Margaret Glaspy: The I Am Both Tour

The Read

The writing is sharp and unsentimental, but the guitar is what separates her from the field — a serrated, slightly overdriven tone and phrasing that owes more to blues players than to folk. Her voice carries the same edge: conversational, occasionally flat on purpose, always intelligible. She sounds like someone stating a position rather than sharing a feeling. The Blue Room is very small, very well engineered, and unforgiving of anyone relying on production. Music this dependent on tone and delivery belongs here. Expect a trio or something close to it, expect the guitar to be louder in the mix than the genre usually permits, and expect the audience to be quiet enough that it matters. Buy ahead — the room does not hold many people.

The Room

The Blue Room

623 7th Ave S

Jack White opened the Nashville Third Man location in March 2009. The Blue Room has a 1953 Scully lathe — the only live music venue in the world with direct-to-acetate recording capability.