2009

Lightning 100 staff

Lightning 100 fires up "Music City Mayhem"… a local artist/band competition. Contestant's songs are featured both on-air and on-line. Listeners and friends are invited to vote on-line to move their artists up the bracket. This promotion alone doubled the station's database of followers in less than 30 days.

Brett Dennen with Fred Buc

Eric Hutchinson with Fred Buc

Bonnaroo Staff 2009

Lightning 100 at Air Award

Mayor Karl Dean and Lightning 100 announce a new environmental-friendly live outdoor concert series, "Live on the Green" to begin on September 3rd. The Mayor and station owner Lester Turner hold a press conference on the grounds of the site at Metro's Courthouse Plaza. The six-week Free concert series would end up bringing over 24,000 fans to downtown Nashville.

Fred Buc, Karl Dean, Ricky Young, Aaron Winters, and Lester Turner

What we were listening to in 2009

01. Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody

02. Snow Patrol – Crack The Shutters

03. Bell X1 – The Great Defector

04. James Morrison – Nothing Ever Hurt Like You

05. Matt Nathanson – All We Are

06. Death Cab For Cutie – Little Bribes

07. Counting Crows – When I Dream Of Michelangelo

08. Michael Franti & Spearhead – Say Hey (I Love You)

09. Gomez – Airstream Driver

10. Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight

11. David Gray – Fugitive

12. Coldplay – Life In Technicolor II

13. Mat Kearney – Closer To Love