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Milky Way outside of Craig, CO. Courtesy Claire Mannato/Clear Vistas Photograhy

MONDAY JULY 24, 2023 – We’re home. What a trip! NW Colorado is as unique and beautiful a place as there is in our state – and most of the rest of the region tbh. Claire had one night, our first after driving nearly five hours, to shoot clear vistas and stars. Rain and/or clouds obscured the night skies the rest of the week. Oh well – next road trip is mid-August to Mesa Verde for the Persied Meteor Shower.

Speaking of Mesa Verde, KSJD, serving the Mancos/Cortez and four corners section of the state, will NOT be airing the Colorado Playlist for the foreseeable future. Please continue to support this locally programmed community station as I wait for a new slot for the show to open up.

I need your feedback. Despite the really nice number of you who visit weekly, the MMMM has been receiving fewer votes. REMINDER – the MMMM was designed to gauge what you think is the BEST of the Colorado Playlist new music every week. A highly favorable “like” sticks around for future plays. A highly disfavorable vote means the song is more likely to disappear from my library.

Share the love – share #coloradomusic.

I NEED YOUR HELP! – It’s getting increasingly more expensive to maintain this show on a weekly basis. As much as I’d like to, I can’t keep spending my savings to produce the show. Please consider supporting. Venmo chrisk-2 or use the donation form below.

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.

Acoustic Junction (Fool’s Progress)– How Am I Gonna Get Down – Fool’s Progress (1997)
(D) The River Arkansas – Green Bridge – Green Bridge (2023)

Musketeer Gripweed – Hard Times – Long Past Time (2022)
Wildermiss – Hell or High Water – In My Mind (2020)
The Burroughs – Found My Groove – Honey Imastar (2023)
Cassie Taylor – Spare Some Love – Out of My Mind (2013)
Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band with Erica Brown – Tell Me Daddy – Tangled Road Again (2013)
Julian Fulco Perron – Not So Fast – In My Garden (2023)
(N) Andy Sydow – Cause for Concern – Little Crown EP (2023)

Finn O’Sullivan – Lipstick Kisses – When The Power Comes Back On (2020)
Wood Belly – Old Home – Great Big Skies (2022)
Ron Miles – Queen Of The South – Rainbow Sign (2020)

Stephen Stills – It Doesn’t Matter – Manassas (1970)
Stephen Stills – Circlin‘ – Illegal Stills (1975)
(N) Faceman – EL Cielo – Western Jupiter (2023) **

Fast Eddy – Take A Look – Take A Look (2022)
The Still Tide – Keep It – Between Skies (2020)
Milquetoast & Co. – Army Dreamers (2023)
The Patti Fiasco – Small Town Lights – Small Town Lights (2013)
Jill Sobule – Where Do I Begin – Nostalgia Kills (2018)
Roger Green – Enter As You Leave – Enter As You Leave (2023)
(N) Last Call Romance – Yellow and Green – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 (2023)**

Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) (2020)
Wendy Woo – Good Old Days (2022)
Adam Bodine – Surface Service – Scenes of Changery (2021)

#COMUSIC TOP FIVE WEEK JULY 16-22 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 and agents to track airplay.

(D) Debuted in TOP 5
(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 Colorado media by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC.

(1) 1. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(2) 2. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones LP (May-23)
(R) 3. MUSKETEER GRIPWEED – Long Past Time LP (Sep-22)
(D) 4. LAST CALL ROMANCE – One Step Too Close SP (Apr-23)**
(D) 5. *ANDY SYDOW – Little Crown EP (Jun-23)
(R) 5. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Vast Nothing LP (Mar-23)**
(5) 5. *THE WOOD BROTHERS – Heart Is the Hero LP (Apr-23)

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**serviced to Colorado media by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

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Milky Way shot courtesy of Claire Mannato

Monday Jan 16, 2023 – I don’t think a week goes by that I’m not absolutely amazed by the music in our state. 

This week’s featured debuts include jazz from the BTTRFLY Quinet, made up of members from Lettuce and Big Gigantic; and electro-pop from Sugar Nova, a duo that features Luke Miller from the band Lotus.  Roger Green was formerly a guitarist with the Czars. Daniel Rodriguez is a founding member of Elephant Revival. Gabriel Mervine is a longtime member of the Motet.   Make sure to let us know what you think – “I like it,” “MEH, it’s ok,” “I don’t like it.”

If you’re a musician, or in the business of music, or you’re just interested, I will be making a couple of appearances, talking about …radio. Jan 29, I’ll be at the Upstream Songwriting Retreat in Lyons. Feb 1, I will be talking about radio at the Auditorium Music Business Conference in Denver.

#COMUSIC TOP FIVE WEEK ENDING 1/14/23

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, designed to benefit community/public and college radio stations and offering search functions for artists and agents to track airplay.

(2) 1. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Channels EP (May-22)
(D) 1. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(R) 2. MIKE CLARK & THE SUGAR SOUNDS – Moon Rock LP (Mar-22)
(D) 3. TRASH. – Ghosts EP (Dec-22)
(D) 4. GRIMMLY – Happiest SINGLE (Dec-22)

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.

Judy Roderick – Country Girl Blues – Women Blue (1965)
Lannie Garrett & Her Swingin’ Big Band – Is You Is, Or Is You Ain’t (My Baby)? – Kick It! (1998)
D Daniel Rodriguez – Wheels Fell Off the World (2023)

The Copper Children – Pity Party – Strange Illusion (2022)
The Wood Brothers – Little Bit Sweet – Kingdom In My Mind (2020)
Strangebyrds – the World Needs Mercy – Strangebyrds Singles (2022)
Megan Burtt – Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – The Bargain (2015)
The Apples In Stereo – Dance Floor – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
Mike Clark & the Sugar Sounds – Moon Rock – Moon Rock (2022)
D Wildermiss – New Year’s (2023)

Dirty Shrines – Every Mile – Digital Ego (2021)
Alysia Kraft – Little River – First Light (2022)
D BTTFLY Quintet – Coast – Coast (2023)

Earth Wind & Fire – Devotion – Open Our Eyes (1974)
D Sugar Nova – Tiny Helicopters (2023)

Dango Rose – Singularity (radio edit) – The Forgotten Years EP VOL. Two (2022)
Jenny Shawhan – Like A Charm – Don’t Be Afraid (2021)
Head for the Hills – Nothing But the Blues – Turn the Time EP (2023)
Chris Daniels & The Kings – 50/50 – The Spark (2005)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Under Your Spell – City of Love (2019)
Mojomama – Be Your Own Savior – We Are One (2022)
D Roger Green – Enter As You Leave (2023)

Zuba – Imagine Freedom – The New Cruelty (1996)
Blakk Mantra – A Song of the West (2022)
NGabriel Mervine – Our Man Higgins – GM5 (2023)

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Last Call Romance – 14th Annual Dacono Music & Spirits Festival Aug 6, 2022

AUG 08 2022 – New entries in this week’s TOP 5 from Elektric Animals, Kunckle Pups and Violet Pilot + NEW music in this week’s MMMM from Jen Korte & the Loss, Cass Clayton, King Cardinal and Lucy Daydream.

WOW! Some of you know I’ve been the entertainment director for the Dacono (Carbon Valley) Music & Spirits Festival since 2008. This year was more than we could have imagined. In fourteen years of doing this show (less the COVID era), no direct support band ever received a call back for an encore. Last minute replacement for Chris Daniels & the Kings, Last Call Romance, is the first as they ripped a seventy-five minute set of Americana based blues, country and rock-and-roll ala 1960.. Watch for them near you. They’ll be appearing in OCT as part of the Poudre Pour in Windsor.

TOP 5 #COMUSIC WKEND 8/6/22

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, designed to benefit community/public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents.

  1. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP
  2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – The Future LP
  3. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Channels EP
  4. KNUCKLE PUPS – TV Ready LP
  5. VIOLET PILOT – Lazy Lions SINGLE

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.

The Astronauts – The Hearse – Competition Coupe/Astronauts Orbit Kampus (1964)
Hardwater – Good Luck – Hardwater (1968)
(D) Jen Korte and the Loss – Destiny Reaches (2022)

Blakk Mantra – Choose Your High (2021)
The Barlow – Rivers Run Together – The Barlow (2019)
Wood Belly – Old Home – Great Big Skies (2022)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Love Don’t – The Future (2022)
The Apples In Stereo – Dance Floor – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
The String Cheese Incident – Sing A New Song – Outside Inside (2001)
(D) Cass Clayton – We’re All Going Down (2022)

Last Call Romance – If It’s the Last Thing That I Do – Double Funeral, Vol. 1 EP (2020)
The Magic Beans – Staycation – Unzipped (2022)

Nichole Wagner – Raised By Wolves (2022)
Sera Cahoone – Always Turn Around – From Where I Started (2017)
(D) King Cardinal – In Tall Buildings (2022)

A.J. Fullerton – Say You’ll Stay – The Forgiver and the Runaway (2021)
My Body Sings Electric – Blame – Part 2: What It Means to Be Afraid (2019)
Everybody Loves an Outlaw – Still Waiting (2022)
Alysia Kraft – Hamilton Pool – First Light (2022)
Churchill – The War Within – The War Within EP (2013)
Fierce Bad Rabbit – Chasing After Things ( We Don’t Know The Names) – Spools of Thread (2011)
Eddie Turner – Dignify Me – Change In Me (2021)
(D) Lucy Daydream – Cruel (2022)

Leftover Salmon – Category Stomp – Brand New Good Old Days (2021)
Cary Morin – Jamie Rae – Dockside Saints (2020)
Keith Oxman – Joshua Fought the Battle Against Trump & Co. – This One’s For Joey (2022)

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