The Colorado Sound S9 EP21 May 2015

Happy first unofficial day of summer – Happy Memorial Day from a USAF veteran.  Many are lost, few are remembered by more than those they left behind.  I hope you lost no one and remember all who have been.

I took some time this weekend to twist, tweak, massage, and manipulate The Colorado Sound LIVE365.  There currently are over 860 tracks in the online catalog.  The average listening span is 18 minutes.   In the last 30 days, 335 songs have been heard at least once.  The top ten songs heard are:

  1. Brothers Keeper – Days Go By
  2. The Samples – Close to the Fires
  3. A Tom Collins – Baby Doll
  4. The Yawpers – Faith and Good Judegment
  5. The Swayback – Double Four Time
  6. The Subdudes – Sarita
  7. Pandas & People – Out to Sea
  8. Pandas & People – On My Way
  9. Kramies – The Wooden Heart
  10. Chain Station – Don’t Build Me Up

This weekend I added songs by Analog Son, Atomga, Ben Haugland, Brothers Keeper, Chris Daniels & The Kings, Doves & Wolves, Edison, Elin Palmer, Esme Patterson, Fox St., Glowing House, Great American Taxi. The H2 Big Band, In The Whale, Instant Empire, Jeff Austin, John Common, John Statz, Judge Roughneck, King Cardinal, the Knew, Land Lines, MEDIC, Michal Menert, Modern Suspects, Natalie Walker, Otis Taylor, Plum, Racing On The Sun, The Railsplitters, The Raven and the Writing Desk, Richie Furay, Rose Quartz, The Samples, SHEL, Sherri Jackson, The String Cheese Incident, The Subdudes, Taarka, Toad In the Hole, Todd Adelman, Treehouse Sanctum, Wendy Woo (Band / Trio), Whiskey Autumn. See full list of currently featured bands/artists. 

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

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4 locals x locals logoJune 6 – For Locals x Locals Presented by The Colorado Sound and Scene Magazine featuring Cracker, Post Paradise, Branded Bandits, Red Fox Run, Shaley Scott Band and Winchester Holiday.  A music festival to celebrate and honor local musicians and local music industry vendors. The goal of this festival is to create a space for our musical community to thrive. If you are a local musician, we would like to offer you free admission and a beer. If you’re a fan, please be honest and support your local music scene with your ticket purchase. Treat this as an opportunity to meet new musicians, find out about local music industry and catch up with old friends.

BluesJam_375June 12 & 13 The Greeley Blues Jam in Greeley with Austin Young– featuring Michaela Rae and friends + Maynard Mills Blues Band + George Whitesell and His All Stars featuring Jill Watkins+The Frails – all female review featuring Erica Brown, MJ, G’Jai, Michaela Rae, Miss Audrey, Susan Phelan & national headliners Delbert McClinton, Elvin Bishop and more.

August 1 – 8th Annual Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival in Dacono.  Lineup TBA.  The region’s first Spirits Competition event, started four years ago now.  Previous headliners have included Richie Furay, Lionel Young, Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon) and others.

mishawakaAugust 9 – The Colorado Sound Presents Hazel Miller, Chris Daniels & the Kings, Goatz!, andWilliam’s Reserve on Aug 9 at the Mishawaka

 

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PLAYLIST S9 EP21 2015

Five new music shares this week … that’s a lot I think.  I was lucky that all the shares had Bandcamp pages.  Please download, buy and/or share.  Every dollar and every share is one more today than yesterday and how bands go from strictly “local” to “regional” to “national.”

HOUR 1

Poco “Crazy Love” from The Essential Poco (2005)
Firefall “You Are the Woman” from Firefall (1976)
(D) Treehouse Sanctum “Pilot & Crew” from Pilot & Crew (2015)  The Samples “Nothing Lasts For Long” from No Room (1992)
Katie Herzig “Drug” from Walk Through Walls (2014)
(D) Modern Suspects “Told You So” from Modern Suspects (2015)The Fray “Hurricane” from Helios (2014)
Ivory Circle “And I Try” from Isoceles (2015)
String Cheese Incident “25th of November” from One Step Closer (2005)
Hot Rize “Blue Is Fallin’” from When I’m Free (2014)
Young Ancients “Nobody Loves You” from Y/A (2014)
Ben Haugland “Lift” from The Point Of No Return (2012)

