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OCTOBER 2016 Volume 47 Number 10 Issue 560
News
Walt Trott in Nashville Duncan Warwick in London
Uptown , Downtown ...
Editor Duncan Warwick
Contributors David Allan , Janet Aspley , Donnie Ayers , Craig Baguley , Larry Delaney , Don Cusic , Julie Flaskett , Kelly Gregory , Michael Hingston , Spencer Leigh , John Lomax III , , Douglas McPherson , Stephen O ’ Hanlon , Rob Patterson , Roland Purdy , Adrian Peel , Paul Riley , Wayne Smart , Chris Smith , Danielle Smith , Alison Stokes , Tom Travis , Walt Trott
Photographers Helen Parish , Patricia Presley , Ian Tilbury , Barry Dixon , Billie McAleer
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Alan Jackson to open his Good Time Bar on Lower Broad
Alan Jackson ’ s still “ Chasin ’ That Neon his 2008 # 1 “ Good Time .” Incidentally , that ’ s Rainbow ” apparently , as he chose to ante up reportedly a new record price for purchasing $ 5.75 million for a three-storied , 6,000-square that size property in this touristy zone , which foot building on Lower Broad , currently housing he paid to previous owners Libbi and Robert The Wheel honky tonk , with an announced plan McCullough Lee . Among Jackson ’ s renovation to open his own AJ ’ s Good Time Bar by year ’ s plans are adding a rooftop patio and installing end . First off , A . J . will have the site renovated to an elevator . Reportedly , it ’ s not his first venture suit his taste , “ I always wanted to own a honkytonk that plays real country music on Broadway , in the Acme Feed & Seed , a combination
on Lower Broad , as he ’ s listed as a partner
that I could put my name on .” This one ’ s located restaurant-bar , complete with a stage on which at 421 Broadway , and will bear the name of we ’ ve watched Jackson perform .
Cardboard sign says Yard Sale
As part of her legal settlement with ex-hubby Narvel Blackstock , legendary Reba McEntire is selling her multi-million dollar mansion in Wilson County , boasting 83 acres of lakefront property , off Cherokee Dock Road near Lebanon , Tenn . She ’ s seeking $ 7.9 million for the she sold her Beverly Hills , Calif . mansion for site she dubbed Starstruck Farm . If interested , $ 22.25 million . Gee , I remember the song she there ’ s an eight-car garage , seven bedrooms , five was plugging during our 1985 interview , Have full bathrooms and two half-baths , a pool , guest I Got a Deal For You , a follow-up to her # 1 , house , tennis court , five-stall barn and equestrian Somebody Should Leave .” ( And it all came to site with 16 stalls , and so much more . Earlier , pass .)
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