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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

CP S17 EP07 2023

Great Sand Dunes Nat’l Park June 2022 – courtesy Claire Mannato

Monday Feb 13, 2023 – Happy (early) Valentine’s Day. Sadly, we lost two more members of the Colorado music scene this past week, when it was reported that longtime Denver music veteran, Jimmy Ayers, passed away after a long and drawn out battle with cancer. Blues guitarist Jeremy Vasquez also passed away.

Jeremy was a long time SoCO musician who lived in Texas for the past few years, but was really admired among CO blues guitarists. As posted by long time scene drummer Kyle Borthick, “Jimmy Ayers was a pillar of the community. A true gentleman and a righteous guy all the way around.” RIP fellas.

TOP 5 #COMUSIC WEEK ENDING FEB 11, 2023

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 and agents to track airplay.

(2) 1. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(1) 2. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(3) 3. BILL FRISELL – Four LP (Nov-22)
(D) 4. JAIEL – the Magical World Of Black Girlhood EP (Apr-22)
(D) 4. NAHKEEM – It Was All A Dream EP (Oct-22)
(D) 4. YONNAS – Feven LP (Nov-22)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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I designed the Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) as 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.

16 Horsepower – Black Soul Choir – Sackcloth ‘N’ Ashes (1995)
The Apples In Stereo – About Your Fame – Tone Soul Evolution (1997)
(D) Sour Magic – Means to an End (2023)

Oko Tygra – West Coast (is burning) (2022)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Friday Night – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
Euforquestra – Show Me the Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Big Gigantic – The Little Things – Brighter Future (2016)
Selasee & The Fafa Family – Time for Peace – Time for Peace (2014)
Roger Green – Enter As You Leave – Enter As You Leave (2023)
(D) Riker Lynch – Remedy (2023)

The Burroughs – Zero Sum Game (2021)
Stillhouse Junkies – Colorado Bound – Small Towns (2022)
The Motet – Back Seat – All Day (2023)

Leftover Salmon – Highway Song – Euphoria (1997)
(D) Cary Morin – Killing the Blues – Innocent Allies (2023)
Dragondeer – Stay High (2020)
Sugar Nova – Tiny Helicopters (2023)
Megan Burtt – Real Thing – The Bargain (2015)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Hey Delila – Black Beehive (2014)
Daniel Rodriguez – Wheels Fell Off the World (2023)
(D) Volores – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)

Speakeasy Tiger – Limbs – The Public (2009)
Andy Sydow – Alibi – Time Stands Between EP (2021)
Steve Kovalcheck, Peter Sommer, Paul Romaine, Ken Walker – Homecoming – Ghost Orchid (2022)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles are present)

Live Music Colorado featuring  LiveMusicMegaSearch™

CP S17 EP06 2023

February 6, 2023 – I was hoping for either Yonder Mountain String Band or the Infamous Stringdusters to bring a Grammy home to Colorado, but no such luck this year.

Every once in a while it happens. I get sent a record WEEKS before it goes live on your favorite streaming source. In this week’s show there were pre-release debuts from Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck and one from the solo debut from Trent Nelson (Strange Americans).

As I sat here yesterday tabulating this week’s spins I was very pleasantly surprised to see the new album Four from Colorado Music Hall of Fame guitarist Bill Frisell debut at #3.

#COMUSIC TOP FIVE WEEK ENDING FEB 04, 2023

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 and agents to track airplay.

(3) 1. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(2) 2. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(D) 3. BILL FRISELL – Four LP (Nov-22)
(D) 4. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Built On Bones EP (Oct-22)
(D) 4. HOLLOW HEAD – Fake Plastic Trees SINGLE (Jan-23)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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I designed the Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) as 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.

Kenny Vaughan – The Things I Do – V (2011)
Kenny Vaughan – Country Music Got A Hold On Me – V (2011)
(D) Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck – Standin’ In the Corner – Learn to Let the Light In (2023)
Sweet Virginia – Blue Skies – Leaving Again (2022)
Augustus – Kick the Doors Down – Color TV and Tall Tales (2020)
Hunter James and the Titanic – Rabbit Run – Signals (2023)
My Body Sings Electric – Change – Part 2: What It Means to Be Afraid (2019)
Fierce Bad Rabbit – Everything Is Alright – Fierce Bad Rabbit (2010)
Mike Clark and the Sugar Sounds – Warm Me Up – Moon Rock (2022)
(D) Trent Nelson – Guide This Light – Where We Begin (2023)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Stuck In Motion – Heavy Diamond Ring (2019)
Mojomama – We Are One – We Are One (2022)
Bill Frisell – Baja – Guitar in the Space Age (2014)

Dusty Drapes – Talkin‘ Boogie – The Red Album (1981)
Starlite Ramblers – Colorado Rose – It’s Enough To Make A Cowboy Outta You (1980)
(D) Everybody Loves An Outlaw – Play Down & Dirty – Takin’ You Down EP (2023)

Adrienne O – What What What (2022)
Float Like a Buffalo – The Day – Back From Nowhere (2019)
Mad Radio – Satellite (2023)
Leftover Salmon – House of Cards – Something Higher (2018)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Children Of The Lord – Cipher (2008)
Thom LaFond – New Wildfire – The Moon Leans In (2022)
(D) Stay Tuned – Friday Night Lights (2023)

Darcy Nelson – Bad (2022)
Dragondeer – Mirage a Trois (2019)
(NT) BTTRFLY Quintet – Verti Marte – Coast (2023)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles are present)

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#COMUSIC – TOP 30 JAN 2023

The last report was DEC 2022. There are 31 titles in this month’s TOP 30.  

