Bobby Green's Dusty Roads Tavern

Described by Douglas Green, Ranger Doug of The Riders in the Sky, in a personal interview (Nov 3, 2022) with Jon Sewell:

DG: There was a horrible little dump down by where the stadium is now, called Bobby Green's Dusty Roads Tavern. And that was the home of jam sessions, bluegrass jam sessions. Roland [White] and Vic [Jordan, Bill Monroe's banjo player] and Paul Warren, Flatt and Scruggs’s long time fiddle player, was there almost every night, but he never played. He just sat at the bar and drank beer. (both laugh) Charlie Hardiman was -- he owned a furniture store. He played a lot. He was he was a good player and several other guys, you know, local guys. I can't think of anyone else right offhand, but Marshall Chapman came down there when she was going to Vanderbilt.

JS : Oh, wow. So was that I mean, would would people just come down to drink and maybe sit in on a song?

DG : Yeah, it was just. Yeah, it was just jam session, you know, you could play if you wanted to play and you could sit there and listen if you wanted to listen, or you could just sit at the bar and drink your beer. Bobby Green was this gruff old man. He was really a -- I mean, I was slightly more slim in those days. Well I was about the same weight I am now, but so I don't consider myself overweight. (laughs) Yeah, I was standing there one time. He came by and “Move your big fat ass” (both laughing), and had a big thing full of beer. Yeah, but yeah, a lot of music was played at Bobby Green's.