On a featureless strip mall in Tennessee there’s a low- maintenance concrete box called Bluebird Cafe. Blink and you’d miss it, give it a glance and you wouldn’t stop for a coffee.
Inside it’s cramped, a little frayed around the edges. Our rickety table is next to the tiny stage that launched Taylor Swift, who arrived in Nashville aged 14 to sing country and went on to sell 200 million records.
Tonight, six singer/songwriters perform three songs each. To this amateur impresario, fame seems to be around the corner for every act.
