Category: Radio News

News Notes & Spins – August 1, 2011

There isn’t always much to say. July has been a long hot month. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ve got two regional festivals I will be participating in – the Carbon Valley Music Festival on Aug 6 in Dacono, CO, featuring the Drew Emmitt Band, the Hazel Miller Band, Onda, Boa and the Constrictors, Bonnie & the Clydes, Lalla Rookh & the Frederick High School Gold Tones Jazz Band

… and Bohemian Nights at New West Fest, Aug 12-14 … featuring some 80 acts on 9 stages … you’ll find me once again emceeing the main stage beginning Friday evening.

Aug 8 is apparently the day set for the new programming at KRFC Fort Collins … while the impending changes at 1340 AM with ex- radio 1190 GM Mike Flanagan driving is set for some time in September.  Best wishes all around.

Here’s what got played at radio in July.

TOP 40 ALBUM SPINS – July 2011
(136 titles reported / 348 titles listed)
(LM) TM
(D) = debut, first time on chart)
(R) = re-entered chart)

(1) 1.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5 (self) Bluegrass, americana
(15) 2.  Wendy Woo Band – Austerity (woomusic) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(D) 3.  Rose Hill Drive – Americana (Slowly and Shirley) Rock, modern/hard rock
(R) 4.  Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits (Thirty Tigers) Rock, americana
(3) 5.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers (Anti-) Indie/adult alternative
(D) 6.  Jim Stranahan – Free For All (Capri) Jazz
(D) 6.  Spring Creek – Hold On Me (self) Bluegrass 
(4) 7.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds (Ruff Shod Records) Folk, americana
(D) 8.  Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco (self) Rock, country-rock, americana
(R) 9.  Rene Marie – Voice of My Beautiful Country (Motema) Jazz, vocal
(D) 10. The Hickman-Dalton Gang – The Hickman-Dalton Gang Vol II (self) Americana, country-rock
(D) 11. The H2 Big Band – You’re It! (Jazzed Media) Jazz 
(5) 12. John Oates – Mississippi Mile (PS Records) Americana, blues
(7) 13. Rob Roper – Misfit (self) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(14) 14. John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty (Free School) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(R) 15. Brad Goode – Tight Like This (Delmark) Jazz    
(20) 15. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Spools of Thread (self) Rock/pop, alternative/indie
(D) 16. Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear (self) Jazz, piano
(D) 16. Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds (self) Americana, folk    
(17) 17. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee (Blank Tape) Americana, folk-rock
(21) 18. Adam Stern – High Country Gentleman (self) Various, instrumental guitar
(21) 18. Dave Sonner – the American Campus (self) Rock/pop, americana
(D) 18. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down (self) Rock/pop, singer-songwriter
(8) 19. Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm (Q&B Records) Americana, country*
(R) 20. Bonnie and The Clydes – Bonnie And The Clydes (self) Americana, classic country
(D) 20. Judy Wexler – Under A Painted Sky (Jazzed Media) Jazz, vocal
(R) 21. Andy Hackbarth – The Last Love Song     (January Records) Pop, adult contemporary
(R) 21. Jeff Finlin – The Tao of Motor Oil (Bent Wheel) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(R) 21. Megan Burtt – It Ain’t Love (self) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(22) 21. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled (Alternative Tentacles) Rock, adult alternative
(R) 22. Bop Skizzum – Push (self) Funk/R&B/Soul 
(12) 22. Hazel Miller Band – Coming to You Live… From KUVO (self) Jazz, r&b, vocals
(R) 22. Musketeer Gripweed – Dyin’ Day (self) Rock, blues, jamband
(12) 22. Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3 (Telarc) Blues, trance-blues
(17) 22. Veronica – Emerging from Troubled Days (self) Rock, alternative
(D) 23. Broken Spoke – Before There Were Easy Riders (Broken Spoke) Americana, alt-country
(17) 23. Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family – Land of Fire (Black Eye Watching) World, African
(6) 23. Tennis – Cape Dory (Fat Possum) Pop, indie
(2) 24. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson (Ryko) Blues    
(R) 25. My Body Sings Electric – Changing Color (self) Rock, modern/alternative
(D) 25. Paper Bird – Carry On (Long Spoon) Americana

