Category: Charts

CP S19 EP26 2025

Lake San Cristobal, Lake City, CO. 2nd largest natural lake in Colorado. Courtesy Clear Vistas Photography.

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

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) and new songs (N) 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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THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. Please make donations via venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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Otis Taylor – Bowlegged Charlie – When Negroes Walked the Earth (1997)
Lionel Young Band – Defense Blues – As The Sun Goes Down (1997)
(D) Ian Janco – I Found You (2025)

Sugar Nova with G. Love & Special Sauce – Cool Down (2024)
Wood Belly – Pockets of Gold – Cicada (2023)
Deva Yoder – Stories – Stories (2025)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Wipeout Turn – New World Arisin’ (2017)
Bad Weather California – Let It Shine – Sunkissed (2012)
The Dirty Turkeys – Oo-De-Lally – Cowboy Caravan (2025)
(D) Riah – Stand By You – The Fourth Wall (2025)

Leslie Tom – Tequila After Midnight (2022)
Clay Street Unit – Engine Trouble (2024)
(D) Analog Son – Suspended Animation f. Eric Benny Bloom – Keep It Coming (2025)

Glenn Miller – In the Mood – In the Mood (1939)
Ellyn Rucker – One Morning In May – Ellyn (1988)
(D) Andy Eppler – Don’t Say My Name – Valley of the Sin Eaters (2025)
Elektric Animals – Dreaming/Wishing – A Bear and the Bull (2024)
Tejon Street Corner Thieves – You Rascal You (2023)
Tennis – 12 Blown Tires – Face Down In the Garden (2025)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Summer Wine – I Make My Own Luck (2018)
Dragondeer – Mirage a Trois (2019)
Rob Drabkin – My Train is Coming – City Lights & Country Sides (2025)
(D) CITRA – Long Way Around (2025)

Claire Heywood – Python – I Won’t Resign My Love For That Old Dream (2020)
A.J. Fullerton – Humility – Closer (2024)
The Jason Klobnak Quartet – Friends & Family – Friends & Family (2018)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING JULY 6, 2025

ALL STATIONS STATWIDE including spins on the Colorado Playlist
(D) 1. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Cowboy Caravan LP Apr-25
(D) 2. ANDY EPPLER – Valley of the Sin Eaters LP Jun-25
(D) 2. CITRA – Long Way Around SP Jun-25
(D) 2. ROB DRABKIN – City Lights & Country Sides LP Mar-25
(R) 2. TENNIS – Face Down in The Garden LP Feb-25

CP S19 EP25 2025 + Lake City review

North Clear Creek Falls, Colorado. Courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

This past week, Claire (Clear Vistas Photography) and I went to Lake City for dark skies and fly fishing. We’ll be sharing some of the stunning landscape and dark sky / Milky Way pics as Claire gets them done. This week’s featured photo is from North Clear Creek Falls, between Lake City and Creede.

And, of course, we took in some live music.

The Mary Stigall Theater is the centerpiece of Lake City Arts, “…celebrating community through year-round arts, culture, and education.” I’ve hosted and appeared at HUNDREDS of open mics. Rarely have I found one where a small community theater is filled with musicians of all ages and skill levels .. AND attendees there to take in the love of performing music.

Friday night, we went to hear some local solo artists at the popular Chillin Inc. Owner/operator Jeff Heaton is in the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame for the years he’s spent performing at Chillin’. Jeff loves his classic folk and country and he even included a touching rendition of Puff the Magic Dragon in the closing set.

Dining in Lake City is another story, entirely. Be prepared for lots of fried food and BBQ, and one Mexican restaurant. The exceptions are Breakfast Hangout & Euphoria, where you can find red snapper, along with duck, on their dinner menu …and the EXQUISITE Climb Elevated Eatery!

The room atmosphere, top flight service and dishes like Taste of the Rockies (elk tenderloin with Colorado lambchops the night we were there), or their signature BLT at lunch, makes Climb essential “fine dining” in this fairly remote Colorado mountain town.

WTG Lake City – we’ll be back.
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THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. Please make donations via venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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The MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

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) and new songs (N) 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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CP S19 EP25 2025 on Mixcloud .. where you can also find the previous four episodes.

