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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
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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.

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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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 ❤

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CP S20 EP16 2026 – MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING + HOT SPINS WK ENDING MAY 03

AIRDATES: MAY 02-08 2026
MMMM – Nadine, Greg Schochet & Little America, Gregory Alan Isakov, Greg Tanner Harris

Chisos Mountains, Big Bend Nat’l Park, Texas – courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

Every week, besides the blog post I also work on COLORADO 2026 .. 100 songs from 100 Colorado artists and bands (including those formed here, but since moved to another city). The playlist is capped at 100, so for every new add, I drop one. There’s one on Spotify and one on YouTube . Not everything on COLORADO 2026 finds its way to the show, so there’s lots of new stuff to discover.

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.
__________________

The Apples in Stereo – Tidal Wave – Tidal Wave EP (1993)
Zuba – You Do Me – Zuba (1993)
(D) Nadine – Jenny (2026)

Marfa – Daisy (2025)
Jobi Riccio – Sweet (radio edit) – Whiplash (2023)
Sunsquabi – Fischer Cat (excerpt)
Packaging – In Your Pocket – Packaging (2025)
The Still Tide – High Wire – Run Out (2017)
Little Trips – Future Nostalgia (2021)
LatinSoul – Mama Pacha (2025)
The Delta Sonics – Just Playin’ (excerpt)
(D) Greg Schochet & Little America – Train Crazy – Wyoming In the Windshield (2026)

Leftover Salmon – Show Me Something Higher – Something Higher (2018)
Jon Wirtz – Country – Tourist (2013)

Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Runaway Train – Riviera (2002)
The Hillbilly Hellcats – Dead Man’s Party – Rev It Up With Taz (2003)
(D) Gregory Alan Isakov, Sylvan Esso – Fade Into You (2026)

The Velveteers – On and On – A Million Knives (2025)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeth’s Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
The Terra Surfers – Nerved Up (excerpt)
Velvet Daydream – Love (radio edit) (2026)
The Motet – Highly Compatible – Death Or Devotion (2019)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Criminal – The Show (2009)
The Railbenders – What You Get (2026)
Ben Parrish – Crankbait (excerpt)
(D) Greg Tanner Harris – who knows – quiet things (2026)

The Reminders – Dust and Bones – Unstoppable (2019)
Kate Farmer – California (2025)
(D) Steve Kovalcheck – Happy Train – Buckshot Blues (2026)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING MAY O3 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 – 66 TITLES TRACKED
(2) 1. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Jan-26
(D) 2. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread / One Thing Always Leads to Another SP Mar-26
(D) 3. BO DEPENA – Rather Move Up LP Nov-25
(R) 3. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26
(D) 3. SUN WAY STREET – Who Said I Cared SP Jan-26

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT – SINCERELY

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CP S20 EP15 2026 – NEW MUSIC MONDAY

Airdates SAT APR 25-FRI MAY 03 2026. NEW MUSIC from Finn O’Sulliv an, Faith Eliza, Silent Bear, and Jaguar Stevens.

Milky Way behind the Mule Ears at Big Bend Nat’l Park, Texas. Courtesy of

HI! We just rolled in from over 3000 miles on the road – including a run deep into south Texas; four nights in Big Bend Nat’l Park and a set at the legendary Boathouse in Terlingua.

Claire will be working on photos for weeks, though she did share one with the Milky Way coming up in back of the Mule Ears!

Also on this run, FoCOMX in Fort Collins with my band GOATZ! OVER 3000 miles in April .. wow .. I’m beat … Thanks to Backstage Flash for grabbing this pic of me performing.

Next date = full band, GOATZ!, Roots Music Project, Boulder, MAY 22

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

This show has been my passion for 20 years. I am retired now. I survive on social security, some pennies and dimes playing out (right?!), and limited savings (that won’t last to the end).

There are monthly costs associated with the show that honestly stretch my insanely limited retirement income, and the loss of my steadiest supporter over the past decade.

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
__________________

THE MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING WILL BE BACK SOON

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 songs. 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.
__________________

Peter Nalty and the Jinns – Whirlwind – The Jinns (1989)
Paul Galaxy and the Galactix – Road Dog – Slingshot (2004)
(D) Finn O’Sullivan – Alice (radio edit) – The Tape (2026)

Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
A.J. Fullerton – Oh Frustration (2022)
Lynn Patrick – When You Find What You’re Looking For (excerpt)
Ryan Dart – Dirt Road Woman – If Love Don’t Break You (2026)
King Cardinal – Runaway (2022)
Carolyn Hunter – Comedown (2022)
Volores – Shores of Scorpio – Shores of Scorpio (2026)
Maddy O’Neil & Clozee – Zest Please (excerpt)
(D) Silent Bear – Cheyenne (The Bald Eagle) (2026)

The Lumineers – So Long – Automatic (2025)
The Jason Klobnak Quartet – Dad’s Game – Friends & Family (2018)

The Wood Brothers – Snake Eyes – Paradise (2015)
Michael Trent – Bad Luck – The Winner (2010)
(D) Faith Eliza – Monsters (2026)

GRiZ – Found Your Love – Gemini EP (2025)
2MX2 – El Desmadre (2024)
Sunsquabi – Dexter’s Day (excerpt)
Emily Scott Robinson – Dirtbag Saloon – Appalachia (2026)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Damaged One – New World Arisin’ (2017)
The Yawpers – American Man – American Man (2015)
The Delta Sonics – Backtrackin Again (excerpt)
(D) Jaguar Stevens – Thunderbird – Dead Miner’s Daughter (2026)

Sweet Virginia – Blue Skies – Leaving Again (2022)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold (feat. the Main Squeez) (2025)
Keith Oxman – Afreaka – Glimpses (2018)

HOT SPINS (frozen) – TOP 30 dropping on MAY 01

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.

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