1998

A violent F-3 tornado rips through Downtown Nashville at approximately 3:30pm. David Hall is on-the-air high atop the L&C Tower. As he sees it approach the building, he exits through the studio door. The change in the room's pressure implodes all of the glass windows and sliding doors that surround the studio causing massive damage to the equipment and studio. A steel microphone boom stand is sliced in half by a section of glass. Staffers are required to go to the internal L&C stairwells to wait out the storm as the building sways from side-to-side!

WRLT holds a "Live In It and Win It" contest at Cool Springs Galleria, where the last contestant left living in the car would win it. After 32 days, a winner was chosen. The contest received a ton of local press and media coverage.

GM David Tune decides he's had enough as "Interim" GM (since May 1996!), and President Lester Turner ups Fred Buc to General Manager.

What we were listening to in 1998

01. Shawn Mullins – Lullaby

02. Goo Goo Dolls – Iris

03. Train – Meet Virginia

04. Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away

05. Semisonic – Closing Time

06. Cake – Never There

07. Patty Griffin – One Big Love

08. Dave Matthews Band – Crush

09. Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Blue On Black

10. Radiohead – Karma Police

11. Everclear – I Will Buy You A New Life

12. Eric Clapton – She’s Gone

13. Widespread Panic – Travelin’ Light