Fell Out of TOP 40 – July
(9)  Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New*
(10) Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen
(11) Bop Skizzum – Beauty Queen
(13) John-Alex Mason – Jook Joint Thunderclap
(13) Tyler Gilmore’s Ninth and Lincoln w/ Cuong Vu – Static Line
(14) Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints
(14) The Quiet American – Vol. II
(15) The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wayward Fire
(16) Dotsero – Storyhouse
(16) Eric Forsyth – The Thin of Thick Things
(16) Katey Laurel – From Here
(16) The Blue Canyon Boys – Mountain Bound
(17) Kenny Perkins – Wild Frontier*
(18) Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man – Joie De Vivre
(18) Molly Cottrell – Molly Cottrell
(19) Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
(20) Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway*
(20) The Heyday – Till We See the Sun
(21) Signal Path – The Prosaic Fades
(22) Bobby Walker – Way Back When*
(22) Danielle Ate the Sandwich – Two Bedroom Apartment

ADDED – July 2011
Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear
Air Dubai – Soul and Body [single]
Alan Baird Project – Spark the Revival
Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat
Bonnie & the Beard – Bonne & the Beard
Chimney Choir – Chimney Choir
Ernie Martinez – Blue Range
Georgann Low – Les Progres De L’Amour (Seasons Of Love)
Grant Sabin – The Homesick EP
Grass It Up – Live
Great American Taxi – Blair Mountain [single]
H2 Big Band – You’re It!
Kim Jones – Lucky Girl*
Matt Nasi Band – Unsafe and Sound [single]
No Fair Fights – The Sound of Burning Bridges
Paper Bird – Carry On
Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco
Rose Hill Drive – Americana
Spring Creek – Hold On Me
Tennis – Is It True? [single]
The West – The West
Thief River – Thief River
Tony Rosario – Mexican Train
Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down

REPORTING STATION CHART
No Report this month = KGNU (Boulder), KBUT (Crested Butte), KCSU (Fort Collins), Radio 1190 KVCU (Boulder)

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1. The Whiskey Bottles – Ain’t No Crime
2. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3. Tony Rosario – Mexican Train
4. Boulder Acoustic Society – Champion of Disaster
4. Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
4. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
4. Spring Creek – Hold On Me
4. Stray Grass – Written in the Stars

KDNK (Carbondale)
1. Bobby Walker – Way Back When*
1. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
2. Adam Stern – High Country Gentleman
2. Beth Quist – New Moon
2. Devotchka – 100 Lovers
2. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2. Spring Creek – Hold On Me

KOTO (Telluride)
1. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
2. Rose Hill Drive – Americana
3. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5

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KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1.  The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wayward Fire
2.  Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3
3.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3.  Grass It Up – Live
3.  The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco
2. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
3. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity
4. Musketeer Gripweed – Dyin’ Day
5. Paper Bird – Carry On
6. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee

KUNC (Greeley)
1. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity
2. Justin Roth – Now You Know
3. Katey Laurel – From Here
4. Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
4. Grant Gordy – Grant Gordy
4. John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty

KUVO (Denver)
1. Judy Wexler – Under A Painted Sky
2. Jim Stranahan – Free For All
2. Rene Marie – Voice of My Beautiful Country
3. Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear
4. H2 Big Band – You’re It!

KVNF (Paonia)
1. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
2. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
2. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee
3. Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3
4. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
4. John Oates – Mississippi Mile

The Colorado Sound
1. Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds
1. Rose Hill Drive – Americana
2. Dave Sonner – the American Campus
2. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
3. The Hickman-Dalton Gang – Vol. II
3. Rob Roper – Misfit

(*serviced to radio and press by Rocky Mountain Music Network)

News Notes & Spins – July 1, 2011

Happy 4th of July.  I hope you’re heading out to some festivals this summer, some place where you’ll see lots of great Colorado music.  If you’re a fan, call the local public / community and/or college station wherever you are and request something from Colorado, and thank them for the records they are playing.  It’s great to see the results come in every month from stations around the state and I’m sure that some of it comes from requests.

Bit goat hugs to RMCR (Rocky Mountain Community Radio) cap-cov (capitol coverage) reporter Bente Birkland who gave birth to a boy, Christian Thomas de Booy, born Sunday June 19th 10:33AM, 7lbs 2oz.

