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Are you looking forward to a new Red Rocks season? Photo courtesy of Claire Mannato

Monday JAN 17, 2022 – I hope you had a chance to read John Wenzel‘s “2022 in Denver music: The Lumineers, Bluebook, Yonder Mountain and more new albums coming out this year” in the Denver Post/Reverb. John interviewed me and Alisha Sweeney, local music director at Indie 102.3 FM.

John highlighted the upcoming new album Optimistic Voices, (Feb. 12) by Bluebook along with new 2022 releases from Yonder Mountain String Band (Feb. 25) and The Lumineers (Jan 14). Add to that The Future from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, which is a 2022 release – and still holding onto the #1 spot in the weekly TOP 5 (below)

Bluebook came onto the scene as the duo of Julie Davis (Nathaniel Rateliff, Gregory Alan Isakov) and Jess Parsons (the Still Tide, Patrick Dethlefs) with their debut EP The Astronaut’s Wife in 2018. The current lineup of Bluebook includes Hayley Helmericks (Snake Rattle Rattle Snake) and Anna Morset (The Still Tide).

Other upcoming new releases include Tejon Street Corner Thieves – Thick As Thieves (March 18) and Musketeer Gripweed – Long Time Past (spring/summer ’22), part two in a trilogy that started with the popular 2021 release More Than Ever. Also look forward to new releases from Cary Morin & Ghost Dog and A.J. Fullerton.

STATION OF THE WEEK

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TOP 5 COLORADO SPINS WK ENDING JAN 15, 2022

TOP 5 and TOP 30 charts are pulled from published spins of current releases (twelve months old) at 13 Colorado non-profit community/public and college radio stations. Eleven Colorado radio stations currently utilize Spinitron.

Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents at http://www.spinitron.com

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP (Nov-21)
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Sep-21)
  3. BISON BONE – The Lost Weekend EP (Nov-21)
  4. PINK FUZZ– Live at Silo Sound LP (Mar-21)
  5. ALLISON LORENZEN – Tender LP (Nov-21)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

Serving Cedaredge for over 20 years.

HOUR 1

The Serendipity Singers – Don’t Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man) – Serendipity! (1965)
The Astronauts – My Sin Is My Pride – Go…Go…Go!! (1965)
(D) George Cessna – Keep It Rolling – Lucky Rider (2022)


Gasoline Lollipops – All the Misery Money Can Buy – All The Misery Money Can Buy (2020)
Megan Burtt – The Bargain – The Bargain (2015)
Dango Rose – Singularity – The Forgotten Years EP VOL. Two (2022)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Love Don’t – The Future (2022)
Conjunto Colores – Seductive Rumba – Lo Mejor Del Conjunto Colores (2002)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – All The Love You Need – All The Love You Need (2007)
(N) Maddy and Kev – Train Wreck – Take A Ride (2022)

Dan Treanor – South Bound Train (f. Creighton Holley) – American Primitive (2010)
Niceness – What A Day – Realize (2021)
Steve Denny Trio – You Stepped Out of a Dream – Life in New York (2020)
Freddi Henchi & The Soulsetters– Fire – Crown Princes Of Funk: The Last Set (1972)
Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids – Good Times, Rock & Roll (1975)
(D) Michael Hager – Tender Love – Echoes Across the Divide (2022)

A.J. Fullerton – Slippin’ Away – The Forgiver and the Runaway (2021)
OneRepublic – Future Looks Good – Oh My My (2016)
Jaguar Stevens – Magic House Drama – Jaguar Stevens (2021)
The Crooked Rugs – Everything You See – That! (2021)
Lannie Garrett – Nature Boy – Under Paris Skies (2005)
The Motet – Nachez – Breathe (1999)
(D) The Threadbarons – Win You Back (2022)
The Knew – Bang the Drum – Man Monster (2012)
Claire Heywood – Letter Day (2020)
Nelson Rangell – Turning Night Into Day – Turning Night Into Day (1997)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

As is usual – not all songs in the show are on YouTube – enjoy these.

