Garth Brooks’ new Nashville bar and honky-tonk Friends in Low Places is opening this summer season — and the nation star is sharing that everybody is welcome… besides assholes.
During a panel dialog at Billboard Country Live, Brooks shared his ideas by alluding to a transphobic boycott of Bud Light, after the corporate enlisted transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney for a advertising and marketing marketing campaign.
“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,” Brooks mentioned about his new enterprise. “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 [are let] into this house, love one another. If you’re an asshole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”
In addition to some clients refusing to purchase Bud Light, quite a few bars have suspended their distribution of the beer. Musicians John Rich and Kid Rock, who each personal giant bars on Broadway in Nashville, have stopped promoting Bud Light.
The nation star has a protracted historical past of allyship with the LGBTQ group. In 1992, Brooks launched “We Shall Be Free,” a music condemning homophobia and racism.
“‘We Shall Be Free’ is definitely and easily the most controversial song I have ever done. A song of love, a song of tolerance from someone who claims not to be a prophet but just an ordinary man,” Brooks wrote on “The Chase” CD booklet. “I never thought there would be any problems with this song. Sometimes the roads we take do not turn out to be the roads we envisioned them to be. All I can say about ‘We Shall Be Free” is that I’ll stand by each line of this music so long as I stay. I’m very pleased with it.”
Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk is about to open later this summer season.
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