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Kane Brown gets 23 stitches | Music City Minute

Jun 26, 2026, 10:56 AM

Kane Brown had a rough Tuesday. The 32-year-old country star was out golfing in Nashville when his own buddy hit a shot that caught him right in the head. The result? Twenty-three stitches and a concussion. Brown shared photos of the gnarly injury on Instagram, showing blood on his ear and a row of stitches, with the caption, “Just a scratch.” He followed that with another post saying, “They said it will prob get worse in the next 48 hours, but I’m alive and that’s all that matters. Holy crap.” His wife Katelyn added some context of her own, saying the ball hadn’t been losing momentum in the air he was standing right off the side of the shot. “It could have been so much worse,” she said. The injury forced Brown to miss his scheduled performance at Travis Kelce’s Tight Ends & Friends charity concert Tuesday night in Nashville, where Taylor Swift and Lainey Wilson ended up stealing the show. Former NFL player Will Compton broke the news to the crowd, joking, “He says concussion, the football guys probably don’t buy it.” Brown says he’s recovering and plans to be back on stage soon, just maybe not back on the golf course for a while.
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