Nashville\u2019s iconic Bluebird Caf\u00e9 is moving back to Broadway\u2014for one night only.<\/p>\n
To launch the CMA Music Festival and celebrate the Caf\u00e9\u2019s 43rd birthday, the\u00a0Bluebird\u00a0has again teamed with Garth Brooks\u2019 Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk to bring the songwriters behind Brooks\u2019 biggest hits and Trisha Yearwood\u2019s new album directly into the CMA Fest fan frenzy.<\/p>\n
Yearwood\u2019s writers include Leslie Satcher, Bridgette Tatum, and Rachel Thibodeau for the 1:30 p.m. show on June 4. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. Brooks\u2019 writers are Pat Alger, Kent Blazy, Tony Arata, and Victoria Shaw for the 5 p.m. show on June 4 show. Doors open at 4 p.m. While both shows are sold out, tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n
The Mirror<\/em>, Yearwood\u2019s first album in six years, will be available July 18. The project is the first time Yearwood co-wrote and co-produced an entire album. There\u2019s a high likelihood that guests at the 1:30 p.m. show will get a preview of Yearwood\u2019s new music.<\/p>\n Yearwood wrote on Instagram that she\u2019s \u201cso proud\u201d of this record.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always written a little bit, but I\u2019ve never called myself a songwriter,\u201d Yearwood told Kelly Clarkson. \u201cIn fact, I usually will say if somebody says we should write, I\u2019m like, I\u2019m not a songwriter. Because someone told me when I was in college that I was not a songwriter, and I let it be the truth for just like 45 years. I sort of had an a-ha about, \u2018Why does that have to be the truth?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to writing for Yearwood, Satcher also penned \u201cTough\u201d (Kellie Pickler), \u201cTroubadour\u201d (George Strait), and \u201cWhen God-Fearin\u2019 Women Get the Blues\u201d (Martina McBride). Tatum wrote \u201cShe\u2019s Country\u201d for Jason Aldean. And Thibodeau wrote \u201cGood Directions\u201d for Billy Currington, in addition to songs for Luke Bryan, Billy Currington, Reba McEntire, and more.<\/p>\n The Brooks-dedicated line-up is a repeat of last year\u2019s Friends In Low Places Bluebird night. The evening with Alger (\u201cUnanswered Prayers,\u201d \u201cWhat She\u2019s Doing Now,\u201d \u201cThe Thunder Rolls\u201d, and \u201cThat Summer\u201d), Blazy (\u201cSomewhere Other Than The Night,\u201d \u201cAin\u2019t Goin\u2019 Down (\u2018Til the Sun Comes Up),\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s Midnight Cinderella,\u201d and \u201cShe\u2019s Gonna Make It\u201d), Arata (\u201cThe Dance\u201d) and Shaw (\u201cThe River\u201d) morphed into a Brooks roast that he wasn\u2019t present to enjoy. Each of the writers has known Brooks since the beginning of his career and wasn\u2019t shy about sharing stories that date back to his pre-superstar days.<\/p>\n Blazy, who wrote \u201cIf Tomorrow Never Comes\u201d with Brooks, shared the very early days of Brooks\u2019 career. Record labels rejected the singer multiple times, Blazy said. He recalled executives told him no one would sign someone named Garth because it sounded like someone was gargling on the radio. Brooks\u2019 break came unexpectedly when someone didn\u2019t show up to play their set at the Bluebird Caf\u00e9. He received a call asking if he\u2019d like to step in.<\/p>\n \u201cGarth came in and did \u2018If Tomorrow Never Comes,\u2019 and someone who had passed on him for the third time that week came up to his afterward and said, \u2018I know we passed on you three times, but maybe we missed something,\u201d Blazy said. \u201cHe came back in and got a record deal.\u201d<\/p>\n While Alger didn\u2019t write Brooks\u2019 first single\u2013\u201dI\u2019m Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)\u201d \u2013 he did help him celebrate it. Nashville record labels and performing rights organizations typically host parties for artists and songwriters only when a song reaches the top of the charts. Since \u201cI\u2019m Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)\u201d only went to No. 8, Brooks wasn\u2019t going to get a party. Then Alger stepped in.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t know anyone who\u2019d had a No. 8,\u201d Alger said. He added, \u201cWe got him a cake with an eight on it, and the eight is bigger than the cake. We played volleyball in the backyard.\u201d \u201cLike so many things he predicted, it did,\u201d Alger said.<\/p>\n In addition to the shows, showgoers will also gain access to two rarely open spaces in Friends In Low Places bar & Honky-Tonk: Garth Brooks\u2019 SEVENS Club, where the afternoon begins with beverages, and Trisha Yearwood\u2019s Studio Kitchen.<\/p>\n For more information, visit\u00a0bluebirdcafe.com. Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk is located at 411 Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nashville\u2019s iconic Bluebird Caf\u00e9 is moving back to Broadway\u2014for one night only. 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Garth Brooks\u2019 Memories Shared By His Circle<\/h3>\n
\nBrooks told Alger in the yard that night that \u201cIf Tomorrow Never Comes\u201d would be his next single and that it would go to No. 1.<\/p>\nSee Friends In Low Places<\/h3>\n