The final week of 2024 brought a major victory for embattled country star Morgan Wallen. Back in June, the CMA Entertainer of the Year celebrated the grand opening of his new business, Morgan Wallen’s This Bar and Kitchen. However, he had to do so without its 20-foot nametag. Nashville council members overwhelmingly rejected a proposed sign for the outside of the venue, citing the “Cowgirls” singer’s “harmful actions.” Now, the sign is officially up after the council reversed its decision.
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Morgan Wallen Opened His Restaurant Last Spring
Last Friday (Dec. 27,) the official social media accounts for Morgan Wallen’s This Bar and Tennessee Kitchen shared a video of crews erecting the neon sign outside the Fourth Street building in downtown Nashville.
“In case y’all needed help finding yourselves in This Bar,” the caption read.
The news delighted many past and future patrons, who apparently were struggling to “find themselves” when visiting the venue. “You know how many times I passed it up and got lost cause there was no sign!” one TikTok user commented. “I felt like I was going crazy!”
Many Wallen fans felt it was “about time,” as the “Whiskey Glasses” singer has faced an uphill battle getting to this step.
What Took So Long?
Back in May, Nashville council members voted 30-3 to reject the sign in light of Morgan Wallen’s ongoing legal woes. A month earlier, police arrested the best-selling country artist for allegedly throwing a chair from the roof of Eric Church’s six-story bar, Chief’s.
“I don’t want to see a billboard up with the name of a person who’s throwing chairs off of balconies and who is saying racial slurs,” At-Large Council Member Delishia Porterfield said during that meeting, according to The Tennessean.
In a stunning reversal Dec. 17, the council voted 30-1—with six abstentions—to approve an aerial encroachment allowing This Bar to construct and install a 20-foot sign. Porterfield again voted to deny the request.
Five days earlier (Dec. 12,) Wallen pleaded “conditionally guilty” in court to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment. He must spend seven days in a DUI education center, and two years on supervised probation.
The “Lies Lies Lies” hitmaker initially faced three Class E felony counts of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon and one count of disorderly conduct, a Class C misdemeanor.
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