CP S19 EP17 2025

Colorado singer-songwriter Jill Sobule passed away at 66 in a Minnesota house fire, with memorial plans pending later this summer.

News hit us hard this past weekend when we learned that native Colorado singer-songwriter, Jill Sobule, passed away on May 01, at the age of 66, in a house fire in Minnesota. She was scheduled to perform the next night at Swallow Hill Music in Denver, where she learned to play guitar as a teenager.

Although not inducted, The Colorado Music Hall of Fame is planning a memorial for Jill later this summer.

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Here’s this week’s MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING comes courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs.

Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) I shared in the show this week.

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.

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Lothar and the Hand People Midnight Ranger – Space Hymn (1969)
Sugarloaf ‘Round & ‘Round (1973)
(D) Zoe BermanFast Forward (2025)
Heavy Diamond Ring Like Lightning (2024)
Rob Drabkin My Train is Coming – City Lights & Country Sides (2025)
Julian Fulco Perron Not So Fast – In My Garden (2022)
The Apples In Stereo Same Old Drag – New Magnetic Wonder (2007)
piKziL Exit Strategy (2025)
(D) The River Arkansas Nothin’ Goin’ My Way – Tin Years (2025)
Leftover Salmon Blue Railroad Train (feat. Billy Strings) – Grass Roots (2023)
Jack Hadley The Blues Made Me Strong Again – the St. Louis Sessions Volume II (2024)
Wil Swindler’s ElevenetUniverse B – Universe B (2010)

The Rainy Daze That Acapulco Gold (1967)
The Fantastic Zoo Light Show (1969)
(D) The Dirty TurkeysOo-De-Lally – Cowboy Caravan (2025)
Fast EddyIn Too Deep – To the Stars (2024)
Five Iron FrenzyRenegades – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
The Galentines Rear View Mirror – 1140 (2025)
Megan BurttReal Thing – The Bargain (2015)
Big Gigantic Got The Love – Brighter Future (2016)
The MotetSomething Better – Love Time (2024)
(D) 2MX2 Por Aqui Por Alla (2025)
ILLENIUMStory of My Life feat. Trippie Redd (2022)
Big Head Todd and the MonstersGlorious Full Moon – Her Way Out (2024)
Adam BodineSurface Service – Scenes of Changery (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING MAY 4, 2025

REPORT FROZEN THIS WEEK
(2) 1. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(4) 2. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(6) 3. CHELLA & THE CHARM – Happy Hour EP Mar-25
(3) 3. THE GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(6) 4. TINY TOMBOY – Psychic Scar LP Feb-25

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and Indie1023 (Denver) …

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#COMUSIC TOP 30 APRIL 2025

If you represent a business that would like my listeners to know about you, email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com for details.
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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 2023. I stopped tracking it in NOV 2024 (twelve months).

KAFMKBUTKCSUKDNKKDURKFFRKOTOKSJDKSUTKRFCKRZA 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

(D) = DEBUT IN TOP 30
(R) = REENTER TOP 30

You’re most likely to hear Colorado music on one of three stations along the Northern Front Range: Indie 102.3105.5 The Colorado Sound and 88.9 KRFC. Their HOT SPINS are listed below.

