Category: MMMM (New Music)

A Bit of Colorado Music History in a new album.

Rick Roberts, Richie Furay, and Jock Bartley are three of our most legendary musicians still living, in Colorado today.  They all seem to be staying fairly active.  I’ve been enjoying a new album that each of the three of them appear on – along with drummer Patrick Shanahan.  Thanks to bassist Mike Gallivan for hipping me to this info:  Patrick was in the Soul Survivors, part of the Denver Big 3 with the Moonrakers and Boenzee Cryque.  He also played with Rusty Young in a Country Trio when they were in Jr High. After the Soul Survivors, he went to LA with Randy Meisner and Allen Kemp and became Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band.

I know that Richie is finishing up a new solo album as we speak, and there’s been rumors floating around the scene that Rick has been encouraged to step back in behind the mic and give us some new music.  I have no doubt Jock will be a part of whatever Rick does next.

The album I’ve been enjoying is The Piedbmont Brothers Band – III.  It’s an unusual project in that it’s essentially one guy out of N. Carolina and another from Italy who have teamed up with several notable players to continue the country-rock traditions originated in the 60s by guys like Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco and others.

Check ’em out … with 5 current or former Coloradoans on board it gets an official Colorado Connection (CC) designation and will get some love on The Colorado Sound…

http://www.piedmontbrothersband.com/fr_home.cfm

 

The Colorado Sound S7 EP17 May 2013

station controlLOL … ok, I have no shares this week… it happens.  It’s been one of those weeks.  I’d say that I highly recommend the new debuts this week, but that kinda goes without saying.  Very pleased that I was able to debut the new Head for the Heels this week – way in advance of their upcoming new album due out in July.  Fans of Dan Fogelberg, John Denver, and James Taylor will enjoy the new Danny Shafer album, Wherever You Are.   And, I continue to be impressed with the Beki Hemingway record, “I Have Big Plans for the World” that I’ve been featuring the past few weeks now.

I got an interesting email from miss Megan Burtt this week.. she’s up to some kinda good …but it’s a secret and she ain’t tellin.  LOL.  Based on the questions she was asking me, this is going to be fun to see develop.  In the meantime I’m looking forward to a new record from her.  Got to hang out and do sound for Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams this weekend.  Their new album is going to the mastering stage – with a hopeful done date by the end of May.  Count on hearing it here first.  Katie Glassman showed up for the second set… she’s heading into the studio on Monday to record her sophomore effort.

On next week’s show new music from AdrienneO and Sam Lee …

In the meantime check out The Colorado Sound “TV” – the best of what I’ve found to date on YouTube 

PLAYLIST S7 EP17 May 2013

Zephyr “Sold My Heart” from Sunset Ride (2000)
Jill Sobule “Cinnamon Park” from Underground Victorious (2004)
Rob Drabkin “Little Steps” from Little Steps EP (2013)
Petals of Spain “I Gotta Know” from Soul Canon (2013)
Robert Marcey & Familyman Barrett & the Wailers “Shame” from Wailin for Justice (2010)
(D) Desirae Garcia “Hardly Are You Lonely” from Ill Fitting (2013)
(N) Andy Hackbarth “Treadmill Horses” from Treadmill Horses (2013)
Jeff Brinkman Band “Halo” from Strange (2012)
Ryan Chrys “The Road Never Ends” from A Lick & A Promise (2013)
(D) Head for The Hills “Take Me Back” from Take Me Back (2013)
(D) Austin Young & No Difference “Blue As Can Be” from Blue As Can Be (2013)
Great American Taxi “New Millennium Blues” from Reckless Habits (2010)
Ben Haugland “The Point of No Return” from The Point Of No Return (2012)
Acoustic Junction “Strange Days” from Strange Days (2000)
Earth, Wind & Fire “Evil” from Head to the Sky (1973)
(N) Churchill “Gone Too Long” from War Within EP (2013)
Megan Burtt “Other Side of Lonely” from It Ain’t Love (2010)
Bop Skizzum “Do You Want It?” from Coloradical (2012)
(D) Danny Shafer “American In Me” from Wherever You Are (2013)
(D) Jeff Scroggins & Colorado “New Mexico” from Western Branches (2013)
(N) Beki Hemingway “Skybound” from I Have Big Plans for the World (2013)
The Fray “All At Once” from How to Save A Life (2005)
A Boy and His Kite “You Want It, You Got It” from A Boy and His Kite (2012)
The Autumn Film “Love Is An Avalance” from 8 Track Tape (2012)
Places “The Fire” from No More Wasted Days (2012)
(N) Brad Goode “All Fall Down” from Chicago Red (2013)

NEW Music on a Friday afternoon

gregory alan isakovOh man, this one got me excited.  We’ve been waiting for a new Gregory Alan Isakov cut for years now it seems… in fact, it’s been 4 yrs since his last album.  #stoked #coloradomusic