In addition to the options listed below, country-music fans might want to wander on in to Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill, Harrah's, 3475 Las Vegas Blvd. S. (tel. 702/369-5084), not for the grill part -- the food is definitely on the overpriced and unexceptional side -- but for the bar portion of the program, with live entertainment Wednesday through Sunday from 9pm to 2am. The eponymous owner has been known to drop in and play from time to time.
Note: As far as a dress code is concerned, you are going to go farther with more obviously expensive clothes, but you may not have the budget or fashion sense for that (and who travels with really good clothes, anyway?). When in doubt, all black should do it, and showing skin helps. Otherwise, just dress as nicely as you can. But do avoid sports team-affiliated jerseys and baseball hats, baggy pants, and other things that might fall under the heading "gangsta-wear" because that's one sure way of not getting past the velvet rope.
