Nashville Off Broadway

“They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway They say there’s always magic in the air” The late, great George Benson sang those words about New York’s Broadway, but he could have just as well been singing about Nashville’s Broadway, the near one-mile stretch of neon-haloed honky tonks and tourist traps. Broadway has hosted such establishments since the 1930s when Jimmie Rodgers, “the father of country music,” started performing in bars off the banks of the Cumberland River.