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Photo courtesy of Claire Mannato

Monday JAN 10, 2022 – Happy Monday morning. Due to a computer glitch this past weekend, the Colorado Playlist did not air correctly at KJAC 105.5 The Colorado Sound. New programming software can have some bugs ya know? It did and will, however, air correctly at the other stations this week.

The MMMM (Monday Morning Music Meeting) is a bit interesting this week. I showcased a couple of songs this week on the show that came out from late 2020 (2 Gentlemen) to early 2021 (Carolyn Shulman).

2 Gentlemen features Denver bassist Windall Armour who many may recall from his days in Opie Gone Bad. He and long time friend Kenny James (currently in Atlantic City) bring the funk hard on It’s All About the Views, a song that “…talks about where we are with social media and our fixation on collecting views as well as status in the social world.”

Carolyn Shulman was a pleasant find a couple of weeks ago. The Denver by way of Houston lawyer and singer-songwriter has earned considerable praise and folk radio airplay for her Americana country-folk, inspired by Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Patty Griffin.

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats not only held on to the #1 spot in the TOP 5 this week and at Roots Music Report.com, but appears to be increasing in the number of spins reported statewide. Remember, RMR.com also represents airplay of Colorado releases outside of Colorado – including internationally and on Internet radio stations that report.

I do expect to see the new album from Yonder Mountain String Band make a strong impression statewide, since debuting at #8 at RootsMusicReport.com. I do not expect to see it rise to TOP 5 status in my reporting due to lack of play on the top two stations spinning Colorado music in our state. The same is true for the new album by Colorado native Corey Harris, whose album The Insurrection Blues is currently #2 at Roots Music Report but doesn’t show up at the stations I survey weekly.

STATION OF THE WEEK

THE VOICE OF OUR COMMUNITY IN THE GRAND VALLEY

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105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND & THE COLORADO PLAYLIST PRESENT

The Drunken Hearts – Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO FRI FEB 4, 2022

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TOP 5 COLORADO SPINS WEEK ENDING JAN 08 2022

TOP 5 and TOP 30 charts are pulled from published spins of current releases (twelve months old) at 13 Colorado non-profit community/public and college radio stations. Eleven Colorado radio stations currently utilize Spinitron.

Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents at http://www.spinitron.com

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP (Nov-21)
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Sep-21)
  3. LEFTOVER SALMON– Brand New Good Old Days LP LP (Mar-21)
  4. A.J. FULLERTON – The Forgiver and the Runaway LP (Mar-21)
  5. CHRIS DANIELS & HAZEL MILLER – What We Did! LP (Jul-21)

MONDY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

Serving Cedaredge CO over 20 years.

Dianne Reeves – 32 Flavors – Beautiful Life (2013)
(D) Carolyn Shulman – Matter of Time – Grenadine & Kerosene (2021)

Wellington Bullings – Because I Want To (2020)
Jeff Austin – 15 Steps – The Simple Truth (2015)
Dirty Shrines – Every Mile – Digital Ego (2021)
Dechen Hawk – Lady Devine (2021)
Bobby Walker – Detroit Boogie – Bobby Walker (2008)
Drew Emmitt – Gypsy In My Soul – Long Road (2008)
(D) Drunken Hearts – Beat Up, Beat Down, and Broken – Wildflower Sessions

Whiskey Blanket – Pound Boom – No Object (2010)
Wildermiss – Supermagical (2020)
Gabriel Mervine – Sunlight – Say Somethin’ (2021)

HOUR 2

Earth Wind & Fire – Devotion – Open Our Eyes (1974)
(D) 2 Gentlemen – All About the Views (2021)

Kyle Hollingsworth – We Were the Young (2020)
Edison – Open Road – Familiar Spirit (2016)
Carolyn Hunter – Felt Like Love – Lovelight (2022)
Guy Margalit – 4YOU (feat. Dafna) (2021)
Leftover Salmon – Dance On Your Head – The Nashville Sessions (1999)
The String Cheese Incident – Stay Through – Song In My Head (2014)
(D) Yonder Mountain String Band – Into the Fire – Get Yourself Outside (2022)

Taylor Scott Band – Curiosity – All We Have (2019)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Already Gone – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
Jason Klobnak – Through Her Eyes – Friends and Family (2018)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

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photo from Fraser, CO courtesy of Claire Mannato

Monday Dec 20, 2021 – New music Monday – it’s our weekly Monday Morning Music Meeting. Help me pick what stays and what goes.

