Author: goat

I've been on the air in Colorado since 1978. The Colorado Playlist is broadcast on 30 FM frequencies in the state. I am also a musician, talent buyer and business consultant. Email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com

#COMUSIC TOP 30 JULY 2024

Every week I survey more than a dozen Colorado community/public and college stations, including Colorado Playlist spins on respective stations. The weekly survey period runs from midnight Sunday through the following Saturday. 

The monthly survey period runs from the first week ending with a Saturday through the last week ending with a Saturday.  Titles are linked to its respective YouTube page.

Titles are tracked from the date of release of the first single from an LP/EP, for twelve months. Example: DOR = DEC 2022. I stopped tracking it in NOV 2023 (twelve months).

KAFM, KBUT, KCSU, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA and KVNF are surveyed via Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay on over three hundred stations and programs around the country.

LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
(*) = No longer lives in Colorado, but counted as long as they 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

SURVEY PERIOD – WK ending July 7- WK ending July 28

Approximately 105 titles were aired at least one time on one station somewhere in Colorado in June. You’re most likely to hear Colorado music on one of three stations along the Northern Front Range: Indie 102.3, 105.5 The Colorado Sound and 88.9 KRFC. Their HOT SPINS are listed below.

(1) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(9) 2. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP (Mar-24)
(D) 3. ASTRAL PLANES – Rent LP (Apr-24)
(D) 3. DVNEHPPY – W.O.A.H. LP (Nov-23)
(D) 4. LATINSOUL – Queendom LP (Jun-24)
(D) 5. THE FRICKASHINAS – Thanks for the Invite LP (Nov-24)
(11) 6. BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS – Her Way Out LP (Nov-23)
(D) 7. BEASTS OF NO NATION – Ultraviolet SP (Oct-23)
(D) 7. OLIVIA RUDEEN – Last June SP (Jun-24)
(16) 8. THOM LAFOND – Lawless LP (Feb-24)
(D) 8. TREVOR MICHAEL – Wild Tetons SP
(3) 9. LADY GANG – Brave Traveler LP (May-24)
(D) 9. MANGO SLUSHY – The Smoothy Album LP (May-24)
(D) 9. MIKE FINDERS AND SPIDERCAT – Breaking Like A New Day LP (Jun-24)
(D) 9. *OLIVER WOOD – Fat Cat Silhouette LP (Jul-24)
(D) 9. SOY CELESTE – Feminism is Intersectional SP (Jun-24)
(D) 9. SOY CELESTE – Machista (feat. Joshua Trinidad) SP (May-24)
(D) 9. VELVET DAYDREAM – Sunflower Sky SP (May-24)
(D) 10. BEASTS OF NO NATION – Last Flight to Viberia EP (May-24)
(D) 10. VELVET DAYDREAM – The Velvet Daydream LP (Oct-23)
(D) 13. NEALSON – Call In The Night feat. Ashley Delphine SP (Mar-24)
(R) 14. BOOT GUN – Til It Ain’t SP (Nov-23)
(D) 14. TREVOR MICHAEL – Lilacs SP (Aug-23)
(D) 15. JACK HADLEY – The St. Louis Sessions, Vol. II LP (Mar-24)
(D) 16. *BILL FRISELL – Orchestras (Live) SP (Apr-24)
(R) 17. IZCALLI – Waiting for Something SP (Nov-23)
(22) 17. JAKE LEG – Fire on the Prairie LP (Apr-24)
(D) 18. THE SWASHBUCKLING DOCTORS – Work by Day, Skank by Night LP (Jun-24)
(16) 19. EARL NELSON & THE COMPANY – Drinkin’ Muddy Water EP (Mar-24)
(R) 19. *JOBI RICCIO – Whiplash LP (Sep-23)
(D) 19. KILTRO – On A Night Like This SP (Apr-24)
(D) 19. THE PATTI FIASCO – Love Letter SP (May-24)

88.9 KRFC FORT COLLINS – 39 TITLES TRACKED
(2) 1. BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS – Her Way Out LP (Nov-23)
(D) 2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(3) 3. MIKE FINDERS AND SPIDERCAT – Breaking Like A New Day LP (Jun-24)
(D) 4. THE SWASHBUCKLING DOCTORS – Work by Day, Skank by Night LP (Jun-24)
(D) 5. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP (Mar-24)

INDIE 102.3 – 165 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. ASTRAL PLANES – Rent LP (Apr-24)
(D) 1. DVNEHPPY – W.O.A.H. LP (Nov-23)
(D) 2. LATINSOUL – Queendom LP (Jun-24)
(D) 3. THE FRICKASHINAS – Thanks for the Invite LP (Nov-24)
(1) 4. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 32 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(3) 2. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP (Mar-24)
(R) 3. IZCALLI – Waiting for Something SP (Nov-23)
(R) 4. THOM LAFOND – Lawless LP (Feb-24)
(R) 5. FAST EDDY – To The Stars LP (Nov-23)
(D) 5. VALDEZ – 30 Feet SP (Jun-24)

CP S18 EP26 2024

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting 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.

