G arth Brooks’ addition to the Broadway celebrity bar scene is one of the more recent ones. Taking over the beloved old ...

The superstar admits Friends in Low Places is too nice to be called a dive: "Ain't no honky-tonk I was raised in looks like this!" Nancy Kruh is a Nashville-based writer-reporter for PEOPLE.

SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood used their own funds to finance a police substation next to his Nashville bar, Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk ...