Nashville, The music city!!!

Nashville is even better than what I expected it to be and going there with Alex was a great idea! We left Thursday early in the morning. In our way there we stopped in Louisville, KY for lunch and got to Nashville right on time to start partying!! Every single bar in that city had a band playing and as much as I love live music that alone was enough to make it a great trip. The music was also really cool and in general the environment was awesome.


We bar hopped all night long, went to real fun bars like Tootsies (my favorite), with 2 different bands playing; one country and a rock one. And Robert’s western world where some guy taught me how to dance Honky Tonk, it was GREAT!!

On Friday we went to the Jack Daniel’s Distillery (the oldest in the country), which is in Lynchburg a very cute town about an hour south of Nashville.


The distillery is located in a dry County, meaning that even though they produce every single bottle of Jack that U might buy anywhere in the world, its illegal for them to buy alcohol in their own town. I thought that was hilarious!!


Coming back from Lynchburg we stopped to see the Parthenon; very impressive. And ended our day at the Blue Bird Cafe. A very especial and small “auditorium/bar”. Where they have more selected bands playing and the crowd doesn’t dance but remains silent and sitting listening to the music. We got there and that night’s concert was sold out since Monday. Some people that we met while waiting in line told us that the performer was Jeffrey Steele, the biggest songwriter in Nashville and who was VERY good.


With that information I couldn’t wait to see him, but they closed the door in front of us… I told the doorman (Charlie) that we drove from Chicago for the concert and we couldn’t go back without seeing him. Finally he agreed on letting us in, using the back door because the other people in line couldn’t see that we were going in and they weren’t. It was a funny process but totally worth it because the concert couldn’t have been better, the guy was absolutely awesome, he played for 4 hours straight. At the end we stayed until they closed the bar with the people working there who gave us tips of stuff to do the next day and where to get good coffee in town. I also got to throw some fire works.

On Saturday we went for breakfast at Dido, (Charlie’s excellent recommendation) in the Hillsboro Village, great area and a very unique shopping district. In the afternoon we visited the country Music Hall of Fame, pretty cool museum. I learned a lot, like that my favorite Johnny Cash song, The Gambler, was actually written by one of my mom’s favorite singers, Kenny Rogers. We also saw Elvis Presley’s gold-leaf covered Cadillac,, Bob Dylan’s autographed lyric sheets and a lot of other artists that I didn’t even know about.

At night we went to another great bar, the Full Moon Saloon where we saw the Travis Mann Band. Great performers! On Sunday we went to the farmers market and shopping for cowgirl boots for Alex and had a safe and easy trip back home.I really liked Nashville. Another city that confirms that I like the south better…