A Shoutout to JP’s Diner
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June 7, 2025
If you lived in Traverse City in the aughts and early 2010s—and you were hungry after 10pm—chances are, you made your way to JP’s Hard Luck Diner on Munson/E Front Street in Traverse City. (You’d never go hungry with the JP’s Mess!) Though the open-24-hours eatery has long been shuttered, it got new life when singer/songwriter Ryan Hurd (a Kalamazoo native who was married to superstar Maren Morris from 2018-2024) dropped a song in May titled “JP’s Hard Luck Diner, Permanently Closed.” While Hurd says he never actually visited JP’s, he saw it pop up on a Google search for restaurants with the label “permanently closed,” inspiring the song. “JP’s” is a new track on the deluxe edition of Hurd’s album Midwest Rock & Roll. Rock on, JP’s!
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