The biggest radio story of the month is the impending transformation of 1340AM KCFR Denver into a modern alternative music station with a tech focus on mobile and internet, and a music focus on Colorado.  At least so say the reports filed this month in the Denver Post and elsewhere regionally.  Radio 1190 GM Mike Flanagan will be running the show beginning late July / early August with an anticipated format flip sometime in September.

The hottest record of the month OTB (out of the box) was Rob Roper’s “Misfit.”  A very quirky record produced by John McVey at Coupe Studios in Boulder.  The HOTTEST TO WATCH FOR record is “Americana” from Rose Hill Drive.  I broke tracks for that this past month and it is a far different sound than we’ve heard before.  It’s still a pure rock band for sure, but instead of the hyper-zep influence of the first couple of records, this one has a number of much more modern sounding tracks suitable for airplay in any day-part by just about every public station in the state today (unless they’re jazz or classical of course).  It’s also another album recorded at Coupe Studios.

Also coming out in July — the new Spring Creek record … so watch for that one, as well as the new album from the Three Twins Broadband from Fort Collins featuring Subdudes members John Magnie, Steve Amedée, and Tim Cook with several friends from the Fort Collins area, including the old 12 Cents for Marvin horn section.  BREAKING as I type this month’s report — new music just hit my desk from the Adam Bodine Trio (Up ‘N Hear) and from Chimney Choir (S/T)…. so July’s looking HOT (bad pun, I know LOL).

I haven’t really had much of a chance yet to tabulate the hottest spins of the year statewide, but I can tell you that the TOP TEN Colorado Sound spins from Jan-June looks like this:

1.  Kenny Perkins – Wild Frontier*
2.  Broken Everlys – Stoned In Juarez
3.  Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen
4.  Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New*
5.  Fox Street Allstars – Welcome to the Mighty Pleasin’
6.  Ego vs Id – Taste
7.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers
8.  Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled
9.  John-Alex Mason – Jook Joint Thunderclap
10. Katey Laurel – From Here

I’m really looking forward to seeing what the rest of the year brings in.  Have a great July!

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TOP 40 ALBUM SPINS – June 2011
(141 titles reported / 326 titles listed)
(LM) TM
(D) = debut, first time on chart)
(R) = re-entered chart)

(5) 1.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5 (self) bluegrass
(3) 2.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson (Ryko) blues
(2) 3.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers (Anti-) adult alternative
(1) 4.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds (Ruff Shod Records) folk
(7) 5.  John Oates – Mississippi Mile (PS Records) americana/blues
(15) 6.  Tennis – Cape Dory (Fat Possum) indie pop
(D) 7.  Rob Roper – Misfit (self) adult contemporary pop/rock
(4) 8.  Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm (Q&B Records) * americana/country
(10) 9.  Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New (Dazzle Jazz) * jazz
(21) 10. Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen (Dazzle Jazz) jazz
(R) 11. Bop Skizzum – Beauty Queen (self) funk
(D) 12. Hazel Miller Band – Coming to You Live… From KUVO (self) rhythm & blues/jazz
(R) 12. Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3 (Telarc) blues
(16) 13. John-Alex Mason – Jook Joint Thunderclap (Naked Jaybird) blues
(21) 13. Tyler Gilmore’s Ninth and Lincoln w/ Cuong Vu – Static Line (Dazzle Jazz) jazz
(9) 14. Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints (self) americana/country
(17) 14. John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty (Free School) adult alternative rock/pop
(8) 14. The Quiet American – Vol. II (self) americana/folk
(D) 15. The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wayward Fire (Modern Art) electronic/dance
(D) 15. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity (Woomusic) adult alternative pop/rock
(D) 16. Dotsero – Storyhouse (Cinderblock Records) contemporary jazz
(R) 16. Eric Forsyth – The Thin of Thick Things (self) americana/folk
(24) 16. Katey Laurel – From Here (Roaring Twenties Records) americana/pop
(15) 16. The Blue Canyon Boys – Mountain Bound (BCB) bluegrass
(20) 17. Kenny Perkins – Wild Frontier (self) * adult alternative rock/pop
(R) 17. Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family – Land of Fire (Black Eye Watching) world/african
(17) 17. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee (Blank Tape) americana
(R) 17. Veronica – Emerging from Troubled Days (self) rock
(12) 18. Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man – Joie De Vivre (self) indie pop/rock
(R) 18. Molly Cottrell – Molly Cottrell (self) neo-soul
(R) 19. Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between (zen cowboy) folk/pop
(17) 20. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Spools of Thread (self) alternative/indie rock/pop
(D) 20. Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway (self) americana/alt-country
(R) 20. The Heyday – Till We See the Sun (self) rock
(D) 21. Adam Stern – High Country Gentleman (self) instrumental/jazz/rock
(D) 21. Dave Sonner – the American Campus (self) rock/pop
(R) 21. Signal Path – The Prosaic Fades (self) electronic/dance
(28) 22. Bobby Walker – Way Back When (self) * rhythm & blues
(R) 22. Danielle Ate the Sandwich – Two Bedroom Apartment (self) folk/modern/pop
(21) 22. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled (Alternative Tentacles) adult alternative rock/pop
 

