Flipsville

The Read

The Springwater is the oldest dive in town and has never once pretended otherwise — cash, cheap beer, a low stage, and a room that has absorbed several decades of loud guitars. Flipsville is a local bill of the kind that this room exists to host. You will not know the songs. That has never been the reason anyone goes here. What you get instead is a night with no curation between you and the band: no barrier, no reserved tables, no expectation that the crowd behave. Eight o'clock start, though nothing at Springwater has ever run precisely on time. Go if you want the version of the city that has resisted being renovated.

The Room

Springwater Supper Club

115 27th Ave N

Built in 1896 as the barroom for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition — the same fair that built the Parthenon. The oldest continuously operating bar in Tennessee.