Morgan Wallen is the latest country star to get his own Nashville bar. This Bar & Tennessee Kitchen opens Memorial Day Weekend at 107 4th Ave N (across the street and down the block from Ryman Auditorium), but it won’t feature Wallen’s name in lights outside. Local ABC affiliate News Channel 9 reports that while it was within regulations, Metro Council members voted no to the proposed neon sign for the establishment, with 30 members voting again and only 3 in favor.
The vote comes after Wallen was charged with disorderly conduct and three felony counts of reckless endangerment after being accused of throwing a chair off the sixth story of Eric Church’s honky tonk (previous controversies include the use of a racial slur). Metro Councilmember Jordan Huffman told News Channel 9, “He gives all of us a bad name. His comments are hateful, his actions are harmful and he don’t belong in this town as far as I’m concerned. I’m tired of this city bending over to just make anybody happy that makes a comment that they want to. We continue to go down this road.”
The bar is still set to open as planned (minus the sign) this weekend; Fox affiliate WZTV Nashville says the six-story, 30,000 square foot space will have three stages for live music, six bars, and an open-air rooftop.
Wallen, who released “I Had Some Help” with Post Malone earlier this month after debuting the song onstage at Stagecoach, is to appear in court in August over the reckless endangerment charges.
