Places · Music venue
Fox & Locke
The store Jack Fox and Martin Locke opened in 1947 and moved into this building in 1955, Puckett's Grocery from 1960 to 2022, and since then a meat-and-three, grill and music room under its founders' names again. Bands play Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights, and the Thursday open mic draws songwriters out from Nashville.
The facts
Where and what.
- What it is
- Music venue, listening room
- Town
- Leiper's Fork, Williamson County
- Website
- foxandlocke.com
- Phone
- 615-794-1308
- Hours
- Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesday, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
- What it costs
- Plates $12.99 to $16.99; sandwiches and burgers $7.99 to $15.99. Covers mostly $7 to $20; the weekend daytime music is free.
- Parking
- Its own lot, an overflow lot across the road by the creek (turn in from Floyd Road) and a field behind the building. It asks customers not to park in other businesses' lots.
- What is there
- A meat and one, two or three at $12.99 to $16.99: pulled pork every day, fried chicken on Wednesday and Sunday, meatloaf on Thursday, catfish on Friday and brisket on Saturday. The plates stop at 9 p.m.; the grill stays open until last call.
- Shows on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights, mostly $7 to $20 at the door, and free music on Saturday from noon to 3 and Sunday from noon to 6.
- The Thursday open mic, 6:30 to 9:30, $7 at the door. Players sign up by texting 615-802-8585 between 3 and 3:30 that afternoon, hear back by 4:30 and play two songs. Tables sell out, so buy one ahead.
- The Puckett brothers bought the store in 1960 for $9,300, stock included. Music started in 2002, and Aubrey Preston bought the place for more than $2 million in 2021, putting the founders' names back on it in February 2022.
- The 1956 building is one of the places the Leipers Fork Historic District took in when the National Register widened it in 2012.
- Neighborhood guide
- Leiper's Fork: where to live, what it costs, the trade-offs
- Sources
- Fox & Locke: contact, hours and parking
- Fox & Locke: food
- Fox & Locke: shows
- Fox & Locke: open mic
- Fox & Locke: free music
- Fox & Locke: the store's history
- Williamson Herald: Leiper's Fork Puckett's to restore Fox & Locke name (Feb. 28, 2022)
- Nashville Post: Leiper's Fork preservationist saves Puckett's Grocery (July 19, 2021)
- National Register nomination: Leipers Fork Historic District boundary increase (2012)
- State of Tennessee address locator: 4142 Old Hillsboro Rd
This month
The music schedule.
On the Frontline
Where we have written about it.
Nearby
Also in Leiper's Fork.
Lawnchair Theatre.
A screen and a lawn behind Leiper's Creek Gallery where the village brings its own chairs, for free summer movies and ForkFest. Who runs it is not published, and neither is the 2026 film schedule.
Leiper's Creek Gallery.
Lisa Fox's gallery of paintings by about 26 artists, 17 of them local, in a 1953 Gulf station on Old Hillsboro Road. It turned 25 this October, and the Lawnchair Theatre is out back.
Dwell and Den.
A woodland-themed shop in the old barn beside the Copper Fox Gallery: books on foraging and cooking, honey, skin care, vintage art prints and children's sweaters.
The Copper Fox Gallery.
Work by more than 90 craftspeople, most from Tennessee and the states around it: pottery, glass, wood, metal, jewelry, leather and furniture, in an 1889 house with a copper roof. John and Talbott Grimm have owned it since 2016; David and Lisa Fox opened it in 2012.
The Country Boy.
The diner Rosalie and Donley Mealer opened across the road from the grocery in 1968. It closed in 2022 when its septic system failed and reopened under Johnny Weber and Cam Harrington late in 2023, serving breakfast and lunch every day and dinner three nights, with the Tornado Room in the basement.
The Tornado Room.
A cocktail bar in the Country Boy's basement since 2024, down a stair on the outside of the building, with bourbon and rye, two free sets of music a night from Thursday to Saturday, and a fire pit out back.
Tennessee Turquoise Company.
Vintage silver and turquoise jewelry, most of it made by Native American artists and bought from dealers in the West, sold from a cabin that holds four customers at a time. Morgane Stapleton opened it in July 2019, and every sale supports the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center.
Patina Home & Garden.
Antiques, linens, home goods and garden things from the designer Brooke Giannetti and the architect Steve Giannetti, in the village's 1914 general store since October 2022. Fox and Locke opened their first store in this building in 1947.