CS S20 EP37 2026 + MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING + THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

AIR DATES: OCT 17-23 2026
LIVE ON YOUTUBE: Judy Collins, Andy Frasco, West of Fennario, The River Arkansas, DeVotchKa, Megan Burtt, Mollie O’Brien/Rich Moore, Leftover Salmon

Well, the snow is falling now, so the leaves have changed .. this shot on our way home from our east coast run in September.

Have you checked out COLORADO 2026 on SPOTIFY or YOUTUBE? 100 songs / 100 artists and bands. When I add something, something gets cut to cap the playlist at 100. Not everything there makes the show, so check it out. Some will make the annual COLORADO PLAYLIST FAN & LISTENER POLL later in NOV/DEC.

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. I’m currently tracking 285 current year releases for the weekly HOT SPINS REPORT.

Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

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.

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.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk
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Judy Collins – Maid of Constant Sorrow – Maid of Constant Sorrow (1960)
Judy Collins – When I Was A Girl In Colorado – When I Was A Girl In Colorado (2022)
(D) The Lumineers – Isabelle Fly (2026)

Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
The Railbenders – One Foot In The Grave – Segundo (2004)
West of Fennario – Great Evade (2026)
Little Trips – Future Nostalgia (2021)
Dressy Bessy – There’s a Girl – Sound Go Round (2002)
Volores – Shores of Scorpio – Shores of Scorpio (2026)
(D) High Lonesome – Song for Life (2026)

Andy Monley and the High Horses – Drag Me to Hell – Totem (2023)
The River Arkansas – Good Time Traveler – Tin Years (2025)
Adam Bodine – Swamp Stomp – Scenes of Changery (2021)

Acoustic Junction – Think About It – Acoustic Junction (1996)
Acoustic Junction – Oh Me Oh My – Strange Days (2000)
(N) $cotty, HOME, Trayce Chapman – Never Been – DENVER, INTERNATIONAL: DISC 1: DEPARTURES (2026)

Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Crush – Her Way Out (2024)
Chantil Dukart & the Dukes of Art – Show Me What Love Is – Chantil Dukart & the Dukes of Art (2026)
DeVotchKa – Let Me Sleep – This Night Falls Forever (2018)
Megan Burtt – Real Thing – The Bargain (2015)
The Burroughs – Clock It (2026)
(D) Mynd Reader – Still Uncertain (2026)

Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Sunday Street – Love Runner (2014)
Leftover Salmon – Big Wheel – Let’s Party About It (2025)
Steve Kovalcheck – Happy Train – Buckshot Blues (2026)

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KCSU (Fort Collins), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KGNU (Boulder), 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 PLAYIST
(6) 1. THE BURROUGHS – Apocalypteque LP Jul-26
(D) 2. MYND READER – Sunday Drive EP Aug-26
(R) 3. CHANTIL DUKART – Chantil Dukart & the Dukes of Art LP Jun-26
(5) 3. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Let Love Be Enough EP Aug-26
(6) 3. STRANGE AMERICANS – Medium Rare LP Aug-26
(9) 3. SUNSTONEY – Everything Is Fleeting LP May-26
(1) 3. VARIOUS – DENVER, INTERNATIONAL: DISC 2 — ARRIVALS LP Jul-26

CP S20 EP36 2026 + MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING + THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

AIRDATES: OCT 10-16 2026
MMMM = Sera Cahoone, Andy Frasco, The Galentines, DNA Picasso
YOUTUBE LIVE – the Stillhouse Junkies, DeVotchKa, Wendy Woo, Izcalli, SHEL

Claire and I pretty much spent all of September and early Oct traveling the country, ending with a final end of year shot of the Milky Way over Balanced Rock at Arches National Park in Moab.

We’re back on the road OCT 12-17… I’ve got three shows this week.
OCT 13 – Songwriters at the Speakeasy Roxy Broadway Denver
OCT 15 – Magic Rat Fort Collins
OCT 16 – The Stage at Bricks on Main Longmont

Have you checked out COLORADO 2026 on SPOTIFY or YOUTUBE? 100 songs / 100 artists and bands. When I add something, something gets cut to cap the playlist at 100. Not everything there makes the show, so check it out. Some will make the annual COLORADO PLAYLIST FAN & LISTENER POLL later in NOV/DEC.

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. I’m currently tracking 285 current year releases for the weekly HOT SPINS REPORT.

Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

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.

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.

Please make donations via Venmo at  chrisk-2  (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk
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Stephen Stills – Love The One You’re With – Stephen Stills (1970)
Stephen Stills – It Doesn’t Matter – Manassas (1970)
(D) Sera Cahoone – Pulling Up Roots – I’ve Missed You All These Years (2026)

Stillhouse Junkies – Down the Line – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon (2025)
Jeff Finlin – The Great Divide – Soul On the Line (2022)
Inside the Mind – Who I Am (2026)
Porlolo – I QUIT (2019)
DeVotchKa – Transliterator – A Mad & Faithful Telling (2008)
Edison – Million Horses – Your Ghost EP (2026)
(D) Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Houston We Got A Problem – Homesick (songs for younger me) (2026)

Wendy Woo – Good Old Days (2022)
A.J. Fullerton, Lauren Frihauf – Slow Killer (2025)
Keith Oxman – The Midgets – A Little Taste (1995)

