A Nashville council voted overwhelmingly to deny Morgan Wallen's new bar a large sign in the Lower Broadway entertainment district.
Morgan Wallen will open his This Bar honky-tonk in Nashville without a sign hanging over the sidewalk after city council rejected the signage proposal.council voted overwhelmingly to deny a 20-foot sign bearing his name in the city’s famed Lower Broadway entertainment district. The sign was proposed to hang from the bar over the sidewalk below; the venue already has a sign affixed to the top of the building.
The country star’s “Morgan Wallen’s This Bar” — a bar and restaurant run by a third-party business but named after Wallen and his 2019 hit “This Bar” — is set to open this weekend on Fourth Avenue North, adjacent the Ryman Auditorium. However, the city’s council voted 30-3 to reject the establishment’s bid to construct the neon sign with Wallen’s name on it, citing both“I don’t want to see a billboard with the name of a person who’s throwing chairs off of balconies and who’s saying racial slurs and using the n-word,” council member Delishia Porterfield said at Tuesday’s hearing to vote on the matter.
“Mr. Wallen is a fellow East Tennessean. He gives all of us a bad name,” council member Jordan Huffman said However, after the sign was resoundingly rejected by the council, Kubin later, “I could not in good conscience let this one go through quietly. We are working hard on the safety and security downtown, and Morgan Wallen has continued to put others at risk. That said, I appreciate the restaurant group helping with these efforts.
A similar issue arose in 2019 when the Nashville council had to vote whether to approve signage for Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse, which — in addition to that singer’s checkered past — also featured a guitar shaped like buttocks.
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