Not content to rule the music domain, Garth Brooks and wife Trisha Yearwood created the Friends in Low Places bar in downtown Nashville. This series is the story of that bar's creation.
For a very basic overview, "Friends in Low Places" gives some Garth & Trisha context on the origins of the move into the hospitality business--then pretty quickly focuses on the bar's creation. We meet the project planners, the interior designers, the construction workers, and everyone in between needed to pull off this massive undertaking.
As always, Garth's emotion and inspiration is palpable here. He has a certain--and unique--"method to his madness" that has served him well his entire career, and he puts it to great use here. In what could have been a low-rent bar with his name pasted on it, he instead puts all of himself into the project--involved in seemingly every aspect! The designs represent motifs from his career/songs, the food is from Trisha's own kitchen, and the atmosphere is reminiscent of Garth's early career playing the Nashville honky-tonks.
If you are a fan of Garth/Trisha or country music as a whole, I don't see how you could not enjoy this documentary. It has certainly inspired me to get to Nashville sooner rather than later and Friends in Low Places will most certainly be my first stop!