Danny Holien – Colorado – The Tumbleweed Records Story 1971-1973 (1972)
Michael Stanley – Denver Rain – Michael Stanley (1972)
(D) The Galentines, Bridget Law – Hell to Pay (2026)

Eminence Ensemble – Moonshine – Inside Looking Out (2024)
Dead Pioneers, The Interrupters – Never Alone – Wagon Burner (2026)
Izcalli – A New Lie – IV (2018)
SHEL – The Battle of Evermore – SHEL (2012)
2mx2 – El Valle – Si Se Puede (2026)
(D) DNA Picasso, Jordan Burgett & JMAT – Get It In Gold (radio edit) – DENVER, INTERNATIONAL: DISC 2 — ARRIVALS (2026)

piKziL – Felix’s Lament – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold (feat. the Main Squeeze) – It’s All Gold (2025)
Ellyn Rucker – Blues for Big Scotia – Ellyn (1988)

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST
(1) 1. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP Mar-26
(8) 2. DEAD PIONEERS – Wagon Burner LP Feb-26
(3) 3. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Let Love Be Enough EP Aug-26
(2) 3. SERA CAHOONE – I’ve Missed You All These Years LP May-26
(7) 4. THE BURROUGHS – Apocalypteque LP Jul-26
(R) 4. THE CROOKED RUGS – The Crooked Rugs LP Jan-26
(7) 4. STRANGE AMERICANS – Medium Rare LP Aug-26

COLORADO PLAYLIST S20 EP33 2026 + MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING + THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

AIRDATES: AUG 2-SPT 04 2026
CUT IT OR KEEP IT: Harry Tuft, Cary Morin, Dylirium, Keenan TreVon, The Polish Ambassador
THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE: Captured Live – Big Head Todd and the Monsters, DeVotchKa, Gasoline Lollipops, Katya Grasso, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Wood Belly, Zephyr

The Flat Tops at sunset .. courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

This may the last post until Sept 28 or even a week later .. I’m taking some vaca time. Claire and I are taking a three week road trip out to Emerald Isle NC. Along the way, I intend to play some open mics where I can find them in Memphis and NC .. while Claire shoots more great night time landscapes and more.

I’ll be playing a few shows on the Front Range in October.
OCT 13 – Songwriters at the Speakeasy (Denver) – donations accepted
OCT 15 – GOATZ at Magic Rat (Fort Collins) – free show
OCT 16 – GOATZ at the Stage at Bricks (Longmont) – free show

The rising sun on Emerald Isle NC, September 2025 by Clear Vistas Photography.

Have you checked out COLORADO 2026 on SPOTIFY or YOUTUBE? 100 songs / 100 artists and bands. When I add something, something gets cut to cap the playlist at 100. Not everything there makes the show, so check it out. Some will make the annual COLORADO PLAYLIST FAN & LISTENER POLL later in NOV/DEC.

The newest adds from: Dead Pioneers, Edison, The Fretliners, Heavy Diamond Ring, Holdfast., GRiZ, Jobi Riccio, N3ptune, Strange Americans

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. I’m currently tracking 285 current year releases for the weekly HOT SPINS REPORT.

Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

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.

Harry Tuft – You Gonna Quit Me – Across the Blue Mountains (1976)
(D) Harry Tuft – San Francisco Bay Blues – Friends, Lovers & Other Strangers (2026)

Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone – Wildflower Lane (2025)
Wood Belly – Play Me Out – Cicada (2023)
The Andes – Unwind – Keep It Together (2026)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Josephina – Black Beehive ( 2014)
Ambar Lucid – Get Lost In the Music (2021)
Volores – The Huntress – Shores of Scorpio (2026)
(N) Cary Morin – Another Place – Songs From Anguilla (2026)

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Love Don’t – The Future (2022)
Dave Gruisin Trio – Love Letters – Kaleidoscope (1965)

Zephyr – Sun’s a Risin’ Zephyr – Deluxe Edition (2014) (1969)
(D) Dylirium – Follow My Shadow – Live Your Life (2026)

Dango Rose – Singularity (radio edit) – The Forgotten Years EP VOL. Two (2022)
the Patti Fiasco – Love Letter – Juicy EP (2024)
Katya Grasso – Covered In Sand (2026)
DeVotchKa – Contrabanda – 100 Lovers (2011)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – This Is How We Do Things In The Country – The Bloudy Tenent Truth Peace (2004)
Gasoline Lollipops – Way Back Home (2026)
(D) Keenan TreVon, DNA Picasso – Risk it All (2026)

Hello Dollface – Warrior Of Light (2015)
piKziL = Exit Strategy (2025)
(D) The Polish Ambassador – The Bigger Bounce (2026)

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), 
KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KGNU (Boulder), 
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
(D) 1. Graveyard Choir – The Space We Leave LP
(R) 2. Velvet Daydream – Smoke & Mirrors LP
(D) 3. The Andes – Plenty of Room SP
(R) 4. Clay Street Unit – Sin and Squalor LP
(3) 4. Jobi Riccio – Face the Feeling LP
(D) 4. The Nershis – I Drive Me Crazy / Colorado Bluebird Sky SP
(D) 5. Bluebook – Holy Rider SP
(3) 5. Bonnie Paine – Unseen LP