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Best of 2018 – So Far

This subject has been on my mind for like a month now. There have been some really excellent albums, EPs and singles put out since December 1 2017. Here are the top album picks of the year so far, based on regional non-comm / public radio airplay and my own thoughts on the subject.

Anyone looking for rock or pop will be disappointed – roots, blues, old school rhythm and blues and Americana (alt-country) are the name of the game this year around the state.

I embedded song files. Go to their youtube channels or other streaming service to checkout full albums. Better yet – support the band with a purchase.

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Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Tearing at the Seams — no doubt that this album will finish the year at #1 with a strong national showing, and ubiquitous CO airplay.

Leftover Salmon – Something Higher! — scan the non-comm/public radio dial statewide and this album, while not even nearly as popular as Tearing at the Seams, is crazy popular – as it should be since it’s one of the best the band has turned in over the past 25 years.

Wood Bros – One Drop of Truth —many people don’t realize that Chris and Oliver Wood are Boulder natives, and still claim it as home – even when they’re performing elsewhere. Another HIGHLY played Colorado album around the state.

Reverend Freakchild – Dial It In! — the “reverend” is a traveler. He was born in Hawaii and has been in bands in Boston, including an early version of Soul Coughing with Mike Doughty. Today he’s living in Boulder and attending Naropa University. For all my blues fans, this one is at the top of the pile. #highlyrecommended

Gasoline Lollipops – Soul Mine — Clay Rose is known for being pensive and deliberate – living at the edge of damnation and redemption. The band is enjoying a banner year in terms of bookings and regional radio airplay.

CP S12 EP25 2018

I’ve been asked a few times what happened to last week’s post. A human error on my part … I sent out the wrong version of the show, so there was no point in posting a playlist that never happened. I made sure I sent out the correct version of the show this week.

There have been times over the past 12 years when a record has sat in my collection for several months before it rises to the top and gets debuted (D) on the show. This week it was Durango’s Lacey Black, whose latest album All These Years (2017) took time for me to recognize and get into the show.

Also new this week – The Indigo Girls, who are NOT a Colorado acts, but their latest album is a live recording with the CU Symphony – so it makes the cut along with Colorado native Tia Fuller, who has long since lived in New Jersey.

The String Cheese Incident have been playing around in their home studio as part of their Sound Lab series .. and have put out two new singles, including this week’s MMMM add, Vertigo.

A premiere this week in advance of the official release = Minor, a new project featuring Jessa Raskin, who was formerly teamed up with Jordan Polovina (Whiskey Blanket, Michel Menert) in Grim&Darling. Minor will be releasing the track and a video to the public on July 3rd.

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

What you’ll find below are new songs on the show this week … listen and let me know which ones you think I should keep in the Colorado Playlist, and which I should delete.

NOTE: In order to be included in the MMMM poll, the band/artist must have an embeddable file on Soundcloud, BandCamp, Reverbnation or YouTube.

PLAYLIST S12 EP25

(D) = debut of lp, ep or single
(N) = new cut from previously debuted lp or ep

Dan Fogelberg “The Power of Gold” from Portrait: The Music Of Dan Fogelberg (1997)
(D) Indigo Girls “Power of Two” from The Indigo Girls Live With The University Of Colorado Symphony Orchestra (2018)

Elephant Revival “When I Fall” from Petals (2016)
Jack Hadley “Something so Bad” from The St. Louis Sessions (2014)
(D) The String Cheese Incident “Vertigo” (2018)

Kyle Hollingsworth “All Falls Apart” from 50 (2018)
Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams “Betty Boop” from Midnight Rodeo (2006)
The Railbenders “Sweet Caroline” from Segundo (2003)
The Informants “Crime Scene Queen” from Crime Scene Queen (2009)
(D) Andy Ard “Come Over Here” from Like That EP (2018)
(D) Lacey Black “Colorado Song” from All These Years (2017)

Katie Herzig “Wish You Well” from Apple Tree (2008)
(N) Emily Takahashi “Jubilee” from Not Spoken (2017)

HOUR 2

Zephyr “Don’t Come back” from Heartbeat (1982)
The Samples “My Town” from Samples (1990)
(D) Minor “Fall Again” (2018)
The Lumineers “Ophelia” from Cleopatra (2016)
Otis Taylor “Peggy Lee” from Hey Joe Opus Red Meat (2015)
(N) John Paul Grigsby “Home” from Nothing Is New (2018)

Brent Cowles “Keep Moving” from How To Be OK Alone (2018)
Houses “Me & Mr Kelly” from Summer (2009)
Drag the River “Having a Party” from Bad At Breaking Up (2009)
Oakhurst “Eggs On My Face” from Dual Mono (2005)
(D) Brendan McKinney & the 99 Brown Dogs “Happy Home” from Someone Else’s Blues (2018)
Great American Taxi “Dr. Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show” from Dr. Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show (2017)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “You Worry Me” from Tearing At The Seams (2018)
(N) Tia Fuller “In the Trenches” from Diamond Cut (2018)

CP S12 EP23 2018

A NOTE about the MMMM … When I started it many months ago I intended it as a way to share the new music in this blog that I debuted each week in the broadcast version of the show. I never intended the KEEP or DELETE feature to be a way for fans of a band to just come in and run up votes without also experiencing the other new cuts I share … which has happened more and more over time.

I can tell every time a band’s fans only vote for the band that drives them to the poll. A song may get 60+ KEEP votes while five other songs get a bare handful of votes.

I appreciate every vote that every song earns. I hope those who vote for one song at least check out others that are shared.

It’s never easy to announce the end of an era, especially when it entails the death of a friend or family member. Last Wednesday, as I was finishing up production on EP23 news flashed across my FB pg that Coupe Studios (Boulder) founder Scott Roche passed away from cancer.

I did not know Scott well. We knew each other professionally through the scene, and he always wanted me to know about some new record coming from Coupe. I actually got to record one song there, one my late wife wrote called Once Upon a Snowflake. It was the very first song I ever recorded.

The history of Coupe Studios will not end with Scott. He was wise enough to know that all life ends and if the studio was to continue then younger people had to do the work – so he set it up that way – that a couple of younger guys would move the vision forward.

Long live Coupe Studios (founded in a chicken coop) – RIP Scott Rouch.