CP S20 EP03 2026

Thank you for stopping by. Every week I hope to bring you some of the best of Colorado music from across the decades, and around the state. I also usually share a new landscape photograph by my life-partner, Claire aka Clear Vistas Photography.

Claire and I love to travel. And we love the night skies, especially in the Rocky Mountain West. This week’s photo is of the Grand Mesa from atop Colorado National Monument, Grand Junction.

There is no active website for Claire’s work. If you see a photo you like and would like to have printed, let me know. Email chriskmusic@gmail.com

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.
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HOUR 1

Halden Wofford & the Hi-Beams – Hippie In My House – Midnight Rodeo (2006)
Chris Daniels & Hazel Miller – Cheek to Cheek – What We Did! (2021)
(D) Ian Janco – October Light (2026)

Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone – WIldflower Lane (2025)
Dragondeer – New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023)
Sun Jr. – Vixen – The Many Moon Hex (2026)
Little Trips – Overtime – Little Trips 2023 (2023)
Kyle Emerson – Sun In Your Eyes – Dorothy Alice ( 2017)
Packaging – In Your Pocket – Packaging (2025)
(D) In Plain Air – The Extra Mile (2026)

Wildermiss – Supermagical (2020)
Analog Son – Insatiable f. Adryon de Leon – Keep It Coming (2025)
Adam Bodine – Swamp Stomp – Scenes of Changery (2021)

HOUR 2

Flobots – Handlebars – Fight With Tools (2008)
DeVotchKa – Transliterator – A Mad & Faithful Telling (2008)
(D) Big Richard Band – It’s Gonna Fall/Old Daingerfield (2026)

Andy Frasco & the U.N. – You Do You (2023)
A.J. Fullerton, Lauren Frihauf – Slow Killer (2025)
Daniel Rodriguez – Vast Nothing (2023)
Paper Bird – To the Light – Paper Bird (2016)
Gasoline Lollipops – Working for the Devil – Kill the Architect (2025)
(D) Jubilingo – Time Don’t Fade (2026)

Grant Sabin – Headshaker – Work (2024)
Bill Frisell – Messin’ with the Kid – Guitar in the Space Age (2014)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JAN 18, 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVCU (Boulder, KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and Indie1023 (Denver) …

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the count.

(D) = debut HOT SPINS
(R) = re-enter HOT SPINS

ALL STATIONS STATWIDE + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 83 TTITLES TRACKED
(3) 1. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains (Deluxe) LP Jan-26 Spotify, YouTube
(R) 2. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25 Spotify, YouTube
(R) 3. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF – Slow Killer / Bitter Song / Expectations / I Don’t Wanna Grow Up SP Sep-25 Spotify, YouTube
(R) 4. BIG RICHARD BAND – It’s Gonna Fall/Old Daingerfield SP Nov-25 Spotify, YouTube
(2) 4. BITCHFLOWER – Aghast, Aroused, Appalled LP Jul-25 Spotify, YouTube
(D) 4. LP Aug-25 Spotify, YouTube
(2) 4. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25 Spotify, YouTube

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