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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

A low-ball bid on a padlocked Mexican restaurant built a Nashville institution. 3rd and Lindsley, at the corner of 3rd Avenue South and Lindsley Avenue half a mile south of Broadway in SoBro, began in 1991 when Ron Brice and a friend won a silent state auction for the shuttered Jose's almost by accident - and, finding the place stocked and ready, opened a music club instead of flipping it. The Bobby Bradford Blues Band played the first night; the city's session players, sidemen and rising acts m...