Nashville bar owners stand down and agree to close after previously defying the mayor's orders to shut down in light of the coronavirus pandemic
But at least one well-known musician took issue with her and everyone else calling for the bars to shut down. Joshua Hedley, a singer-songwriter signed to Jack White’s Third Man label, tweeted in response to Morris: “Some of us aren’t millionaires. Some of us have to work down there for tips and have to pay bills.
Later that night, the Metro Board of Health met, as planned, and declared a public health emergency, discussing steps that would make the mayor’s recommendations enforceable, possibly within 24-48 hours. Beyond the expected mockery of the polio comparison, reactions from locals on Twitter to the defiance were predictably mixed, ranging from “Never go to Tootsies, Honky Tonk Central or Kid Rock’s BIg Ass bar in Nashville. They’d prefer to kill you or someone you love” to “I got the whole hood going to Tootsies tonight.”cases had been reported in Tennessee as of late Monday afternoon.
Smith is hardly an uncontroversial business owner in Nashville. The man who has been described as Kid Rock’s “best friend” had previously threatened to file a lawsuit against the city when Kid Rock was removed as grand marshal of a Christmas parade after swearing and making misogynistic comments about Joy Behar on a live “Fox & Friends” broadcast from his club.
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