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The Colorado Sound S9|EP16 APRIL 20 2015

Goat_Logo_color_on_whiteI spent Sunday afternoon with Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore.  That conversation will be featured as our Offstage …Beyond the Music segment in May while Mollie and Rich are on tour in Scotland, before returning for shows in Arkansas and Oklahoma.  Don’t forget to check out this week’s segment with Hazel Miller.  Rich and Mollie’s fist segment goes “live” on May 4.

Have you been listening to the show?  No?  Hmmm.  Have you been keeping up with the In Colorado Music History segments?  Here are the two latest.   

How bout The Colorado Sound Live365?  When was the last time you checked that out?  Seems we’ve lost a lot of you the past few months.  Hmmmmmm….. if you haven’t tuned in lately there’s a lot of new music being played, and a special dinner time jazz show from 6-8 every Mon-Fri.  You can also download the Live365 app and take the show with you.  It streams easily.

Please share with your friends in SW Colorado — COMING Thursday MAY 7 10PM to Durango, Pagosa, Farmington, and other SW locations on Four Corners Public Radio, KSUT

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

PLAYLIST S9|EP16

HOUR1

Philip Bailey “I Know” from Continuation (1983)
The Apples in Stereo “Ruby” from Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999)
(N) Esme Patterson “Oh Let’s Dance” from What Do You Call A Woman (2015)
Taarka “River’s Eddy Blues” from Making Tracks Home (2015)
Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family “Land of Fire” from Land of Fire (2010)
(D) Ivory Circle “Faces and Colors” from Isoceles (2015) Fierce Bad Rabbit “Wildflowers” from Maestro & the Elephant (2013)
(N) Wendy Woo Band “On With the Show” from Tipping Point (2015)
Safe Boating is No Accident “Bonus Features” from Bonus Features (2014)
Gregory Alan Isakov “Big Black Car” from This Empty Northern Hemisphere (2009)
(N) Trout Steak Revival “Ours for the Taking” from Brighter Every Day (2015)
Matt Skellenger “The Curve” from New Radio (2014)

HOUR2

Cracker “Euro-trash Girl” from Get On With It: The Best Of (2006)
Zephyr “Mad Dog” from Heartbeat (1982)
Richard Dean “Radium Dial” from Accidental Human (2015)
Paul Kimbiris “Dark Side of Pearl” from Dark Side of Pearl (2014)
Jeff Austin “15 Steps” from The Simple Truth (2015)
Selina Albright “Didn’t Cha Know” from Brighter (2013)
Hazel Miller Band “Moon Was Right” from Coming To You Live…From KUVO (2011)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “I Get Smooth” from Black Beehive (2014)
Richie Furay “Hand In Hand” from Hand In Hand (2015)
Ben Markley “5-20” from Second Introduction (2009)

JOIN ME THIS SUMMER AT:

Locals x Locals at the Mishawaka Amphitheatre on June 6.  A festival to celebrate and honor local musicians, featuring Cracker, Post Paradise, and more.  I’ll be doing Offstage interviews and a special one hour top 12 mix of some of the hottest new music of the year.

The Greeley Blues Jam in Greeley on June 13, with Austin Young- featuring Michaela Rae and friends + Maynard Mills Blues Band + George Whitesell and His All Stars featuring Jill Watkins + The Frails- all female review featuring Erica Brown, MJ, G’Jai, Michaela Rae, Miss Audrey, Susan Phelan & national headliners Delbert McClinton, Elvin Bishop and more.

Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival in Dacono on Saturday Aug 1.  I’ll announce the acts in about a month.

The Colorado Sound Presents Hazel Miller, Chris Daniels & the Kings, Goatz!, and William’s Reserve on Aug 9 at the Mishawaka

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what a day! new station coming on-air

Yesterday morning (Wed) I started this post about how The Colorado Sound Live365 works … I did not have time to finish.  Had to take the dog to vet for her checkup .. then had to take car to mechanic to have something fixed in order to sell it.  At 11:30 I met one of the nicest human beings … just been in Denver a week, stationed with the Navy at Buckley.  Drives a bad-ass Camero SS.  He needed a second car.  We hung out nearly all day as we were doing the deal, and talking about the world.

