FORT WORTH, Texas — Billy Bob's Texas is getting some upgrades. And you were happy about it. Our story about the Fort Worth honkytonk's renovation plans – in particular the removal of those ...

Updated Aug. 12, 2020 to show official opening date of Aug. 13, 2020. Legendary honky-tonk Billy Bob’s Texas will reopen Aug. 13, with the understanding that it’s a restaurant and music venue ...

Billy Bob’s Texas in the Fort Worth Stockyards is the “world’s largest honky tonk.” Here are Star-Telegram archive photos going back 41 years.

FORT WORTH, Texas — For all of Billy Bob's Texas' legendary status and history, anyone who's seen a show at the Fort Worth honky-tonk likely knows one particular issue with the venue.

Billy Bob’s Texas has been in Fort Worth for over a century, first opening as an open-air barn for cattle in 1910. Over the years, the building was used for livestock events, ...

Willie Nelson’s handprints, a crinkled setlist from Sammy Kershaw and four decades of music history line the walls of Billy Bob’s Texas. The storied venue showed off recent renovations Feb. 29 ...

Dallas Mavericks President Donnie Nelson says he’s willing to make a bid to buy out the other investors in Billy Bob’s Texas, saying “this Hatfield-McCoy situation” over management of the ...

Opened in 1981, Billy Bob's is billed as "The World's Largest Honkey Tonk" spanning 127,000 square feet at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth, TX on January 12, 2012. (Alexandra Olivia/ Special ...

UPDATE: Director of Marketing for Billy Bob's sent CBS11 the following statement: There are few entertainment venues more iconic than Billy Bob's Texas. For more than 35 years Billy Bob's has ...

When Billy Bob’s Texas, the 40-year-old Fort Worth honky-tonk mecca, announced earlier this week that it was hosting a concert by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and enforcing Isbell’s Covid ...

Texas History Why Billy Bob’s, Texas’s Most Famous Honky-Tonk, Isn’t a True Honky-Tonk A brief history of one of our most beloved (and endangered) cultural institutions.

Billy Bob's opened in 1981, quickly branding itself as the world's biggest bar. Its capacity was 6,000 people, and on the first night it opened fire marshals stopped allowing people in when the ...