Best New Roots Music Venue: The Loveless Barn

Every Wednesday night for the past year, Music City Roots has been broadcast live from the Loveless Barn – behind the biscuit-making landmark the Loveless Café – on WSM.  Besides airing on the same station, there’s one other similarity to the Opry – Eddie Stubbs’ announcing.  Otherwise, the midweek show’s a different animal, more akin to what the Opry must’ve been like some 60 years ago.  The tickets are cheap, the atmosphere loose, the lineups interspersed with up-and-comers and veterans, and it’s truly an all-ages crowd.

Jewly Hight