

The Cooper Lounge, a bar that is situated on a balcony, just makes sense for the iconic Fearless era. It also includes a throng of additional “vault” tracks pulled from the cutting-room floor from the original album recordings. The new edition dropped in April 2021 and highlights her now more mature vocals.

The album was also the first of Swift's re-recording projects. The lyrics of Fearless focus on falling in and out of love, complete with Romeo and Juliet motifs. Since 2019, the Buffalo Rose has been polished back to its original glory through renovations, making this a cool, Western-inspired destination complete with three bars, a restaurant and an event space.īelly up to the State Room bar for the Underboss, a play on a martini made with pickle brine ($15), or head up to the Sky Bar, which has a retractable roof and the largest selection of draft beer in town.Ĭourtesy of Cooper Lounge / Jim Louvau Fearless (Taylor’s Version): Cooper Loungeįearless is Swift’s multi-platinum sophomore album, chock-full of iconic tracks that solidified her as a pop-country star at the ripe age of twenty, like “Forever & Always," “Love Story” and “You Belong With Me.” The original Buffalo Rose has been around since 1859 as an event venue and saloon, even hosting the likes of Ulysses S. To embrace Swift’s true country roots, head out to the Buffalo Rose on Golden’s main street ( a town with a dining scene that’s totally worth exploring). The youthful, vibrant energy of her debut album already had the relatable, deep-cutting lyrics on life, love and growing up that are synonymous with Swift, with tracks like “Our Song,” “Picture to Burn” and “Teardrops on My Guitar.”

She played small stages and sang at local sporting events starting around age ten before gaining big fame by sixteen when her first hit, “Tim McGraw,” made the Top 40 in 2006.
