The Bluebird Cafe has been a home to many great songwriters. Some were successful when we opened, others learned the craft of songwriting from regular performances at our Monday night Open Mic or our Sunday Writers' Night. Here are some of the notable artists.

Walt Aldridge • Pat Alger • Gary Allan • Mose Allison • Bill Anderson •Al Anderson • Tony Arata •Susan Ashton • Randy Bachman • Bobby Bare Jr. • Greg Barnhill • Margaret Becker • Ray Benson • Dierks Bentley • Dave Berg • Matraca Berg • Roberto Bianco • Craig Bickhardt • Stephen Bishop • Luka Bloom • Suzy Bogguss • Karla Bonoff • Paul Brandt • Garth Brooks • Brooks&Dunn • Greg Brown • T. Graham Brown • Stephen Bruton • T-Bone Burnett • Gary Burr • Sam Bush • Stacy Dean Campbell • Chuck  Cannon • Kim Carnes • Craig Carothers • Mary Chapin Carpenter • Paul Carrack • Vickie Carrico • Wayne Carson • Carlene Carter • Lisa Carver • Peter Case • Beth Nielsen Chapman • Gary Chapman  • Marshall Chapman • Kenny Chesney • Guy Clark • Terri Clark • Cowboy Jack Clement • Ashley Cleveland • Anita Cochran • Thad Cockerell • Shawn Colvin • Roger Cook • Rita Coolidge • Cowboy Junkies • David Crosby • Rob Crosby • Christopher Cross • Rodney Crowell • Pebble Daniel • Gail Davies • Mac Davis • Paul Davis • Billy Dean • Iris Dement • Bob DiPiero • Dixie Chicks • Holly Dunn • Justin Townes Earle • Steve Earle • Ramblin' Jack Elliott • Joe Ely • Melissa Etheridge • Don Everly • Rosie Flores • Steve Forbert • Radney Foster • Freebo • Art Garfunkel • Mary Gauthier • Crystal Gayle  • Mark Germino • Vince Gill • Jimmy Dale Gilmore • Julie Gold • John Gorka • Amy Grant • Dobie Gray • Great Plains • Patty Griffin • Nanci Griffith • Andy Griggs • Arlo Guthrie • Matt Haimovitz • Jimmy Hall • John Hammond • Emmylou Harris • Alex Harvey • Angela Kaset • Bobbie Hebb • Don Henry • Jojo Herman • Ty Herndon • John Hiatt • Faith Hill • Tyler Hilton • Robyn Hitchcock • Rebecca Lynn Howard • Marcus Hummon • Walter Hyatt • Janis Ian • Indigo Girls • Jason Isbell • Alan Jackson • John Jarrard • Paul Jefferson • Carolyn Dawn Johnson • Michael Johnson • Chuck Jones • Grandpa Jones • John Kay • Hal Ketchum • Carole King • The Kindleys • Brandon Kinney • Fred Knobloch • Kris Kristofferson • Jim Lauderdale • Bill Lloyd • Charlie Louvin • Mark Luna • Patty Loveless • Dave Mallett • Raul Malo • Marcel • Kathy Mattea • Mac McAnally • Edwin McCain • Delbert McClinton • Michael McDonald • Lori McKenna • Pat McLaughlin • Georgia Middleman • Bill Monroe • Jonell Mosser • Bob Mould • Maria Muldaur • Michael Martin Murphy • Tracy Nelson • Mike Nesmith • Mickey Newbury • Juice Newton • Tim O'Brien • Maura O’Connell • Danny O’Keefe • Dave Olney • Jamie O’Neal • Robert Ellis Orrall • Paul Overstreet • Brad Paisley • Ray Parker Jr. • Lee Roy Parnell • Jay Patten • Ellis Paul • Gretchen Peters Michael Peterson • Jim Photoglo • Phranc • Steve Poltz • Hugh Prestwood •John Prine • Bonnie Raitt • Rascal Flatts • Mike Reid • Kim Richey • Jonathan Richman • Pam Rose • Rivers Rutherford • Mark D. Sanders • Leslie Satcher • Jason Scheff • Don Schlitz • Thom Schuyler • Darrell Scott • Jason Sellers • Allen Shamblin • Billy Jo Shaver • Victoria Shaw • SheDaisy • Frank Sheen • Blake Shelton • The Sky Kings • Russell Smith • Jill Sobule • J. D. Souther • Karen Staley • Jeffrey Steele • Ray Stevens • Marty Stuart • The Subdudes • Donna Summer • Sweethearts of the Rodeo • Taylor Swift • Russ Taff • Livingston Taylor • Jamie Teachenor • Cyndi Thompson • Neil Thrasher • Glenn Tilbrook • Pam Tillis • Chris Tompkins • Peter Tork • Tuck&Patti • keith urban • Midge Ure • Phil Vassar •Townes Van Zandt • Lucy Wainright Roche • Loudon Wainwright III • Wendy Waldman • Kevin Welch • Gillian Welch&David Rawlings • Kenya Walker • Chris Wallin • Kirk Whalum • Cheryl Wheeler •Bryan White • Lari White • Chris Whitley • Widespread Panic • David Wilcox • Holly Williams • Lucinda Williams • Paul Williams • Mark Wills • Trisha Yearwood • Rusty Young