When you have time, fire up this video playlist on your big screen HDTV … there’s about two hours of videos here. I can’t really say which is my favorite. I like each one for a different reason. What I can say is that I think these 25 videos truly represent the broad diversity of our scene.
There’s something from just about every genre and style of music on this playlist …metal, hip-hop, country, folk, pop, funk and rock from international superstars and award winners to some of the best of our burgeoning up and coming national caliber local scene. …2017 was a great year for Colorado music videos.
Starring (in order of appearance): Whiskey Blanket, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Allegaeon, OneRepublic, SuCh, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Megan Burtt, Paper Bird, Elephant Revival, Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony, Gabrielle Louise, SHEL, Bonnie and the Clydes, Ryan Chrys and the Rough Cuts, Andy Palmer, Wendy Woo, Eros and the Eschaton, Grim and Darling, Mawule, The Motet, Big Gigantic, Edison, The Lumineers.
80 + Colorado LPs/EPs of 2016.
Building a list of the “best” or the “top 5” is always so hard for me. I like everything I play on the show, or I would not have played it to begin with. These are the 80+ album and ep releases that found their way into my playlist catalog for 2016… that I added after Jan 1 2016. There are some world class releases among this year’s crop. What were your favorites of the year? Check ’em off. Poll followsthe available lp/ep embeds I could find. There are a few missing …
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I don’t often get a chance to go out for an entire day to see a batch of new up and coming bands – unless I’m working the event. Sunday I spent the day at Hodi’s Half Note in Fort Collins to see friends, and to immerse myself in seven hours of music from 10 bands, only three of which I knew anything about.
The event was the annual Scene Magazine “Fresh Talent Showcase,” a judged event that awarded the winner time in a recording studio, along with a pro grade photo shoot, a pro level consulting session with Yellowbright, and a slot on the Scene Magazine stage at the 2017 Arise Festival in Loveland next August.
Write Minded took home the top prize, but all of the bands brought game … Congrats to everyone who participated.
Colorado Music History – Warren Zevon and Boulder
Trusted Ear Scene Report with Dave Herrera
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VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK:
besides writing and performing original music both as the leader of the Patti Fiasco, and as part of the country-folk duo Whipporwill, Alysia Kraft is not above giving us her own personal interpretations of other songwriters’ songs.
MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING
I conceived of this idea as a way for you to discover some of the new music I played on the show, and to give you the chance to let me know which of the tracks you like, and think I should keep in rotation. I get a lot of feedback from fans about what’s liked .. and what isn’t.
In order to be included in the MMMM poll, the band/artist must have an embeddable file available on SoundCloud, BandCamp (my favorite), Reverbnation or YouTube.
It’s not a competition. It’s just a gauge of how well you like the songs I added this week.
PLAYLIST S10 EP45
(D) = debut of lp, ep or single
(N) = new cut from previously debuted lp or ep
(R) = request
HOUR 1
SHEL “Sleigh Ride” from Winter Fairyland (2016) (D) Dave Beegle “River of Peace” from River of Peace (2017)
Hazel Miller Band “Time After time” from Coming To You Live…From KUVO (2011) Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore with Brigid & Lucy Moore “Trouble” from Daughters (2016) Otis Taylor “Love and Hesitation” from Definition Of A Circle (2006) (D) Riley Ann “Bloodhounds” (2017)
Rossonian “Ra” (2013) Shovels & Rope “I Know” from Little Seeds (2016) The Fray “Love Don’t Die” from Helios (2014) Motet “The Truth” from Totem (2016) Analog Son “Shady Nights” from Stomp and Shout (2015)
HOUR 2
(D) Katey Laurel “Old Man Winter” from This Is Christmas (2016)
(D) Petals of Spain “Daydream” from Daydream (2017)
Jill Sobule “Too Cool to Fall In Love” from Things Here Are Different (1990) String Cheese Incident “Sweet Spot” from SCI Sound Lab, Vol. 1 (2016) (N) My Blue Sky “Wherever The Wind Blows” from My Blue Sky (2017)
Kerry Pastine & the Crime Scene “The Other Side” from The Other Side (2015) Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “The Unballed Ballad of the New Folksinger” from Unentitled (2011) Patti Fiasco “Elvis” from Small Town Lights (2013) Treehouse Sanctum “Pilot & Crew” (2015) Elephant Revival “Petals” from Petals (2016) Arthur Lee Land “Cracked Open” from Cracked Open (2013) Space Orphan “Coffee Green” from Shut Up About The Sun (2016)
Oskar Blues Fooderies! Sponsor of “IN COLORADO MUSIC HISTORY,” the segment that runs at the top of each hour of the show. Oskar Blues Fooderies includes the Original Brew and Pubin Lyons, and Homemade Liquids and Solids,CHUBurger,andCyclehops Bike Cantina in Longmont, Hotbox Roasters coffee, and coming soon to Denver (under construction in RiNo and LoDo).
