Category: MMMM (New Music)

The Colorado Sound S7 EP33 2013

NEWS NOTES THOUGHTS & THAT OH TOO RARE REVIEW

Feeling helpless sucks.  That’s about the whole summation of my personal experiences the past several days sitting here in reasonably dry, warm, safe conditions, cut off physically from so many of my closest friends and “families.”  ***as I write just before publishing today, it’s pouring / Sunday 12:50PM***

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Oct 25, 2009

Miss Pattie and I are heartbroken – all the more so me worrying, not knowing the condition of our “wedding chapel” – Oskar Blues Lyons – the place where every time I step foot in the door I am reminded of the most joyous day of the past 15 years of my life, and where I still feel and hear the scene taking place around me as if it were yesterday… and that is literally home for so many of our family of friends.

Over the next several days we’re going to have to make an assessment of the needs of our families in Lyons, Boulder, and Longmont, and begin the work of getting some of those needs met.  

With so much rain ..it was a good chance to hang out and work on my music collection.  I was introduced to three new releases – two via YouTube.  On the bluegrass front I spent a lot of time listening to the upcoming new release from the Boulder/Lyons quartet the Railsplitters.  Add it to the growing list of stellar bluegrass releases already out this season.  I’m rarely driven to write reviews – less so when asked.  I’ve started four in the past several days, rained in, listening to a lot of music… thinning out the collection …this one stuck.

“GOLDEN RING” – Dixie Leadfoot & Brent Loveday – There have been some raging country fried reinterpretations of rock and country classics over the years in Colorado.  Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams, Drag the River, and the Railbenders are all known for twisting rock and country classics well out of the boxed-in staid remembrances of the songs’ original fans.  Punk rock lead vocalist Brent Lovejoy (Reno Divorce) and local rockabilly bassist/vocalist Dixie Leadfoot (former Frank Zappa vocalist Suzannah Harris) pair up for an unexpectedly glorious reinterpretation of the original George Jones / Tammy Wynette duet Golden Ring, bringing far more vocal edge, a looser feel among the players, and a more wide open and sparsely produced recording.   Highly recommended for fans of Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson and Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell (Begonias, 2005) .. it would be a great joy to hear more reinterpretations and self penned personal insights from this duo.    

PLAYLIST S7 EP33 SEPT 2013

The Czars “Paint the Moon” from Goodbye (2004)
Jay Munly “Amen Corner” from Munly & the Lee Lewis Harlots (2004)
(D) Kramies “The Wooden Heart” from The Wooden Heart (2013) String Cheese Incident “Sirens” from Untying the Not (2003)
Thom Chacon “American Dream” from Thom Chacon (2013)
Katey Laurel “Hurricane” from Periscope (2013)Fierce Bad Rabbit “Matter of Time” from Maestro & the Elephant (2013)
Jeff Brinkman “Island” from Strange (2012)
(N) Elephant Revival “Grace of A Woman” from These Changing Skies (2013)
The Holler! “Yellow Moon” from Gratitude (2011)
Katya Chorover “Whiskey Clouds” from Big Big Love (2012)
Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore “Losers” from Saints & Sinners (2010)
Peter Sommer “The Sweeper” from Tremolo Canteen (2010)
Acoustic Junction “Every Heart” from Strange Days (2000)
Leftover Salmon “Baby Hold On” from Euphoria (1997)
Gregory Alan Isakov “Living Proof” from The Weatherman (2013)
(N) Covenhoven “Young At Heart” from Covenhoven (2013)
Devotchka “100 Other Lovers” from 100 Lovers (2011)
GogoLab “Tumbleweeds” from Border Patrol (2013)
(N) Pretty Lights “Always All Ways” from A Color Map of the Sun (2013) P-Nuckle “The System” from The System (2013)
Beki Hemingway “Lay It Down” from I Have Big Plans for the World (2013)
Chris Daniels “Wildcat” from Better Days (2012)
Chie Imaizumi “The More the Merrier” from Unfailing Kindness (2006)

The Colorado Sound – S7 EP31 Aug/Sept 2013

chris at ob hmls sunday june 16 2013Because I’m working on the News Notes & Spins column I really don’t have time to devote to this week’s PLAYLIST post.  That said, I did just get in the new release from Gabrielle Louise.  It’s one of the most stunning looking releases I’ve seen in years.  One of the most talked about new projects to emerge this month comes from Joel Van Horne (formerly of Carbon Choir) in the role of Covenhoven, both a place (a cabin in WY) and the man.  This video from the debut due out SEPT 24.

