Lightning 100’s 2005 Lookback

2005

After 10 years and three months high atop the 30th Floor of the L&C Tower downtown, Lightning 100 picks up stakes and moves its digs to Marathon Village — a recently renovated old warehouse in Midtown. The station would become an anchor tenant of the complex, which was in the process of being transformed from a 1900 turn-of-the-century automobile manufacturing plant into a thriving creative community.

Lightning 100 participates in a major fund raising campaign to assist victims from the recent Hurricane Katrina. A silent auction and telethon is held on-air and on eBay. Items up for bid included a Takamine guitar autographed by the Eagles, a private John Mayer Trio concert performance, and a Gibson Les Paul guitar signed by Les Paul. Donations are also taken for food and clothing items.

Lightning 100 releases a compilation sampler CD of various “Nashville Sunday Night” performances from its nine years of live broadcasts of the program from 3rd & Lindsley”.

What we were listening in 2005

The Fray – Over My Head
Snow Patrol – Chocolate
KT Tunstall – Black Horse & The Cherry Tree
Aqualung – Brighter Than Sunshine
Mike Doughty – Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well
Feist – Mushaboom
Blue Merle – Burning In The Sun
Jack Johnson – Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
Keane – Everybody’s Changing
Coldplay – Fix You
John Butler Trio – Zebra
Ben Folds – Landed
Nickel Creek – When In Rome