Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk Showcases Garth Brooks' Career Highlights In Stairway To Seven

Country music fans can experience Garth Brooks' meteoric rise to superstardom firsthand in the Stairway To Sevens at the Country Music Hall of Famer's Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk on Nashville's Lower Broadway.

Pegged to each of his seven CMA Entertainer of the Year wins, pictures of the singer's most significant career highlights adorn the 20-foot walls in the stairwells connecting each of the three floors and the expansive rooftop Oasis.

Stairway To Sevens begins with his first Entertainer of the Year win in 1991-1992, just two years after his debut single, "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)."

He earned the prestigious Entertainer of the Year honor again in 1997 and 1998 – on the heels of his infamous Central Park concert that attracted more than 1 million people. On Inside Studio G Monday night, Garth told fans about a never-before-seen photo of the Central Park crowd that he’s particularly excited to share in the space.

He stepped back from his music career in 2000 to focus on raising his daughters. In 2014, Garth mounted his full-scale comeback and picked up his fifth Entertainer of the Year win in 2016. Subsequent wins came in 2017 and 2019 – the last linked to his expansive, sold-out stadium tour that concluded in Dublin, Ireland, in 2022.

"You're finally going to see Mile High Stadium just packed with people," Garth says. "You're going to see Honky-Tonk U happening in the early '90s. You're going to see when we won our first Entertainer of the Year. You're going to see all seven eras in a timeline when we were lucky enough to win Entertainer of the Year."

Stairway to Sevens starts at the bar's ground floor with photos from 1991-92, and then as people climb the stairs, the years progress and patrons will see the crowds grow in size to correspond with his popularity.

"You'll start with a honky-tonk kind of tour that we won our first Entertainer of the Year for and go all the way up to the stadium tour where we won our last one," he says. "It's cool. It's all a dream. I wish I could articulate what you go through, but I just can't. It seems like such an impossibility and a dream at the same time."