Category: Polls

A western slope Milky Way over Bangs Canyon courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

We got in from a wonderful FoCOMX Sunday afternoon. Thanks to the Fort Collins Musician’s Association and 105.5 The Colorado Sound for inviting me to participate in this year’s event, both as an emcee and performer. Despite very cold and snowy weather Friday night, venues were full and the music was ecstatically delicious.

The sun came out on Saturday, and so did the crowds. I emceed at Odell Brewing Company, the Platinum sponsor of the festival, and at The OBC Wine Project. I also performed at The OBC Wine Project with the wonderful Alex Nikiforoff on lead guitar. Afterwards, we attended several shows, until the old bones just say no mas!

We live in a state in love with the music that comes from here. Thanks for being a part of it!

Here’s this week’s Monday Morning Music Meeting, courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge.

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.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) I shared in the show this week.

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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Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Boom Boom – Beautiful World (1997)
Hillbilly Hellcats – Road Rage – Our Brand (1998)
(D) Garlow and Swesey – Ghost Town – Garlow and Swesey (2025)
The High Hawks – Somewhere South – Mother Nature’s Show (2024)
Erik Lunde – Steel Militia – Water from the Stone (2022)
The Deltasonics – Concrete Hotel – Concrete Hotel (2025)
Tierro Band with Bridget Law – Opening (feat. Xerephine) – Everlasting Dance (2023)
Ellyn Rucker – With You In Mind – NOW (2003)
David Starr – Hole in the Page (2025)
(D) Nitecap – Love and Light (2025)
Tennis – I’m Callin’ – Ritual in Repeat (2014)
Julian Fulco Perron – All the Lights (2023)
Adam Bodine – Swamp Stomp – Scenes of Changery (2021)

Acoustic Junction – Never Until Now – Fool’s Progress (1997)
Sherri Jackson – Time & Time – Sherri Jackson (1997)
(D) Bison Bone – Lean – Lean lp (2025)
Gregory Alan Isakov – The Fall – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
OneRepublic – Rescue Me – Human (2021)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Here I Go – Nowhere Next (2024)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Wheel – Whimper and Wail – Desire and Dissolving Men (2007)
GRiZ, Big Gigantic – Good Times Roll – Good Times Roll (2015)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold feat. the Main Squeeze (2025)
(D) Cipriano Band – Oh Cocoa – Lo Lo House (2025)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand – Witness (2024)
Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Keep On Keeping On – Keep On Keepin On (2020)
Erik Applegate – It’s Not Me, It’s You – Two’s Company (2017)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE. (NOT ALL TITLES AVAIL)

HOT SPINS WEEK APRIL 13-20 2025
ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE including the Colorado Playlist

(R) 1. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(2) 2. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(5) 3. THE GALENTINES – “1140” LP Dec-24
(1) 4. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 5. BISON BONE – Lean EP Apr-25

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and 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 and programs