that River Shook isn’t an activist for “Safe Spaces.”
What’s next, Gavin Adcock’s beer guzzling somehow caused JRW’s cancer?
It is not like LQBTQs don’t do their/them’s share of getting drunk and trashing hotels.
Come on Kyle, show us on the doll where Baily Zimmerman hurt you.
June 23, 2026 @ 12:42 pm
Big Jilm,
This is not an article about River Shook. It’s an article album Bailey Zimmerman, his dumb antics, how he basically lied to his fans to cover them up, and the implications this has on ALL artists. The only reason I mentioned River is because Shook had just addressed this issue in a post. I could have brought up Joshua Ray Walker. I could have brought up Cole Chaney. I could have brought up dozens of artists who are all dealing with these issues. It doesn’t matter who I brought up. It was a tiny part of the story, used as an example. The fact that you took naming this one artist as a dog whistle and that’s all you want to harp on really speaks to something deeper here.
If you don’t like River Shook or their politics or pronouns, then don’t listen. But River’s not trying to virtue signal any more than Post Malone when he postponed his shows.
June 28, 2026 @ 11:59 am
He have just been honest with his fans, like Eric Church. “Hey, sorry you 16,000 folks bought tickets, rented hotel rooms, had dinner and showed up at the venue, expecting a concert but….I have to cancel so I can go and watch a college basketball game ”
Still, both Zimmerman and Church are douchebags, in their own ways .
June 23, 2026 @ 12:13 pm
I live 40 mins south of Nashville in a very red city. There are pride events in the town park and No Kings protests (with 20 ish people) quite often and no one cares.
June 23, 2026 @ 2:01 pm
shitty bigoty, lgbt takes and thinks not lying is worse than lying. yup, we got ourselves a magat here.
June 23, 2026 @ 7:49 pm
“yup, we got ourselves a magat here.”
Yup, they’re almost as bad as you leftist kooks. 😂
June 23, 2026 @ 6:32 pm
Big Jism,
You spew mostly lame, low-level spunk and thoughts almost every time you post. You somehow make us all dumber and at the same time seem smarter by comparison.
Somewhere in there is some intelligence but you do a great job of obscuring it.
June 24, 2026 @ 7:20 am
“I am not speaking of democrat gentrified Nashville”
Spoken like someone NOT from Nashville.
You need to stop listening to the conservative voices you follow on X because they have it wrong too. They (and you) think that because Nashville is the home of country music, the city itself is conservative. This line of thinking didn’t occur until the early 2000s thanks to the Toby Keith/Dixie Chicks garbage.
Nashville hasn’t had a “Republican” mayor since the early 1960s.
June 25, 2026 @ 8:02 am
Big Jim needs to sit down and shut your mouth. So tired of ‘guys’ who are nothing but regurgitated, boring opinion. Take your political speak and go hit up the conservatives who can’t shut up. They’ll want to talk to you for hours about nothing – LGBTQIA+ can hear you mouth breathing from a mile away and aren’t interested.😆 😆 😆
June 23, 2026 @ 10:54 am
Hey, you’re a shitty person and I hope you have a bad day. It takes no effort to just not be an asshole, you actually had to choose to be a jerk.
June 23, 2026 @ 12:02 pm
I’m a talent buyer for venues on very conservative areas. Even our very out there conservative acts, acts that sold out their las time around, are not selling. This is something that is affecting the industry to its core and it does not show any signs of getting better at the economy continues to tank.
June 24, 2026 @ 7:24 am
Read a study the other day that those who are homophobic are more likely to be gay themselves, Big Jilm. It’s ok. Be who you are.
June 23, 2026 @ 8:15 am
I will say I saw him at the benefit concert for hurricane relief in North Carolina in 2024. Everyone I went with was shocked by how bad his performance was including our friends who like his kind of music. He definitely appeared messed up on something on stage a big part of why he was so bad. He was behaving in a bizarre manner.
June 23, 2026 @ 12:42 pm
Never seen him live, but the video from his live shows I’ve seen on YouTube have been spotty at best. There’s no doubt in my mind that he’s either doing an absurd number of studio takes to get his vocals right or is heavily processing them. Not a fan, though I admit finding a couple of his tunes catchy (Holy Smokes, Where It Ends).
June 23, 2026 @ 8:21 am
Could it be in the words from his song…this is where it ends?
June 23, 2026 @ 10:01 am
“Could it be in the words from his song…this is where it ends? ”
I’m sure he has a backup plan.