Amanda Juline came to Colorado from Guam and brought her sunshine pop reggae with her. Bluebook is nearly legendary Denver songstress Julie Davis who’s toured and/or recorded with Nathaniel Rateliff and Gregory Alan Isakov. Bear & the Beasts reprise an old Credence Clearwater Revival song and enter the “best cover of 2022” list. And, Highlands Ranch native, country-pop singer-songwriter, Grammy award nomineee Ingrid Andress returns with Sam Hunt alongside of her. Vote below.

STATION OF THE WEEK

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COLORADO PLAYLIST AND THE COLORADO SOUND PRESENT

DEC 30 – The Yawpers Play the Beatles – Live On the Lanes at 2454 West Greeley
DEC 31 – The Copper Children & Banshee Tree at Cervantes Other Side
DEC 31 – Head for the Hills at The Aggie Theater
FEB 12 – Daniel Rodriguez at Cervantes Other Side

“Locally Grown” 20/20 EyeVision offers a full range of services and they accept Medicaid at the Orchard Center in Westminster.

TOP FIVE WEEK ENDING DEC 18, 2021

TOP 5 and TOP 30 charts are pulled from published spins of current releases (twelve months old) at 13 Colorado non-profit community/public and college radio stations. Eleven Colorado radio stations currently utilize Spinitron.

Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents at http://www.spinitron.com

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – The Future LP (Nov-21)
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Oct-21)
  3. BLUEBOOK – Optimistic Voices LP (Feb-22)
  4. MADDY and KEV – Take A Ride EP (Nov-21)
  5. DIRTY SHRINES – Digital Ego LP (Sep-21)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

Serving Cedaredge CO over 20 years.

Dianne Reeves – Better Days – Dianne Reeves (1988)
(D) Amanda Juline – Anchor (2022)

Gasoline Lollipops – All the Misery Money Can Buy – All The Misery Money Can Buy (2020)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Damaged One – New World Arisin’ (2017)
West Side Joe & The Men of Soul – Found You – Keep On Climbin’ (2021)
Leftover Salmon – Black Hole Sun – Brand New Good Old Days (2021)
The Feds – This Side Of Sunday – This Side Of Sunday (1993)
The Apples In Stereo – Can You Feel It? – New Magnetic Wonder (2007)
(D) Bluebook – Shake Shake – Shake Shake (2022)

Kyle Emerson – Are You Lonely – Only Coming Down (2020)
Melissa Axel, Modern Tuba & Friends – Sleigh Ride In Bora Bora
Adam Bodine – Swamp Stomp – Scenes of Changery (2021)

HOUR 2

Philip Bailey Duet with Phil Collins – Easy Lover – Chinese Wall (1985)
(D) Bear and the Beasts – Run Through the Jungle (2022)

Nathaniel Rateliff – All Or Nothing – And It’s Still Alright (2020)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – No Doubt About It – Unentitled (2011)
Giant Zero – Good Ol’ Days – Shakes Me (2021)
Jux County – The Wait (feat. Julie Monley) – Coral (2016)
Boa and the Constrictors – Takin Matters Into My Own Hands – Snake Eyes (1998)
(D) Ingrid Andress – Wishful Drinking (with Sam Hunt) (2022)

Gabrielle Louise – Big Unbreakable Heart – The Unending Alteration Of The Human Heart (2020)
King Cardinal – Christmas List (2019)
Blumer Haus – Ode To Brubeck – Boy Meets Groove (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

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Sunset along Pueblo’s Riverwalk Summer 2021

Monday DEC 13, 2021 – We’re less than three weeks away from the end of 2021 and the Best Of the year show and year end charts. I guess it doesn’t take a brain scientist to figure out that Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats album The Future will be the number one album. They are, after all, the most popular band in recent memory. BUT – will Colorado Playlist listener and band fans pick them as #1?