I came home to find that beginning May 7 folks in SW Colorado will be able to hear The Colorado Sound on the following frequencies thanks to KSUT (Durango).  The show will initially air on Thursday nights from 10-midnight with the possibility of moving it to a “more prominent time” later in the summer according to the email I received.

90.1 FM – Durango & La Plata County
89.3 FM – Central Durango
88.1 FM – Farmington & northwest New Mexico
88.1 FM – Pagosa Springs
100.1 FM – Cortez, Mancos & Montezuma County
91.9 FM – Dolores
91.1 FM – Silverton

Online at www.ksut.org and on iTunes Radio.

So beginning MAY 7 these are the FM frequencies that folks can dial into where they can hear The Colorado Sound.  Some carry both hours, some carry only Hour 2, bringing the total frequency-hours broadcast to 56 per week.  Now THAT’s some coverage.

  1. Aspen 88.3
  2. Basalt / Redstone 88.5
  3. Boulder 102.7
  4. Breckenridge 90.7
  5. Buena Vista 89.9
  6. Carbondale / Glenwood 88.1
  7. Central Durango 89.3
  8. Cortez, Mancos & Montezuma County 100.1
  9. Denver/Golden 91.7
  10. Dillon 88.1
  11. Dolores – 91.9
  12. Down Valley 5
  13. Durango & La Plata County – 90.1
  14. Eagle Valley 99.7
  15. Estes Park 90.7
  16. Farmington & northwest New Mexico 88.1
  17. Front Range (Denver, Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont) 91.5
  18. Grand County 91.9
  19. Haxtun/Holyoke 90.5
  20. Julesburg/Ovid 89.1
  21. Leadville 91.7
  22. Leadville 93.5
  23. Morgan County 96.7
  24. North Park 90.7
  25. Northern Colorado (Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland) 88.9
  26. Northern Colorado (Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland) 94.9
  27. Norwood 89.5
  28. Pagosa Springs 88.1
  29. Salida 89.9
  30. Silverton 91.1
  31. Steamboat Springs 88.5
  32. Sterling 90.3
  33. Telluride/Orphir 89.3/91.7
  34. Thomasville 94.9
  35. Vail 90.9
  36. Westcliffe/Wet Mountain Valley 95.9
  37. Wray 93.5
  38. Yuma 88.3

Oh yeah, these are the top 15 songs heard in the past month on The Colorado Sound Live365 … in case you’ve been missing it lately.  List is alpha.

Acoustic Junction – Every Heart – Strange Days
Calder’s Revolvers – I Gotta Know – Sunday Morning
Drew Schofield – Break It Down – 150 Million (-1) – EP
Fierce Bad Rabbit – Crystal Ball – Living Asleep
Gregory Alan Isakov – Saint Valentine – The Weatherman
Lionel Young Band – Somethin’ ‘Bout A Rumba – On Our Way To Memphis
Motet – 123 – Motet
Nathaniel Rateliff – Nothing to Show For – Falling Faster Than You Can Run
Pandas & People – Out To Sea – SpokesBUZZ Volume V: Band Together
P-Nuckle – The System – The System
Richie Furay – We Were the Dreamers – Hand in Hand
The Apples In Stereo – Nobody But You – Travellers In Space And Time
The Informants – Salvation – Crime Scene Queen
The Samples – Close To The Fires – The Samples
Yo, Flaco! – Nice Guys – The Skinny
Yonder Mountain String Band – Criminal – The Show

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The Colorado Sound S9|EP13 March/April 2015

Watch this.

REALLY???  Hazel Miller, who is celebrating her 30th year of music in Colorado has NEVER played the Historic Mishawaka Amphitheatre??.  And SHE isn’t the only one.  Turns out my pals in Chris Daniels & the Kings have never played there either.  How the hell is that even possible???