HOUR 2

Big Head Blues Club “Crossroads Blues (w/B.B. King)” from Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson (2011)
(D) Edison “Be Someone” from Ghosts (2015)  Arthur Lee Land “Cracked Wide Open” from Cracked Open (2013)
Yawpers “Faith and Good Judgement” from Spokesbuzz Volume 5 (2014)
(D) King Cardinal “Gasoline” from One A Giant EP (2015)  Ark Life “Let Your Heart Break” from The Dream of You and Me (2014)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore “Keep It Clean” from Saints & Sinners (2010)
(D) Michal Menert “Everything Shines” from Space Jazz (2015)  Natalie Walker “Trust” from Strange Bird (2015)
Ben Markley ~ Clint Ashlock Quintet “The Return” from The Return (2014)

The Colorado Sound S9 EP20 May 2015

B.B. King passing away overshadowed everything this past week. Like other icons his legacy and his influence permeates much of our culture.  One simply does not talk about blues without B.B. King being present.  And of course, there’s a Denver connection … or two.

If you know nothing else about B.B. King you know The Thrill is Gone, the hit that launched him into both the  blues and rock and roll stratosphere.  The Thrill is Gone was produced by Bill Szymczyk, who for a brief moment would co-own Denver based Tumbleweed Records, and was a radio dj.  He also produced the first album recorded at Caribou Ranch, Joe Walsh’s Barnstorm, during the time that Joe was living in the Denver area.

Connection number two:  B.B. King and Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Crossroad Blues from 100 Years of Robert Johnson … a duet with Todd Park Mohr.

RIP Mr. King

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VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

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4 locals x locals logoJune 6 – For Locals x Locals Presented by The Colorado Sound and Scene Magazine featuring Cracker, Post Paradise, Branded Bandits, Red Fox Run, Shaley Scott Band and Winchester Holiday.  A music festival to celebrate and honor local musicians and local music industry vendors. The goal of this festival is to create a space for our musical community to thrive. If you are a local musician, we would like to offer you free admission and a beer. If you’re a fan, please be honest and support your local music scene with your ticket purchase. Treat this as an opportunity to meet new musicians, find out about local music industry and catch up with old friends.

BluesJam_375June 12 & 13 The Greeley Blues Jam in Greeley with Austin Young– featuring Michaela Rae and friends + Maynard Mills Blues Band + George Whitesell and His All Stars featuring Jill Watkins+The Frails – all female review featuring Erica Brown, MJ, G’Jai, Michaela Rae, Miss Audrey, Susan Phelan & national headliners Delbert McClinton, Elvin Bishop and more.

June 13 – Westword, KUNC & The Colorado Sound Present The Samples featuring Sean Kelly at Herman’s Hideaway w/ guests Tomahawk Fox, Lola Rising, The Humbuckers …. Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm … Tickets $12.00 – $120.00

August 1 – 8th Annual Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival in Dacono.  Lineup TBA.  The region’s first Spirits Competition event, started four years ago now.  Previous headliners have included Richie Furay, Lionel Young, Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon) and others.

mishawakaAugust 9 – The Colorado Sound Presents Hazel Miller, Chris Daniels & the Kings, Goatz!, andWilliam’s Reserve on Aug 9 at the Mishawaka

 

THE COLORADO SOUND IS SUPPORTED BY

BluesJam_375

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PLAYLIST S9|EP20 2015

HOUR 1

The Czars “Killjoy” from Ugly People vs. the Beautiful People (2001)
(D) Elin Palmer “Morning Light” from Elin Palmer (2015)
Gromet “Sink or Sail” from Colorado Captain (2010)
Rachel & the Kings “Not Giving Up” from Tonic (2013)
Taarka “River’s Eddy Blues” from Making Tracks Home (2015)
Bad Brad & the Fat Cats “Thunder On the Mountain” from Eyes on the Prize (2013)
Grant Farm “Engineer” from SpokesBUZZ Vol V: Band Together (2015)
Instant Empire “Dead Air” from Lamplight Lost (2015)
Dubskin “Release Me” from Release from Fear (2011)
Keith Oxman “Caught Between the Lion and the Twins” from Caught Between the Lion and Twins (2008)

