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Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm (Q&B Records) Genre/Style – outlaw-country, americana, humor Sampled focus tracks: High Plains Storm, Locked & Loaded, She Canceled the Cable, Free Range Website:www.garybragg.com Notes: Monday morning pretty much sucks in anyone’s world I think … so just when you think you’re going to excoriate or blow some poor bastard off in a fit of “road rage” slap this disc in and be prepared to a) guffaw, b) chorkle, c) snicker, d) cackle, or otherwise find yourself grinning broadly and no longer worrying about the driver in the next lane, and more focused on not driving off the road yourself. Produced by Eric Thorin; recorded by Colin Bricker and Mario Castillo at Mighty Fine Productions (formerly Notably Fine Audio).
***DISCLAIMER — Gary Bragg’s “High Plains Storm” will be serviced to non-comm radio and press statewide by Rocky Mountain Music Network. If you are with one of those stations or publications, expect to receive a copy somewhere around Monday May 9th.
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(D) = debut, first time played on show (NT) = new track from album already debuted
David Williams & Deco Django “Who Let That Deco Django into the Room?” from Django Jazz (2007) Drew Emmitt “Tak the Long Way Home” from Long Road (2008) (NT) Whiskey Bottles “Blackjack Betty” from Ain’t No Crime (2011) (NT) Finnders and Youngberg “Sold On You” from FY5 (2011) (NT) John Statz “Jackson Hole” from Ghost Towns (2010) (D) SPIV “85” [single] (2011) Broken Everlys “My Troubled Ways” from Stoned In Juarez (2011) Coles Whalen “Go Child” from The Whistle Stop Road Record (2009) Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “My Last Black Scarf” from Unentitled (2011) (D) a. Tom Collins “Pants Off Dance Off” from Oh NO! (2011) Lord of Word and The Disciples of Bass “The Open Door” from Westword Music Awards Showcase ’95 (1995) Pretty Lights “Double Love” from Filling Up the City Skies (2008) Bop Skizzum “Push” from Push (2010) Peter Sommer “Looks Like This” from Tremolo Canteen (2010) Cabaret Diosa “Tonight You Will Be Mine” from Voodoo Pinata (1999) Electric Swingset “Inebriated Witch Doctor” from Inebriated Witchdoctor (1996) (D) Molly Cottrell “Fellow Travelers” from Molly Cottrell (2011) Fox Street Allstars “Ride With Yo Baby” from Welcome to the Mighty Pleasin’ (2011) (NT) Veronica “Hurley Wax” from Emerging From Troubled Days (2011) Railbenders “The Outlaw Way” from Showdown (2006) Bonnie and The Clydes “Snake Mountain Blues” from Bonnie And The Clydes (2011) (D) Flashlights “Glowing Eyes” from Hidden Behind Trees (2011) Galaxies “Lost at Sea” from Like a Lion (2011) John Denver “Sunshine On My Shoulders” from Poems, Prayers And Promises (1971) John Denver “Rocky Mountain High” from Rocky Mountain High (1972) Andrew Vogt “Phil Woodshed” from Cats Afoot (2010)
MMMM …. an irregular Monday Morning Music Meeting … takes less than five minutes … HOT new adds to The Colorado Sound.
FEATURED ARTIST/RELEASE – MOLLY COTTRELL S/T EPSample Tracks: Not What I Need [single, 2010], Undecided Blue, Fellow Travelers (Molly Cottrell, EP, 2011) Genre/Style: neo-soul, vintage r&b/soul, gospel RIYL: Otis Redding, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse Website:http://mollycottrell.webstarts.com/ Notes: “Not What I Need” produced by Ryan West (Kanye West, Jay Z, Rihanna). There’s a link to free downloads (hi-res available) on Molly’s website. One word = delectable. Molly has one seriously cool sounding voice, a compliment that Ryan West also passed on. She’s got mad skillz and deep soul. Molly has been among us for four years, attending school at the University of Denver-Lamont School of Music, majoring in voice. I hope she intends to stay in Denver for many more years. The EP is very nicely co-produced and recorded, mixed, and mastered by DU/Lamont School of Music graduate and two-time Downbeat award winning recording engineer Drew Sowell (the Foote., Ellison Park, N.E.R.D.) at Sowell Sound Productions and Lamont Recording Studios.
John Statz – Ghost Towns Sample Track: Ghost Towns RIYL: Tom Petty, Ryan Adams Genre/Style: Rock, roots, alternative-country-rock Website:http://www.johnstatz.com/ Notes: Originally from the Madison, Wisconsin area – Ghost Towns was mostly recorded there w/Madison players, with a couple of tracks recorded in Bupapest (the Budapest Sessions EP was just released). Ghost Towns has been nominated for a Madison Area Music Award for “Folk/Americana Album of the Year,” from the Madison Area Music Association (MAMA), an award that John also won in 2007. Welcome to Colorado John 🙂
a. Tom Collins – OH NO! Sample Track: Pants Off Dance Off Genre/Style – Notes: rock, unique, experimental, folk, americana, blues, jazz, traditional, modern, complex, tongue-in-cheek, lo-fi, irreverent. Website: http://atomcollins.bandcamp.com/album/oh-no
Veronica – Emerging from Troubled Days Sample Track: Hurley Wax Genre/Syle: rock, garage rock, roots rock, punk Website: http://veronica.bandcamp.com/album/emerging-from-troubled-days (free download) Notes: In one way or another this band has been around since about 94, when Baldo Rex guitarist Ted Thacker wanted a side-project. “Frederick” needs a radio edit, but that song and Hurley Wax are the go-to tracks on the album.
Stingray Jones & the Mad Men – Bad Girl [single] Genre/Style: rock, roots, country-rock Website: http://stingrayjones.bandcamp.com/ Notes: this band features Glenn Esparza on guitar (Goldie & the Bears, The Jars, Savage Henry, Wish We Were Floyd, Chute Nine, Sherry Jackson)
Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm (Q&B Records) Genre/Style – outlaw-country, americana, humor
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Sample Tracks: Not What I Need [single, 2010], Undecided Blue, Fellow Travelers (Molly Cottrell, EP, 2011)
The Whiskey Bottles – Ain’t No Crime
John Statz – Ghost Towns
a. Tom Collins – OH NO!
Veronica – Emerging from Troubled Days
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