Garth Brooks’ Nashville Bar Will Serve “Every Brand of Beer”

Garth Brooks hosts at the 58th Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards in Frisco, Texas, U.S. May 11, 2023. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

If I was describing Garth Brooks’ personality, it would be “let’s all get along and be friends“.  But he DOES have a feisty side, and it came out during an interview with “Billboard Live”.

He was asked about his “Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk“, which will be opening soon in Nashville.  He started out as typical Garth.

Quote, “I know this sounds corny.  I want it to be the Chick-fil-A of honky-tonks.  [I] want it to be a place you feel safe in, I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another.”

Then the “defiant Garth” came out.  Quote, “And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer.  We just are.  It’s not our decision to make.  Our thing is this, if you come into this house, love one another. If you’re an [a**hole], there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.  [In] my existence, one [a**hole] can turn the whole tide down there.  My thing is, let’s create a place that you feel safe in.”

That’s an obvious reference to Kid Rock, John Rich, and other clubs and artists that are boycotting Anheuser-Busch.

The interview also featured good news for all the Chris Gaines fans out there.  You’ll be getting more music.  Eventually.  Quote, “The Gaines project was a lot of time put in . . . because it’s not natural, you’re acting on a record. But I want to do it simply for people who love the Gaines project.  And selfishly, I love the Chris Gaines record, so I want to do it for me.  It challenged me as a vocalist.  So I don’t know when we’re going to get to it, but it’s on the list.”

If you’re thinking, “Chris who?”, Garth once pretended to be an Australian rock artist named Chris Gaines.  There was an album released in 1999, which was supposed to be the soundtrack to a movie, but that movie was never filmed.

SOURCES: Billboard & Whiskey Riff