Subscribe to Denverite’s newsletter here bit.ly/DailyDenverite.Come experience Nashville Broadway's Legends Corner, one of the best bars in downtown Nashville! With a full-service bar and live country music, we provide a great atmosphere for enjoying the best of Music City. Garcia can be reached via email at / adriandgarcia. It’s that there isn’t a lot of places for them to go.”īusiness & data reporter Adrian D. “It’s not that there isn’t a lot of country fans here. “Colorado is really in this purgatory, switching from live, big show to building up local bands,” Law said.
Some places like McCarthy’s Sports Bar & Grill in Aurora and The Tailgate Tavern in Parker are booking country acts, he said. He’s hoping that there are more opportunities for regional and local acts to play. Law was featured on the 2011 season of “ American Idol” and plays in bars across the state. … They’re buying seats,” said Denver country artist Richie Law. “There’s a big concert market here, and that’s really where the industry is going. Top grossing artists including Jason Aldean, Kenney Chesney and Florida Georgia Line scheduled stops in Denver in 2017. Garth Brooks had enough demand to put on an impressive nine shows at the Pepsi Center in 2015. The new iHeartMedia Denver station plans to go head to head with KYGO. The Bull just took over 106.7 KWBL FM, replacing the rock and roll station KBPI. Denver anticipates knowing more about whether the Stock Yard Inn and Saloon will be able to stay a part of Denver’s country music scene in coming months as negotiations to buy the land progress.Ĭity officials desire to keep the Stockyard Inn and Saloon isn’t the only positive sign for Denver’s country music scene. The city and county of Denver is looking to buy the land where the bar sits as part of its redevelopment of the complex. There’s been some uncertainty about whether the Stockyard Inn and Saloon would be able to stay at its longtime home in north Denver. The rest of the time it’s a lunch spot open Monday through Friday, said Dean Maus, owner of the saloon.
6-21 this year, there’s a live country band booked.ĭuring the stock show, Stockyard Inn is a cowboy bar. The former Old West Tavern sits in a building on the National Western Complex that was completed in 1919. You’d probably have no doubts about the country music scene in Denver if you walked into the Stockyard Inn and Saloon during the National Western Stock Show in January. It’s music of the man.”Ĭassie Gibbs (left) dances with Bob Gunning at the Stockyard Inn and Saloon on the National Western Stock Show, Jan. “But there was probably somebody 40 years ago my age that was saying the same thing about country music,” Hyatt said. As the boomers continue to step away from the bars, country music’s presence will likely further decline, Hyatt said. Similar fates were in store for other venues including Urban Cowgirl Saloon in Arvada, Cactus Moon bar in the Thornton and Zanza Bar - featured in the 1978 Clint Eastwood ape film “ Every Which Way but Loose” - in Aurora.Ĭountry music’s popularity dipped from its heyday and baby boomers stopped going out as much, which together spelled disaster for the local country music scene. Countryland in Commerce City also changed hands. Hyatt watched Ace’s Country take over the bar near the southeast corner of West 90th Avenue and Federal Boulevard and later close in the oughts. (Thomas Noel/Western History & Genealogy Dept./Denver Public Library/AUR-881) Neither were multiple calls and emails to the Grizzly Rose. “We seem to remember in our collective memory that it was simply being closed down due to a lack of business,” Parker added.Ī call to the owner of the Electric Cowboy was not returned. In fact, we don’t show a history of any violations at all,” said Westminster City Clerk Michelle Parker.
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“They were, in fact, not shut down, and their liquor license was never revoked due to violations. After about eight years, the Electric Cowboy shut its doors for the final time in 2015. The Electric Cowboy, about 10 miles west of Lower Downtown, offered a similar playlist to the Cowboy Lounge, playing hip-hop, rock and country to draw those in and around Westminster. The bar lasted for about five years at The Shops at Northfield Stapleton. In 2015, Denver lost Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill after the Phoenix-based country-themed chain folded. Other country bars in and around Denver have not been so fortunate. The Cowboy Lounge says it’s doing well and weekends are consistently busy. Line dancing on a Friday night at the Cowboy Lounge, Jan.
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