NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The Broadway strip is getting a new bar, and this time it's a Nashville native taking its name!
Jelly Roll announced plans to open his own bar on Broadway called Jelly Roll's Goodnight Nashville.
"I'm announcing it now, right here," Jelly Roll said on the Joe Rogan podcast. "I am opening my bar on Broadway in Nashville Tennessee. Which is a real big deal. You've been to Broadway. It's all after country music stars. I'm the first Nashville native to get a bar."
He said the bar will have a back bar called Buddy's, named after his father.
"It was completely inspired from what you have done at Mitzi's," he said to Rogan. "Our rule is it's open to the public when it is, and it's not when it's not."
There is no word yet on timeline for opening or where on Broadway the bar will be.
For people of my generation, in our younger days we spent part of our weekends watching music shows like American Bandstand and Soul Train. That was before the age of music videos. Several years before Soul Train was syndicated out of Chicago, another syndicated R&B show was taped in Nashville at NewsChannel 5. Night Train aired in the 60s and included what may have been the first TV appearance for legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Forrest Sanders has another great look back at station history.
-Lelan Statom