Fell Out of Top 40 in June
6.  Rene Marie – Voice Of My Beautiful Country
11. FaceMan – FaceMan
13. Air Dubai – Soul & Body [single]
14. Musketeer Gripweed – Dyin’ Day
16. Take to the Oars – American Volume
18. Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore – Saints & Sinners
19. Kinetix – Let Me In
20. Justin Roth – Now You Know
22. Kal Cahoone – Saints and Stars
23. Adam Bodine Trio – Blue Mud
23. Cahalen Morrison & Eli West – Holy Coming of the Storm
24. Beth Quist – New Moon
25. My Body Sings Electric – Changing Color
26. Mesita – Here’s to Nowhere
26. Sandra Wong and Dominick Leslie – Sunny Side Up
27. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
27. Paper Bird – When the River Took Flight
29. Fingers of the Sun – Fingers of the Sun
 
Added June 2011
Adam Stern – High Country Gentleman
Hazel Miller Band – Coming to You Live… From KUVO
I’m With Her – I’m With Her [ep]
Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds
Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway
Radical Knitting Circle – When Bees No Longer Fly We’re All Going To Die and Oh What a Death It Will Be
Reverend Hooch – Gray Skies [single]
Roger Green – Harder to Tell
Selina Albright – You and I [single]
The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wayward Fire
The Foot. – The Hangman EP
The Resonatorz – Dead Pawn
Thomas Hine – Into the Bottomlands
Tony Resario – Mexican Train
Tyson Ailshie – The Send Off
Wendy Woo Band – Austerity

REPORTING STATION CHARTS

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
2.  Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
3.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers
3.  The Blue Canyon Boys – Mountain Bound
4.  Kenny Perkins – Wild Frontier
4.  Tennis – Cape Dory
4.  The Whiskey Bottles – Ain’t No Crime
4.  Tony Resario – Mexican Train

KBUT (Crested Butte)
1.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
2.  Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled
2.  Tennis – Cape Dory
3.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers
3.  Fingers of the Sun – Fingers of the Sun
3.  Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints
3.  Juno What?! – Shameless
3.  Lawn Chair Kings – II
3.  Loose Cannon Bluegrass – Loose Cannon Bluegrass
3.  Pretty Lights – Making Up a Changing Mind
3.  The Whiskey Bottles – Ain’t No Crime
3.  Veronica – Emerging from Troubled Days

KDNK (Carbondale)
1.  John Oates – Mississippi Mile
2.  Beth Quist – New Moon
2.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
2.  Bobby Walker – Way Back When
2.  Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New
2.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers
2.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2.  John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty
2.  Matt Morris – When Everything Breaks Open

KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1.  The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wayward Fire
2.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
3.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
3.  Broken Spoke – Before There Were Easy Riders
3.  Danielle Ate the Sandwich – Two Bedroom Apartment
3.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3.  Joe Johnson – A Time to Dance

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2.  John Oates – Mississippi Mile
3.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
3.  The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee
4.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers
4.  Grant Gordy – Grant Gordy
4.  Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints
4.  Paper Bird – When the River Took Flight
4.  The Quiet American – Vol. II

