CP S15:EP37 2021

Monday SEPT 13 2021 – I put the mask back on. It’s a reminder that COVID is not over with us. #COMUSIC – support.

To go or not to go – that may or may not be the question. Looking at filled football stadiums on tv yesterday, you’d think we returned to 2019 when not one of us had a concern about COVID.

On the other side of that is the number of show cancellations we’re seeing and the number of venues that now require we be vaxxed or have a neg-COVID test result within seventy-two hours.

Check your local listings for cancellations and what you need to do in order to attend.

What is the sound of Colorado in 2021?

Look at what non-commercial community/public/college radio here and around the country play from Colorado and you’d want to think the sound is based in Americana roots grooves.

If you’re a long time fan and you look at who is appearing at this year’s Westword Music Showcase September 17 & 18 you’ll be surprised to find mostly Urban Alternative (a radio format that focuses on hip-hop, R&B and dance genres) acts.

Case in point: Roots Music Report (Colorado) has the new album from Chris Daniels & Hazel Miller at #1 for the 6th consecutive week, with Reverend Freakchild, The High Hawks, Leftover Salmon and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats, A.J. Fullerton, West Side Joe & the Men of Soul, Eddie Turner, Rodney Rice and Nathaniel Rateliff (solo) filling out the TOP 10…

…while Westword is showcasing Dafna, 2MX2, N3ptune, Roka Hueka, Nay Renee, Brothers of Brass, Zanib, Joseph Lamar, Ramakhandra, Neoma, A Meazy, and YaSi on Saturday with less than a handful of more straight-up rock and alternative rock bands.

What’s missing is the sound of Americana – jazz, blues, bluegrass, folk, country-folk, and acoustic roots music with Bison Bone and LVDY the only “Americana” acts represented in the Westword Music Showcase Spotify playlist.

The Westword Music Showcase has certainly changed a lot over the past thirty years, but does Denver really sound that much different from the rest of the state??

The Colorado Playlist & Colorado Sound Present

The Great Salmon Famine – Aggie Theater Sat, Oct 30

The Gasoline Lollipops – Aggie Theater Fri, Nov 26 (day after Thanksgiving)

“Locally Grown” – Family Owned

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

TOP FIVE WEEK END SPT 11 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.

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – Survivor SINGLE (Aug-21)
  2. CHRIS DANIELS & HAZEL MILLER– What We Did! LP (Jul-21) **
  3. 2b3 – Jimi LP (Jul-21)
  4. MATTHEW FOWLER – The Grief We Gave Our Mother LP (Sep-21)
  5. COVENHOVEN – “IV” LP (Aug-21)

Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations and featuring advanced search functions for artists and agents.

**serviced to Colorado media by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

Serving Cedaredge, Colorado for 20 years

HOUR 1

Tim Goodman – New Romeo (1981)
(D) Covenhoven – Everything In Between – IV (2021)

Mojomama – We Are One – The Corona Tapes (2020)
Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts – Modern Outlaw Country – Shovel Full Of Coal (2017)
Reno Divorce – Hopeless and Dopeless ( 2021)
Jay Silence – Whiskey Breath – Grandma’s 45s (2021)
ELLSWORTH – Growing Pains – ELLSWORTH (2021)
DeVotchKa – Curse Your Little Heart – Curse Your Little Heart (2006)
Born In The Flood – Another Night, Another Place – If this thing should spill (2007)
(D) Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Dancin’ Around My Grave (2021)

Lizzy Plotkin – Deep Woods Blues – We Will Sing (2019)
Rodney Rice – Don’t Look Back – Same Shirt, Different Day (2020)
Ron Miles – Binder – Rainbow Sign (2020)

HOUR 2

REO Speedwagon – Ridin’ the Storm Out – Ridin’ the Storm Out (1973)
(D) Scott Warren – Left Out On The Joke – Shadow Bands (2021)

Kyle Emerson – Better – Only Coming Down (2020)
The Motet – Damn! – Totem (2016)
Chris Daniels & Hazel Miller – Born Under A Bad Sign (feat. Fred Gowdy and Todd Park Mohr) – What We Did! (2021)
Dragondeer – Patient Boy (2021)
Liz Barnez – Mind Slippin’ – Inkmarks On Pages (1996)
The String Cheese Incident – Stay Through – Song In My Head (2014)
(D) Matthew Fowler – I’m Still Trying – The Grief We Gave Our Mother (2021)

Slopeside – Prove Me Wrong – Shoot the Moon (2018)
Daniel Rodriguez – Colorado – Sojurn of a Burning Sun (2020)
2b3 – Purple Haze – Jimi (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

CP S15:EP36 2021

Tuesday SEPT 07 2021 – I put the mask back on. It’s a reminder that COVID is not over with us. #COMUSIC – support.

I hope you had a great Labor Day weekend and didn’t have to work all of it. Thanks to KAFM Grand Junction for inviting me to emcee their annual Radio Daze Event at Edgewater Brewery. One of Colorado’s TOP Americana-country artists, Hugh Phillips, is scheduled to play the Radio Room at KAFM on September 10.

PS .. this blogpost is a day later than usual because I decided to take yesterday off to hit the Frying Pan River for some late summer fly fishing. 😉

105.5 The Colorado Sound & The Colorado Playlist Present

The Great Salmon Famine – Aggie Theater Sat, Oct 30

The Gasoline Lollipops – Aggie Theater Fri, Nov 26 (day after Thanksgiving)

“Locally Grown” – Family Owned

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

TOP FIVE WK END SPT 04 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.

