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416 Broadway · Lower Broadway · Nashville

The only original honky tonk in Nashville.

Traditional country music from 10am to 3am, every day, on a stage in the front window. Never a cover. Cold beer, a fried bologna sandwich, and boots on the wall.

Who's on right nowThe Recession Special
Checking the stage…
Stick with tradition

Who's on the stage right now.

Four sets a day and five on Sunday, on a little stage in the front window, so the band plays with Broadway glowing behind them. Pick a day.

TODAYFrom the October 2026 band schedule.
Bands change; check before you come.
10am–3amEvery single day
No coverEver. Tip the band.
All agesUntil 6pm, then 21+
A band playing on the stage at Robert's Western World, with a steel guitar on the left, under a wall of neon signs and a mural of country legends
The front window stage, on our visit. Steel on the left, the legends mural up top, and the Pabst sign that says Robert's on it. Photo: Worthy.

Mondays at 10:30pm: Joshua Hedley & the Hedliners, a Robert's regular since 2005. Wednesdays at 10:30pm: The Cowpokes. Friday and Saturday afternoons: JesseLee Jones & Brazilbilly, the house band since 1995.

Upstairs: the Sho-Bud balcony

Built in the Sho‑Bud building.

In the 1960s and '70s, Shot Jackson's Sho-Bud company built and sold pedal steel guitars right here. Robert's own history says Willie Nelson bought Trigger in this building in 1969.

The guitar on the neon sign still says Sho-Bud, and the balcony still carries the name. Sho-Bud is building steels again, too: Shot's grandchildren brought the name home in December 2024.

A 1970 Sho-Bud double-neck pedal steel guitar, the Baldwin Crossover, with card-suit fret markers
A 1970 Sho-Bud, the "Baldwin Crossover," made in Nashville. Photo: Dave Fey, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

The Recession Special.

A fried bologna sandwich piled high, a bag of chips, a MoonPie and an ice-cold PBR. Six dollars, every day, from the grill behind the bar.

01Fried bologna sandwichPiled high on white bread
02A bag of chips
03A MoonPieThe world-famous one
04An ice-cold PBR
$0.00
The best lunch on Broadway.
It started as a boot store

The boot wall.

Robert's still keeps the boots on the wall from its western-wear days. Here is how the building got from river warehouse to honky tonk.

    Inside Robert's: the boot shelf on the left wall, the Honky Tonk Grill neon, stained-glass lamps and the Sho-Bud Balcony sign
    The boot wall today. The boots on the left, the Honky Tonk Grill neon overhead, and the sign pointing up to the Sho-Bud Balcony. Photo: Worthy.
    The newest chapter

    416A, coming home.

    In August 2025, JesseLee and Emily Jones bought the building next door, the longtime home of Jack's Bar-B-Que. The plan is to reunite 416A and 416B, which were once joined by big archways. It's coming together in phases. Nothing has opened yet, and this is where fans would follow along.

    • Aug 5, 2025416A bought, about 5,000 square feet next door.
    • In progressPhased construction. A second stage is on the table.
    • Feb 2027Robert's first outpost, on the 300 level of the new Nissan Stadium.
    Follow the build
    Robert's Western World at night: the red brick building outlined in red neon, the giant boot, and the blue-outlined sign with the Sho-Bud guitar
    416 Broadway after dark. Photo: Worthy.
    Find us

    Look for the boot.

    416 BroadwayNashville, Tennessee 37203 · between 4th and 5th, across the alley from the Ryman Auditorium.

    Open10am–3am, every day
    CoverNever
    AgesAll ages until 6pm, 21+ after
    Directions ↗Shop the merch
    Red Boot tee$20–30 Fried bologna socks$30 Boot koozie$5 Brazilbilly on vinyl$20
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