Founder and CEO of Icon Entertainment, Bill Miller, is once again included in the Nashville Business Journal’s annual Power 100 list. Named a trendsetter in Nashville, Miller is featured for his work in owning and operating many iconic downtown Nashville experiences including the Johnny Cash Museum, House of Cards, the Patsy Cline Museum, Johnny Cash’s Bar & BBQ, Nudie’s Honky Tonk, and much more. Known for being a crucial part of creating and kickstarting Nashville’s entertainment scene, Icon Entertainment has even bigger plans heading into 2023. See HERE for the full list.
This year, Bill Miller and Icon Entertainment announced their next Nashville experience in expanding the offerings within the historic Southern Turf Building, currently home to Icon’s Skull’s Rainbow Room. Sinatra Bar & Lounge, Southern Turf Lofts and Southern Turf Club are to be the next Nashville “must-sees” due to the Nashville frontrunner and visionary behind it all. Miller also announced the expansion of Icon Entertainment to take on its first venture outside of Downtown Nashville into East Nashville.
“For the last decade, Miller and Icon Entertainment have helped make Nashville an entertainment destination and show no indications of slowing down,” says Nashville Business Journal.
The Nashville Business Journal’s 2022 Power 100 list includes 100 of Nashville’s most influential and powerful people in the business community. As for the Trendsetter category, this includes those who have paved the way with creative and new ideas that have shaped Nashville into what it is today.
About Bill Miller
Bill Miller’s passion for music and history combined with his longtime friendship with the legendary Johnny Cash set the foundation for Miller’s latest chapter as one of Nashville’s most successful and visionary entrepreneurs. The California native’s potent combination of intuition and acumen fuel such thriving Nashville ventures as the Johnny Cash Museum, the Patsy Cline Museum, Nudie’s Honky Tonk and House of Cards, a unique upscale eatery featuring live magic. On his agenda are plans to bring Rat Pack era charm to Music City’s legendary Printers Alley with a new Sinatra-themed restaurant and offer luxury lofts and a members-only club to the landmark Southern Turf building, which is also home to Miller’s popular nightspot Skull’s Rainbow Room. “If I looked back and somebody had told me, you’re going to own numerous bars, restaurants and museums in downtown Nashville, I literally would have laughed because it’s nothing that we’ve had any training to do. It’s simply been shooting from the hip and creating compelling concepts,” says Miller, who currently calls Music City home. Indeed, Miller has come a long way from his rural California roots where he founded a real estate company and served three times as mayor of his hometown before launching the Odyssey Group, one of the largest dealers of historical documents and memorabilia in the country, selling everything from handwritten letters by George Washington to George Harrison’s Telecaster. It was his friendship with Cash that led him to Nashville where he currently has plans to open a neighborhood bar in East Nashville’s historic Southern Grist building. “I’m so grateful and feel so blessed because I don’t think I could have a better life than I do and it has to do with family and being able to expose people to experiences that are really fun and compelling,” Miller says. “I believe in destiny. I believe in God. I believe in God’s plan and unbeknownst to me, I think God’s plan was to have us do this.”
