Struggle Jennings brings Last Name to The Park 707 on Saturday, Nov. 14

Waylon Jennings' grandson plays Rapid City the night after Sioux Falls, touring a 2026 album built on family legacy and redemption.

There's a lot riding on a last name like Jennings, and Struggle Jennings has spent this year making a whole album about it. On Saturday, Nov. 14, he brings it to Rapid City.

Struggle Jennings plays The Park 707 in Rapid City on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. Tickets are through TicketWeb. It's the third stop of a quick Plains run, after Lincoln on Nov. 12 and Sioux Falls on Nov. 13, before he picks back up in Nashville on Dec. 17 and Flint and the Tri-Cities on Dec. 19.

The family connection is the starting point for most coverage of him. Saving Country Music introduced him years ago as the grandson of Waylon Jennings who turns Waylon songs into rap, which is about as compact a description of his music as you'll find: hip-hop built on outlaw-country roots.

This year's record leans all the way into that inheritance. *Last Name* is, as All Country News put it, a raw album confronting legacy and redemption. Saving Country Music's review noted that it came out independently, through his own Angels & Outlaws label, and called it a "Jelly Roll 2.0" album, comparing it to Jelly Roll's own faith-and-redemption turn. The same review observed that you really hadn't heard much about *Last Name* in the month after it came out, which is part of why a tour like this matters. For an independent record, the road is where it finds its audience.

His usual headline room is about 550 capacity, and that's the scale he works at best: big enough for a real crowd, close enough that the stories in the songs land. The Park 707 is set up for that kind of night. The complex on Mountain View Road includes a restaurant, a casino and 707 Nightlife, which KOTA described as a 6,000-square-foot event venue when it opened in Baken Park. That's the room where Saturday's show happens.

Why go? Because Struggle Jennings is one of the few artists who can draw a crowd from both sides of the country-rap line, and in Rapid City that's a lot of people. Fans who came up on Waylon will hear the lineage. Fans who came up on hip-hop will hear the bars. And everybody gets a Saturday night out in a room built for one.

A few practical notes: doors and set times aren't in the listing, so check the TicketWeb page before you go. It's a 7 p.m. start on a Saturday, which leaves room for dinner at the Park after. And with Sioux Falls the night before, anyone on the eastern side of the state who misses that show still has one more shot to catch him.

A last name like Jennings carries a lot, and he's made a whole album about it.

Saturday, Baken Park, a family story told loud. Worth the drive.

Sources: TicketWeb – Struggle Jennings at 707 Nightlife (ticketweb.com); Saving Country Music – Grandson 'Struggle' Turns Waylon Songs Into Rap (savingcountrymusic.com); All Country News – Struggle Jennings confronts legacy and redemption on raw new album 'Last Name' (allcountrynews.com); Saving Country Music – Album Review: Struggle Jennings, 'Last Name' (savingcountrymusic.com); KOTA – New restaurant in Baken Park adds to a one-stop mall (kotatv.com); JamBase listing (jambase.com)