KUNC (Greeley)
1. Eric Forsyth – The Thin of Thick Things
1. John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty
1. Justin Roth – Now You Know
1. Katey Laurel – From Here
2. Andy Hackbarth – The Last Love Song
2. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
2. Devotchka – 100 Lovers

KUVO (Denver)
1. Rene Marie – Voice Of My Beautiful Country
2. Jim Stranahan – Free For All
3. Tyler Gilmore’s Ninth and Lincoln w/ Cuong Vu – Static Line
4. Dotsero – Storyhouse
5. Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New
5. Greg Harris Vibe Quintet – Glass Gold
5. Hazel Miller Band – Coming to You Live… From KUVO
5. Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen

KVNF (Paonia)
1.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
2.  Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
3.  Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
4.  Beth Quist – New Moon
4.  Danielle Ate the Sandwich – Two Bedroom Apartment
4.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
4.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
4.  Paper Bird – When the River Took Flight
4.  The Blue Canyon Boys – Mountain Bound
4.  The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee

The Colorado Sound
1. Rob Roper – Misfit
2. Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm*
3. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
3. Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man – Joie De Vivre
3. John Oates – Mississippi Mile
3. Molly Cottrell – Molly Cottrell
3. Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen
3. Rose Hill Drive – Americana
4. Bop Skizzum – Beauty Queen
4. Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway
4. Selina Albright – You and I [single]

* serviced to Colorado radio and press by Rocky Mountain Music Network

News Notes & Spins – June 1, 2011

Welcome to the un-official start to summer.  It’s the end of the Memorial Day weekend. Festivals are beginning to gear up – Denver’s 40th annual CHUN (Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods) People’s Fairis coming up this weekend (June 4-5).  It is the biggest of all the summer “local music” events that I’m aware of, and one of the largest in the nation – if not the largest with an estimated 250,000 in attendance over two days… and appearing – six stages, 110 bands; all of which are from the Denver/Front Range area.   This is an event I’d gone to off and on as far back as ’77; and have had the ultimate pleasure of serving on the entertainment and steering committees, and emceeing over the past 8 years.

In radio news, KDNK assistant music director Lynette O’Kane checks in this month.  “KDNK’s website: www.kdnk.org, has a new Music Page that we are very proud of. One can access it on the lower right of the home page.  On the Music page one can go to Current Releases, which documents the new music, spins and charting information.  The New & Notable page lists new music that has caught our ear, prior to and regardless of spins.  We have also have initiated a CD review page, Music Interviews and a Heavy Rotation page.  We look forward to everyone checking it out and giving us some feedback.”

I’ve moved production operations for the Colorado Sound.  Over the past several years, I’ve produced the show weekly at KRFC in Fort Collins.  Thanks to some good friends, some folks in need of money, and Mrs. Goat, I was able to build a studio sufficiently well equipped enough to produce this show and more in house here at the goat den.  It was a financial decision on my part, as gas prices being what they are made making the investment in equipment a good deal on our end.   KRFC will continue to air the show in its regular Saturday 5PM-7PM slot, until further notice.   Thanks to them for that.  I am looking forward to perhaps doing some site-exclusive features in the near future … but for now, it’s about getting out in the sun enjoying the summer concert season.

In chart action … Several BIG TIME debut records at the top including one that some of the jazzers are predicting is Grammy bound (Rene Marie)  and one from a very well established rocknroll hall of famer, who has apparently lived in Colorado right under this old goat’s nose the past twenty plus years (John Oates) and who’s new record is decidedly not rock or pop.  One HUGE surprise this month – KUNC clocked in with the most titles and number of spins of Colorado music I’ve ever seen from them.  And of course the college stations are now gone for the summer.

That’s it … have a great June — please sign up and be a subscriber, and I won’t turn down donations.  The show does have a cost to produce and distribute.  The stations that air this program receive it for free.  Tips are always deeply appreciated.

