Tim McGraw laughed off a hard onstage fall in Cincinnati after showing up nearly 45 minutes late to Thursday night’s show.
The country star, 59, tumbled backward while performing “I Like It, I Love It” midway through the concert at Riverbend Music Center when his cowboy boot snagged on the flooring. He quickly got back up and continued singing.
“Cincinnati, you started our weekend off on the right foot even if I couldn’t stay on mine,” McGraw quipped on Instagram Friday, sharing footage of the fall.
“We appreciate you coming out and singing along! Detroit, you’re up!”
McGraw first posted four shots from the concert before revealing the tumble in the fifth slide, which carried the voiceover, “Yup, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.” The clip then showed him losing his balance and toppling backward, flailing his arms before landing on his backside, then popping back up with a smile, still clutching the microphone.
The fall capped a rocky start to the evening. McGraw arrived onstage around 9:40 p.m., roughly 40 minutes after the scheduled start time, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“I made it!” he said when he finally appeared.
The “Live Like You Were Dying” singer apologized to the crowd and blamed the delay on travel and weather issues.
The tumble was not McGraw’s first onstage mishap. He collapsed from dehydration during a performance at the Country to Country festival in Dublin, Ireland in March 2018. He laughed off that incident at the time, sharing a photo of himself in scuba gear at the bottom of the ocean with the caption, “Hydrating.”
Earlier in the week, McGraw had honored the late Dolly Parton on social media. “She was an icon and showed us all what was possible, not only as a human but as an entertainer,” he wrote on Instagram.
“She was the blueprint, head and shoulders above anyone that came before her and all those of us that have come after.”
“Everything she did, she did it with kindness, grace and that famous wit and smile. It’s been hard to not be in tears all day. There will never be another Dolly Parton,” he added.
McGraw did not pay tribute to Parton during his Cincinnati concert.
McGraw’s next stop is Detroit.