Bluebird Cafe
The Bluebird Cafe is a dynamic 90-seat music club in Nashville, Tennessee that opened in 1982. The club is famous for intimate, acoustic music performed by its composers. Some performers are established singer/songwriters, and others perform hit songs written by other artists.
History
Founder Amy Kurland opened the doors of The Bluebird Cafe in June 1982 at 4104 Hillsboro Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. By that time, 4104 Hillsboro had already been home to a game room, a bar, a pizza parlor, a sewing machine store, a pharmacy, and Manookian Brothers Oriental Rugs. Kurland intended The Bluebird Cafe to be a gourmet restaurant in which patrons would have the opportunity to occasionally listen to live music while enjoying their meals. So, as somewhat of an afterthought, Kurland added a stage. That small stage would later host some of the world's biggest names and greatest songwriters.
As time passed, and more people began to discover The Bluebird Cafe, more and more songwriters and musicians began to pass through its doors. The occasional live music became a regular occurrence.
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by John Waite
Bluebird Cafe
by: John WaiteHer I.D., says she's 21
But she's just 17
Her apron says Mary
But her real name is Jean
She's working cleaning tables off
At the local Dairy Queen
And she's the real thing
Yeah
Young hearts can fly, restless and wild
Though it's a thousand days away
She's got the will and she'll find a way
To the stage of the Bluebird Cafe
To the stage of the Bluebird Cafe
She's got her boyfriends name
Carved in the back of her guitar
It's a beat up old Epiphone
With painted on stars
She wears her brother's 501's
And keeps her tips in a jar
By a picture of Patsy Cline
She's fine
Young hearts can fly, restless and wild
Though she'll get out of this town someday
She's got the will and she'll find a way
To the stage of the Bluebird Cafe
Yeah, to the stage of the Bluebird Cafe
She's into country, body and soul
But nobody's future is written in the stone
And to get what she wants
She's gonna have to walk alone
And she will all the way to Nashville
To Nashville, yeah yeah
She comes out of work some nights
Stops and stares down the road
Through the heat and the crickets
And the telegraph poles
Out in the darkness
Hank's Blue Highway calls
And she just stops and smiles
Yeah
Young hearts can fly, restless and wild
Though it's a thousand days away
She's got the will and she'll find a way, yeah
To the stage of the Bluebird Cafe
Yeah, to the stage of the Bluebird Cafe
She's got the will and she'll find a way
To the stage of the Bluebird Cafe