Hey gang … sorry for the lateness of this week’s post. I just finished four days of intense production jobs at the Denver Post UMS and at Oskar Blues Lyons … WOW! I actually slept in past my normal 6:30 wake up and skipped gym and breakfast to meet some audio production and promo print deadlines.
The DPUMS was amazing as it always is. Ian Cooke packed the South Broadway Christian Church, as he always does .. and The Burroughs closed out the night to a very rowdy ready to dance crowd of local fans. Megan Burtt shined, performing selections from her upcoming album
Sunday we said “happy retirement” to Dave McIntyre, who has run the music program at Oskar Blues for the past 18 years. His son Neil, who goes by the professional handle Mr. Kneel, stole the show with a 15 minute closing stand up routine that proved one and for all (for me) that he’s the master of the rhyme and story telling. Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi, Boa & the Constrictors, Danny Shafer and all the other musical guests (inc your’s truly) helped to make it a very special 3 hour / 9 act sendoff for Dave.
Monday was a 13 hour day of prepping for and helping to produce the launch of the “new look (and sounding)” Oskar Blues in Lyons with the Steep Canyon Rangers and Bonnie & the Clydes.
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New SHEL… nothing else needs saying LOL … love you girls 🙂
THE COLORADO SOUND PRESENTS:
The Colorado Sound Presents: the Kyle Hollingsworth Band, Brothers Keeper, the Burroughs, Dr Izzy Band, Our Generation at the 8th Annual Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival – Sat Aug 1, 12PM-10PM .. ALL AGES & FREE with fireworks and more. This is the only spirits tasting and competition event I know of regionally. Sure would be great to see you .. hit the site.
The Colorado Sound & KUNC Presents: Hazel Miller Band, Chris Daniels & the Kings with Freddie Gowdy, William’s Reserve, and Goatz! at the Mishawaka Amphitheatre – Sunday August 9 – 4PM-9PM – $20 – ALL AGES. Parking is very limited and expensive so I encourage taking the Mishawaka shuttle up from Fort Collins. See website for all the details.
PLAYLIST S9 EP29 2015
HOUR 1
Acoustic Junction “Every heart” from Strange Days (2000)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “Viceroy Filter King” from Always Say Please and Thank You (2000)
(D) Kevin Dooley “Feel the Wheel” from Treehouse (2015)
Ark Life “What You Want To” from The Dream of You and Me (2014)
Katie Herzig “Drug” from Walk Through Walls (2014)
Tennis “Never Work for Free” from Ritual In Repeat (2014)
(D) Janet Feder “Crows” from THISCLOSE (2015) Ian Cooke “Vasoon” from The Fall I Fell (2007)
Fierce Bad Rabbit “Time Machine” from Maestro & the Elephant (2013)
Esme Patterson “tumbleweed” from Woman To Woman (2014)
Flobots “Run (Run Run Run)” from The Circle in the Square (2012)
Churchill “Made A List” from Change EP (2012)
Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams “Hippy in My House” from Midnight Rodeo (2006)
Matt Skellenger “momentum” from New Radio (2014)
HOUR 2
Zephyr “High Flying Bird” from Sunset Ride (2000)
Poco “Shoot for the Moon” from The Essential Poco (2005)
(D) The Burroughs “My Shining Star” from Sweaty Greeley Soul (2015)
(N) Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “S.o.b.” from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (2015)
Brothers Keeper “Cold Rain” from Todd Meadows (2014)
Trout Steak Revival “Colorado River” from Brighter Every Day (2015)
Young Ancients “Going Back to Tulsa (Tulsa)” from Fishstory (2015)
(D) Facing West “Dissection” from Long Way Home (2015) Natalie Walker “Trust” from Strange Bird (2015)
Keith Oxman “Sir Thomas B.” from Doing All Right (2009)
Crushed. Absolutely crushed. I’ve never been so busy. Truth: some days I feel it would be easier to have a “real job” with an expected number of hours, and time off to just do leisurely things. I enjoy no such luxury as I attempt in my final decades to tell as much of the story as I am able about music and musicians in Colorado. Well, that and doing sound and/or emceeing and/or producing shows and/or rehearsing with the new lineup of 
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