Audio Archive

The Weeks perform “Ain’t My Stop” and “King-Sized Death Bed” off their new record Dear Bo Jackson live at Lightning 100.

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Dawes stopped by to give us a preview of the new album, “Stories Don’t End.” It’s drops in stores on April 9th. The No So Secret Session includes “Someone Will”, “Something In Common”, and “From a Window Seat”.  Lightning 100 Presents Dawes to the Ryman Auditorium on June 9th 2013.

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Hey Marseilles stopped by the Lightning 100 studio in Nashville, TN to chat about their new record and play three songs from it live.

Interview and engineered by Dan Buckley.

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Alt-J stops by the studio for a live performance for some lucky guests in the Lightning 100 lounge. Gus and Joe performed “Tessellate,” “Fitzpleasure,” “Matilda,” and their hot new single “Breezeblocks.” They play at the Cannery Ballroom on March 18th 2013.  Click here for the photos from the show!

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Wake Owl drops by the studio before their performance at the Basement. The start out the interview with “Wild Country” a song off their new EP. “Gold” is also off their EP which they performed before heading out.

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Live from 3rd and Lindsley, Nashville Sunday Night presents Bronze Radio Return on February 17th, 2013.

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Josh Doyle and Sam Palladio visit the Lightning 100 studio and they perform a song each for us. One of which is called, “Wake Me Up in Nashville” by Sam Palladio a great song by the way. You may also listen for Wells and Sam talking about the new hit series Nashville that Sam is a part of as the character “Gunnar Scott.” Josh Doyle also plays “Figure the World Out,” from his self titled album Josh Doyle.

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Paul McDonald and Nikki Reed visited Lightning 100 to perform live in the studio December 11th, 2012. Lightning 100 was thrilled to have Paul McDonald back in the studio.  Most people know Paul from American Idol, but some locals remember his early singing career from Hightide Blues and The Grand Magnolias.  It was Nikki Reed, an actress starring in the hit Twilight Saga movies, first time visiting the studio.  They performed songs of their new EP called The Best Part, such as “All I’m Asking,” and “The Best Part.”

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Local Nashville singer-songwriter supergroup, Leagues perform “Spotlight” live in the Lightning 100 studio.  Leagues want to offer Lightning 100 listeners a free download.  Enter the information below to download the album version of “Spotlight”.

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Live at 3rd and Lindsley at Nashville Sunday Night, Jeremy Lister performs live on November 4th, 2012.

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Ed Sheeran live in the Lightning 100 Studio January 22nd, 2013, playing his next single “Lego House” from his album + and covers a Traditional Folk Song “Will Ye Go Lassie Go.” Check out our videos of Ed Sheeran from last year performing at the Lightning 100 studio.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops perform a few tracks off their new album Leaving Eden live at Marathon Music Works.  Special thanks to Griffin Technology for sponsoring our Pre-Show Live!

1. Country Girl
2. Leaving Eden
3. Boodle-De-Bum-Bum

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Lightning 100 introduces our listeners to Family of the Year!  Check out this interview with Wells Adams and a performance of “Hero” live on 100.1 FM.

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Up-and-coming artist ZZ Ward stopped by the studio before her show at Exit/In.  Check out ZZ Ward live performance “Put the Gun Down” and “Last Love Song” on 11-13-12.  ZZ Ward also talks about the start of her career with Lightning 100′s Wells Adams.

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House Band Wines and Lightening 100 are honored to present “Spotlight on Carey Ott” at Third & Lindsley in Nashville on Thursday, October 25th from 4pm to 7pm.  The celebration is free and includes a meet-and-greet, wine tasting (4 complimentary tasting tickets), light apps, and performance by Carey Ott.

See Ott with his band delivering Muddy Water live — a landscape of musical soul, grit and passion!  For those who are still thirsty, Third & Lindsley will have special wine-by-the-glass prices on House Band Wines.

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GroupLove came by the WRLT studio for a quick interview and performance.  Check out these live versions of “Colors” and “Itchin On a Photograph”.

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It was a tough ticket to get your hands on the other night at the Cannery Ballroom, Denver’s own The Lumineers sold out the venue in a matter of days. If you’re a big fan of the band, you might want to check out their Lightning 100 in-studio performance.  The band was kind enough to play for 20 lucky listeners.  Listen for “Classy Girls,” “Ho Hey” and “Stubborn Love.”  You can listen to the audio below or click here to see the HD videos from right outside our studio!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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Grammy-winning musician/songwriter and producer Van Hunt moves seamlessly between rock and funk and he brought it to our Nashville Sunday Night broadcast at 3rd and Lindsley on 9-25-11.  Check out this performance of “Eyes Like Pearls” from his third album What Were You Hoping For?

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Drew and Ellie Holcomb returned to the Lightning 100 studio on the afternoon of 10-6-11 to plug their performance that evening at Lightning 100′s free Live On The Green concert at Public Square Park in downtown Nashville.  They performed these two fine acoustic versions of songs from their album Chasing Someday, “Fire and Dynamite” and “Live Forever.”

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