Theater
The Bluebird Cafe
Ninety-seat listening room where songwriters trade original songs in a circle, facing each other.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville centers on the songwriters' circle known as the in-the-round, born here in nineteen eighty-five, and on an unsigned singer named Garth Brooks who kept turning up to it after a label had already passed on him. It also touches on Amy Kurland, who opened the place as a lunch spot in nineteen eighty-two, and on a teenage Taylor Swift who once sat in these same chairs. Listen for the hush the room still holds during a song.
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