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – Survivor SINGLE (Aug-21)
  2. THE BURROUGHS – Zero Sum Game SINGLE (Apr-21)
  3. EDDIE TURNER – Change In Me LP (Jun-21)
  4. (TIE) ERIK LUNDE – Steel Militia SINGLE (Aug-21)**
  5. (TIE) GRAYSON ERHARD – Elevation SINGLE (Aug-21)

Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations and featuring advanced search functions for artists and agents.

**serviced to Colorado media by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

Serving Cedaredge, Colorado for 20 years

HOUR 1

Townes Van Zandt – My Proud Mountains – Our Mother The Mountain (1969)
(D) Lowfive – All Good Things (2021)

The 89s – Apple Of My Eye – Wash Away (2020)
Wildermiss – Carry Your Heart – Lost With You (2017)
Flobots – Me & You (Happy 2gether) (2021)
Jenny Shawhan – Do You Still Love Me – Don’t Be Afraid (2021)
Andy Monley – somewhere – Triplight (2006)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Viceroy Filter King – Always Say Please And Thank You (2000)
(D) Pamela Machala – Something Simple – Something Simple (2021)

Megan Burtt – Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – The Bargain (2015)
Dragondeer – All Day (2020)
Dana Landry Trio – Bassically Simple – Memphis Skyline (2014)

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Make A Little Magic – Make A Little Magic (1980)
(D) Carolyn Hunter – Goodbye In the Rain (2021)

Finn O’Sullivan – Lipstick Kisses – When The Power Comes Back On (2020)
Head for the Hills – Say Your Mind – Say Your Mind EP (2019)
Musketeer Gripweed – Rich Man’s Child – More Than Ever (2021)
Chris Daniels & Hazel Miller – Takin’ It To the Streets – What We Did! (2021)
The Fluid On My Feet – Purplemetalflakemusic (1992)
Love.45 – Release Me – Into The Ether (2009)
(D) Bison Bone – Tell All Our Friends (2021)

Strange Americans – Big Black Car – Borrow You, Brother (2017)
White Rose Motor Oil – Whole Heart – You Can’t Kill Ghosts (2020)
(D) 2b3 – Fire – Jimi (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

Colorado TOP 30 AUG 2021

SEPT 1, 2021 -Every week I track thirteen of the state’s twenty plus public, community and college radio stations; eleven thanks to Spinitron.

Tracking is not an exact science. Not every dj at every station publishes a playlist and not every station utilizes the automatic playlist generator provided by Spinitron.

I tracked nearly two hundred titles in August; ninety-five received at least one spin on one station in Colorado. All titles are current since August 2020.

Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations and featuring advanced search functions for artists and agents.

(11) 1. CHRIS DANIELS & HAZEL MILLER – What We Did! LP (Jul-21) **
(—) 2. THE GRAND ALLIANCE – The Grand Alliance EP (Jan-21)
(—) 2. YASI – Coexist with Chaos EP (Mar-21)
(7) 3. THE HIGH HAWKS – The High Hawks LP (Apr-21)
(9) 4. A.J. FULLERTON – The Forgiver and the Runaway LP (Mar-21) **
(D) 5. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – Survivor SINGLE (Aug-21)
(D) 6. GLASS CASES – Chemicals SINGLE (Jul-21)
(D) 7. BLUMER HAUS – Boy Meets Groove LP (Jul-21)
(–) 8. NATHANIEL RATELIFF – Live at Red Rocks (2020) LP Jul-21
(12) 9. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – All the Misery Money Can Buy LP (Sep-20)
(—) 10. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – The Brightest Light EP (Dec-20)
(D) 11. BLAKK MANTRA – Dressed In Dynamite SINGLE (Jul-21)
(D) 11. NEOMA – Fixxion SINGLE (Jul-21)
(12) 12. LEFTOVER SALMON – Brand New Good Old Days LP (Mar-21)
(D) 12. SLOW CAVES – Before I Leave SINGLE (Jun-21)
(21) 13. THE VELVETEERS – Charmer and the Snake SINGLE (Jul-21)
(1) 14. AMBAR LUCID – Get Lost In the Music EP (Jun-21)
(15) 15. EDDIE TURNER – Change In Me LP (Jun-21)
(8) 15. JOHN GRANT – Boy From Michigan LP (Mar-21)
(9) 15. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – Supramundane Blues LP (Apr-21)
(6) 15. WEST SIDE JOE & THE MEN OF SOUL –  Keep On Climbin’ LP (Apr-21)
(–) 16. ADAM BODINE – Scenes of Changery LP (Nov-20)
(–) 17. BLAKK MANTRA – Welcome to El Rey Blvd EP (Sep-20)
(–) 17. DEL SHAMEN – Del Shamen EP (Oct-20) **
(D) 18. ANDY SYDOW – Time Stands Between EP (Aug-21) **
(20) 18. LVDY – Gold LP (Apr-21)
(D) 18. TEDDIE COLLINZ – Cinnamon Eyes SINGLE (Jun-21)
(–) 18. ZOE BERMAN – Lilac Hour SINGLE (Feb-21)
(D) 19. ADIEL MITCHELL – Want It Now SINGLE (Jan-21)
(D) 19. A-MAC & THE HEIGHT – Shelter SINGLE (May-21)