Grand Junction and Mt. Garfield from Colorado Nat’l Monument – courtesy of clearvistasphotography.com
MONDAY APRIL 03 2023 – As I sat down to put this week’s post together, I got word that the new Leftover Salmon album will drop in May. There’s already a single out that I’ll get to in next week’s show. That’s on top of Leftover Salmon cofounder, “uncle” Vince Herman‘s, debut solo effort that moved up two spots to #6 in the running 2023 TOP 20.
If you’re hoping for a new Big Head Todd & the Monsters release before their Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction, dream on. Band keyboardist, Jeremy Lawton, informed me that “…we are doing a “maybe” on July. Doing a big 7-8 week thing with Blues Traveler so we are going to try to have something for that.” So, July…
You may also notice an asterisk (*) in front of *The Wood Brothers. As I mentioned in the MARCH / 2023 TOP 20 spins report this weekend, *The Wood Brothers are not, specifically speaking, a locally based band. The asterisk (*) denotes Colorado expat musicians who were born and/or raised here, or got started here (or for some other compelling reason) and are still considered part of #COMUSIC.
#COMUSIC TOP FIVE WEEK ENDING 4/01/23
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. DEVA YODER – Be Well LP (Feb-23)
(1) 2. *THE WOOD BROTHERS – Heart Is the Hero LP (Apr-23)
(D) 3. KIND HEARTED STRANGERS – Now.Here LP (Mar-23) **
(D) 4. SUGAR NOVA – Halogen LP (May-23)
(D) 5. BRIANA HARRIS – When We’re Found LP (Sep-22)
(D) 5. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – All the Lights SINGLE (Mar-23)
MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)
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.
(D) = debut of a single, ep or lp on the show
(N) = new track from previous (D) ep or lp
Dianne Reeves – Afro Blue – I Remember (1991)
(D) Deva Yoder – Resting From Their Labors – Be Well (2023)
Alysia Kraft – Cold Mountain – First Light (2022)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Losers – Saints & Sinners (2010)
Brothers Keeper – He Left You feat. John Popper (2023)
Acoustic Junction – Goodbye World – Strange Days (2000)
Flobots = Me & You (Happy 2gether) (2021)
Jeremy Facknitz – There’s No Going Home Again (Feat. Serenity Holloway) – Smilin’ At the Future (2023)
(D) Julian Fulco Perron – All the Lights (2023)
Great American Taxi – Dr Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show – Dr. Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show (2016)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Love Don’t – The Future (2022)
Bill Frisell – Rebel Rouser – Guitar in the Space Age (2014)
Joe Walsh – Rocky Mountain Way – Rocky Mountain Way (1975)
(N) Sugar Nova – Touch Me, I’m Going to Scream, Pt. II – Halogen (2023)
Elektric Animals – Come Clean – Channels EP (2022)
A.J. Fullerton – She’s So Cold – Kalamath (2017)
Adrienne O – You Don’t Want My Love (2023)
The Mercury Project – Refuge – Soapbox Jive (2004)
Cary Morin – Jamie Rae – Dockside Saints (2020)
Cody Qualls – Colorado (Save A Place for Us) – Cody Qualls & New Ancients (2023)
(N) Kind Hearted Strangers – In the Blue – Now.here (2023) **
Gabrielle Louise – If The Static Clears – If The Static Clears (2016)
The Infamous Stringdusters – Down From the Mountain – Toward the Fray (2022)
Adam Bodine – Surface Service – Scenes of Changery (2021)
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