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Goodnight Nashville to open on Broadway

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Nashville native Jelly Roll is checking off another item on the list of country music stars. He will open his own bar on Broadway, joining the likes of Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert.

The “Save Me” singer announced his new venture called Jelly Roll’s Goodnight Nashville while promoting the release of his new album “Beautifully Broken” on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that aired Friday.

“I’m announcing this right now, right here, that I’m opening my bar on Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee, which is really big,” Jelly Roll told Rogan. “You’ve been on Broadway. Everything’s after the country music stars. I’m the first Nashville native to own a bar, so like the first town kid to own a bar.”

Jelly Roll grew up in Southeast Nashville as Jason DeFord and graduated from Antioch High School, where he returned for the first time earlier this year to inspire students and reconnect with some of his old teachers.

The star has yet to release details on the exact location and opening schedule for Goodnight Nashville, but said it was inspired by Rogan’s comedy club in Austin, Texas.

Inside Rogan’s Comedy Mothership, which opened in 2023, is Mitzi’s Bar and Lounge. Rogan dedicated the space to “the godmother of standup comedy” Mitzi Shore, and Jelly Roll said he plans to have a similar concept dedicated to his own father on Goodnight Nashville.

“I have a back bar called Buddy’s, named after my late father, and it’s completely inspired by what you’ve done at Mitzi’s,” Jelly Roll told Rogan.

His father Horace “Buddy” DeFord passed away in 2019 after a battle with cancer. Jelly Roll said the bar will have a memorial chair for Buddy.

Although Goodnight Nashville will be fully open to the public, Jelly Roll said he plans to occasionally close Buddy’s for private celebrity events, including his own.

“It’s going to be like all of you where our rule is it’s open to the public when it’s open to the public, and when it’s not, it’s not,” Jelly Roll said.

He applauded Rogan for making Mitzi “a safe place to party.”

“That’s what Post Malone and I talk about when we’re drunk alone. We’re like, ‘We gotta go back to Austin and hang out.’ It’s like the safest bar in the world,” Jelly. Roll said. “It’s like I can say anything in here. I know I’m fine.”

Hadley Hitson covers business, restaurant and health care trends for The Tennessean. She can be reached at [email protected]. To support your work, subscribe to The Tennessean.

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