Country music superstar Blake Shelton‘s Ole Red restaurant and music venue is slated to open a location at the ICON Orlando 360 complex in Orlando, Florida! According to Attractions Magazine, construction will begin in 2019 and the establishment will open in the first half of 2020.
“We are delighted to expand the Ole Red dining and live country music experience to the top tourism destination in the country,” Colin Reed, chairman and chief executive officer of Ryman Hospitality Properties, shared. “The development site we have identified is in a prime entertainment zone that will put the Ole Red brand in front of more than 70 million people who visit Orlando each year.”
Ole Red Orlando is expected cover 15,000 square feet over two levels and will seat 500 guests. Current Ole Red locations can be found in Shelton’s adopted hometowns of Tishomingo, Oklahoma and Nashville, Tennessee. In spring 2019, Ole Red in Gatlinburg, Tennessee is set to open for business.
Here’s a little peek at what Ole Red Gatlinburg will look like…
“We’ve brought Ole Red to some of my favorite places, and I’m excited to have another spot for country music fans to have fun with their friends and family,” Shelton said in a press release. “I think it’s impossible to visit Orlando and not have a good time, and that’s why I know Ole Red is going to fit right in.”
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Watch Blake Shelton perform “Ol’ Red” live at Wildhorse Saloon below!
“Ol’ Red” Lyrics
Well I caught my wife with another man
And it cost me 99
On a prison farm In Georgia
Close to the Florida line
Well I’ve been here for two long years
I finally made the warden my friend
And so he sentenced me to a life of ease
Takin’ care of ol’ Red
Now ol’ Red he’s the damnedest dog
That I’ve ever seen
Got a nose that can smell a two day trail
He’s a four legged trackin’ machine
You can consider yourself mighty lucky to get past the gators in the quicksand fence
But all these years that I’ve been here ain’t nobody got past red
And the warden sang
Come on somebody why don’t you run
Ol’ Red’s itchin’ to have a little fun
Get my lantern get my gun
Red’ll have you treed ‘for the mornin’ comes
Well I payed off the guard
And I sent out a letter to my cousin up in Tennessee
And he brought down a blue tick hound she was pretty as she could be
Well they pinned her up in the swamplands
‘Bout a mile just south of the gate
And I’d take ol’ Red for his evenin’ runs
I’d just drop him off and wait
And the warden sang
Come on somebody why don’t you run
Ol’ Red’s itchin’ to have a little fun
Get my lantern get my gun
Red’ll have you treed ‘for the mornin’ comes
Now ol’ Red got real used to seein’ his lady every night
So I kept him away for three or four days
And waited ’til the time got right
Well I made my run in the evenin’ sun
And I smiled when I heard let red out
‘Cause I was headed north to Tennessee and ol’ Red was headed south
And the warden sang
Come on somebody why don’t you run
Ol’ Red’s itchin’ to have a little fun
Get my lantern get my gun
Red’ll have you treed ‘for the mornin’ comes
Now there’s red haired blue ticks
All in the south
Love got me in here
And love got me out
