Check out these two alternate versions of “Run Away,” the second song we’ve started playing from Sarah Jarosz’ new album Follow Me Down. The video version teams Sarah with Alison Krauss and Jerry Douglas for a live-in-the-studio performance in Scotland. We’ll be playing this version on Lightning 100 Unplugged on Sunday morning! The audio version is from Sarah’s Nashville Sunday Night show on June 5th. It’s how she kicked off her set on our broadcast that night.
Fast-rising Nashville duo Elenowen (Josh & Nicole Johnson), who made a national splash competing on NBC-TV’s “The Voice,” gave us a great, full-band performance when they headlined our Nashville Sunday Night broadcast 10-30-11. The set was full of new songs coming on their new album next spring. You can hear 3 highlights on the SoundCloud reel below. Elenowen’s full setlist was: Blood and Bones (audio), What We Hope, Honey Come Home (audio), Head To My Heart (audio), Ghost Of Beauty Divine, Save Me, Stars Go Blue, Hallelujah/Cripple Me, Storm, Where The Waters Meet. After our broadcast ended, the audience at 3rd and Lindsley was treated to these two more: I’m On Fire, Nashville.
Nashville duo Elenowen (Josh and Nicole Johnson), who were featured on the NBC-TV show “The Voice,” came into Lightning 100 10-27-11 to plug their appearance on our Nashville Sunday Night broadcast 10-30-11 and performed these two new songs, “Blood and Bones” and “Head To My Heart.” We’ll have video of these performances up eventually, but for now, enjoy this audio reel of the two songs.
3rd and Lindsley was packed and rockin’ on 10-9-11 for our Nashville Sunday Night broadcast headlined by hot new Irish singer/songwriter/musician Imelda May. She won Ireland’s 2009 Meteor Award (their equivalent to the Grammy) for Best Female Artist. In 2010 she performed on the Grammys with Jeff Beck. Her new album Mayhem shows off her unique fusion of musical genres such as surf, blues and rockabilly. This is her time to break big in America. The audio highlight reel below from our show gives you the live performance of “Mayhem,” the single you’ve been hearing on Lightning 100, plus a great rockabilly treatment of “Train Kept A’ Rollin’” and the live “Sneaky Freak,” one of the other many great songs on Mayhem.
Sensational Maylasian songbird Zee Avi brought her exotic sound to our Nashville Sunday Night broadcast at 3rd and Lindsley on 10-2-11. The video highlight here is the performance of her song “The Book Of Morris Johnson” from her new album Ghostbird. Listen how she incorporates some of Foster The People’s smash hit “Pumped Up Kicks” into her song near the end. The audio highlight reel below also includes “Book” and what she calls her masterpiece, “Honey Bee.”