Category: Polls

CP S20 EP27 2026 MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING – CUT IT OR KEEP IT + THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

AIRDATES: JULY 18-24 2026
LIVE ON YOUTUBE: Yonder Mountain String Band, Big Richard Band, Stillhouse Junkies, Gasoline Lollipops, Dragondeer, Katya Grasso, Jill Sobule, the Lumineers, the Czars

Nighttime on Lake John, near Walden Colorado. No smoke to obscure the night skies, and well, the fishing was great, but catching them wasn’t … courtesy Clear Vista photography.

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.

Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL, AND GENUINELY APPRECIATED.

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.

Please make donations via Venmo at  chrisk-2  (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk
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Yonder Mountain String Band – Half Moon Rising – Elevation (1999)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Blind – Good As True (2026)
(D) Big Richard – Smokey Joe (2026)

Chris Daniels and the Kings – All For The Love Of Lill – Louie Louie (2001)
Stillhouse Junkies – Down the Line – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon (2025)
Lynn Patrick – When You Find What You’re Looking For (excerpt)
Gasoline Lollipops – Way Back Home (2026)
Dragondeer – Mirage a Trois – Mirage a Trios (2019)
Wendy Woo – The Immigrant (2019)
Katya Grasso – Covered In Sand (2026)
The Delta Sonics – Backtrackin’ Again (excerpt)
(D) The Yawpers – Starting Over – Teething (2026)

Jill Sobule – Where Do I Begin – Nostalgia Kills (2018)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold (feat. the Main Squeeze) (2025)
Steve Kovalcheck, Peter Sommer, Paul Romaine, Ken Walker – Homecoming – Ghost Orchid (2022)

Dean Reed – Our Summer Romance (1960)
Gary Stites – Lonely for You (1959)
The Astronauts – Baja (1963)
(D) A.J. Fullerton – Change Is Inevitable – Baretone EP (2026)

The Lumineers – Same Old Song – Automatic (2025)
Trevor Hall – fire on your house – In and Through the Body (2020)
The Terra Surfers – Nerved Up! (excerpt)
Road Pony – Roll the Dice (2026)
The Czars – Killjoy – The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People (2001)
Safe Boating is No Accident – Dye My Love – Bonus Features (2014)
Volores – The Huntress – Shores of Scorpio (2026)
Maddy O’Neil & Clozee – Zest Please (excerpt)
(D) Stylie – Crusin‘ (2026)

Deca – Breadcrumbs (radio edit) – The Ocean (2013)
LVDY – Fleeting (2025)
Paa Kow – African Lady – Cookpot (2017)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JULY 19, 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
Aubrey Dale – Fireweed LP
King Cardinal – Reviver LP
LILY NOVA – Pure Intentions / Flashlight SP
Nina de Freitas – Madness Everlasting SP
Rhett Haney – Cold Beer & Cocaine SP
Teresa Suydam – Here Today But Gone SP
Velvet Daydream – Smoke & Mirrors LP

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

CP S20 EP25 2026 + CUT IT or KEEP IT + THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

AIRDATES: JULY 04-10 2026 – This Week On Youtube = Live videos from the Wood Brothers, The Still Tide, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Megan Burtt, Widespread Panic, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Paul McCartney & Wings, the String Cheese Incident and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

North Clear Creek Falls, Rio Grande Nat’l Forest

Due to the JULY 4th holiday, there is NO HOT SPINS this week. And there may not be one next week. Claire and I are going on a photo/fishing trip up to the Walden area .. so we’ll see what we see. It’s been a minute or decade or two since I’ve traveled up that way in the state. Have a great week and enjoy the show.

I did something a bit different this week, as I celebrated 50 years since the year Colorado became known as the Centennial State and the Colorado Music Hall of Fame inducted of a NON-Colorado band, but one that owns an historical record in Colorado music history.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. UNFORTUNATELY, 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 GENUINELY 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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Bob Dylan – Shelter from the Storm – Hard Rain (1976)
Firefall – Livin’ Ain’t Livin’ – Firefall (1976)
(D) Dan Hochman – A Few More Grays (2026)

The Wood Brothers – River Takes the Town – One Drop of Truth (2018)
Ben Parrish – Crankbait (excerpt)
Our Violet Room – Villian (2026)
LVDY – Change (2020)
The Still Tide – Better Than I’ve Been – Between Skies (2020)
Inside the Mind – Who I Am (2026)
Boa and the Constrictors – Red Top (excerpt)
(D) bluebook – Holy Rider (2026)

