THE COLORADO PLAYLIST 2006-2026 – MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Roadtrippin through Utah … March 2026

20 SEASONS is a long time to do something. The Colorado Playlist got its start in April 2006 at 88.9 KRFC in Fort Collins. Since then it has been broadcast by over a dozen community based radio stations in our state, covering over 30 FM frequencies in Colorado and Taos, New Mexico.

This week’s show is just some of the musical highlights over the past 20 seasons. I’m sure we can all point to what I didn’t fit in …but there’s only room for about twelve tracks an hour and there have been thousands of releases.

I hope you enjoy this week’s show.

AND WE’RE OFF AGAIN!! – NO POST APRIL 13 and likely not APRIL 20 either, since Claire and I are heading south for a couple of weeks on a nighttime photo expedition (yeah, she’s still filtering through shots from our Bryce trip, LOL).

I’m happy to say that I added spins from the Jazz Oasis in the City, KUVO, this week. It means a lot to see some of our great jazz artists getting some love in the city.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. BUT I’M NOT. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. I am retired now and there are monthly costs associated with the show that honestly stretch my insanely limited retirement income.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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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/Clear Vistas Photography.

There is no current 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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THE MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING WILL BE BACK IN MAY

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.

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

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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DeVotchKa – I Cried Like a Silly Boy – Curse Your Little Heart (2006)
Born In The Flood – If this thing should spill – If this thing should spill (2007)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Wheel – Whimper and Wail – Desire and Dissolving Men (2007)
OneRepublic – Apologize – Dreaming Out Loud (2007)
Flobots – Handlebars – Fight With Tools (2008)
Lynn Patrick – When You Find What You’re Looking For (excerpt)
Chris Daniels – Better Days – Better Days (2012)
Churchill – The War Within – The War Within EP (2013)
Pretty Lights – Yellow Bird – A Color Map of the Sun (2013) (radio edit)
The Lumineers – Ho Hey – The Lumineers (2012)
Justin Lansing – Ghost Town (excerpt)
The Velveteers – Charmer And The Snake – Nightmare Daydream (2021)
Jobi Riccio – Sweet (radio edit) – Whiplash (2023)
Marfa – Daisy (2025)
Euforquestra – Instant Coffee – Fire (2014)

Rose Hill Drive – Cool Cody – Rose Hill Drive (2006)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Big Black Car – This Empty Northern Hemisphere (2009)
The Apples In Stereo – Dance Floor – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
Five Iron Frenzy – It Was a Dark & Stormy Night – Engine of a Million Plots (2013)
Sunsquabi – Pangolin (excerpt)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – S.O.B. – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (2015)
Big Gigantic – Brighter Future – Brighter Future (2016)
The Motet – So High – Totem (2016)
Cary Morin – Nobody Gotta Know – Dockside Saints (2020)
Ben Parrish – Crankbait (excerpt)
Wildermiss – Supermagical (2020)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) (2020)
Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It – Let’s Party About It (2025)
Ron Miles – Binder – Rainbow Sign (2020)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING APRIL 5 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), 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 + 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 – 60 TITLES TRACKED
(𝐑) 1. Emily Scott Robinson – Appalachia LP Oct-25 (americana)
(D) 2. Jesus Christ Taxi Driver – Tax the Rich LP Jan-26 (rock, alternative)
(2) 3. Magoo – What A Life LP Oct-25 (jamband)
(𝐃) 4. Bobby Wiens – Focus LP Mar-26 (jazz)
(𝐑) 4. The Tammy Shine – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25 (rock, pop, indie)

THANK YOU SINCERELY FOR YOUR SUPPORT