PLAYLIST S7 EP31 Aug/Sept 2013

Joe Walsh “Here We Go” from Barnstorm (1972)
Firefall “It Doesn’t Matter” from Firefall (1976)
A Boy and His Kite “Good Men” from A Boy and His Kite (2012)
The ReMinders “Africa On My Mind” from Born Champions (2012)
Rob Drabkin “Little Steps” from Little Steps EP (2013)
Molina Speaks “Fam Biz (feat DJ Icewater)” from Greatest Rapper Never Heard (2013)
Cassie Taylor “Out of My Mind” from Out Of My Mind (2013)
Petals of Spain “Shine” from Soul Canon (2013)
The Motet “The Lesson” from Play (2000)
(D) Covenhoven “These Teeth” from Covenhoven (2013)
The Haunted Windchimes “Wanderin’ Heart” from Out With The Crow (2012)
Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams “Betty Boop” from Midnight Rodeo (2006)
Adam Stern “Alchemical Rooms” from Twang Shui (2009)
Poco “Call It Love” from Legacy (1989)
(D) Poco “Regret” from All Fired Up (2013)
Earth, Wind & Fire “Pure Gold” from Illumination (2009)
Selina Albright “Brighter” from Brighter (2013)
(N) The Patti Fiasco “Elvis” from Small Town Lights (2013)
(D) The 14ers “Get Some” from Get Some (2013)
The Samples “Warm & Sunny” from Black & White (2004)
Winger “Deal with the Devil” from Karma (2009)
The Knew “What’s Hip (Long Walk)” from What’s Hip (Long Walk) (2013)
(D) Navy “Something Good” from Spirit Groove (2013)Hello Kavita “Sunday (It’s A Chrome Tide)” from To A Loved One (2009)
Bill Frisell “Sub-Conscious Lee” from History, Mystery (2008)

The Colorado Sound – S7 EP30 Aug 2013

chris at ob hmls sunday june 16 2013Got <10 mins?  Back in “the day” we used to do airchecks – both as a way of critique and for possible job openings.  In those days it was less about the music and more about the show – how well the dj did, since the music was largely someone else’s ultimate responsibility and what we really wanted to focus on was the way the dj presented things.

As I was driving around reminiscing on that subject a few days ago it occurred to me to do that for you this week – give you an aircheck of sorts, but one more focused on the music than on what I might have to say – though I included some of that for glue and continuity.  I hope it’s enough to encourage you to listen to the weekly broadcasts aired around the state.  

If you haven’t heard yet, you can now hear the Colorado Sound every Sunday morning at 10AM on Radio 94.9 Colorado.

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK 

Courtesy of SHEL, you turned heads with one of the stellar appearances at the 9th Annual Bohemian Nights at New West Fest.

PLAYLIST S7 EP30 AUG 2013

Hillbilly Hellcats “Dead Man’s Party” from Westword ’96 Music Awards Shocase (1996)
Sherri Jackson “Simple Pleasures” from Catalyst (2000)
(N) Joe Johnson “White Port Wine” from New West Sound (2013)
Elephant Revival “Birds and Stars” from These Changing Skies (2013)
(D) Kinetix “Never too Late” from Never too Late (2013)(N) Patti Fiasco “Oil” from Small Town Lights (2013)
(D) Flashbulb Fires “Unseen Things” [single] (2013)Take to the Oars “Morning Coffee” from The Bow & the Stern (2013)
Don’ts and Be Carefuls “The Still Favorites” from Sun Hits (2011)
Honkytonk Homeslice “Burnin’ Down” from Just Passin’ Thru (2012)
(D) Finders And Youngberg “Lonely Too Long” from I Don’t Want Love You Won’t Give Until I Cry (2013)
(N) Aakash Mittal Quartet “Jeeiu’s Jeeiu” from Oceans (featuring Ron Miles) (2013)
Sweet Water Well “Zoeology” from Watermelon (1996)
Acoustic Junction “Strange Days” from Strange Days (2000)
(D) Katey Laurel “Hurricane” from Periscope (2013)
(D) Damon Wood’s Harmonious Junk “The Phoenix” from Sirens and Pipers (2013)
(D) Five Iron Frenzy “It Was A Cold and Stormy Night” [single] (2011)(D) Leftover Salmon “Thornpipe” [single] (2013)
(N) Monocle Band “Falling” from Monocle Band (2013)
(D) Bobby Walker “Rollin’ Me Back Home” from Feelin’ Good (2013)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “Thy Will Be Done” from Unentitled (2011)
Andy Monley “Kites” from Triplight (2006)
Rob Drabkin “Down to Fate” from Little Steps EP (2013)
AdrienneO “Innocence” from Superchromatic (2013)
Ben Markley “5-20” from Second Introduction (2009)