CP S17 EP42 2023

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

NOVEMBER 20, 2023 – Happy Thanksgiving Week. The first holidaze gift of the season arrived last week, when Big Head Todd and the Monsters dropped the first single from their upcoming new album, that I’ve waited for now over a year. It’s part of this week’s MMMM, below.

I’ll post up the 14th Colorado Playlist Fan and Listener Poll next Monday.

#COMUSIC TOP SPINS NOV 12-18 2023

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC  and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them. 
** = serviced to media in Colorado by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

(1) 1. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – All Out of Angels LP (Sep-23)**
(2) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(4) 3. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(3) 4. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(D) 5. BISON BONE – 40 Grit EP (Aug-23)
(R) 5. DRAGONDEER – Across the Waves LP (Jun-23)**

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) is a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

Keller Williams – Freeker By the Speaker – Laugh (2002)
(N) VOLORES – Carrion – Ages (2023)
Kick and the Hug – Girl You’ve Changed – Ladies & Gentlemen (2022)
Alexa Wildish – The Well – Alexa Wildish EP (2020)
Leftover Salmon – Blue Railroad Train (feat. Billy Strings) – Grass Roots (2023)
Chuck Pyle – Keep it Simple – Higher Ground…songs of colorado (2007)
Andy Monley & the High Horses – Drag Me To Hell – Totem (2023)
(D) Shady Oaks – Broken Mirrors (2024)
Claire Heywood – Letter Day (2020)
Euforquestra – Show Me the Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Adam Bodine – Swamp Stomp – Scenes of Changery (2021)

Bob Dylan – Shelter From The Storm – Hard Rain (1976)
(D) Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Crush (2024)
YaSi – Guilty – Coexist With Chaos EP (2021)
Daniel Rodriguez – Brother John – Sojurn of a Burning Sun (2020)
Blankslate – Bell Station – Summer On A Salt Flat (2023)
Dressy Bessy – Anyone Can See – Holler and Stomp (2008)
The Blue Rider – Lightning – Year of the Horse (2016)
The Motet – Natural Light (2023)
(D) GRiZ – In This World – Ouroboros (2023)
Elektric Animals – Reckless (2020)
Erik Lunde – Steel Militia – Water From The Stone (2022)
Steve Denny Trio – You Stepped Out of a Dream – Life in New York (2020)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE