LAKEVIEW chose to highlight two Nashville bars, The Fox Bar & Cocktail Club and Tin Roof 2. in their new video, “She Drove Me To the Bar,” as a way to pay back to those businesses, and others, who have helped them since they moved to Nashville. The duo, made up of Jesse Denaro and Luke Healy, spoke to both The Fox’s owner, Andrew Cook and Tin Roof 2’s owner, Kyle McPhee, sharing excerpts from their chat in the new video.

“Music City has had a rough few months,” the video begins. “Right before the devastation of the pandemic, Nashville was hit by deadly tornadoes. Most bars had been shut down for multiple months, struggling just to get by. Bars make up the fabric of Music City, and we wanted to shed some light on their resilience as a community.”

For LAKEVIEW, the chance to shine a light on the two local bars was an easy decision for them to make.

“If you’re a person who goes out on the weekends, you immediately feel that the lack of that access to be able to go out anymore,” Luke told Everything Nash. “You start realizing, ‘Wow, these people have a really important job for us.’ Maybe it goes unsaid a lot, but hopefully this video helps show people that we care, and show that awareness that they need to support these places as soon as we’re able to.”

LAKEVIEW felt a personal responsibility to help the bar owners, who have become friends, and in many ways family, to them since the duo moved from Pittsburgh to Nashville.

“We met a bunch of people through our label, and these people became my friends and kind of our Nashville liaison,” Jesse reflected. “We’re just two random guys from up north somewhere. Our friend Andrew owns the Fox Bar in East Nashville. He was the first guy to really introduce us to anybody and give us the time of day. I mean, he plays for Dan + Shay and owns a bar. He runs a full-fledged design company. I think the last thing he needs to do is help us out, and he did.”

With damages from both the tornado and COVID-19, LAKEVIEW wanted to do all they could to support local businesses.

“These people are losing money and possibly could lose their businesses,” Jesse acknowledged. “So the little platform that we do have,  we wanted to try to say thank you to our friends, and the people here in Nashville. Everybody’s giving us a shot for no reason, just because they thought what we created was good. We want to give them a platform to explain to people that the bars are an integral part of the fabric that is Nashville.

“Not only do you go there and get drunk and have a good time, but you go there and you meet friends that you’ll have the rest of your life,” he continued. “You go there when you get broken up with, and have somebody else out there to talk to. We wanted them to be able to tell their story and say, ‘All this stuff has happened, and these are the troubles, but this is how we’re overcoming it. This is how we’re still working hard every day to serve the local community right here in Nashville.'”