No sooner had Hazel spoken those words than I knew we had to correct this historical mistake, so I called up another great friend and Colorado music lover, Mish owner Dani Grant and explained it to her … after all – 30 years .. wow … and she felt the same – like HOW is that even possible? RIGHT?! No hesitation – VERY PROUD to announce

THE COLORADO SOUND
&
THE MISHAWAKA AMPHITHEATRE
PRESENT

THE HAZEL MILLER BAND | CHRIS DANIELS & THE KINGS
featuring Freddi “Love” Gowdy (Freddi/Henchi Band)
and special guests Goatz! aka Chris K and Friends and Family

SUNDAY AUG 9
$18 advance tickets on sale Wednesday April 1
www.themishawaka.com 

The last full band show my wife and I did was Oct 25, 2009 – our wedding – at Oskar Blues in Lyons.  A few weeks ago our drummer, Carlos Newman (Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck), FB’d a msg saying “it’s the year of the Goat – it’s time to play again.”  Can’t argue with that.  Absolutely looking forward to joining my friends Hazel and Chris for this historic performance on a beautiful summer afternoon and evening up the Poudre Canyon.

and that’s not all we’re up to this summer.  SATURDAY JUNE 6 THE MISHAWAKA AMPHITHEATRE & THE COLORADO SOUND PRESENT LOCALS X LOCALS More info on these and other great events this summer at www.themishawaka.com … I don’t want to spoil “the ending” LOL 😉

OFFSTAGE …BEYOND THE MUSIC

So that video segment with Hazel … normally I only leave the audio field recorder on when I’m sitting and chatting with my friends for episodes of Offstage…Beyond the Music, our monthly podcast series featuring Colorado musicians and music industry personalities.  I turned the audio and video on for this one.  We spent well over 2 hours chatting it up … here’s a tease.

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

I went looking for something from Hazel and Chris and found this one shot at Denver’s Gothic Theater in 2006.  Looking fwd to seeing something come out of the Mish show in Aug … I think we might need someone to chronicle the night.

PLAYLIST S9|EP13 2015

HOUR1

Chuck Pyle “Jacked Up” from A Few Miles Back (2001)
Harry Tuft & Friends “James Alley Blues” from Treasures Untold (2011)
(N) Taarka “Heart and Song” from Making Tracks Home (2015)Rose Quartz “Medicine” from Axis of Love (2015)
Mosey West “Old Stone” from Bermuda (2014)
Instant Empire “Without Wires” from Instant Empire (2011)
Eldren “We Just Want The World” from SpokesBUZZ Vol. V (2015)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Resignation Superman” from Beautiful World (1997)
Andy Rok & the Real Deal “Second Class Citizen” from Second Class Citizen (2014)
Something Underground “She’s On Fire” from She’s On Fire (2011)
(D) Trout Steak Revival “Get A Fire Going” from Brighter Every Day (2015)
Ark Life “Rock & Roll (Take It Easy)” from The Dream of You and Me (2014)
Gerald Albright “Slam Dunk” from Slam Dunk (2014)

HOUR2

Lannie Garrett “Pickin’ Up After You” from Comes Love (1995)
Mollie O’Brien “Sign Your Name” from Tell It True (1996)
(N) Brothers Keeper “Cold Rain” from Todd Meadows (2014)(N) Chris Daniels & the Kings “Something You Got” from Funky To the Bone (2015)
Richie Furay “Real Love” from Heartbeat of Love (2006)
Casey James Prestwood & the Burning Angels “Out of Beer” from Honky Tonk Bastard World (2013)
The Patti Fiasco “Oil” from Small Town Lights (2013)
You Me and Apollo “Oh My Molly” from You Me and Apollo (2012)
(D) Dana Landry Quartet “Puttin’ On the Ritz” from Standard Elevation (2015)