The Bluebird Turns 40
Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe’s Anniversary The Bluebird Cafe sign – Photo: LTTL The Bluebird Cafe – Photo: LTTL The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville TN Fortieth Anniversary We Look Back Nashville’s iconic The Bluebird Cafe is turning 40 and is celebrating with a special event this weekend – CHECK CALENDAR. We decided to look back at our own experiences – our last night of live music there in 2019 (link...
Music Row’s Hidden History
New book Nashville’s Music Row Hidden History of Music Row New Book Out Now Hidden History of Music Row is a new book which sets out to tell the full story of the fabled Music Row suburb of Music City Nashville (via Arcadia Publishing & The History Press). The book reportedly covers a wide, complex and colourful palette – an adulterous French fur trader, an adventurous antebellum widow, early Quonset hut recordings,...
Andy Ferrell – In Nashville TN and Boone NC
Read our review of Andy Ferrell’s album At Home and in Nashville Andy Ferrell – “At Home and In Nashville” Andy Ferrell was born in Boone, North Carolina and grew up in the heart of the magical Blue Ridge Mountains, the birthplace of Appalachian traditional music and the source of so much inspiration and spirit. A love of the work of Doc Watson, Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt (now there’s a...
Grant-Lee Phillips Enters The Narrows
Read our review of The Narrows by Grant-Lee Phillips Nashville Brings Out The Best In Grant-Lee Phillips New Album – The Narrows After being based in various California locations (Stockton, San Francisco and L.A.) for many years, singer/songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips moved to Nashville in 2013. He released eight full-albums before the move and now we have his first The Narrows (Yep Roc) from his time in Tennessee. From his press...