Category: Polls

CP S20 EP04 2026

Airdates: JAN 24-30 2026. NEW = KEEP or CUT + Featured Videos of the Week. + Spotify / YouTube links to HOT SPINS


Thank you for stopping by. Every week I hope to bring you some of the best of Colorado music from across the decades, and around the state. I also usually share a new landscape photograph by my life-partner, Claire/Clear Vistas Photography. There is no current website for Claire’s work. If you see a photo you like and would like to have printed, let me know. Email chriskmusic@gmail.com

NOTE: I made a couple of adjustments to the post this week in the Monday Morning Music Meeting and This Week on YouTube.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies.

TRUTH: I more or less retired a couple of years ago. This show has been my passion for 20 years now. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. There are monthly costs associated with the show that honestly stretch my limited retirement income now.

Your support is essential and sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below. 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 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.
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HOUR 1

Dressy Bessy – Electrified – Electrified (2009)
The Apples In Stereo – Energy – New Magnetic Wonder (2007)
(D) Sun Way Street – Who Said I Cared (2026)

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Heartless – South of Here (2024)
Daniel Rodriguez – Brother John – Sojurn of a Burning Sun (2020)
The Dirty Turkeys – Soul Sugar (2026)
Leftover Salmon – Gulf of Mexico – Aquatic Hitchhiker (2012)
Teresa Suydam – Good Condition (2024)
piKziL – Here’s The News – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
LVDY – Fleeting (2025)
(D) The Dirty Shoes Band – Better Than Being Alone (2026)

Mojomama – Lazy River – Red White and Blues (2018)
A.J. Fullerton – Wild Peace – Magnectic Light (2025)
BTTRFLY Quintet – Tijuca – Coast (2023)

HOUR 2

Katie Herzig – Jack And Jill – Weightless (2006)
Everything Absent Or Distorted (A Love Story) – The Exit Parade – The Soft Civil War (2006)
(D) Amber Cole – Forbidden – Chronicles (2026)

Andy Eppler – Don’t Say My Name – Valley of the Sin Eaters (2025)
Claire Heywood – Python – I Won’t Resign My Love For That Old Dream (2020)
Emily Scott Robinson – Dirtbag Saloon (2026)
Dan Treanor – South Bound Train feat. Creighton Holley – American Primitive (2010)
The Crooked Rugs – Everything You See – That! (2021)
The Tammy Shine – Junk Mail – Ok Shine Ok (2026)
(D) West of Fennario – Great Evade (2026)

The 89s – Apple Of My Eye – Wash Away (2020)
Rootbeer Richie & The Reveille – Without You – Never Needed Me (2024)
Steve Denny Trio – Gramophology – Life in New York (2020)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

Another change in the weekly post. I am only featuring full videos, including lyric videos, in THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE.

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JAN 25, 2026

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), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVCU (Boulder, 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 around the count.

(D) = debut HOT SPINS
(R) = re-enter HOT SPINS

ALL STATIONS STATWIDE + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 83 TTITLES TRACKED

(4) 1. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25 Spotify, YouTube
(1) 2. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains (Deluxe) LP Jan-26 Spotify, YouTube
(D) 3. WEST OF FENNARIO – Great Evade SP Dec-25 Spotify, YouTube
(R) 4. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25 Spotify, YouTube
(D) 4. ANIMAL ELECTRICITY – Ghostwrite Your Alibi LP Sep-25 Spotify, YouTube
(4) 4. BITCHFLOWER – Aghast, Aroused, Appalled LP Jul-25 Spotify, YouTube
(D) 4. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP Oct-25 Spotify, YouTube

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CP S20 EP02 2026

The Colorado Playlist is a unique show dedicated to showcasing Colorado music statewide. Debuts enter the Monday Morning Music Meeting where listeners help determine what stays in the playlist.

A Rocky Mountain Moon – Photo courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

YOUR SUPPORT IS ESSENTIAL for 2026

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide.

Your support is essential to keeping it on the air.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below. 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 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.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) 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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Born In The Flood – If this thing should spill – If this thing should spill (2007)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Wheel – Whimper and Wail – Desire and Dissolving Men (2007)
(D) Angie Stevens & Christian Roberts – Someone to Tell (2026)
Andy Sydow – In Love and a Hard Luck Sayer – Night Skin (2025)
The Velveteers – Charmer And The Snake – Nightmare Daydream (2021)
LatinSoul, Joshua Trinidad – Mama Pacha (2025)
The Fray – How to Save A Life (2005)
King Cardinal – Runaway (2022)
Hunter James & the Titanic – Weekend Holds – IV (2025)
(D) Our Violet Room – Villian (2026)

Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Love is a Gun – Keep On Keepin On (2020)
Planes Mistaken For Stars – Modern Logic – Do You Still Love Me? (2025)
Matt Skellenger – Connectivity – Subspace Transmission (2023)

OneRepublic – Apologize – Dreaming Out Loud (2007)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – All The Love You Need – All The Love You Need (2007)
(D) The Lollygags – A Cautionary Tale (2026)

White Rose Motor Oil – Trouble Or Nothing – The Gift Of Poison (2023)
A.J. Fullerton – Day’s End – Magnetic Light (2025)
Leftover Salmon – Good Dog– Let’s Party About It (2025)
The Subdudes – Papa Dukie & The Mud People – Behind The Levee (2006)
Otis Taylor – Hey Joe – Recapturing The Banjo (2008)
Pink Fuzz – Animal (2025)
(D) Woven Hollow – Ten Feet Under (2026)

Jill Sobule – Where Do I Begin – Nostalgia Kills (2018)
Marfa – Daisy (2025)
Eric Lilley Trio – Luck of the Draw – Joie De Vivre (2019)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JAN 11 2026

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 74 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25 Spotify, YouTube
(D) 2. BITCHFLOWER – Aghast, Aroused, Appalled LP Jul-25 Spotify, YouTube
(R) 2. PINK FUZZ – Resolution LP Jul-25 Spotify, YouTube
(D) 2. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25 Spotify, YouTube
(2) 3. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains (Deluxe) LP Jan-26 Spotify, YouTube
(D) 3. ANIMAL ELECTRICITY – Ghostwrite Your Alibi LP Sep-25 Spotify, YouTube

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CP S20 EP01 2026

This week’s Monday Morning Music Meeting features new music from Denver’s #1 hard-country band The Railbenders and Colorado Music Hall of Fame inductees Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. National breakout act Marfa joins the mix, plus an introduction to Boulder by way of Austin band Ronjo V.

WOW .. 20 .. that’s freakin’ amazing. 20 years old. Thank you. It’s because of the incredible music that flows up from our state and YOUR support over the years.

The show began as the Colorado Sound in 2006, when I was on the air at 88.9 KRFC (Fort Collins). In 2016, the name changed to The Colorado Playlist after KJAC bought the name to brand the new NoCO station as 105.5 The Colorado Sound, and hired me to anchor weekends. The Colorado Sound is celebrating its 10th Anniversary at Washington’s FoCO (Fort Collins) on March 2. I hope you’ll join us.

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide.

Your support is essential to keeping it on the air.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below. 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

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.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) 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.

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.
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HOUR 1

Big Head Todd and The Monsters – It’s Alright – Live Monsters (1998)
(D) Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Sister Sweetly – 40 Live (2026)
(D) The Railbenders – What You Get (2026)

The String Cheese Incident – One More Time – Lend Me A Hand (2023)
piKziL – Exit Strategy (2025)
The Apples In Stereo – Nobody But You – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
Megan Burtt – The Bargain – The Bargain (2015)
Zoe Berman – Vitamin D (2025)
(D) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – For All the Good It Did (2026)

Gregory Alan Isakov – Amsterdam – The Weatherman (2013)
Big Dopes – Draggin’ This On (2025)
Paa Kow – Cookpot – Cookpot (2017)

HOUR 2

Rose Hill Drive – Cool Cody – Rose Hill Drive (2006)
DeVotchKa – I Cried Like a Silly Boy – Curse Your Little Heart (2006)
(D) Ronjo V – Gray Skies – Ronjo V (2025)

The Copper Children – Pushin’ On – Strange Illusion (2022)
Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon – Mule Creek Junction – Lonesome and Free (2026)
Izcalli – Solo Se Morir – IV (2018)
Carolyn Hunter – Goodbye In the Rain (2021)
King Cardinal – Waste My Time (2026)
(D) Marfa – Little Lowdown (2026)

Stylie – Smooth Sailin’ – Smooth Sailing (2024)
The Velveteers – Go Fly Away – A Million Knives (2025)
Annie Booth – Queen Bee – Wanderlust (2014)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JAN 04 2026

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), KLZR (Westcliff), 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 around the count.

(D) = debut HOT SPINS
(R) = re-enter HOT SPINS

ALL STATIONS + COLORADO PLAYLIST – 81 TITLES TRACKED
(R) 1. Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(1) 2. Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(R) 3. A.J. Fullerton – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(2) 4. Gasoline Lollipops – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(R) 4. Sour Magic – The Hive LP May-25
(R) 5. Christine Alice – Wood, Strings & Simple Things LP Feb-25
(R) 5. Tennis – Face Down in The Garden LP Feb-25

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT – IT HELPS

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