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Trying So Hard Not To Know – S/T (2015)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand (Radio Edit) – Witness (2024)
Fred Hess Band – Norman’s Gold – Single Moment (2015)

Widespread Panic – Radio Child – 2026/06/28 Morrison, CO (2026)
Widespread Panic – Pigeons – Live at Red Rocks 1991
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – It’s Alright – Live Monsters (1998)
Dotsero – Latin Sandwiches (excerpt)
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On the Run – Wings Over America (1976)
John Denver – Like A Sad Song – Spirit (1976)
Harry Tuft – You Gonna Quit Me – Across the Blue Mountains (1976)
(N) Sugar Nova – House of the Jaguar, Pt. 2 – House of the Jaguar (2026)
Justin Lansing – Ghost Town (excerpt)
(D) The String Cheese Incident – Lightning Sky (2026)

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will The Circle Be Unbroken – Dirt, Silver, and Gold (1976)
(D) Something Out Of – Skyscape – What If (2025)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

Live videos this week from the Wood Brothers, The Still Tide, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Megan Burtt, Widespread Panic, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Paul McCartney & Wings, the String Cheese Incident and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT – GENUINELY APPRECIATED

CP S20 EP24 2026 + THE MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING, VIDEOS & HOT SPINS WK END JUNE 28

AIR DATES: JUNE 27-JULY 03 2026. THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE = 11 studio and live videos. Live video performances from The Sweet Lillies, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Giant Walking Robots, The Reminders, and Stillhouse Junkies.

Fairyland, Bryce National Park, UT, April 2026. Courtesy Clear Vistas Photography.

I’m writing this on Sunday afternoon. The edge of CO and UT is our backyard and a major reason we moved to Grand Junction in 2024 – to be closer to some of the best dark sky conditions in the country. Bryce Nat’l Park in Utah is one of the most surrealistically beautiful places in the US. Claire captured this week’s featured shot when we traveled there in April for a long weekend.

The fires you may have read or heard about over the weekend were within ten to twenty miles from our home in Grand Junction, to the south and west.

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 GENUINELY 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.
__________________

Acoustic Junction – Oh Me Oh My – Strange Days (2000)
The Samples – Radio Song – Return To Earth (2001)
(D) Alysia Kraft, Veronica May – Learn that Groove (2026)

Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
The Sweet Lillies – Words – Equality (2023)
Jesus Christ Taxi Driver – Too Cold for Golf – Taxi the Rich (2026)
Dango Rose – Singularity (radio edit) – The Forgotten Years EP VOL. Two (2022)
Fierce Bad Rabbit – Chasing After Things ( We Don’t Know The Names) – Spools of Thread (2011)
The Lumineers – Big Shot – Brightside (2021)
Wildermiss – Kiss the Weeds (2026)
(N) Dianne Reeves – Tequila Mockingbird – Star Child (2026)

2MX2 – El Desmadre (2024)
Giant Walking Robots – What You See (2025)
Ellyn Rucker – Blues for Big Scotia – Ellyn (1988)

Girard – Hello Operator – Girard (1976)
Tommy Bolin – Bustin’ Out – For Rosey – Private Eyes (1976)
(D) Cary Morin – It Matters to You Now – Songs From Anguilla 2026 (2026)

Joe Johnson – Interstate Lovesick Song – Morgantown (2018)
Jaguar Stevens – Persephone – Dead Miner’s Daughter (2026)
MaryLynn Gillaspie – Matte Kudasai – Secret Language (2022)
The Reminders – Dust and Bones – Unstoppable (2019)
Gracie Bassie – One (2026)
(N) Chantil Dukart – Show Me What Love Is – Chantil Dukart & the Dukes of Art (2026)

Stillhouse Junkies – Moonrise Over Ridgway – Small Towns (2022)
Aubrey Dale – ‘Til the Cows Come Home (2025)
Eric Lilley Trio – Scrapple From the Pineapple – Swing Set (2025)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE – LIVE AND IN THE STUDIO

11 studio and live performance videos this week.  Live on stage or in the studio videos this week from: The Sweet Lillies live on GFF, Fierce Bad Rabbit live at the Triple Nickel Tavern, Colorado Springs, Giant Walking Robots live at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, The Reminders NPR Tiny Desk contest, Stillhouse Junkies live on Red Barn Radio.

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JUNE 28.

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
(R) 1. FANCY BITS – Fancy Bits EP
(R) 2. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread SP
(R) 3. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP
(D) 3. smear – Close to You SP
(D) 4. BOBBY WIENS – Focus LP

THANK YOUR SUPPORT. SINCERELY APPRECIATED.