TOP 40 ALBUM SPINS – May 2011
(124 titles reported / 332 titles listed)
(LM) TM
(D=debut, first time on chart)
(R=re-entered chart)

(3) 1.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds (Ruff Shod Records) folk/americana
(1) 2.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers (Anti) adult alternative
(4) 3.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson (Ryko) blues
(D) 4.  Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm (Q&B Records) americana/country
(2) 5.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5 (F&Y) bluegrass
(D) 6.  Rene Marie – Voice Of My Beautiful Country (Motema) jazz
(D) 7.  John Oates – Mississippi Mile (PS Records) americana/blues
(D) 8.  The Quiet American – Vol II (self) folk
(17) 9.  Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints (self)  americana/country
(7) 10.  Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New (Dazzle Recordings)  jazz
(R) 11. FaceMan – FaceMan (self) rock, alternative
(D) 12. Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man – Joie De Vivre (self) indie/alternative
(D) 13. Air Dubai – Soul & Body [single] (self)  hip-hop/pop
(5) 14.  Musketeer Gripweed – Dyin’ Day (self) rock
(13) 15. Tennis – Cape Dory (Fat Possum) indie pop
(21) 15. The Blue Canyon Boys – Mountain Bound (BCB) bluegrass
(13) 16. John-Alex Mason – Jook Joint Thunderclap (Naked Jaybird)  blues
(R) 16. Take to the Oars – American Volume (self)  rock/alternative
(R) 17. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Spools of Thread (self) rock/alternative
(5) 17.   John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty (Free School) rock, adult alternative
(D) 17. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee (Blank Tape)  americana/folk
(14) 18. Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore – Saints & Sinners (Remington Road)  americana
(20) 19. Kinetix – Let Me In (self) rock/pop
(17) 20. Justin Roth – Now You Know (Rothirric Music)  folk/singer-songwriter
(21) 21. Kenny Perkins – Wild Frontier (self) rock, adult alternative
(10) 21. Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen (Dazzle Jazz)  jazz
(7) 21.   Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled (Alternative Tentacles)  rock, indie/alternative
(D) 21. Tyler Gilmore’s Ninth and Lincoln with Cuong Vu – Static Line (Dazzle Jazz)  jazz
(R) 22. Kal Cahoone – Saints and Stars (self) folk, indie
(R) 23. Adam Bodine Trio – Blue Mud (AB Creations Co)  jazz
(D  23. Cahalen Morrison & Eli West – Holy Coming of the Storm (self)  americana/folk
(D) 24. Beth Quist – New Moon (self)  world
(R) 24. Katey Laurel – From Here (Roaring Twenties Records)  pop, adult contemporary
(R) 25. My Body Sings Electric – Changing Color (self)  rock/alternative
(D) 26. Mesita – Here’s to Nowhere (self)  pop, indie/alternative
(D) 26. Sandra Wong and Dominick Leslie – Sunny Side Up (Sandra Wong)  world
(R) 27. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits (Thirty Tigers)  rock
(R) 27. Paper Bird – When the River Took Flight (self)  americana
(R) 28. Bobby Walker – Way Back When (BWM)  blues
(D) 29. Fingers of the Sun – Fingers of the Sun (self)  rock, indie/alternative

FELL OUT OF TOP 40 in May
(6)  Andrew Vogt – Cats Afoot
(7)  Bonnie and The Clydes – Bonnie And The Clydes
(8)  The Whiskey Bottles – Ain’t No Crime
(9)  Broken Everlys – Stoned In Juarez
(11) Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family – Land of Fire
(12) Brad Goode – Tight Like This
(14) Danielle Ate the Sandwich – Two Bedroom Apartment
(15) John McVey – Unpredictable
(16) Greg Garrison – Low Lonesome
(18) Joe Johnson – A Time to Dance
(18) Whiskey Blanket – No Object
(19) Juno What?! – Shameless
(21) Selasee – African Gate
(22) Gabrielle Louise – Mirror the Branches
(22) The Autumn Film – The Ship and the Sea
(22) Wil Key – Can You Feel It? [single]
(23) Bop Skizzum – Beauty Queen
(23) DELLA – Anymore/Not that Simple (Things I Do) [single]
(23) Mountain Standard Time – Mountain Standard Time
(23) Robert Marcey & Familyman Barrett – Wailin’ for Justice
(23) The David James Band – Street Performer
(24) John Statz – Ghost Towns
(24) Surplus Cheaper Hands – It’s Your Parade

