RUBY RAE’S YORK: THE COUNTRY BAR IN A 900-YEAR-OLD CHURCH
Ruby Rae’s founders Dean Saunders and Dan Cooke went to Nashville, fell for the Ryman Auditorium and came home with the idea of building something of their own around live Country music.
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GLASGOW’S GRAND OLE OPRY WAS HERE LONG BEFORE COUNTRY GOT COOL AGAIN
For more than 50 years, a club on Govan Road has been putting on live Country, filling dancefloors and giving Glasgow’s cowboys somewhere to go on a Saturday night. Wild Rose didn’t invent this world. It simply pointed a camera at it.
Lil’ Nashville Started in a Taxi. Then the Crowd Took Over.
A Nashville cab driver gave a British Country idea its name. A few years later, people at The Long Road were line dancing to Drake Milligan while Drake Milligan was playing outside. There’s probably something in that.
Cowboy & Co Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere
Cowboy & Co gives Blackpool a proper Country bar with free live music every weekend. But the story behind it goes much further back than Queen Street.
Old School BBQ Built a Little Piece of Country in Oldham
It started with a former steelworker, a £24,000 loan and an American school bus. Nearly a decade later, Old School BBQ has grown into a proper Country night out — brisket smoking, live music at weekends and enough Northern character to stop the whole thing feeling borrowed.