CP S18 EP02 2024

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

The Monday Morning Music Meeting is 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 Rock Advocates – Quest for Girls (1981)
The Rock Advocates – Greasy Spoon (1989)
(D) Drunken Hearts – Elderly Woman Behind the Counter (2024)
Sweet Virginia – Leaving Again – Leaving Again (2022)
Rob Drabkin – Little Steps (radio edit) (2013)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Tight Rope (Leon Russell) – A Song For Leon (2024)
Drew Emmitt – Take The Long Way Home – Long Road (2008)
The Apples In Stereo – Nobody But You – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
Julian Fulco Perron – About Love (2023)**
(D) Sean Waters & the Sunrise Genius – Easier – Easier SP (2024)

Paper Bird – Sunday – Paper Bird (2016)
Deva Yoder – Resting From Their Labors – Be Well (2023)
Paa Kow – The Way I Feel – Cookpot (2017)

Pete Nalty and the Jinns – Whirlwind – The Jinns (1989)
Pete Nalty and the Jinns – Give a Little – The Jinns (1989)
(N) Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Her Way Out (2024)

The Barlow – Dreams for Tomorrow (2023)
CITRA – Inside My Head (2024)
Cass Clayton – Flowers At My Feet – Play Nice (2019)
The Wendy Woo Trio – Crisis – Luxury (2007)
Ed Mozingo – Streets of Mars – Ed Mozingo EP (2024)
(D) Calvin Locklear – Wet Cement – No Particular Plan (2024)

Dressy Bessy – Try Try Try Again – Electrified (2009)
Adrienne O – You Don’t Want My Love (2023)
Bill Frisell – Rumble – Guitar in the Space Age (2014)

#COMUSIC HOT SPINS WK JAN 07-13 2024

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 to track airplay at more than 300 stations and programs around the country.

72 TITLES TRACKED WK 01/06-13 2024

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = NOT LIVING IN COLORADO, but counted 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 media in Colorado by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

(1) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(D) 2. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Crush SP (Nov-23)
(R) 3. Drunken Hearts – Reckless Way of Living LP (May-23)
(R) 4. Last Call Romance – Double Funeral, VOL 2 LP (Apr-23)**
(D) 5. Cary Morin – Innocent Allies LP (Oct-23)
(2) 5. Kiltro – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

CP S18 EP01 2024

MONDAY JAN 08, 2024 … Let’s get the new year started. HELP, please. I need help to keep this show going. Please donate below or via Venmo at chrisk-2 (6753). And don’t forget to let us know what you think of this week’s new music shares.

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

The Monday Morning Music Meeting is 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 Moonrakers – I’m All Right (1964)
Sugarloaf – Tongue In Cheek (radio edit) – Spaceship Earth (1971)
Cary Morin – Indian Hunters Return – Innocent Allies (2023)
Hunter Stone – Mars (2023)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeths Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
Kiltro – Errasuriz (radio edit) – Underbelly (2023)
Megan Burtt – The Bargain – The Bargain (2015)
Railbenders – Someone Take This Bottle – Segundo (2004)
Jobi Riccio – Summer – Whiplash (2023)
Izcalli – Waiting for Something (2024)
Alexa Wildish – Magic Hours – Alexa Wildish EP (2020)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Into the Fire – Get Yourself Outside (2022)
Gerald Albright – New Beginnings – New Beginnings (2006)

The Apples In Stereo – Seems So – Tone Soul Evolution (1997)
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
(D) Gasoline Lollipops – Blood On the Bluegrass (2024)

Drunken Hearts – Fall From Grace – Reckless Ways of Living (2023)
Hillbilly Hellcats – White Trash – Rev It Up With Taz (2003)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Crush (2024)
piKziL – Can’t Get Started – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
Andy Monley – kites – Triplight (2006)
Last Call Romance – I’ll Give You Nothing – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 (2023)
(D) Dechen Hawk – FOMO (2024)

The Velveteers – Charmer And The Snake – Nightmare Daydream (2021)
Sugar Nova – Touch Me, I’m Going to Scream, Pt. II – Halogen (2023)
Keith Oxman – Pinwheel – Doing All Right (2009)

#COMUSIC HOT SPINS WK DEC 31 – JAN 06

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 to track airplay at more than 300 stations and programs around the country.