June 23, 2026 @ 8:24 am
Yeah I can understand being too drunk and tired to “lip-sync” with the pre-recorded tracks. It’s not like his current level of fame isn’t riding a brief high…
What I find absolutely hilarious is how Ella Langley has shown more outlaw clout than her peers by refusing live pitch correction. I don’t know why this clip of her talking about on Bobby Bones hasn’t gained more traction. She talks about how some other artist brought the point up to her about “tuning” her voice in live shows and taking them to the next level and how everyone does it (major artists), and she told that artist that she is refusing to “tune” her vocals live. Ok this isn’t Oliver Anthony who has always been an outsider saying this – Ella Langley said this.
June 23, 2026 @ 8:26 am
“After all, nobody was hurt, a felony charge for trashing out a hotel room seems a bit steep”
Stop, really.
NOT charging with a felony would be incredible lenient and indicative that this sort of behavior is tolerated.
He didn’t just trash a hotel room. He’s accused of being severely disorderly, even spitting at employees who were doing their jobs, walking out on bills, etc.
Whether the prosecutor should offer to plead it down to misdemeanors in a deal where Zimmerman agrees to meet a whole bunch of conditions; i.e. be put on probation, write apologize to all the victims, pay for all the damages that he caused, enter a treatment program; agree not to use drugs or alcohol for a period, face testing; agree not to commit any new crimes during the period, or it goes back to a felony–that’s for another day.
June 23, 2026 @ 8:58 am
Wasn’t aware there is a legal distintion between ‘disorderly’ and ‘severely disorderly’ lol… It’s true, no one was hurt. The only reason it’s a felony charge is because of the dollar amount of the damages. That cost is going to be covered anyway which is why the charges will be dropped completely. Spitting in the direction of someone is not any kind of crime. (spitting on someone isn’t felony assault) Would you want him arrested on a misdemeanour charge for sticking his tongue out at someone?
June 23, 2026 @ 9:14 am
If Bailey had spit on a security guard, I would be in favor of simple assault charges against him. But he didn’t, and that has nothing to do with the felony charge. And usually, simple assault charges are misdemeanors.
This might just be one of my pet issues, but I don’t see the point in charging people with felonies just to plead them down. This is what creates inequity in the system. Bailey can afford a big lawyer that can get the charges dropped. Someone who doesn’t have that often has to face the full charges and plead guilty.
Also important to note that it appears they didn’t want to charge Bailey Zimmerman at all. But when he and his management wouldn’t answer the police who just wanted him to pay his bar tab and compensate the hotel, it became a legal matter. Really bad ball drop by whoever is managing this artist.
June 23, 2026 @ 9:27 am
The legal system also treats regular people the same way if they don’t have a record. Even speaking anecdotally when I was 20 I was involved with a few friends in accidentally burning down a porto potty. I was the first person questioned by the police a week later and I was told they knocked it down from arson but because of the dollar amount it was considered class D criminal mischief. Because we paid person who owned the porto potty charges were never pursued even though the police department could have pursued charges on their own. The legal system is usually clogged up with other more important cases.
June 23, 2026 @ 12:14 pm
@strait–If you the burning of the porto potty was done accidentally (I take your word for that), then it seems you were factually innocent of arson. That’s a good reason not to charge you with that.
June 23, 2026 @ 2:09 pm
the statute of limitations has long since ran out on that story.
June 24, 2026 @ 3:59 pm
Brilliant last sentence. The legal system is…what? 🙂
June 24, 2026 @ 6:20 am
It’s just a dollar limit. In the same way that there’s a dollar limit where a misdemeanor theft becomes a felony theft (because we can all agree that stealing $1 and stealing $1 million should be treated differently), he did enough damage to cross whatever the limit is in that jurisdiction. It’s got nothing to do with pleading it down and everything to do with where that jurisdiction drew the line.
June 24, 2026 @ 6:41 am
I understand. It’s the same way weight creates drug charges “with the intent to distribute.” But it’s these kinds of mandatory charges that can wreck people’s lives permanently by making them convicted felons when in reality they were just having a really bad time of it.
June 23, 2026 @ 10:38 am
“After all, nobody was hurt, a felony charge for trashing out a hotel room seems a bit steep”
It’s also incredibly easy not to do those things
June 23, 2026 @ 11:03 am
Spitting on someone isnt a felony either.
June 23, 2026 @ 12:08 pm
@bde–Interesting theory: If you commit felony level property destruction and you also spit on someone, you should not be charged with a felony for the proprerty destruction because the spitting was not a felony.
June 23, 2026 @ 9:10 am
bAld faced. Not bold faced.