HOUR 2 

The Moonrakers “I’m All Right” from Anthology (2007)The Rainy Daze “That Acapulco Gold” from That Acapulco Gold (1967)
(D) Doves & Wolves “Arkansas” from Doves & Wolves (2015)
Bad Weather California “I’ll Reach Out My Hand” from Sunkissed (2012)
The Lovely & Talented “Death Of The Lover” from The New American Fable (2010)
Otis Taylor “Ain’t No Cowgirl” from Clovis People Vol. 3 (2010)
Todd Adelman “The Devil is for Drinking” from Highways & Lowways (2015)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore “Sunday Street” from Love Runner (2014)
(D) The Knew “Rally and Rumble” from Schmew (2015)  Safe Boating is No Accident “Dye My Love” from Bonus Features (2014)
Dressy Bessy “New Song (From Me To You)” from Dressy Bessy (2003)
(D) Ben Haugland “A Weaver of Dreams” from A Million Dreams (2015)

I Need Never Get Old

I’ve been thinking about that very subject lately … how some people simply just get “old.”  I’m one of those who said to myself as a teenager that I would never old.  Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats sure help me out by laying down a groove reminiscent of my childhood, listening to the likes of Otis Taylor and Wilson Pickett among the legends.

Nathaniel likes to remind me that he and I met when we both appeared on a singer songwriter bill with the Late Jack Redell many years ago.  I don’t remember the event, but he does LOL  A sign of me getting old maybe?  Hmmm.  I sure hope not, because as the song goes, “I Need Never Get Old.”

Nathaniel has never ceased to amaze me with his diverse range musically and vocally.  He’s gone from being in the highly popular indie/new alternative rock band Born in the Flood to international touring folk artist on Rounder records, to his latest incarnation as southern-soul savant leading the Nightsweats – something he never really saw himself as until it actually happened a couple of years ago.

The new full length is due out later this summer on the legendary Stax Records (Otis Redding. Booker T. & the M.G.’s.) and is produced by the Shins’ Richard Swift, who also worked on the latest from fellow Denverites, Tennis.

Obviously you’ll hear it on the show as soon as the record company gets me a copy .. for sure.

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JOIN ME THIS SUMMER AT:

4 locals x locals logoJune 6 – For Locals x Locals Presented by The Colorado Sound and Scene Magazine featuring Cracker, Post Paradise, Branded Bandits, Red Fox Run, Shaley Scott Band and Winchester Holiday.  A music festival to celebrate and honor local musicians and local music industry vendors. The goal of this festival is to create a space for our musical community to thrive. If you are a local musician, we would like to offer you free admission and a beer. If you’re a fan, please be honest and support your local music scene with your ticket purchase. Treat this as an opportunity to meet new musicians, find out about local music industry and catch up with old friends.

BluesJam_375June 12 & 13 The Greeley Blues Jam in Greeley with Austin Young– featuring Michaela Rae and friends + Maynard Mills Blues Band + George Whitesell and His All Stars featuring Jill Watkins+ The Frails – all female review featuring Erica Brown, MJ, G’Jai, Michaela Rae, Miss Audrey, Susan Phelan & national headliners Delbert McClinton, Elvin Bishop and more.

June 13 – Westword, KUNC & The Colorado Sound Present The Samples featuring Sean Kelly at Herman’s Hideaway w/ guests Tomahawk Fox, Lola Rising, The Humbuckers …. Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm … Tickets $12.00 – $120.00

August 1 – 8th Annual Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival in Dacono.  Lineup TBA.  The region’s first spirits tasting and competition event, started four years ago.  Previous include Richie Furay, Lionel Young, Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon) and others.

mishawakaAugust 9 – The Colorado Sound Presents Hazel Miller, Chris Daniels & the Kings, Goatz!, andWilliam’s Reserve on Aug 9 at the Mishawaka

 

THE COLORADO SOUND IS SUPPORTED BY

BluesJam_375

SpokesBuzz Fort Collins logo

colorado case logoMish Logo JPG

 

 

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