Ernest Tubb Record Shop sign 2025 by Andrea Behrends

The sign outside Ernest Tubb Record Shop

Iconic downtown retail business Ernest Tubb Record Shop has temporarily ceased operations.

In November, the storied Lower Broadway shop reopened its doors following a lengthy dormant period. The building — for which extensive renovation yielded a main-floor honky-tonk, a record store in the spirit of the original, a private event venue, a rooftop bar and a basement lounge — is now closed to the public once again as the retail store's management team changes.

Tusk Brothers — led by brothers Bryan Kenney and Jamie Kenney, whose other local businesses include Wedgewood-Houston’s Never Never and East Nashville’s Reunion Bar & Hotel — had assumed management of the revamped Ernest Tubb Record Shop. A post attributed to the brothers, in which they confirm the news, appeared on Instagram Friday morning.

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