Day 13 - Monday, September 22
A very late start after the last e night on Sunday. Too late for breakfast at the hotel do we went to a place called 47 Union Café (at 47 Union Avenue - what are the chances ?) for brunch.A nice place with interesting civil war photos, paintings and maps on the walls.
Pam's meal came lukewarm so we sent it back - it came back about 5 minutes later still lukewarm. Not good. How hard can it be ?
After brunch we walked over to 4th Avenue and onto the pedestrian bridge which crosses the Cumberland River and affords great views back towards the city.
Nashville Skyline.
We walked through downtown to the Tennessee Capitol building......
and then onto Bicentennial Park where there is a full-size replica of the Parthenon built in the 1920s
and why not..........
We had dinner at Joe's Crab Shack off Broadway and then went to the Listening Room Café, which is a similar format to the Bluebird only quite a bit bigger.
The idea is that songwriters and would-be recording artists display their talents.
two young guys on first, alternating songs. It would have been better if they's taken their baseball caps off and their chewing gum out - but, hey, it's supposed to be informal.
The songs were OK but all seemed a bit angsty (is that a word ?).
Then a group of four two girls and two guys again taking turns. These were mainly even more angsty. Two songs from one of the guys stood out - one was called "Dixie Crystal" about kids in the south "either finding the road, finding god or finding Dixie Crystal (local-made methamphetamine and a pun on the name of a brand of sugar)".
Sadly, I can't remember what the other song was about.
An interesting place but on the night we were there there wasn't enough light and shade or humour or variety in the material. Great sound system though.
On to Roberts Western World - a good ol' country band with guys in hats and a great banjo and fiddle. And later to Layla's bar - country with a harder edge and nice steel guitar.
A great night with lots of fun and lots of drinks.
A very late start after the last e night on Sunday. Too late for breakfast at the hotel do we went to a place called 47 Union Café (at 47 Union Avenue - what are the chances ?) for brunch.A nice place with interesting civil war photos, paintings and maps on the walls.
Pam's meal came lukewarm so we sent it back - it came back about 5 minutes later still lukewarm. Not good. How hard can it be ?
After brunch we walked over to 4th Avenue and onto the pedestrian bridge which crosses the Cumberland River and affords great views back towards the city.
We walked through downtown to the Tennessee Capitol building......
and then onto Bicentennial Park where there is a full-size replica of the Parthenon built in the 1920s
We had dinner at Joe's Crab Shack off Broadway and then went to the Listening Room Café, which is a similar format to the Bluebird only quite a bit bigger.
The idea is that songwriters and would-be recording artists display their talents.
two young guys on first, alternating songs. It would have been better if they's taken their baseball caps off and their chewing gum out - but, hey, it's supposed to be informal.
The songs were OK but all seemed a bit angsty (is that a word ?).
Then a group of four two girls and two guys again taking turns. These were mainly even more angsty. Two songs from one of the guys stood out - one was called "Dixie Crystal" about kids in the south "either finding the road, finding god or finding Dixie Crystal (local-made methamphetamine and a pun on the name of a brand of sugar)".
Sadly, I can't remember what the other song was about.
An interesting place but on the night we were there there wasn't enough light and shade or humour or variety in the material. Great sound system though.
On to Roberts Western World - a good ol' country band with guys in hats and a great banjo and fiddle. And later to Layla's bar - country with a harder edge and nice steel guitar.
A great night with lots of fun and lots of drinks.
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