Lower Broadway has reached the point where explaining the celebrity bars can sound like reading a festival lineup.
Garth Brooks.
Blake Shelton.
Luke Bryan.
Dierks Bentley.
Jason Aldean.
Miranda Lambert.
Eric Church.
Morgan Wallen.
Lainey Wilson.
Post Malone.
Luke Combs.
Jon Bon Jovi.
Jelly Roll.
Kane Brown.
And that list will probably change again because Broadway apparently has not yet reached maximum celebrity density.
One important clarification first:
“Celebrity-owned bar” is useful visitor shorthand, but the actual business arrangements vary.
Some artists truly own the venue or building.
Some partner with hospitality companies.
Some co-create branded concepts operated by restaurant groups.
So rather than pretending every singer personally signs the beer invoices, I care more about the practical question:
Whose place is this supposed to be, and where is it?
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood: Friends in Low Places
411 Broadway
Friends in Low Places is Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood’s giant four-floor honky-tonk.
This is one of the clearer ownership cases. Strategic Hospitality operates the venue, while current company materials identify it as owned by Brooks and Yearwood.
The main floors lean into classic honky-tonk live music.
Trisha’s Southern-kitchen influence shapes the food.
The Oasis rooftop creates a completely different top-floor atmosphere.
If you want to see what happens when major artists build a modern Broadway venue around old honky-tonk ideas, this is a good example.
Blake Shelton: Ole Red
300 Broadway
Ole Red is the Broadway venue built around Blake Shelton’s brand.
Live music is central.
The restaurant runs throughout the day.
The Lookout rooftop adds another stage, food, drinks and DJ programming.
The important thing for a visitor is not parsing every line of the corporate structure.
It is knowing that Ole Red is the Blake Shelton venue and that it operates as a full Broadway restaurant, live-music bar and rooftop rather than a merchandise museum with beer.
Luke Bryan: Luke’s 32 Bridge
301 Broadway
Luke Bryan’s six-floor venue sits directly across the street from Ole Red.
Luke’s 32 Bridge has multiple stages, bars, dining and two rooftop patios.
The venue also shifts later at night, with DJ-driven nightlife on the rooftop side of the operation.
That makes it a classic example of the current Broadway model:
Country artist downstairs.
Nightclub energy upstairs.
Elevators doing heroic work in between.
Dierks Bentley: Whiskey Row
400 Broadway
Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row is his Lower Broadway gastropub/live-music concept.
It has food, multiple floors of live music and a rooftop overlooking the surrounding entertainment district.
Dierks has been unusually direct about the venue being his own Nashville hangout concept, and official Nashville material identifies him as owner of the Whiskey Row franchise.
Whiskey Row also carries more rock attitude than a strictly traditional-country honky-tonk.
Jason Aldean: Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Rooftop Bar
307 Broadway
Jason Aldean’s venue is part restaurant, part live-music venue and part large Broadway rooftop.
It is operated through TC Restaurant Group, which runs several artist-branded downtown concepts.
That partnership model is common.
The celebrity contributes the name, brand, creative direction and connection.
The hospitality company actually knows how to operate a building containing hundreds of tourists, multiple kitchens, several bars and the inevitable Saturday-night crisis.
Miranda Lambert: Casa Rosa
308 Broadway
Casa Rosa is Miranda Lambert’s Tex-Mex restaurant and cantina.
The concept brings a strong visual Miranda identity, live music, margaritas and Tex-Mex food into a multi-floor Broadway building.
It is another TC Restaurant Group partnership.
The venue is useful because it does not simply duplicate the food identity of every other celebrity bar.
If everybody in your group has eaten enough burgers and barbecue to begin developing opinions about buns, Casa Rosa gives you another direction.
Eric Church: Chief’s
200 Broadway
Chief’s is Eric Church’s six-story Broadway venue at the corner of Broadway and 2nd Avenue.
Church had direct involvement in the design and concept.
The building includes live music, a ticketed venue, broadcast space and a rooftop food partnership with pitmaster Rodney Scott.
Chief’s also emphasizes original music more heavily than the usual wall-to-wall cover-band model.
The structure around Chief’s is more ambitious than “singer licenses name to bar.”
It is meant as a broader extension of Church’s musical identity.
Morgan Wallen: This Bar & Tennessee Kitchen
107 4th Avenue North
Morgan Wallen’s This Bar is not physically on Broadway itself.