ADDED – May 2011
Air Dubai – Soul & Body [single]
American Tomahawk – Contradictions, Generalities, And Future Criminals
Big Gigantic – The World is Yours [single]
Brock Gleeson – Run Like Hell
Fingers of the Sun – Fingers of the Sun
Force Publique – Tarnished [single]
Fried Grease – Huevos
Jeremy “Doc” Hodges – Autumn In July
Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man – Joie De Vivre
Joe Pfeiffer and… – Loveland
Jonathan Tiersten & Ten Tiers – We’ll See
Kal Cahoone – Saints and Stars
Kentucky Parlor Pickers – Barn Burner
Mesita – Here’s to Nowhere
Molly Cottrell – Molly Cottrell
Molly Cottrell – Not What I Need [single]
Moon Duo – Mazes
New Ben Franklins – Miserable [ep]
Purpose Found – Blue Flame
Rob Roper – Misfit
Runaway Express – Yeah, Buddy! Anniversary Edition
Signal Path – The Prosaic Fades
The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee
The Holler! – Gratitude
The Quiet American – Vol II
Tyler Gilmore’s Ninth and Lincoln with Cuong Vu – Static Line
Tyson Ailshie – The/Send/Off
Wreckingroom – Stand By [single}

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
2.  The Whiskey Bottles – Ain’t No Crime
3.  Jenn Cleary – Back to the Wheel
3.  Bobby Walker – Way Back When
4.  The Blue Canyon Boys – Mountain Bound
4.  Runaway Express – Yeah, Buddy! Anniversary Edition
4.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers
4.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
5.  Tennis – Cape Dory
5.  Sweet Sunny South – Carried Off By A Twister

KBUT (Crested Butte)
1. Devotchka – 100 Lovers
1. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled
2. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
2. Fingers of the Sun – Fingers of the Sun
2. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2. Grass It Up – Day After Yesterday
3. Boulder Acoustic Society – Champion of Disaster
3. Cahalen Morrison & Eli West – Holy Coming of the Storm
3. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3. Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints
3. Lawn Chair Kings – II
3. Tennis – Cape Dory

KDNK (Carbondale)
1. Beth Quist – New Moon
1. John Oates – Mississippi Mile
2.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
2.  Bobby Walker – Way Back When
2.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers
2.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
2.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2.  John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty
2.  Tequila Mockingbird – Luck And Trouble

KGNU (Boulder)
1.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers
2.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
4.  Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
4.  Kal Cahoone – Saints and Stars
4.  Veronica – Emerging from Troubled Days
5.  Greg Garrison – Low Lonesome

KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1.  The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee
2.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
3.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3.  Justin Roth – Now You Know
3.  The Blue Canyon Boys – Mountain Bound

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2.  John-Alex Mason – Jook Joint Thunderclap
3.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers
4.  Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm
5.  Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore – Saints & Sinners
6.  Clarke Wright – Fiddleride
6.  The Quiet American – Vol II
7.  Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
7.  Fierce Bad Rabbit – Spools of Thread
7.  Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints

KUNC (Greeley)
1. Eric Forsyth – The Thin of Thick Things
2. Justin Roth – Now You Know
3. John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty
4. Devotchka – 100 Lovers
5. Grant Gordy – Grant Gordy
5. Something Underground – Intention & Release
6. Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
6. Jerry Palmer – Cherry Picking
6. Katey Laurel – From Here

KUVO (Denver)
1. Rene Marie – Voice Of My Beautiful Country
2. Adam Bodine Trio – Blue Mud
3. Brad Goode – Tight Like This
3. Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New
3. Greg Harris Vibe Quintet – Glass Gold
3. Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen
4. Andrew Vogt – Cats Afoot
4. Fred Hess Big Band – Into the Open
4. Tyson Ailshie – The/Send/Off

KVNF (Paonia)
1. The Quiet American – Vol II
2. Beth Quist – New Moon
2. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
2. Cahalen Morrison & Eli West – Holy Coming of the Storm
2. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
3. Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm
3. Paper Bird – When the River Took Flight

The Colorado Sound
1. Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm*
1. Rene Marie – Voice Of My Beautiful Country
2. Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man – Joie De Vivre
3. Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New*
4. FaceMan – FaceMan
5. John Oates – Mississippi Mile
5. The Quiet American – Vol. II
6. Air Dubai – Soul & Body [single]
6. My Body Sings Electric – Changing Color
7. Mesita – Here’s to Nowhere
* serviced to radio and press by Rocky Mountain Music Network