June 23, 2026 @ 9:11 am
I’ve heard the name but never seen him before today. Three key takeaways:
1. BZ looks like he once bought whippets off Craigslist, but was confused when the guy showed up with dogs.
2. BZ looks like the living embodiment of a “NO RAGERTS” tattoo.
3. BZ definitely has a vape pen with a picture of Death flipping the bird on it.
That’s it.
June 23, 2026 @ 9:14 am
Hey Trig,
are you absolutely sure the arrest warrant for Zimmermann wasn’t issued because of his incredibly bad music? That’s a far worse crime than thrashing a hotel room.
June 23, 2026 @ 9:27 am
I don’t see live music because the tickets cost too much, the concessions cost to much, and the experience is often as tedious as it is fun (parking, lines, time between sets, etc.). It’s far more surprising to me that they sell as many tickets as they do.
June 23, 2026 @ 2:01 pm
Same here. Add to it the absolute horrible behavior of drunks I will only attend limited venues in my old age.
June 23, 2026 @ 6:28 pm
Yep…Heart of the matter is that shows are ridiculously expensive and with other economic concerns, many of us don’t want to the ticket gouge game…
June 24, 2026 @ 10:39 am
What do you mean you don’t like sitting in the summer sun with no shade in a tiny metal chair touching elbows with drunk strangers for 6 hours drinking a warm $10 beer and eating a $12 hot dog? Have you ever waited in line to pee in a trough next to 5 other dudes? So fun!
June 23, 2026 @ 9:30 am
Baseball games are the same way.
June 23, 2026 @ 7:55 pm
Less Pride Month nonsense at the Shook concert than the ballgame as well.
June 23, 2026 @ 10:37 am
Wow. Waiting for Cody Johnson to head our way again. THIS won’t be happening, for sure.
June 23, 2026 @ 11:08 am
Free gen admission entry Friday at summerfest in Milwaukee before 3pm. Just buy lawn for Cody or wait til the last 45 minutes to get in free to the am fam amp. Then slide over to next stage to Marcus King, etc.
June 23, 2026 @ 2:14 pm
I’m old enough to remember when if you showed up between a certain time you could get your hand stamped and get free lawn seats at the Marcus.
June 23, 2026 @ 10:48 am
I don’t fully agree with the statement that everyone below the top tier struggling. I’m not in the top tier by any stretch, as are many people I know. It’s not about struggling, it’s about the ridiculous prices being charged for many events today, not only in music, but in things like professional sports as well.
I’m fortunate to live in a community *northeast Florida) that has multiple smaller venues (amphitheaters in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, and a couple of smaller local places). The folks booking these places try very hard to bring in quality acts and charge a reasonable price for tickets. But even those venues are forced to charge more due to the costs involved in live shows.
So my wife and I just have to be more judicious in who we go see. We *could* spend more, but we just don’t.
June 23, 2026 @ 6:34 pm
Yep…I could afford the ticket costs , I’m just not paying it…I live in an area where I can see great local music that is inexpensive and help those folks make a living…
June 23, 2026 @ 10:51 am
Talking about “the show must go on ethos” Whatever happened to putting on the show even though your ticket sales didn’t meet some metric or there weren’t as many people as you thought there was gonna be? Is there not a risk in any business venture? Isn’t that how people get better at their jobs, by coming up short and doing better next time? Even if you only sold 25% of the tickets and you’re losing money, people still paid to see you.
I wholeheartedly support better “working conditions” for the artists, roadies, etc. but it seems like all concessions lately come at the expense of the fans.
June 23, 2026 @ 11:01 am
THIS.
June 23, 2026 @ 2:30 pm
I mean, at some point the economics just don’t work, right? Artists need to pay their band/crew. Venues need to pay their bills too. I have no idea where those lines are exactly, but if you can’t sell 25% it might not make sense to even open the doors. And going bankrupt is way worse for your career than skipping some shows.
June 23, 2026 @ 2:44 pm
I went to a Motley Crue concert in Knoxville in the early ’90s. There weren’t enough tickets sold to even fill half of Thompson-Boling Arena. No problem, they just moved the show to the Tennessee Theater in downtown Knoxville and presto, an almost filled hall.
Of course, it helps when the venue has a few different size places to go.
June 23, 2026 @ 10:56 am
As bad as it sounds, I need the full story.
I need to know what he was loaded on before I pass judgement. If it was a couple hundred worth of mango white claws that he thought he got comped at the resort bar as part of his rider, I’m leaning towards a max sentence.
