Category: Playlists

CP S20 EP19 + NEW MUSIC MONDAY + HOT SPINS WK ENDING MAY 24

AIR DATES: MAY 23-29 2026
MMMM: Bonnie Paine, Big Dopes, Ian Brighton, Downey Chase

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I changed up This Week On YouTube recently. It now features live performance and studio created videos culled from the weekly playlist. Check it out below.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. BUT I’M NOT. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my income.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year releases. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

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Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.
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Judy Collins – Bird On a Wire – Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968)
Harry Tuft – You Gonna Quit Me – Across the Blue Mountains (1976)
(D) Bonnie Paine, Rising Appalachia – Lighthouse – Unseen (2026)

Firefall – So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star – Friends & Family 2 (2025)
Elektric Animals – Reckless (2020)
West of Fennario – Great Evade (2026)
Euforquestra – Still Got Time – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Happiness Is – Rocksteady (2010)
Aubrey Dale – ‘Til the Cows Come Home (2025)
(D) Big Dopes – What It Feels Like – Jerry Ever After EP (2026)

YaSi – Guilty (2021)
Eminence Ensemble – Moonshine – Inside Looking Out (2024)
Gabriel Mervine – If I Love Again – See Something (2024)

Freddi Henchi Band – Get Up Off the Funk – Freddi Henchi Band (1981)
Acoustic Junction – Penny For Your Thoughts – Love It For What It Is (1991)
(D) Ian Brighton – Hologram – Tree of Life (2026)

Five Iron Frenzy – Renegades – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
Inside the Mind – Find a Way ft Shrub and Smoke Signals – Looking for the Sun (2024)
Musketeer Gripweed – Hard Times – Long Past Time (2022)
Megan Burtt – In A Minute – The Bargain (2015)
The Barlow – Factory or Prison (2026)
(D) Downey Chase – Where WIll I Go Now – A Room in Motion (2025)

Tennis – Need Your Love – Swimmer (2020)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone – Wildflower Lane (2025)
Brian Claxton – Music for FM Transmitter – Here Goes Nothing (2026)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

TOP 10 HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING MAY 24, 2026
(D) 1. DOWNEY CHASE – A Room In Motion LP Oct-25
(3) 2. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP Mar-26
(2) 3. JAGUAR STEVENS – Dead Miner’s Daughter LP Mar-26
(D) 4. BRIAN CLAXTON – Here Goes Nothing LP Jan-26
(D) 5. DRY MOUTH – We Meant It At the Time LP Dec-25
(D) 5. IAN BRIGHTON – Tree of Life LP May-26
(3) 5. PINK RANGER – Halcyon LP Sep-25
(R) 5. THE BARLOW – Factory or Prison SP Jan-26
(2) 5. YUGS – Dancing In My Room LP Nov-25
(R) 6. AUBREY DALE – Til the Cows Come Home SP Oct-25

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT IS TRULY APPRECIATED.

CP S20 EP18 + NEW MUSIC & HOT SPINS FOR WEEK ENDING MAY 17

AIRDATES: MAY 16-22 2026
MMMM: Neyla Pekarek, Gracie Bassie, Dianne Reeves, Rhett Haney, Steve Kovalcheck

A look upstream from Arapahoe Creek, near Monarch Lake, Granby – courtesy Clear Vistas Photography.

And we’re back … We had our home/offices freshly painted and recarpeted, so we drove to Granby, where Claire got some amazing Milky Way pictures we’ll hopefully share soon. And, I got to visit our friends at KFFR Winter Park … so cool to finely meet those folks.

I will be appearing with my band GOATZ! this Friday, May 22 at Roots Music Project in Boulder. Hope you’ll come out.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. BUT I’M NOT. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my income.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
__________________

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year releases. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

Advertisement

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.
__________________

(D) Neyla Pekarek – Fearless (2026)

Lannie Garrett – Nature Boy – Under Paris Skies (2005)
d’Lovelies – Walking By The River – d’Lovelies (2025)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Wipeout Turn – New World Arisin’ (2017)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Blind – Good As True (2026)
Darryl Purpose – Dreams of Life – Next Time Around (2012)
Jobi Riccio – Whiplash (2023)
Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon – Mule Creek Junction – Lonesome and Free (2026)
(D) Gracie Bassie – One (2026)

