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Thomas Rhett May Join Country Stars With Nashville Bars

Thomas Rhett has not put any plans in motion yet, but when asked about it, he says he would like to have a bar in Nashville someday. If he does…

Thomas Rhett May Join Country Stars With Nashville Bars
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Thomas Rhett has not put any plans in motion yet, but when asked about it, he says he would like to have a bar in Nashville someday. If he does decide to get some real estate on Lower Broadway, he will join country stars like Dierks Bentley, Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Garth Brooks, Florida Georgia Line, and more.

Thomas told us of the possibility of having his own bar, "Maybe. I think if I was ever gonna do somethin' like that, it would have to be a place that I would realistically go to. As a dad with four children, my going to Broadway days have come to a pretty bare minimum, if any. So, you know, if I did it, I would love to be able to create something super unique and something that's not already done."

He added, "A really cool vibe, a really neat atmosphere, more of like a singer-songwriter speakeasy place, but also a place that you could watch a football game, but also the food would have to be exceptional. So, I don't know. It'd be fun. It'd be worth the conversation for sure."

Rhett already has his own line of tequilas called Dos Primos.

Thomas recently told us that, like the many country stars who have become pilots, like Dierks Bentley, Tim McGraw, and Luke Bryan, he thought he would like to pilot his own plane. He did admit that he has reservations. He told us, "I could definitely see me still wantin' to do that. I have so many pilots in my family. My brother-in-law, Grayson, is a pilot, my father-in-law is a pilot, and a lot of my close friends are pilots. I think it would take a little more trust on my own end to trust that I could do it right. I'm not the most attention-to-detail person, and I feel like you really need to be detailed to be a pilot."

He added, "So, I don't know. Maybe I'll become a very detail-oriented person over the next five years and decide that getting my pilot's license is something I'd wanna do. If Dierks can do it, I can do it."

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.