Sounds like benzos, coke, and booze behavior though. He kinda looks the part too, if we’re being honest. Probably needs a solid 30 day dry out.
June 23, 2026 @ 11:40 am
Make it 300.
June 23, 2026 @ 11:37 am
The difference between now and the 70s is that the 70s actions are still coded as badass and part of country music lore because legends receive free passes.
June 23, 2026 @ 12:42 pm
You’re partly right, but I also think another impactful difference is that back then, the only way you ever knew about the bad behavior of those legends is if you happened to read the tabloids or music magazines. Now days, it’s all over the Internet and constantly screamed about in our endless information cycle
June 23, 2026 @ 11:40 am
Classy.
June 23, 2026 @ 12:52 pm
Bailey was a hair metal fan as a lad.Nuf sed.
June 23, 2026 @ 1:04 pm
Eric Church not showing for a paying audience, while choosing to chase the orange 🏀 ball instead, is equally affecting why people are overpaying for seats, then deciding they are not going to take chances on whether an “entertainer” decides to show.
June 23, 2026 @ 3:02 pm
I am from NC. No one knows the Duke/UNC rivalry like an NC native. I get why Church thought the final four matchup was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Having said that, he had a job to do and he cost a lot of people a lot of money. I lost a lot of respect for him over that.
June 23, 2026 @ 3:17 pm
: D Hey, Cee Cee!
Have lived in Shelbyville, (PPG Industries) Charlotte (Fed. Government) and we had our baby in Thomasville.
Understand the whole basketball thing, especially between Duke and UNC. Dear friend, Dave rec’d his Masters from Duke, and went on to head the University of Hawaii’s Dive program.
My parents loved basketball.
June 23, 2026 @ 5:32 pm
Currently in Selma, NC. I am a die hard Duke fan. Husband a die hard UNC fan. Anytime they play, that’s a big night for us. Still, if we had to work, we would.
June 23, 2026 @ 7:45 pm
: D You guys must go nuts during the Duke/UNC games!
How does it feel being almost smack dab (Raleigh/Durham) in the middle of Data Center land? (As if North Carolina isn’t hot & humid enough during the summer months)
Totally agree, what Church did is unconscionable
June 24, 2026 @ 1:58 pm
Sheesh. I wonder what you would say if Church REALLY did something that is unconsionable.
That was almost six years ago. I see Church still has a full touring schedule. Evidently, venues and fans have survived it.
June 25, 2026 @ 8:05 am
: D Seriously, Lucky?
What Church did was very irresponsible.
Not hating on the guy, but there is selfish, & then there is selfish.
Church knows it was wrong, and unconscionable.
Will not reply further on this topic, just putting in my two cents of how several musicians seem to feel that it is their due to behave irresponsibility.
June 23, 2026 @ 3:25 pm
Skipping your job just because you wanted to do something else that day… you’re out of business quickly.
We can only wish!
June 23, 2026 @ 1:11 pm
I enjoyed how the ‘Bailey Zimmerman Official Designated Semi-Sober Spokesperson’ threw a few “y’alls” into that laughable ‘ah jes need to git more healthier an’ ah’ll be back bigger ‘n’ better ‘n ever!’ “apology” to convince the fans he’s just a good old boy doing his best, like when your black lab eats an entire cheesecake and pukes all over the living room. What a farce.
June 24, 2026 @ 3:11 am
…it happens to the best of golden retrievers too, occasionally.
June 23, 2026 @ 2:17 pm
Careful. Baily Zimmerman could be the next Tod Snider.
Every situation is different.
Even Trigger might one day be found wandering the streets of Austin at dawn with one shoe missing and a dangerous medical issue affecting his behavior only to be sneered at by police and nurses as an addict.
June 23, 2026 @ 2:57 pm
Easy now, Big.
June 23, 2026 @ 3:22 pm
Wandering the streets at dawn, missing a shoe…
We’ve all been there.
June 26, 2026 @ 1:33 pm
Thanks to Sofus for a couple of good laughs today.
June 24, 2026 @ 3:05 am
More like the next Lil Peep…
June 23, 2026 @ 5:39 pm
I just realized that in Yiddish you can render his name as b’li zemer man, or literally man without melody. Zemer can also mean song, works either way.
Hope he gets himself to an AA meeting or on GLP-1’s soon.
Carry on.
June 23, 2026 @ 6:52 pm
I had that same level of drinking problem as a musician in my 20s. I was never spit at people and trash property level of an asshole, but either way I can tell you where that doesn’t lead – is to a long career as a professional musician… Where it does lead is to being signed and dropped three times…
June 23, 2026 @ 8:12 pm
No idea who this person is, but they obviously need some help.
