It's a must-stop bar, blasting country songs that needs to be a part of your bar crawl. Tootsie's World Famous Orchid Lounge is a Honky Tonk bar located in Nashville. Honky Tonk bar provides country music for entertainment to its patrons. The bar is saturated with the enchanting colour of purple, representing an orchid. Tootsie’s covers modern day country music and other popular Heavy Metal and Industrial. The top floor has an outdoor patio. From here you get an awesome 360 view of Downtown Nashville.

Originally named Mom's, Tootsie Bess bought the bar in 1960. It was changed to Tootsie’s Orchid lounge because of its purple colour. She was known to slip 5’s and 10’s into luckless writers’ pockets. She even had a cigar box full of IOU’s for the hungry writers and pickers.

You can't go home without having stopped in at this piece of music history. Notable works include:

• Memorabilia of the past and present individuals who have influenced country music.
• Plastered on the walls are pictures of publicity stills of the great, and the hopefuls.
• Pictures include the likes of Hank Williams Sr, Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson.

• It can get very crowded and very noisy.
• There is no bottled water or iced tea, so if you don't want alcohol you're stuck with soda.
• They have an outdoor seating but smoking is not allowed.
• You can park on the street.
• They accept all international cards.

• 5th Ave and Broadway Ave SB
• Bus: 1, 25, 34, 61

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