Rick Roberts – Sail Away – Windmills (1972)
(N) Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Angel Eyes – Lost In The Crowd (2025)
Kiltro – All The Time in the World – Underbelly (2023)
Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
Lionel Young Band – Drivin’ Wheel – On Our Way to Memphis (2012)
Leftover Salmon – Show Me Something Higher – Something Higher (2018)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone (2025)
(N) Justin Lansing – Marilyn Monroe – Rocky Mountain Time (2025)
Wellington Bullings – Because I Want To (2020)
Julian Fulco Perron – About Love (2023)
Peter Sommer – Looks Like This – Tremolo Canteen (2010)

Deuce Mob – My ’64 – Going Solo (1996)
(N) A.J. Fullerton – Passing Time – Magnetic Light (2025)
Kick and the Hug – Contagious (2024)
Johnny & The Mongrels – Louisiana Girl – Creole Skies (2020)
Hunter James & the Titanic – Weekend Holds (2025)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Josephina – Black Beehive (2014)
Tennis – Needle and a Knife – Ritual in Repeat (2014)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Here I Go – Nowhere Next (2024)
(D) The Cody Sisters – Not My Thoughts – All the Quiet People (2025)
Sour Magic – Means to an End – Forbidden Fruit (2023)
The Crooked Rugs – Chasin’ the Wind – Hear & Now (2024)
Steve Denny Trio – Gramophology – Life in New York (2020)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING JUNE 29 2025

ALL STATIONS including the Colorado Playlist – 81 titles tracked
(D) 1. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(2) 2. BLANKSLATE – Lookout Mountain Charley LP Jun-25
(1) 3. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 4. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(3) 4. MAE HUNNIFORD – Yesterday SP Nov-24

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) …

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the country.

CP S19 EP24 2025

Crazy lightning over Mesa Verde courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show representing and promoting Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. Please make donations via venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com

We live in a state in love with the music that comes from here. Thanks for being a part of it!
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The MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

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) and new songs (N) 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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It’s not unusual for me to air songs before they become available to the general public on your favorite streaming site. Ragged Union‘s new album is due out July 1. Bevin Luna sent in a new single, release date June 27. I premiered them both this week on the show and you can listen below.

Conjunto Colores – El Centro – Lo Mejor Del Conjunto Colores (2002)
(P) Ragged Union – This Old Cowboy – Pyramid Stairs (2025)
A.J. Fullerton – Sorry You’re Blue – Closer (2024)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Already Gone – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
The Galentines – Rear View Mirror – 1140 (2025)
OneRepublic – Counting Stars – Native (2013)
Jeff Finlin – What’s The Big Idea – Ballad Of A Plain Man (2008)
Grant Sabin – Work – Work (2024)
(D) Sour Magic – Silver Sands (2025)
Tennis – High Road – Young & Old (2012)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Her Way Out – Her Way Out (2024)
Andrew Vogt – Brickpoint – Optimistic Infinity House (2024)

Bob Lind – Colorado Line – Since There Were Circles (1971)
Harry Tuft – You Gonna Quit Me – Across the Blue Mountains (1976)
(D) Ben Garcia – Sweet & True (2025)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Heartless – South of Here (2024)
The Still Tide – Give Me Time – Run Out (2017)
The Lumineers – You’re All I Got – Automatic (2025)
Megan Burtt – Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – The Bargain (2015)
Psychodelic Zombiez – The Doctor – Things That Are Brown (2015)
Lolita & DMD TheProducer – My Head (2025)
(P) Bevin Luna – Shimmer (2025)
Euforquestra – Show Me The Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Jack Hadley – The Blues Made Me Strong Again – the St. Louis Sessions Volume II (2024)
Gabriel Mervine – When It’s Sleepytime Down South – Say Somethin’ (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING JUNE 21, 2025

ALL STATIONS STATWIDE – including spins on the Colorado Playlist – 64 titles tracked
(1) 1. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. BEVIN LUNA – Shimmer SP Jun-25
(2) 2. BLANKSLATE – Lookout Mountain Charley LP Jun-25
(3) 3. MAE HUNNIFORD – Yesterday SP Nov-24
(R) 4. GRANT SABIN – Work LP Aug-24
(D) 4. IZZY VELOSO – Dramamine SP Feb-25
(3) 4. JUDAH NOBLE – Blue Hour LP May-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) …

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the country.