CP S18 EP26 HR1

Poco – When It All Began – Legacy (1989)
The Samples – My Town – The Samples (1989)
(D) White Rose Motor Oil – You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me – Pre-Owned Songs (2024)
Wood Belly – Alamosa Rain – Cicada (2023)
Jyemo Club – Issa Ting (f. the Reminders) (2022)
Andy Sydow – Follow The Rain Down – Night Skin (2024)
Mojomama – We Are One – We Are One (2022)
The String Cheese Incident – Sirens – Untying the Not (2003)
Jeremy Fraites, Gregory Alan Isakov – No Surprises– Piano, Piano 2 (2024)
(D) Graham Good and the Painters – Get After Life – Get After Life (2024)
The Patti Fiasco – Shake – Small Town Lights (2013)
Volores – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
Keith Oxman – Memphis – Doing All Right (2009)

CP S18 EP26 HR2

Chris Daniels and the Kings – When You’re Cool – When You’re Cool (1987)
Chris Daniels and the Kings – Jump – 40: Blues with Horns Volume 2 (2024)
(D) Cruel Morning – Bio-Shocked – Cruel Morning (2024)
Neon the Bishop – A Damn Good First Impression (2023)
Kiltro – On a Night Like This – On a Night Like This (2024)
Nathaniel Rateliff – Redemption – Palmer Soundtrack (2021)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Keep It Clean – Saints & Sinners (2010)
Jake Leg – Fire on the Prairie (2024)
(D) The Deborah Solo Trio – 1 A.M. Parade (2024)
The Still Tide – Keep It – Between Skies (2020)
Romero – Love My Way (2023)
Steve Kovalcheck, Peter Sommer, Paul Romaine, Ken Walker – Game of Life – Ghost Orchid (2022)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

#COMUSIC WK JULY 21-27 2024

www.spinitron.com

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 at more than 300 stations and programs around the country.

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE – 72 TITLES TRACKED
*includes Colorado Playlist spins
(2) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(1) 2. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP (Mar-24)
(4) 3. ASTRAL PLANES – Rent LP (Apr-24)
(5) 3. DVNEHPPY – W.O.A.H. LP (Nov-23)
(D) 4. JAKE LEG – Have Mercy SP (Apr-24)

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CHRIS DANIELS & THE KINGS WITH FREDDI GOWDY “40: BLUES WITH HORNS VOLUME II” A REVIEW

Next to Firefall (1976), Chris Daniels and the Kings (1984) is the longest running band in Colorado with a founding original member.  40 years. Chris’s 20th album. Two Colorado Music Hall of Fame singers, entertainers and songwriters teaming up for their fourth album of funky mayhem since 2010. Freddi Gowdy, one-half of Colorado Music Hall of Fame inductees the Freddi-Henchi Band and the legendary hall of fame musician, music educator and former executive director of Swallow Hill, Chris Daniels.  

The story of the band is best told by Chris in the 24-page booklet that accompanies this 40th year celebration of joy, love for each other and danceable funk and rhythm and blues grooves due for release on August 9th.   

My personal favorites are, in no particular order, the Freddi-Henchi classics I Like Funky Music and I Like Your Shoes, the Sonny Landreth classic Congo Square and the still wonderful duet Stealin’ Candy with fellow Colorado Music Hall of Fame artist, Hazel Miller.  Two other tracks that warrant serious consideration are I Need Some Good Luck Bad on the blues side and Everybody’s a Millionaire on the horn-drenched Cory Wong side of things. 

I guess you could say I’m a bit biased in my praise.  I’ve been a fan of Chris Daniels and the Kings, the Freddi-Henchi Band and Hazel Miller since the 80s.  Chris, Freddi and Hazel have each become great friends in my life over the past twenty plus years now. 

Over the years, Chris and I have done business together with me booking his band and helping him promote every album since “The Spark” and I became a guest lecturer and eventually adjunct faculty at CU Denver thanks to Chris.  I’ve also had the tremendous pleasure of appearing with my band, Goatz!, along with the Kings and Hazel at the legendary Mishawaka Amphitheatre in the Poudre Canyon, outside of Fort Collins, CO.

The music on “40” brought me to tears of joyous memories of dancing to some of the greatest and most loved musical legends our state has ever produced.  Congratulations Chris … what a marvelous and wonderful experience you’ve brought us all. Happy “40.”

Chris “K” Kresge / Rocky Mountain Music Network / The Colorado Playlist 

Join Chris Daniels & the Kings with Freddi Gowdy appearing with the War & Treaty at the 16th Dacono Music and Spirits Festival on AUG 3.
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