Every Sunday I survey over a dozen community/public and college stations, which includes spins on respective stations via the Colorado Playlist. 

Survey period is from the first week ending with a Saturday through the last week ending with a Saturday.  Titles are linked to its respective YouTube page.

At the bottom of the JAN TOP 30 you’ll find TOP “5” charts for 88.9 KRFC Fort Collins, Indie 102.3, 105.5 The Colorado Sound and eleven other stations around the state that report to Spinitron.

TWENTY ONE debuts (D) for the month.
FIVE titles stayed from previous month
FIVE titles re-entered (R) the TOP 30.

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, designed to benefit community/public and college radio stations and offering search functions for artists and agents to track airplay.

(21) 1. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Channels EP (May-22)
(D) 2. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(3) 3. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(D) 4. TRAVIS MCNAMARA – Moon Calendar LP (Mar-23)
(D) 5. TENNIS – Pollen LP (Jan-23)
(D) 5. TRASH. – Ghosts EP (Dec-22)
(D) 6. CHLOE SOUTHERN – Last Man on Earth EP (Nov-22)
(D) 6. GRIMMLY – Happiest – SINGLE (Dec-22)
(2) 7. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP (Jun-22)
(21) 7. MIKE CLARK & THE SUGAR SOUNDS – Moon Rock LP (Mar-22)
(D) 7. SREEJA CHAKRA – Better Off SINGLE (Oct-22)
(R) 8. MOJOMAMA – We Are One LP (Jun-22)
(D) 9. BABAH FLY – Wisdom in the Framework SINGLE (Nov-22)
(14) 9. VINCE HERMAN – Enjoy the Ride LP (Nov-22)
(R) 9. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Get Yourself Outside LP (Feb-22)
(D) 10. LID DIXON – Parlor Trick EP (Dec-22)
(D) 10. SARA FLOWS – The Age of Aquarius EP (Apr-22)
(D) 11. CALEB MILLER – Handsome SINGLE (Nov-22)
(D) 11. SAMI DAVIS – Happy Pill SINGLE (May-22)
(D) 12. HOVERFLY – Hate SINGLE (Oct-22)
(R) 12. KEITH OXMAN – This One’s for Joey LP (May-22)
(D) 12. SARA FLOWS – Subaru SINGLE (Nov-22)
(D) 13. BABAH FLY – U Can Feel the Vibration SINGLE (Jul-22)
(D) 13. SAMI DAVIS – Sick SINGLE (Dec-22)
(R) 13. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Toward the Fray LP (Feb-22)
(D) 14. GABRIEL MERVINE – GM5 LP (Jan-23)
(R) 14. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Nightmares LP (Oct-22)
(D) 15. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Built On Bones EP (Oct-22)
(D) 15. JACOB LARSON BAND – Totally Legal LP (Oct-22)
(D) 15. PLUTINOS – Last to Know SINGLE (Nov-22)
(D) 15. VIOLET PILOT – Glad We Found You LP (Oct-22)

TOP FIVE BY STATION

88.9 KRFC (Fort Collins/Northern Front Range)
(1) 1. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP (Jun-22)
(D) 2. BRIANNA HARRIS – When We’re Found LP (Sep-22)
(D) 3. LID DIXON – Parlor Trick EP (Dec-22)
(R) 4. BLUES CIRCUS – Old Time Blues Revue LP (Jul-22)
(5) 4. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)

INDIE 102.3 (Denver/multiple markets)
(D) 1. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Channels EP (May-22)
(D) 1. TRASH. – Ghosts EP (Dec-22)
(D) 2. CHLOE SOUTHERN – Last Man on Earth EP (Nov-22)
(D) 2. GRIMMLY – Happiest SINGLE (Dec-22)
(D) 2. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(D) 2. TENNIS – Pollen LP (Jan-23)

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND (Greeley/Northern Front Range)
(4) 1. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(4) 1. JYEMO CLUB – EPocha EP (Aug-22)
(R) 1. RITMO CASCABEL – Ritmo Cascabel EP (Apr-22)
(R) 2. CARY MORIN & GHOST DOG – Goin’ Down South SINGLE (May-22)
(R) 2. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Nightmares LP (Oct-22)
(1) 2. IZCALLI – Rebirth LP (Jul-22)
(3) 2. MIKE CLARK & THE SUGAR SOUNDS – Moon Rock LP (Mar-22)

KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KCSU (Fort Collins) KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KOTO (Telluride), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (4 Corners), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF (Paonia)
(2) 1. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – Small Towns LP (Sep-22)
(1) 2. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(R) 2. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Toward the Fray LP (Feb-22)
(D) 3. BIG RICHARD – Live from Telluride LP (Oct-22)
(4) 4. ANDY THORN – Songs of the Sunrise Fox LP (Sep-22)
(3) 4. LETTUCE – Unify LP (Jun-22)
(3) 4. VINCE HERMAN – Enjoy the Ride LP (Nov-22)