Nashville Tourist Bars, Including Tootsie’s and Kid Rock’s, Defy City Edict to Close
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variety.comDespite edicts from the city of Nashville to shut down over coronavirus concerns, some of the tourist-filled bars along the city’s perpetually packed Lower Broadway are defying the local government’s and many citizens’ call to close, conducting honky-tonk business as usual.
Steve Smith, the owner of nightspots like the venerated Tootsie’s and the controversial Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Steakhouse, issued a statement Sunday night declaring that Mayor John Smith did not have the authority to order his businesses shuttered.
And as of early Monday afternoon, clubs along Lower Broadway were still in full swing — and not just the ones owned by Smith — according to local news reports. “The music is still playing on lower Broadway,” reported
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