It sits just north of Broadway beside the Ryman area.
That distinction matters because people routinely call everything in the downtown entertainment district “a Broadway bar.”
This Bar is a six-story restaurant, bar and live-music venue created in partnership with TC Restaurant Group.
It is close enough that walking there from Lower Broadway is trivial.
It simply is not on the Broadway street frontage.
Lainey Wilson: Bell Bottoms Up
120 3rd Avenue South
Lainey Wilson’s Bell Bottoms Up is another venue just off Lower Broadway rather than directly on it.
The current concept includes two stages, multiple bars, Cajun-influenced food and a rooftop built around Wilson’s visual style.
It is operated and partnered through TC Restaurant Group.
Again, this is why “celebrity-owned Broadway bar” is useful shorthand but not precise real-estate language.
You can be part of the Broadway entertainment district without having a Broadway street address.
Post Malone: Posty’s
305 Broadway
Post Malone’s Posty’s opened in 2025.
The venue is enormous by Broadway standards, with multiple floors, bars and stages.
Post Malone partnered with TC Restaurant Group on the concept.
Posty’s is useful evidence that the celebrity-bar phenomenon is no longer strictly a country-music thing.
A rapper/pop/rock/country-collaborating artist now has a giant Lower Broadway venue.
At this point, Broadway’s genre boundaries are more theoretical than architectural.
Luke Combs: Category 10
120 2nd Avenue North
Luke Combs’ Category 10 occupies the former Wildhorse Saloon building.
The venue was co-created around Combs’ interests and music, with multiple distinct experiences:
Honky-tonk.
Hurricane Hall.
The Still.
5 Leaf Clover Sports.
The Eye rooftop.
Category 10 is not technically sitting on Broadway frontage, but it is immediately at the Broadway entertainment core and functionally part of the same night.
Jon Bon Jovi: JBJ’s Nashville
405 Broadway
JBJ’s puts Jon Bon Jovi directly into the Lower Broadway celebrity-bar lineup.
The building is large, multi-level and designed around live music and rooftop nightlife.
Its existence is another reason the phrase “country-star bar” no longer adequately describes Broadway.
You can walk from traditional country at Robert’s into a Bon Jovi-branded building in approximately the amount of time needed to cross the street badly.
Jelly Roll: Goodnight Nashville
209 Broadway
Goodnight Nashville is a four-story tribute to hometown artist Jelly Roll.
Live music, Southern-inspired food, a tattoo-driven design identity and a high rooftop all play into the concept.
Jelly Roll’s connection is particularly Nashville because he is not being imported onto Broadway as an outside celebrity brand.
He is a local artist whose story is deeply tied to the city itself.
Kane Brown: Kane Brown’s on Broadway
312 Broadway
Kane Brown’s on Broadway opened in May 2026.
Brown partnered with Elia Group on the four-level venue.
The building includes a main live-music stage, mezzanine, lounge level and Dusk rooftop.
Because it is one of Broadway’s newest major openings, this is a good place to see where the celebrity-bar formula is heading now rather than where it was five years ago.
What About Kid Rock, Alan Jackson and the Other Famous Names?
Broadway has additional artist-associated venues and legacy names, and the roster changes.
That is precisely why I would not build a Nashville trip around memorizing every celebrity logo currently hanging over a door.
The better approach is to understand the categories.
Some are small.
Some are giant.
Some are restaurant-focused.
Some are music-first.
Some feel like clubs after dark.
Some exist one block off Broadway while still being treated as part of the district.
New venues open.
Old concepts change.
The artist list is not the experience.
Which Celebrity Bar Should You Actually Visit?
For a classic honky-tonk interpretation at giant scale:
Friends in Low Places.
For food + music + rooftop:
Ole Red.
For massive multi-experience variety:
Category 10.
For original-music emphasis:
Chief’s.
For Tex-Mex:
Casa Rosa.
For rock-star branding:
JBJ’s.
For one of the newest additions:
Kane Brown’s on Broadway.
For the venue attached to the artist you actually care about:
That one.
Sometimes the obvious answer is allowed.
The Practical Answer
Do not confuse celebrity branding with a requirement to visit every celebrity bar.
Broadway is not a scavenger hunt.
Pick a few that genuinely interest you.
Then mix them with Robert’s, Layla’s, Tootsie’s, Acme and other places that are not built around a contemporary superstar name.
That gives you a better picture of Nashville than spending the entire night collecting artist logos.
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