Jan 27 – GOATZ! w/ Bonnie & the Clydes at Avogadro’s Number in Fort Collins 8PM-11:30PM
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Happy POST turkey hangover. I hope you spent the long weekend enjoying some live local music – wish I could have made it to the Leftover Salmon shows in Denver <smh>. Being IN the business, means you never really get to go out and ENJOY some of the shows I’d really like to attend LOL. Such is life in my world.
Thanks to everyone for stepping up last week and crushing the stats! WOW … By far the biggest stats winner was The Prairie Scholars, but overall every track was voted significantly as a KEEP IT … Blowing up the stats that way over the holiday week as fantastic!
Much love to everyone .. this week’s MMMM (Monday Morning Music Meeting) includes tracks from Whiskey Blanket (who I technically debuted here last week), Chimney Choir, the 5 and Dimer’s, and local blues-rocker Michael Hornbuckle. VOTE AWAY …
IN COLORADO MUSIC HISTORY
TRUSTED EAR SCENE REPORT NOV 23
MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING
I conceived of this idea as a way for you to discover some of the new music I played on the show, and to give you the chance to let me know which of the tracks you like, and think I should keep in rotation. I get a lot of feedback from fans about what’s liked .. and what isn’t.
In order to be included in the MMMM poll, the band/artist must have an embeddable file available on SoundCloud, BandCamp (my favorite), Reverbnation or YouTube.
It’s not a competition. It’s just a gauge of how well you like the songs I added this week.
PLAYLIST S10 EP43
(D) = debut of lp, ep or single
(N) = new cut from previously debuted lp or ep
(R) = request
HOUR 1
The Samples “We All Move On” from Here and Somewhere Else (1998) The Apples in Stereo “Seems So” from Tone Soul Evolution (1997) (D) Whiskey Blanket “Men of Straw” from Thick of Thieves (2017)
OneRepublic “A.I. (feat. Peter Gabriel)” from Oh My My (2016) Pete Pidgeon & Arcoda “The Ways We Change” from All the Little Things (2016) Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “wasting time” from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (2015) piKziL “Here’s the News” from Songs from My 3rd Life (2016) Rose Quartz “Something to Believe” from Axis of Love (2015) (N) Chimney Choir “Center of Gravity” from (dream) (2017)
Gregory Alan Isakov “Living Proof” from The Weatherman (2013) Mollie O’Brien “In My Girlish Days” from Big Red Sun (1998) Ben Haugland “Lift” from POINT OF NO RETURN (2012)
Rick Roberts “In My Own Small Way” from Windmills (1973) Poco “Calico Lady” from Pickin’ Up The Pieces (1969) (N) 5 & Dimer’s “(I Know) I’m Losing You” from If It’s All A Game (2017)
Nina Storey “Think Twice” from Think Twice (2013) Big Head Blues Club “Hidden Charms” from Way Down Inside (Songs Of Willie Dixon) (2016) Bright Silence “I’m a Fire” from Time is New (2016) The Still Tide “Field of Bells” from Half Empty Rooms (2015) Megan Burtt “Fast as I Go” from The Bargain (2015) Jeff Finlin “Is This Love” from Ballad Of A Plain Man (2008) (D) Michael Hornbuckle “Sweat” from Soulrepo (2016)
Musketeer Gripweed “Nine Pound Hammer” from Floods and Fires (2014) Grant Farm “The Nine Pound Hammer” from Grant Farm (2012) Jim Stranahan “Blues and a Half” from MIGRATION TO A HIGHER GROUND (2014)
A HUGE THANK YOU to Oskar Blues Fooderies! They are the new sponsor of “IN COLORADO MUSIC HISTORY,” the segment that runs at the top of each hour of the show. Oskar Blues Fooderies includes the Original Brew and Pubin Lyons, and Homemade Liquids and Solids,CHUBurger,andCyclehops Bike Cantina in Longmont, Hotbox Roasters coffee, and coming soon to Denver (under construction in RiNo and LoDo).
Bumper Stickers are available. Message me if you want one. Available for donation + $1.00 postage.
T-Shirts are Available – Message me if you want one. $15 includes shipping. Please specify size. I only accept PayPal and personal checks at this time.
Oskar Blues Fooderies! Sponsor of “IN COLORADO MUSIC HISTORY,” the segment that runs at the top of each hour of the show. Oskar Blues Fooderies includes the Original Brew and Pubin Lyons, and Homemade Liquids and Solids,CHUBurger,andCyclehops Bike Cantina in Longmont, Hotbox Roasters coffee, and coming soon to Denver (under construction in RiNo and LoDo).
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