Selasee & The Fafa Family – Time for Peace (2014)
Big Dopes – Draggin’ This On (2025)
Brad Goode Quintet – Who Parked the Car? – That’s Right! (2018)

(D) Dianne Reeves – Hesitation – Star Child (2026)

Ellyn Rucker – Can’t Get Out of This Mood – NOW (2003)
iies. – Graffiti Swing – Don’t Forget the Dot (2024)
Spoke In Wordz – Por Aqui Por Alla (2025)
King Cardinal – New Addiction – Reviver (2026)
Euforquestra – Arizona to Georgia – While We Still Got Time (2022)
The Still Tide – Give Me Time – Run Out (2017)
A.J. Fullerton, Lauren Frihauf – Slow Killer (2025)
(D) Rhett Haney – Cold Beer & Cocaine (2026)

Gabrielle Louise – Big Unbreakable Heart – The Unending Alteration Of The Human Heart (2020)
The Galentines – Rear View Mirror – 1140 (2025)
(N) Steve Kovalcheck – Happy Train – Buckshot Blues (2026)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING MAY 17, 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), Indie1023 (Denver)

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the country.

ALL STATIONS + COLORADO PLAYLIST – 63 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP
(3) 2. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF – Slow Killer SP
(2) 2. JAGUAR STEVENS – Dead Miner’s Daughter LP
(3) 2. YUGS – Dancing In My Room LP
(3) 3. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP
(3) 3. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP
(2) 3. KING CARDINAL – Reviver LP
(D) 3. PINK RANGER – Halcyon LP

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT IS GENUINELY APPRECIATED.

CP S20 EP17 + NEW MUSIC MONDAY + HOT SPINS

AIR DATES MAY 09-15 2026
MMMM = Lauren Frihauf, The Desert Furs, The Yawpers, Wildermiss

Dark skies over Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado – courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

If you haven’t guessed by now, Claire and I love to jump in the car and take off on grand adventures throughout the western United States, and particularly Colorado. Well, we’re off for another week of Rocky Mountain dark skies and (fingers crossed) some incredible fishing (for me) as we head up to Granby area. Pictures soon I’m sure.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. BUT I’M NOT. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my income.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
__________________

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year releases. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.
__________________

Elton John – The Bitch is Back – Caribou (1974)
Earth, Wind & Fire – Devotion – Open Our Eyes (1974)
(D) Lauren Frihauf – The Thread (2026)

Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
Andy Eppler – Don’t Say My Name – Valley of the Sin Eaters (2025)
Violet Pilot – The Eyes Don’t Lie – Glad We Found You (2022)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Josephina – Black Beehive (2014)
LVDY – Fleeting (2025)
(D) The Desert Furs – Stereo (2026)

Heavy Diamond Ring – Already Gone – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Didn’t Go Wrong – Nowhere Next (2024)
BTTRFLY Quintet – Marauders – Coast (2023)

Joe Walsh – Home – Barnstorm (1972)
Chicago – Feelin’ Stronger Every Day – Chicago VI (1973)
(D) The Yawpers – New Kind of Man (2026)

Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It – Let’s Party About It (2025)
Tejon Street Corner Thieves – You Rascal You (2023)
Bo Depena – Half of My Mistakes (2026)
Mojomama – Be Your Own Savior – We Are One (2022)
Last Call Romance – I’ll Give You Nothing – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 (2023)
Sun Way Street – Who Said I Cared (2026)
(D) Wildermiss – Kiss the Weeds (2026)

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Buy My Round (2023)
The Lumineers – Same Old Song – Automatic (2025)
(D) Speak the Future – Duplicity (2026)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WK ENDING MAY 10 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), Indie1023 (Denver)

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the country.

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 59 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP Jan-26
(D) 2. JAGUAR STEVENS – Dead Miner’s Daughter LP Mar-26
(R) 2. KING CARDINAL – Reviver LP Sep-25
(R) 3. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF – Slow Killer SP Sep-25
(R) 3. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25
(D) 3. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP Mar-26
(D) 3. YUGS – Dancing In My Room LP Nov-25

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! IT MEANS A LOT ❤