AI_IMAGE: A tiny intimate songwriting venue with four musicians seated in a circle at the center of the room, acoustic guitars and a stand-up bass visible. The audience sits at small candlelit tables just feet away from the performers. Low warm lighting casts soft amber tones across the wood-paneled walls. The atmosphere is hushed and reverent — a listening room where every lyric carries. | photorealistic | landscape

2025-10-04

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8:00 PM

Bluebird Café — Nashville, TN


Venue

Bluebird Café

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City

Nashville, TN

An intimate songwriter-in-the-round session at Nashville’s most hallowed listening room — four chairs, four voices, and a set of unreleased songs that have never been heard outside the writing room until tonight.

The Round

Cody Revell and Hank Dawson will sit in the round alongside songwriter Jolene Mercer and Nashville session man Dusty Keller. Each writer takes turns — one song apiece, rotating around the circle — with the story behind each song told before a single note is played. That’s the Bluebird way: the words matter as much as the melody.

Expect to hear three or four brand-new compositions that haven’t been recorded yet, plus stripped-down acoustic versions of Outhouse Poets album tracks you’ve never heard without the full band behind them. A song sounds different when it’s just a voice, a guitar, and ninety people holding their breath.

AI_IMAGE: Close-up of a songwriter's hands on an acoustic guitar in a dimly lit room — warm amber light catching the wood grain of the guitar body and the worn calluses on the fingertips. A small candle glows on a nearby table, out of focus. The mood is intimate and contemplative, the kind of moment between songs in a quiet listening room. | photorealistic | landscape

The Bluebird seats about ninety. Reservations go fast and the room enforces a strict listening policy — no talking during performances, phones silenced, the bartender pours quiet. It’s a room built for paying attention.

This is where you find out if a song is real or if it’s just dressed up nice.

Cody Revell

This show is sold out. A limited standby line forms at the door starting at six-thirty — if reserved guests don’t claim their seats by showtime, standby tickets are released first-come, first-served. Cash only for standby.