Please no…
This is no hate to Dasha and her dreams, but she’s the last person I’d want to see plastered on a bar sign on Broadway. It’s no secret that artist-owned bars are the big thing in Nashville, specifically on Broadway.
Alan Jackson, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, and Dierks Bentley have been in the game for a while, being some of the pioneers who put their names on bars in Nashville. But these days, it feels like everyone and their mother has a bar on Broadway. From Garth Brooks, Jelly Roll, Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs, Eric Church, the list goes on. And that doesn’t even touch on the artists like Riley Green who have bars in Midtown. The city is being overrun with bars by country artists, and while that’s a cool way to attract patrons, many of them start to blend together.
I think the market for artist bars has hit its cap, unless you can really find a way to set yourself apart from the others on Broadway. Eric Church’s bar Chief’s is one of the newer ones, and it truly seems to have Eric’s fingerprints all over it. Hell, he even shows up there on some nights. Plus, it has a ticketed venue space so it has definitely set itself apart in many aspects of the bar experience. However some bars, like the alleged Shania Twain concept, don’t even make it to market.
But that’s not going to stop young artists from dreaming of having your name on a bar someday, and Dasha is the most recent young person who shared how she hopes to reach that goal one day. While appearing on Harry Jowsey’s Boyfriend Material podcast, she informed the Queensland, Australia, native about how popular celebrity bars are.
Jowsey was shocked that this was such a phenomenon and asked Dasha if she hoped to have one of her own someday.
“I kind of want to open my bar, like there are no more line dancing bars. The last one, White Horse, just closed a couple of years ago. Isn’t that crazy? Well there’s one kind of… like twenty minutes outside of Nashville, but not on Broadway. But I need to open one on Broadway.
But first, I have like way more of a following in Europe, and like New Zealand and Australia. Shout out to the people. So I want to open one in like, Germany or Sweden first and then open one in Nashville.”
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While I admire Dasha’s drive to open a bar elsewhere, I’m not convinced that Europeans are bucking to get a Broadway-like bar in their hometown? While there is a handful of country and/or western bars across Europe, I can’t imagine a 6-story Broadway bar in Berlin with neon lights plastered all over the place. A quiet little honky tonk with live music? That could be cool…
But as fans pointed out, the California native was a little off on her history of Nashville bars. The “White Horse” bar she was referring to was actually named “Wildhorse Saloon,” and it is now the location of Luke Combs’ Category 10 bar on 2nd Avenue. They still line dance there…
And the bar she crassly referenced being twenty minutes outside of Nashville is the Nashville Palace, and it is a legendary honky tonk… put some respect on the name, Dasha. Needless to say, the comments were rather unkind to these honky tonk dreams:
“Holy dude…. It’s WILDHORSE, and it didn’t close a couple of years ago, and it’s where Category 10 is now, and they still line dance.”
“Category 10… they literally line dance there all the time.”
“There’s still line dancing on 2nd Ave right off Broadway…”
“Nashville Palace has line dancing. Also, it was called Wildhorse.”
“Bruh, I hate to be that girl, but it’s Wildhorse Saloon, not white horse, and I’m pretty sure The Legion still does line dancing.”
“Not her hating on Nashville Palace.”
Fans were also quick to call her out for having one hit, “Austin,” and began commenting that she needs to have some more hits before she reaches that point.
“Sweetie, let’s get some more hits under our belt first besides ‘Austin.'”
“Doesn’t she only have one song?”
“Who is she?”
I don’t think Dasha was speaking this dream as if it was going to happen tomorrow, but perhaps further down the line, as her career develops. However, given the initial feedback, it does not sound like country fans would frequent a bar with her name on it in Nashville…
On second thought… yeah, go for Germany, see how that works out.