This week’s TOP 5 finds Cortez, Colorado folk duo Maddy & Kev landing at #3 with Animal Electricity dropping into the 4th position and Claire Heywood lands back in the TOP 5.

MMMM this week features new music from the Jackson Cloud Odyssey, Corey Harris and Our Violet Room. The last time I caught Jackson Cloud live he was fronting a classic blues-rock band – but that was a few years ago now. His new album is full blown prog-rock/psychedelia than anything he’s known for live.

Corey Harris is a native Colorado musician who moved away after high school many decades ago. His new album is currently charting TOP 3 in the TOP 50 Colorado Album Chart at Roots Music Report.

Our Violet Room is a new project by Denver via Los Angeles singer-songwriter Matthew Birch. The new single also features Emma Cole from Wildermiss.

STATION OF THE WEEK

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The Voice & Rhythm of Pueblo

Community radio exists because of the support from listeners like you! Please help keep public radio on the air by becoming a sustaining member. See your local community radio station website for more information.

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST & THE COLORADO SOUND PRESENT

DEC 30 – The Yawpers Play the Beatles – Live On the Lanes at 2454 West Greeley
DEC 31 – The Copper Children & Banshee Tree at Cervantes Other Side
DEC 31 – Head for the Hills at The Aggie Theater

“Locally Grown” 20/20 EyeVision offers a full range of services and they accept Medicaid at the Orchard Center in Westminster.

TOP 5 and TOP 30 charts are pulled from published spins of current releases (twelve months old) at 13 Colorado non-profit community/public and college radio stations. Eleven Colorado radio stations currently utilize Spinitron.

Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents at http://www.spinitron.com

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – The Future LP (Nov-21)
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Oct-21)
  3. MADDY and KEV – Take A Ride EP (Nov-21)
  4. ANIMAL ELECTRICITY – TheSameThings LP (Jun-21)
  5. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Crushed Lemons SINGLE (Jul-21)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

Serving Cedaredge CO over 20 years.

HOUR 1

Judy Roderick – Country Girl Blues – Women Blue (1965)
Judy Roderick & the Forbears – Queen of the Street – When I’m Gone (2009)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Face Down in the Moment – The Future (2022)
The Burroughs – Love and Unity (2020)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Holly Jolly Rock & Roll Party – It’s a Crime Scene Christmas! (2015)
Carolyn Hunter – Comedown – Lovelight (2022)
Moon Walker – The TV Made Me Do It (2021)
Woven Hand – Not One Stone – The Laughing Stalk (2008)
Velveteen Monster – Marching to the Surf – The Original Soundtrack Recording Of (1999)
(D) Jackson Cloud Odyssey – Wizard’s Wardrobe – Monkey Mind (2022)

Fierce Bad Rabbit – Matter of Time – The Maestro and the Elephant (2012)
Post Truth Serum – The Discotheque – Modern Victims (2020)
Gypsy Swing Revue – Stompin’ At Decca – Some Of These Days (2005)

HOUR 2

The String Cheese Incident – Born On The Wrong Planet – Born On The Wrong Planet (1996)
(D) Corey Harris – Twelve Gates To The City – Insurrection Blues (2022)

James Lee Baker – Santa Barbara – 100 Summers (2020)
Big Head Todd & the Monsters – I’m Glad (at Christmas Time) (2019)
Zoe Berman – Edit Delete and Save – Freezing Heat EP (2022)
Dirty Shrines – Every Mile – Digital Ego (2021)
The Fluid – Our Love Will Still Be There – Glue / Roadmouth (1989)
The Mercury Project – Refuge – Soapbox Jive (2004)
(D) Our Violet Room – Winter (f. Emma Cole from Wildermiss) (2022)

