Category: Charts

CP S17 EP42 2023

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

NOVEMBER 20, 2023 – Happy Thanksgiving Week. The first holidaze gift of the season arrived last week, when Big Head Todd and the Monsters dropped the first single from their upcoming new album, that I’ve waited for now over a year. It’s part of this week’s MMMM, below.

I’ll post up the 14th Colorado Playlist Fan and Listener Poll next Monday.

#COMUSIC TOP SPINS NOV 12-18 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 to track airplay around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or 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

(1) 1. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – All Out of Angels LP (Sep-23)**
(2) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(4) 3. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(3) 4. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(D) 5. BISON BONE – 40 Grit EP (Aug-23)
(R) 5. DRAGONDEER – Across the Waves LP (Jun-23)**

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

www.starrsguitars.com

The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) 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.

Keller Williams – Freeker By the Speaker – Laugh (2002)
(N) VOLORES – Carrion – Ages (2023)
Kick and the Hug – Girl You’ve Changed – Ladies & Gentlemen (2022)
Alexa Wildish – The Well – Alexa Wildish EP (2020)
Leftover Salmon – Blue Railroad Train (feat. Billy Strings) – Grass Roots (2023)
Chuck Pyle – Keep it Simple – Higher Ground…songs of colorado (2007)
Andy Monley & the High Horses – Drag Me To Hell – Totem (2023)
(D) Shady Oaks – Broken Mirrors (2024)
Claire Heywood – Letter Day (2020)
Euforquestra – Show Me the Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Adam Bodine – Swamp Stomp – Scenes of Changery (2021)

Bob Dylan – Shelter From The Storm – Hard Rain (1976)
(D) Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Crush (2024)
YaSi – Guilty – Coexist With Chaos EP (2021)
Daniel Rodriguez – Brother John – Sojurn of a Burning Sun (2020)
Blankslate – Bell Station – Summer On A Salt Flat (2023)
Dressy Bessy – Anyone Can See – Holler and Stomp (2008)
The Blue Rider – Lightning – Year of the Horse (2016)
The Motet – Natural Light (2023)
(D) GRiZ – In This World – Ouroboros (2023)
Elektric Animals – Reckless (2020)
Erik Lunde – Steel Militia – Water From The Stone (2022)
Steve Denny Trio – You Stepped Out of a Dream – Life in New York (2020)

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CP S17 EP41 2023

NOV 13, 2023 – Lifetime Achievement .. don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere until 2026 😉 That said, thank you for being a fan of the show and thank you to KJAC aka 105.5 The Colorado Sound for recognizing me this way. It really means a lot after 45 years working in Colorado music and broadcasting. Check out all the winners of the 2nd Colorado Sound Music Awards.

I started working on the 14th Colorado Playlist Fan/Listener Poll this weekend. I expect to launch it on Friday NOV 24.

#COMUSIC TOP SPINS NOV 05-11 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 to track airplay around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered CHART
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or 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) 1. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – All Out of Angels LP (Sep-23)**
(1) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(2) 3. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(1) 4. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(R) 5. VOLORES – Ages LP (Mar-23)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

www.starrsguitars.com

The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) 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 S17 EP41 2023

Sugarloaf – Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You – Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You (1975)
Sugarloaf – Colorado Jones – Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You (1975)
(N) Kevin Dooley – Northern Boy – Band of Gypsys (2023)
The Copper Children – Pushin’ On – Strange Illusion (2022)
Jeremy Facknitz – There’s No Going Home Again (feat. Serenity Holloway) – Smilin’ At the Future (2023)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Under Your Spell – City of Love (2019)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Do You Know Thee Enemy? – Unentitled (2011)
Daniel Rodriguez – Mixtape – Vast Nothing (2023)
(N) Heavy Diamond Ring – When You’re Away (feat. Nathaniel Rateliff) – All Out of Angels (2023)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Boom Boom – Beautiful World (1997)
The Infamous Stringdusters – I Didn’t Know – Toward the Fray (2022)
Matt Skellenger – The Lion’s Tooth – Subspace Transmission (2023)

Firefall – Headed for a Fall – Undertow (1980)
Zephyr – Mad Dog – Heartbeat (1981)
(N) Wood Belly – Alamosa Rain – Cicada (2023)
Alysia Kraft – Cold Mountain – First Light (2022)
Silver and Smoke – Sting Like A Bee – 30P EP (2018)
Dragondeer – New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023)
Rose Hill Drive – Cool Cody – Rose Hill Drive (2006)
Reed Foehl – Wolves – Once An Ocean (2009)
Brothers Keeper – He Left You (f. John Popper) (2023)
(N) Sugar Nova – Somebody To Love (2023)
piKziL – Can’t Get Started – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
Jyemo Club – Issa Ting feat. the Reminders (2022)
Jon Wirtz – Watching The World Wake Up – Tourist (2013)

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CP S17 EP40 2023

A midsummer Milky Way in Fort Garland, CO courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

MONDAY NOV 5, 2023 – Welcome to the 2024 new release year. Folks of a certain age might recall when new model year cars were introduced in the fall, while current year models were still on showroom floors. Sorta the same.

In about five weeks you’ll start seeing annual Best Of lists being published. Here in about two weeks I will put up the 14th Annual Colorado Playlist Fan and Listener Polls for 2023. The annual Best Of show will run DEC 30 thru JAN 05. I’ll post up the poll results and 2023 spins chart on JAN 01, 2024.

#COMUSIC TOP SPINS OCT 29-NOV 05

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 around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered CHART
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or 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) 1. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(1) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(D) 2. KEVIN DOOLEY – Band O’ Gypsys LP (Sep-23)
(2) 2.  KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(D) 2. REBECCA FOLSOM – Sanctuary LP (Mar-23)
(D) 2. TEJON STREET CORNER THIEVES – You Rascal You SP (Oct-23)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

www.starrsguitars.com

The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) 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.

PLAYLIST CP S17 EP40

HOUR 1
Dusty Drapes – Cielito Lindo – The Red Album (1981)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Baby’s Got A Hold On Me – Hold On (1987)
(D) The Dollhouse Thieves – Take Me Down (2023)
LVDY – Begin Again – The Woods (2022)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeth Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
Bryce Menchaca – Flower Painted Black – Salt (2023)
Lionel Young Band – Blues & Boogie Woogie – On Our Way to Memphis: The IBC Sessions (2011)
Otis Taylor – Walk Right In – Recapturing The Banjo (2008)
Blood Brothers 303 – Moon Is My Mistress (2023)
(D) Sarah Christine – Share A Pillow (feat. Jackie’s Boy) (2023)
OneRepublic – A.I. (feat. Peter Gabriel) – Oh My My (2016)
One Flew West – Holes In My Jeans (2022)
BTTRFLY Quintet – Marauders – Coast (2023)

HOUR 2
Red Rock Roosters – Circuit Rider – Altitude Is Everything (1998)
(D) In Plain Air – A View From the End Of A Dream (2023)
Big Gigantic x GRIZ – Open Your Mind (2022)
Wildermiss – Carry Your Heart – Lost With You EP (2017)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Place at the Table – All Out of Angels (2023)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Criminal – The Show (2009)
Tennis – My Emotions Are Blinding – Yours Conditionally (2017)
VOLORES – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
(D) Romero – Afterglow (Staring At the Sky) (2023)
Kyle Emerson – I Can Change – Only Coming Down (2020)
Faith Eliza – Fighter (2022)
The Motet – Nachez – Breathe (1999)

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