By Scout Nicholson / The Jambar
Singer-songwriter Kaitlyn Vogel, known professionally as Jackie Bluebird, recently released her debut album titled “Can’t See the Stop Signs” in August 2025. The album comprises a total of eight acoustic pop songs.
Vogel grew up in Southern California, where she said she first became involved in the music scene.
“No one in my family was really musical, but my dad had a really strong adoration for music,” Vogel said. “He pushed for me to take guitar lessons and vocal lessons as a kid.”
Living in California provided her with many opportunities to perform. Throughout high school, Vogel said she played at a variety of farmers’ markets and coffee shops as a way to dip her foot into the world of music.
Vogel said her stage name, Jackie Bluebird, first emerged around her high-school years when she was 16-years-old.
“I wanted to have a stage name. At the time, I wasn’t very confident in myself … and because of that, I was like, ‘Maybe having a stage name will help me feel that confidence when I’m on stage’ and be able to put it into a different person other than Kaitlyn Vogel,” Vogel said.
The first songs put out under her persona were “The Stars” and “Scarlet,” both of which were demos released before she went to college.
Vogel currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is a sophomore at Belmont University. She is majoring in media and entertainment industries, where she hopes to eventually become a creative director and work in artist development.
Her debut album was produced by Belmont student Dean Marino, and the entirety of her album was recorded in his dorm room. When recording or performing live, Vogel is accompanied by a band composed of fellow Belmont students Abby Everett, Yeats Bell, Kieran Welborne and Nathaniel Baxter.
A majority of the songs on the album were written four years ago, and Vogel said she was waiting for the perfect opportunity to release them.
“This album is so interesting, because to me it’s really just what my life was like over the past four years … I think that you can really see my songwriting grow,” Vogel said. “You can see different influences or different experiences build on each other in the songwriting.”
The songs take influence from her own life as well as personal storytelling, with tracks titled “Butterflies,” “Burgundy” and “Nostalgic Kiss.” The inspiration for the album’s title came from the song “Burgundy.”
“A lot of this album felt like me pushing, ‘I’m going to get this done. Freshman year of college, I will get this out.’ I can’t see the stop signs,” Vogel said.
Vogel said she is also working on new music, leaning more towards folk rock and funk genres. She said she hopes to open for someone this summer.
“[I want to] play more shows and try to be more experimental with my music and see the different avenues that I can go,” Vogel said.
Jackie Bluebird’s music is available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music.