Tennis – Needle and a Knife – Ritual in Repeat (2014)
Hugh Phillips – Steel Drivers Lament – It’s Been A Long Time (2021)
Adam Bodine Trio – Over the River and Through the Woods (2022)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

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Black Canyon of the Gunnison

Monday DEC 06, 2021 – There are only 9 days left to vote in the 12th Annual Colorado Playlist Listener Poll. Categories include Album (LP/EP), Alternative/Indie, Americana/Country, Blues/Rock/R&B, Cover/Remake, Duo or Band, Female, Folk/Singer-Songwriter, Funk/Soul/R&B, Jazz Album, Male, New Artist/Band, Pop/Light Rock, Rock/Hard Rock/Punk, Single Release

STATION OF THE WEEK

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Voice of the Wet Mountain Valley

Community radio exists because of the support from listeners like you! Please help keep public radio on the air by becoming a sustaining member. See your local community radio station website for more information.

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST & THE COLORADO SOUND PRESENT

DEC 11 – Inthewhale – Washington’s FoCo
DEC 30 – The Yawpers Play the Beatles – Live On the Lanes at 2454 West Greeley
DEC 31 – Head for the Hills at The Aggie Theater

“Locally Grown” 20/20 EyeVision offers a full range of services and they accept Medicaid at the Orchard Center in Westminster.

TOP 5 and TOP 30 charts are pulled from published spins of current releases (twelve months old) at 13 Colorado non-profit community/public and college radio stations. Eleven Colorado radio stations currently utilize Spinitron.

Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents at http://www.spinitron.com

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP (Nov-21)
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Oct-21)
  3. ANIMAL ELECTRICITY – TheSameThings LP (Jun-21)
  4. WEST SIDE JOE & THE MEN OF SOUL – Keep On Climbin’ LP (Apr-21)
  5. DAVID STARR – Touchstones LP (Sep-21)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

Serving Cedaredge CO over 20 years.

HOUR 1

The Fogcutters – It’s My World (Side A) (1966)
The Fantastic Zoo – Light Show (Side A) (1967)
(D) Zoe Berman – Something Better – Freezing Heat EP (2022)

Neoma – Young – Real (2020)
Bison Bone – Cryin’ Shame – Take Up the Trouble (2019)
Little Trips – Future Nostalgia (2021)
Claire Heywood – Crushed Lemons (2021)
The Czars – Paint the Moon – Goodbye (2004)
The Mercury Project – Fenced In – Soapbox Jive (2004)
(D) Rob Roper – Mama Had a Mohawk – The Way (2022)

Psychodelic Zombiez – Make It Through – Things That Are Brown (2015)
Finn O’Sullivan – Lipstick Kisses – When The Power Comes Back On (2020)
Keith Oxman – Memphis – Doing All Right (2009)

HOUR 2

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Mr. Bojangles (1970)
Stephen Stills – It Doesn’t Matter – Manassas (1970)
(D) King Cardinal – Rattlin‘ (2021)

Kayla Marque – Mercy – Brain Chemistry – Right Brain (2020)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – City of Love – City of Love (2019)
The Crooked Rugs – Let Me Down – IT! (2021)
Animal Electricity – This Side Toward Enemy – This Side Toward Enemy (2021)
Leftover Salmon – Category Stomp – Brand New Good Old Days (2021)
Freddi Henchi Band – Celebration (f. Larry Wilkens) – Freddi Henchi Band (1981)
Katie Herzig – Feel Alive – Feel Alive (2017)
(D) Maddy and Kev – Turquoise Sky – Take A Ride (2022)

Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Wipeout Turn – New World Arisin’ (2017)
Joe Johnson – Hold On (2020)
2b3 – Etched in Stone – Jimi (2021)

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