Jelly Roll announces plans to open its own bar on Broadway in Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) – The Broadway Strip is getting a new bar, and this time it's a Nashville native bar that bears her name!

Jelly Roll announced plans to open its own bar on Broadway called Jelly Roll's Goodnight Nashville.

“I’m announcing it here now,” Jelly Roll said on the Joe Rogan podcast. “I'm opening my bar on Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee. This is a really big deal. They were on Broadway. It's all about country stars. I’m the first Nashville native to get a bar.”

He said the bar will have a back bar called Buddy's, named after his father.

“It was completely inspired by what you did with Mitzi,” he told Rogan. “Our rule is that it is open to the public when it is and not when it is not.”

There is no word yet on the opening timeline or location of the bar on Broadway.

As Channel 5 turns 70, we remember the 1960s RnB showcase Night Train

When I was younger, people of my generation spent part of their weekends watching music shows like American Bandstand and Soul Train. This was before the age of music videos. A few years before Soul Train was syndicated out of Chicago, another syndicated R&B show was taped in Nashville on NewsChannel 5. Night Train aired in the '60s and featured what may have been the first TV appearance of legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Forrest Sanders looks back at the station's history.

-Lelan Statom