Metro Councilmembers Voice Support for Preserving the Culture of Exit/In Talking with Councilmembers Taylor, Withers and Styles on why the venue is more than simply the building it s housed in Tweet
Historic marker outside Exit/InPhoto: Daniel Meigs
More than 4,300 donors have given more than $223,000 with individual donations from $5 to $5,000 to the GoFundMe campaign launched by Chris and Telisha Cobb to beef up the offer they hope to make to AJ Capital Partners. Their aim is to buy the property home to the historic venue Exit/In, where Chris Cobb has been booking shows since 2004. He became a part owner of the business a few years later with fellow Marathon Music Works co-founder Josh Billue. In 2019, the Cobbs and Billue amicably dissolved their partnership, leaving the Cobbs owners of Exit/In.
Metro Councilmembers Speak Up on Behalf of Exit/In See photos from Wednesday s press conference in support of preserving the 50-year-old venue, whose property is under contract Share
As a warm breeze blew down Elliston Place on Wednesday afternoon, the planned press conference in front of Exit/In became something of a late-pandemic block party. Several dozen masked folks standing about six feet apart bobbed and swayed to roots-rock outfit Matt Daughtry and Friends, who soul singer A.J. Eason recruited to play a few tunes to warm up the audience. Since March 2020, no one’s been able to see a show at either Exit/In or The End, the two venerable venues straddling the strip of Elliston that has for decades been known as the Rock Block, and which was recognized with a historical marker last summer. It’s a good bet that in the Before Times, more than a few in the crowd well, probably not the youngsters helping their parents chalk messages of support on the