Re: Trip to Nashville
Winter has barely started.
Guitar show sounds fun.
When I went for first and only time 2or3years ago:
Carters was the best !
Gruhns was great too. I bought a baseball hat with their logo because I could afford it.
I got to play the open mic at Bluebird Cafe and, along with Carters, that was the highlight of the trip for me. (you have to phone in and be lucky to sign up). I bought a Bluebird Cafe coffee cup.
We stayed in a bed/breakfeast loft down town and like any big city parking was a pain. We had parking in a parking garage down the street. Panhandlers/homeless on the sidewalks.... One of the places we went to on Broadway had great and authentically good live music by some older players (some originals, some oldies done with creative leads). I think there was a small cover at the door there but not sure. It was one of the well known ones toward the end of the strip. It was at capacity with folks waiting in a line outside to get in but we beat the crowd. They looked like session guys that would have been known in the biz 30 years ago. All the other spots we hit were free and had cover bands type music that could have been heard anywhereville USA. They were good musicians delivering nothing special. Party band or pseudo country pop. On the main Broadway circuit, we ate at a 2or 3 story warehouse looking bbq tourist spot on the end by the water and the food there was actually pretty good for high volume type places like that. The band playing there was excellent...they covered all genres and even had some really good originals. ... We were there on a weekday night and Yep that whole street was a circus later that night right down to buses delivering hoards of drunk college kids to roam bar to bar. Id prob not want to be there on a weekend. There were some sketchy parts but safe enough on the main drag. I was glad to see it once. If I go again I will skip the main drag and target specific performers. But you should stagger through it once.
Last edited by Astro; Jan-05-2020 at 10:24am.
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