Phoenix in the Lightning 100 studios

Recently The French band, Phoenix was playing Rites of Spring at Vanderbilt University.

They stopped by the http://Lightning100.com studios before the show.

Here is the performance and interview, as heard on Lightning 100.

You can right click and download this mp3. Option click for Mac users.

http://ftp.wrlt.com/production/int/10/PhoenixWRLT100423.mp3

They performed acoustic versions of Lisztomania and 1901.

Here is the video footage




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Sam & Ruby on Morning Lightning with Mary Brace

This morning Nashville's Sam & Ruby stopped by the Lightning 100 studios in Music City U.S.A. to chat with Mary Brace host of morning Lightning. You can listen to the interview and performance here:

http://ftp.wrlt.com/production/int/10/100420SamandRuby.mp3

Their music is featured in the movie Westbound.

http://www.catchwestbound.com/

Music in Music City!

There is so much great music going on this week in Music City USA!

First of all, I am super pumped for the My Morning Jacket show! They will be playing with the great New Orleans band, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. I do mean playing with by the way. That show will be EPIC!
It is this Wednesday at Municipal Auditorium. Not necessarily my all time favorite venue but I can tell you right now in advance it will at least make my top ten favorite shows of 2010!

Speaking of my top ten favorite shows, did you make it to Earth Day on Saturday? A beautiful day with amazing music. I missed Homemade Water unfortunately, but did catch Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek. She had former Nickel Creek bandmate and brother Sean Watkins on guitar and Sebastian Steinberg (formerly of Soul Coughing) on bass. She is so sweet and they sounded spectacular. We also had a terrific up and coming local band, The Apache Relay, that reminds me of the Avett Brothers rocking you out Indie style. Plus our headliner, BELA FLECK! His band full of Allstar Nashville musicians tackled old school Flecktone songs and much more with great ease. I could go on and on, but if you were there you already know and if you missed it, I'm not trying to make you feel sad or anything...

Ok, so also on the bill this week in Nashville is Levon Helm at The Ryman. I hate to say it but I must accept reality for a minute and say I am not going to that show. Even though it will be another magical night at the Ryman with a good 1900 folks having their minds blown with some of the best musicians and performers to ever grace the Ryman stage! (that might be a bit much but I guarantee you there are some die hards who would not bat an eyelash at that statement) It is the same night as My Morning Jacket and you can't be in two places at once. It just doesn't work. So without too much regret I'll move on and know I missed a good one.

Now also, all over Nashville this week is the Naked Without Us Event. A fusion of great rock and fashion happening Monday through Saturday in Music City. Take a peak at their website to get an idea of how cool this is http://nakedwithoutus.com/ you can also listen to my interview with the Naked without Us crew here: http://ftp.wrlt.com/production/tunedin/10/100411NakedRob.mp3 It features Tennessee Titans place kicker Rob Bironas. The event benefits his charity, which is really cool. They want to get a bus, fill it with musical instruments, and head into the city of Nashville - exposing kids to music that might not have that chance otherwise. It's pretty inspiring and no surprise the Nashville Symphony is going to help them do it. Rob also promised to help Kick Off the Naked without Us event, tonight at the Hard Rock Cafe Nashville, upstairs in the brand new Reverb Room. That is a free event, so check it out if you can.

I need to head into the production room and am running out of time. I haven't even mentioned the Rites of Spring event or that Nashville's own coal fired rock n rollers Old Union are recording a live album at Exit In this Saturday night. I'll post a link to the Old Union show here and post the Rites of Spring schedule below. There is a lot more going on worth checking out as well, like the Road to Bonnaroo show tonight at Mercy Lounge. That is free and I know Mikky Ekko is competing and if you haven't seen him yet, do yourself a favor a see him soon before it costs $50 at the Ryman. Think Radiohead, which the vocal talent of Jeff Buckley and passion of a singer like Jim Morrison. He is a Brite Revolution artist (which recently became a FREE site by the way and you know how I feel about things that are free - yay! ) so take a minute to download some exclusive music here: http://briterevolution.com/artists/mikky-ekko/

Here is the Rites of Spring schedule I promised you. If you are of age you can bring in your own cooler of beer at Rites. 6 beers per person with a two person limit per cooler.

Go out and see some live music this week!

Friday - April 23rd

Gates Open: 3:00pm
Battle of the Bands Winner: 3:20-3:40pm

Chris Hennessee:  4:00-4:20pm
Lubriphonic: 4:40-5:10pm

2 Door Cinema Club: 5:30-6:00pm

The New Mastersounds: 6:20-6:50pm

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars: 7:10-7:50pm

Cold War Kids: 8:10-9:10pm

Phoenix: 9:30-10:30pm

Drake: 11:00pm-12:00am

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Saturday - April 24th

Gates Open: 3:00pm
Battle of the Bands Winner: 3:35-3:55pm

Trombone Shorty: 4:15pm-4:45pm
Alberta Cross: 5:05-5:35pm

JJ Grey and Mofro: 5:55-6:35pm

Doug E Fresh: 6:55-7:35pm

Melanie Fiona: 7:55-8:40pm

Passion Pit: 9:00-10:00pm

BEN HARPER and Relentless7: 10:30-12:00am 


http://www.ritesofspring.com/

Bela Fleck and the Nashville Earth Day Festival 2010

This Saturday at Nashville's Centennial Park is the 2010 Nashville Earth Day Festival!

2010 Music Schedule from http://www.nashvilleearthday.org

5:30-7pm Bela Fleck - Acoustic with Friends
4-5p Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek
3-3:45p Apache Relay
2-2:45p Homemade Water

Here is a link to my interview with Bela Fleck, who will be headlining Earth Day and performing acoustic with friends from 5:30pm-7 http://ftp.wrlt.com/production/int/10/100413bela.mp3 He talked about who is in the band and told us he created the group just for the show on Saturday. He also gave us two terrific performances in the Lightning 100 studios and a lesson on playing the Banjo, Bela Fleck style!

The video footage should be up shortly! For now, here is footage from the last time he made it over to Marathon Village.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8g9K2kmxH4



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdbZCYEZps8



Here is Bela Fleck's interview on Music Business Radio

http://ftp.wrlt.com/production/mbr/podcast/2009/mbr98belafleck.mp3

Bela Fleck is known as the world's best banjo player and has virtually reinvented both the image of the banjo as well as and the sound of the instrument.

Bela has won 11 Grammy Awards and has played on albums by Chick Corea, Phish, Bruce Hornsby, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas, and Dave Matthews Band.

This episode talks about signing record deals, leaving record deals, signing other record deals, recording albums, writing songs, establishing yourself in different genres of music, and his new documentary film, Throw Down Your Heart.

Here is Sara Watkins recent in studio performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7YsrV2bxsI



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMqX5QPgNg



Here is Apache Relay's recent appearance and performance on the Lightning 100 morning show with Mary Brace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjXASh6Ai8



Here is the super acoustic version of that song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qZwxn6yC-E



Here is footage from 2009 when Homemade Water played Live on the Green and stopped by the Lightning 100 studios to chat with David Hall and give us a live performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-PsnfJ34Fc



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