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