61 TITLES TRACKED WK 12/31-01/06

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = NOT LIVING IN COLORADO, but counted 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 media in Colorado by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

(1) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(R) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(R) 2. BRYCE MENCHACA – Salt EP (Aug-23)
(R) 2. DRAGONDEER – Across the Waves LP (Jun-23)**
(R) 2. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(R) 2. LEFTOVER SALMON – Grass Roots LP (May-23)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

CP S18 BEST OF 2023

MONDAY JAN 01, 2023 – HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

2023 BEST OF THE COLORADO PLAYLIST HIGHLIGHTS
2023 FAN/LISTENER FAVORITES OF THE YEAR
2023 TOP 50 COLORADO AIRPLAY


Euforquestra – Arizona to Georgia – While We Still Got Time (2022)
-#5 TOP 50
Alysia Kraft – Hamilton Pool – First Light (2022)
-#6 TOP 50
Julian Fulco Perron – All the Lights (2023)
-#34 TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite He/His/Male Vocal Performance
-Fan/Listener Favorite Single (SP) Release
Dragondeer – New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023) **
-#11 TOP 50
Jesus Christ Taxi Driver – Diabolical Catholic – Lick My Soul (2023)
-#22 TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite Alternative (ROCK) Song

Cody Qualls, Hazel Miller and Josh Blackburn – Colorado (Save A Place for Us) (2023)
-Fan/Listener Favorite Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Buy My Round – What If I EP (2023)
-#10 TOP 50
Since JulEYE x Lightbrush – On the Scene (feat. Eric Benny Bloom) (2023)
-Fan/Listener Favorite EDM
Roger Green – Enter As You Leave – Enter As You Leave (2023)
-Colorado Playlist Legacy Artist (tied)
*Vivian – Fade Into You (radio edit) (2023)
-Fan/Listener Favorite Cover/Remake
iZCalli – One Last Time (2023)
-#1 Single (SP) Release
Brothers Keeper – He Left You (f. John Popper) (2023)
-#2 Single (SP) Release
Matt Skellenger – The Lion’s Tooth – Subspace Transmission (2023)
-#1 Colorado Airplay Jazz Release

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Julian Fulco Perron – Not So Fast – In My Garden (2023)
-#12 TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite Album of the Year

2MX2 – Arriba y Abajo (2023)
-Fan/Listener Favorite Non-English Vocals
White Rose Motor Oil – Ain’t No Saint – The Gift Of Poison (2023)
-#26 TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite Americana / Alt-Country

Alysia Kraft – Electric Blooms (2023)
-#8 TOP 50
-FAN/LISTENER FAVORITE POP & ROCK

The Burroughs – Found My Groove – Honey Imastar (2023)
-#7 TOP 50
VOLORES – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
-#5t TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite Debut/Emerging Artist
-Fan/Listener Favorite She/Her/Female Vocal Performance

Bryce Menchaca – Flower Painted Black – Salt (2023)
-COLORADO PLAYLIST EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Andy Monley & the High Horses – Drag Me To Hell – Totem (2023)
-Colorado Playlist Legacy Artist (tied)
Leftover Salmon – Blue Railroad Train (feat. Billy Strings) – Grass Roots (2023)
-#4 TOP 50
Daniel Rodriguez – Mixtape – Vast Nothing (2023)
-#3 TOP 50
Kiltro – All The Time in the World – Underbelly (2023)
-#2 TOP 50
Gregory Alan Isakov – The Fall – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
-#1 TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song

BTTRFLY Quintet – Tijuca – Coast (2023)
-Colorado Playlist Album of the Year (Jazz)