Category: Charts

CP S19 EP35 2025

Some of the best of Colorado from the past to the present. New music from Jeremy Facknitz, Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon, Patrick Dethlefs, and Cil.

YIKES! Taking a vacation and deciding to not do any business at all sure did put me behind the proverbial eight-ball … lots of catching up to do this week. Claire’s photo this week is probably the last Milky Way shot of the season. We sure were not dressed for this shot of the rising Milky Way with the setting moon over Bonham Reservoir on the Grand Mesa in Western Colorado. It got a bit colder than we expected and neither of us brought warm weather clothing! YIKES! But the changing fall colors during the day made it worth the trip.
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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.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

THANKS to Roots Music Festival for supporting the show!

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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Beast – Spaceman – Beast (1969)
Poco – What A Day – Pickin’ Up the Pieces (1969)
(D) Jeremy Facknitz – Burn the Maps (2025)

Dragondeer – Jolee (2024)
The Infamous Stringdusters – Toward the Fray – Toward the Fray (2022)
Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
Wovenhand – Long Horn – The Laughing Stalk (2012)
Tierro Band with Bridget Law – Charity – Allurement (2019)
Rob Drabkin – My Train is Coming – City Lights & Country Sides (2025)
(D) Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon – Red Wine for Whiskey – Lonesome and Free (2025)

Euforquestra – Show Me The Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
The Fray – Same Thing – The Fray Is Back (2024)
Dave Gruisin Trio – Love Letters – Kaleidoscope (1965)

Judy Roderick – Country Girl Blues – Women Blue (1965)
Lothar and The Hand People – Machines – Presenting Lothar and the Hand People (1968)
(N) Patrick Detlefs – Smooth Wreck – Patty (2025)

Marfa – 66 (2024)
Augustus – Kick the Doors Down – Color TV and Tall Tales (2020)
Eva Rose King – Snapshot feat. Taylor Ashton – After Tale (2025)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Caves – Evening Machines (2018)
The Knew – Bang the Drum – Man Monster (2012)
The Galentines – Rear View Mirror – 1140 (2025)
(D) CIL – Something Like This (2025)

Claire Heywood – Letter Day (2020)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Glorious Full Moon – Her Way Out (2024)
Matt Skellenger – Connectivity – Subspace Transmission (2023)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING SEPT 28 2025

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.

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE
(5) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 2. PINK FUZZ – Animal SP Jul-25
(R) 2. SWEET VIRGINIA – Sweet Virginia EP Jun-25
(R) 3. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(D) 4. KYLE HARVEY – Anywhere But Here LP Sep-25

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#COMUSIC TOP 30 AUGUST 2025

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP PLEASE

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. I make this show available for no cost to the stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

If you represent a business and 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).

KAFM, KBUT, KCSU, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA 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 102.3, 105.5 The Colorado Sound and 88.9 KRFC. Their HOT SPINS are listed below.

TOP 30 AUGUST 2025
(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25
(3) 3. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(R) 4. MARFA – Daisy SP Sep-24
(D) 5. GLAMOUR SHOT – High Tide SP May-25
(D) 6. GHOST GNOTES – how does compliments LP Apr-25
(D) 7. MON CHER – Lush SP Jun-25
(D) 8. ON THE DOT – Sea in Between LP May-25
(16) 9. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(14) 10. SOUR MAGIC – Silver Sands SP May-25
(6) 11. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(17) 12. BIG GIGANTIC – Fluorescence LP Jun-25
(R) 12. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Wildflower Lane LP Mar-25
(D) 13. RIAH – Trauma Bond LP Sep-24
(D) 14. ANALOG SON – Keep It Coming LP Jan-25
(8) 15. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
(7) 16. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Cowboy Caravan LP Apr-25
(D) 17. RIAH – Stand By You (feat. El Javi and Dominick L. Williams) SP Jun-25
(17) 17. THE RIVER ARKANSAS – Tin Years LP Apr-25
(D) 18. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(D) 19. LETTUCE – Gold Tooth / Rising to the Top SP Jul-25
(D) 19. MYSTEE – Forget Me Not EP Jul-25
(18) 20. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(15) 20. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(D) 21. DJ WILLIAMS – Gravity & Grace LP May-25
(5) 21. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 22. AUGUSTUS – Matchbox SP Jun-25
(D) 22. BEVIN LUNA – Shimmer SP Jun-25
(R) 22. CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Lakota SP Oct-24
(D) 22. QUESO RA – Glass SP May-25
(D) 22. RAGGED UNION – Pyramid Stairs LP Jun-25