June 24, 2026 @ 2:59 am
…how about some good ol’ christian – or jewish – slack for a young man (who most likely will not win a noble price in this lifetime) instead of applyin’ country’s sharia. mr. zimmerman has been working his ass off for the last four years or so in a business he hasn’t been quite prepared for. doing rather well, actually.
bar tap 400 dollar? if this was the mini bar’s, he may not even have had much more than a couple of shots and some peanuts.
his management though sucks completely for still not having been able to teach him that the drinking starts after the show – at least for the consummate pros. luke bryan down there in mexico last year may have seconded that pov too regarding young bailey. the golden country-boy’s-done-good-rule goes: fish, hunt, golf, drink. what’s not to understand in that order? on the other hand, music history is littered with people putting substances over stubstance.
June 24, 2026 @ 6:38 am
Nobody’s looking to cancel Bailey Zimmerman.
For sure the management sucks here. If they would have just answered phone calls and emails for the resort and paid the damage, the police would have never been involved, and none of us would have never even known about it. Pay the $400 tab at the least.
June 24, 2026 @ 8:21 am
You’re taking a strange–and elitist–attitude here:
Baily Zimmerman is a star, so if he does something bad, it’s up to his “management” to make it go away, until the next time.
I don’t know how big a star he is–I never heard of him before now–or if he has a crisis management team assigned to him, but whatever he did here is strictly on him–not on his anonymous “management” who failed to act as his fixers, if that’s one of their assigne roles..
June 24, 2026 @ 9:42 am
Both the resort and police attempted to contact Bailey Zimmerman’s management specifically to settle this matter privately for three weeks before putting out a warrant for his arrest, according to the affidavit. Bailey Zimmerman has multiple people working for him who their full-time jobs is to manage his affairs. He has a day-to-day, on site manager to do things like pay bar tabs and make sure he’s where he’s supposed to be at any given time. He has a manager who is supposed to manage his affairs. He has a publicist to make sure things like this don’t get out into the public, or manage them when they do. He pays these people. Taking the word of the police, if they just ignored repeated requests to pay the bar tab and property damage, that is totally on the management too. That doesn’t mean Bailey is ultimately still not at fault.
“strange–and elitist”? No, I just know how this business works, because I deal with publicists and managers every single day.
June 24, 2026 @ 3:53 am
You can’t hardly go to a live event anymore without doing 1 of 2 things: 1. Pay the ridiculous convenience fees on top of the already expensive tickets. Going to a ticket office used to offer relief from this, but it’s not a sure thing anymore that that’s even an option. 2. Paying absurdly more expensive tickets through parties who purchase large quantities and then prey on the gullible who will pay anything to see their favorite artist.
Until the ticketing issues are sorted out, I think attendance will only get worse. It might ultimately be a good thing if it’s temporary but forces needed fixes to happen.
Bailey Zimmerman won’t even be a footnote in country music history, so hopefully he gets his shit together personally before his time has passed.
June 24, 2026 @ 12:43 pm
He needs to change his name to Struggle Zimmerman.
June 24, 2026 @ 7:29 am
Look, some of us like – participating in or/and observing – Dionysian excess. Long may the vital spirit of the ‘Wild Man’ continue to vivify our world!
June 24, 2026 @ 9:44 am
“…and it’s no longer the ’70s. And though folks love to misremember the past, nobody thought George Jones was being a “badass” when he was missing shows and being locked up in mental institutions at the time. “No Show Jones” was not a term of endearment, it was a warning to people to not buy tickets to his shows.”
This paragraph – spot on. The 70s legendary lore of bad behavior.
June 24, 2026 @ 10:12 am
Bailey certainly isn’t Bobby’s grandson!!!!!!
June 24, 2026 @ 9:59 pm
1.- make this spoiled kid go clean up his mess and work to pay off the damage.
2.- I play music, but I have a job that keeps me afloat. Jobs are the original go fund me.
June 25, 2026 @ 8:16 am
No idea who they’re talking about and no idea why anyone would want to see this trash concert even on accident? This article is ridiculous
June 25, 2026 @ 8:47 am
So this article is “ridiculous” just because you can’t perceive why someone would like Bailey Zimmerman’s music? The two things seem to be completely autonomous.
June 25, 2026 @ 11:42 pm
Soooo, we’re not getting a “Top 1 Bailey Zimmerman Moments” list in 60 years?