SURVEY PERIOD – MARCH 30-APRIL 26 2025
109 titles tracked, 1358 spins

(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(2) 2. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP (Oct-24)
(18) 3. THE GALENTINES – 1140 LP (Dec-24)
(D) 4. CHELLA & THE CHARM Happy Hour EP (Mar-25)
(D) 4. ELKA Cold Feet, Soft Landing EP (Mar-25)
(D) 5. COVENHOVEN The Color of the Dark LP (Apr-25)
(D) 6. MACHETE MOUTH120k SP (Aug-24)
(D) 7. TINY TOMBOY Psychic Scar LP Feb-25
(4) 8. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Flowers SP (Feb-25)
(D) 9. THE GROCERY STORYSituation in Aisle #3 LP Mar-25
(15) 10. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Don’t Go it Alone SP (Mar-25)
(18) 10. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP (Sep-24)
(17) 11. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP (Feb-25)
(D) 12. DAVID STARRHole in the Page/Lonesome Train SP (Feb-25)
(R) 12. GIANT WALKING ROBOTSWake Up LP (Aug-24)
(D) 13. CO-STANZADaykiller SP (Mar-25_
(20) 13. LOLITA – My Head f. DMD the Producer SP (Feb-25)
(9) 14. GRANT SABIN – Work LP (Aug-24)
(3) 15. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP (Mar-25)
(10) 15. The BURROUGHS – Got to Free Your Mind SP (Feb-25)
(R) 15. THE PATTI FIASCOOuroboros EP (May-24)
(R) 16. DELTA SONICS Concrete Hotel LP (Jan-25)
(D) 17. ERIC LILLEY TRIOSwing Set LP (Feb-25)
(16) 17.  HUNTER JAMES & THE TITANIC – Stranger Touch SP (Dec-24)
(8) 18. BIG RICHARD – Girl Dinner LP (Sep-24)
(D) 18. BISON BONELean EP (Apr-25)
(D) 19. BARBARA For Good Measure SP (Jun-24)
(D) 19. CHARLIE STEVENSTomorrow Starts Today SP (Apr-25)
(D) 19. CIPRIANO BAND Oh Cocoa LP (Mar-25)
(22) 19. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ Harboring Pearls LP (Mar-25)

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CP S19 EP16 2025

Early early morning over Cedaredge, CO courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

I NEED YOUR HELP. THE COLORADO PLAYLIST IS THE ONLY SHOW REPRESENTING AND PROMOTING COLORADO MUSIC STATEWIDE. YOUR SUPPORT IS NOW CRITICAL TO KEEPING IT ON THE AIR. MAKE DONATIONS VIA VENMO AT CHRISK-2 OR USE THE DONATION FORM BELOW.

We live in a state in love with the music that comes from here. Thanks for being a part of it!

Here’s this week’s Monday Morning Music Meeting, courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs.

Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) I shared in the show this week.

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.

Firefall Love That Got Away – Undertow (1980)
Chris Daniels and the KingsRoadhouse Music – When You’re Cool (1987)
(D) Wild Flight Deep Ellum Baby – Wild Flight (2025)
Sugar NovaTouch Me, I’m Going to Scream, Pt. II – Halogen (2023)
Marfa – Daisy (2025)
Judy CollinsWhen I Was A Girl In Colorado (2022)
Dianne ReevesOld Souls – Art & Survival (1994)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night SweatsCall Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
(D) Charlie StevensTomorrow Starts Today – Circles Round the Sun (2025)
The High Hawks Mother Nature’s Show – Mother Nature’s Show (2024)
Wildermiss Hell or High Water – In My Mind (2020)
Annie BoothQueen Bee – Wanderlust (2014)

Philip BaileyWalking on the Chinese Wall – Chinese Wall (1985)
Philip Bailey Billy Jack (radio edit) – Love Will Find A Way (2019)
(D) Jeremy Garrett Fly Away To Your Love – Storm Mountain (2025)
Zoe BermanEdit Delete and Save – Freezing Heat EP (2021)
Moon HoneyAustin (2025)
The Still TideChange of Address – Between Skies (2019)
The Blue Rider Rattlesnake – Year of the Horse (2016)
Grant Sabin Work – Work (2024)
(D) The Seeley Brothers Band You Got the Right to Sing the Blues – The Seeley Bros (2025)
Euforquestra Arizona to Georgia – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Thom LaFondLawless (2024)
Keith Oxman Memphis Gene – Doing All Right (2009)

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE including the Colorado Playlist
76 titles tracked, 324 spins
(2) 1. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(4) 2. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(6) 3. CHELLA & THE CHARM – Happy Hour EP Mar-25
(3) 3. THE GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(6) 4. TINY TOMBOY – Psychic Scar LP Feb-25

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and Indie1023 (Denver) …

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