Cold beer, good whiskey, the best chicken fried steak in town . . . and good country music.

James and Anneta White opened the Broken Spoke in 1964. Formore than fifty years, the Broken Spoke has served up, in the words of White’s well-worn opening speech, “. . . cold beer, good whiskey, the best chicken fried steak in town. . . and good country music.”White paid thirty-two dollars to his first opening act, D. G. Burrow and the WesternMelodies, back in 1964. Since then, the stage at the Spoke has hosted the likes of BobWills, Dolly Parton, Ernest Tubb, Ray Price, Marcia Ball, Pauline Reese, Roy Acuff, Kris Kristofferson, George Strait, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Asleep at the Wheel, and the late, great Kitty Wells. This place is a classic!The Whites still honor a promise made to Ernest Tubb years ago: they’re “keepin’ it country.