88.9 KRFC – 43 TITLES TRACKED
(9) 1. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(1) 2. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 3. MYSTEE – Forget Me Not EP Jul-25
(5) 4. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(7) 5. CHRISTINE ALICE – Wood, Strings & Simple Things LP Feb-25
(D) 5. SIDEYEARD SANCTUARY – American Classics, Vol. II LP Jun-25

INDIE 102.3 (KVOQ) – 16 titles tracked
(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. GLAMOUR SHOT – High Tide SP May-25
(D) 3. GHOST GNOTES – how does compliments LP Apr-25
(D) 4. MON CHER – Lush SP Jun-25
(D) 4. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND (KJAC) – 38 titles tracked
(1) 1. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(2) 1.CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Lakota SP Oct-24
(1) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(R) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(1) 1. QUESO RA – Glass SP May-25
(2) 1. SOUR MAGIC – The Hive LP May-25

KAFM, KBUT, KDNK, KFFR, KOTO, KRZA, KSJD, KSUT, KVNF – 46 titles tracked
(1) 1. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(3) 2. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(R) 2. STILL HOUSE STRING BAND – Still House String Band EP Feb-25
(2) 2. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
(7) 3. DAVID STARR – Must Be Blue LP Feb-25
(D) 3. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP Jun-25

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CP S10 EP33 2025

Claire and I are heading off to the Atlantic shores for vacation this week, so if things are slow to post or you don’t see the HOT SPINS on the Colorado Playlist Facebook page next Sunday, that’s why. I’ll try to catch up when we return. Until then, don’t forget to tune into your favorite publicly funded radio station that airs this show or enjoy the archives on Mixcloud.

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.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

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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Dusty Drapes & the Dusters – Talkin’ Boogie – The Red Album (1981)
Chris Daniels and the Kings – Choo-Choo-Ch’ Boogie – Louie Louie (2001)
(N) A.J. Fullerton – Day’s End – Magnetic Light (2025)

Eminence Ensemble – Moonshine – Inside Looking Out (2024)
Andy Frasco & the U.N. – I’ve Got a Long Way to Go – Keep On Keepin On (2020)
Gasoline Lollipops – Tennessee Nights – Kill the Architect (2025)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – New Boots – Saints & Sinners (2010)
Emily Scott Robinson – Built On Bones – Built On Bones (2022)
Sour Magic – Silver Sands (2025)
(N) The River Arkansas – Nothin’ Goin’ My Way – Tin Years (2025)

Jaiel – Sunshine Lovin’ (2022)
Grant Sabin – Headshaker – Work (2024)
Ben Parrish – Tone Dance – Crankbait (2024)

Leftover Salmon – Highway Song – Euphoria (1997)
(N) Big Gigantic – Sweetest Sacrifice – Fluorescence (2025)

Andy Sydow – Every Little Thing About Love – Night Skin (2024)
The String Cheese Incident – Lend Me A Hand – Lend Me A Hand (2023)
Analog Son – This Time Around f. Adryon de Leon – Keep It Coming (2025)
Tennis – High Road – Young & Old (2012)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Wipeout Turn – New World Arisin’ (2017)
The Dirty Turkeys – Ooodelade – Cowboy Caravan (2025)
(D) Lettuce – Gold Tooth – Cook (2025)

Deva Yoder – Resting From Their Labors – Be Well (2023)
Teresa Suydam – Good Condition (2024)
Gabriel Mervine – When It’s Sleepytime Down South – Say Somethin’ (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

ALL STATIONS INCLUDING THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 61 titles tracked
(3) 1. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(R) 2. A.J. Fullerton – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(1) 2. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 2. Sour Magic – The Hive LP May-25
(4) 2. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25

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