I got really lucky this past week. I got enough time off that I was able to go out and sit in an audience. Or two. Or three …. or four?!
Mrs Goat and I managed to take in the CSO “Turn Over the Keys” on Thursday night, while Friday night was Jaden Carlson at Oskar Blues in Lyons, Saturday evening was the grand opening celebration at Might Fine Production and recording studio .. and Sunday we got in a little bit of Pete Kartsounes with Michael Kirkpatrick (Telluride Troubadour of the Year Winner 2014). at Homemade Liquids and Solids in Longmont.
pics from the CSO show and from MFP.
No new music shares this week. Sorry.
VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK
PLAYLIST S9 EP22 May/June 2015
HOUR 1
Dave Beegle “Monsters (w/Beth Quist)” from Clear the Tracks (2000) Longest Day Of The Year “Ride On the Carapace” from Carapace (2015) The Lumineers “Submarines” from The Lumineers (2012) My Body Sings Electric “Oceancrest” from Part 1: the Night Ends (2014) SuCH “Open Book” from Trial and Error (2014) The Motet “123” from The Motet (2014) Five Iron Frenzy “Into Your Veins” from Engine of a Million Plots (2013) Fierce Bad Rabbit “Time Machine” from Maestro & the Elephant (2013) (N) Esme Patterson “Wildflower” from What Do You Call A Woman (2015) Sixteen Horsepower “Single Girl” from Folklore (2002) Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “Cranston” from Blovdy Tenent Trvth Peace (2004) Leftover Salmon “High Country” from High Country (2015) Paa Kow “Uncle Leo” from Ask (2014)
HOUR 2
Zephyr “Don’t Come Back” from Heartbeat (1982) Electric Swingset “Inebriated Witchdoctor” from Inebriated Witchdoctor (1996) (D) Judge Roughneck “Mirror In the Bathroom” from Pick You Up (2015) Andy Palmer “Good Son” from Hazard of the Die (2013) Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Josephina” from Black Beehive (2014) (D) Finnders & Youngberg “She Wants to Eat the Moon” from Eat The Moon (2015) Jeff Finlin “Jesus Was A Motorcycle Man” from Ballad Of A Plain Man (2008) Subdudes “One Word (Peace)” from Behind the Levee (2006) (D) Young Ancients “Going Back to Tulsa (Tulsa)” from Fishstory (2015) Great American Taxi “Poor House” from Paradise Lost (2011) Ben Haugland “Big Foot” from A Million Dreams (2015)
Happy first unofficial day of summer – Happy Memorial Day from a USAF veteran. Many are lost, few are remembered by more than those they left behind. I hope you lost no one and remember all who have been.
I took some time this weekend to twist, tweak, massage, and manipulate The Colorado Sound LIVE365. There currently are over 860 tracks in the online catalog. The average listening span is 18 minutes. In the last 30 days, 335 songs have been heard at least once. The top ten songs heard are:
Brothers Keeper – Days Go By
The Samples – Close to the Fires
A Tom Collins – Baby Doll
The Yawpers – Faith and Good Judegment
The Swayback – Double Four Time
The Subdudes – Sarita
Pandas & People – Out to Sea
Pandas & People – On My Way
Kramies – The Wooden Heart
Chain Station – Don’t Build Me Up
This weekend I added songs by Analog Son, Atomga, Ben Haugland, Brothers Keeper, Chris Daniels & The Kings, Doves & Wolves, Edison, Elin Palmer, Esme Patterson, Fox St., Glowing House, Great American Taxi. The H2 Big Band, In The Whale, Instant Empire, Jeff Austin, John Common, John Statz, Judge Roughneck, King Cardinal, the Knew, Land Lines, MEDIC, Michal Menert, Modern Suspects, Natalie Walker, Otis Taylor, Plum, Racing On The Sun, The Railsplitters, The Raven and the Writing Desk, Richie Furay, Rose Quartz, The Samples, SHEL, Sherri Jackson, The String Cheese Incident, The Subdudes, Taarka, Toad In the Hole, Todd Adelman, Treehouse Sanctum, Wendy Woo (Band / Trio), Whiskey Autumn. See full list of currently featured bands/artists.
June 6 – For Locals x Locals Presented by The Colorado Sound and Scene Magazine featuring Cracker, Post Paradise, Branded Bandits, Red Fox Run, Shaley Scott Band and Winchester Holiday. A music festival to celebrate and honor local musicians and local music industry vendors. The goal of this festival is to create a space for our musical community to thrive. If you are a local musician, we would like to offer you free admission and a beer. If you’re a fan, please be honest and support your local music scene with your ticket purchase. Treat this as an opportunity to meet new musicians, find out about local music industry and catch up with old friends.
June 12 & 13 The Greeley Blues Jam in Greeley with Austin Young– featuring Michaela Rae and friends + Maynard Mills Blues Band + George Whitesell and His All Stars featuring Jill Watkins+The Frails – all female review featuring Erica Brown, MJ, G’Jai, Michaela Rae, Miss Audrey, Susan Phelan & national headliners Delbert McClinton, Elvin Bishop and more.
August 1 – 8th Annual Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival in Dacono. Lineup TBA. The region’s first Spirits Competition event, started four years ago now. Previous headliners have included Richie Furay, Lionel Young, Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon) and others.
Five new music shares this week … that’s a lot I think. I was lucky that all the shares had Bandcamp pages. Please download, buy and/or share. Every dollar and every share is one more today than yesterday and how bands go from strictly “local” to “regional” to “national.”
HOUR 1
Poco “Crazy Love” from The Essential Poco (2005) Firefall “You Are the Woman” from Firefall (1976) (D) Treehouse Sanctum “Pilot & Crew” from Pilot & Crew (2015) The Samples “Nothing Lasts For Long” from No Room (1992) Katie Herzig “Drug” from Walk Through Walls (2014) (D) Modern Suspects “Told You So” from Modern Suspects (2015)The Fray “Hurricane” from Helios (2014) Ivory Circle “And I Try” from Isoceles (2015) String Cheese Incident “25th of November” from One Step Closer (2005) Hot Rize “Blue Is Fallin’” from When I’m Free (2014) Young Ancients “Nobody Loves You” from Y/A (2014) Ben Haugland “Lift” from The Point Of No Return (2012)
HOUR 2
Big Head Blues Club “Crossroads Blues (w/B.B. King)” from Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson (2011) (D) Edison “Be Someone” from Ghosts (2015) Arthur Lee Land “Cracked Wide Open” from Cracked Open (2013) Yawpers “Faith and Good Judgement” from Spokesbuzz Volume 5 (2014) (D) King Cardinal “Gasoline” from One A Giant EP (2015) Ark Life “Let Your Heart Break” from The Dream of You and Me (2014) Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore “Keep It Clean” from Saints & Sinners (2010) (D) Michal Menert “Everything Shines” from Space Jazz (2015) Natalie Walker “Trust” from Strange Bird (2015) Ben Markley ~ Clint Ashlock Quintet “The Return” from The Return (2014)
B.B. King passing away overshadowed everything this past week. Like other icons his legacy and his influence permeates much of our culture. One simply does not talk about blues without B.B. King being present. And of course, there’s a Denver connection … or two.
If you know nothing else about B.B. King you know The Thrill is Gone, the hit that launched him into both the blues and rock and roll stratosphere. The Thrill is Gone was produced by Bill Szymczyk, who for a brief moment would co-own Denver based Tumbleweed Records, and was a radio dj. He also produced the first album recorded at Caribou Ranch, Joe Walsh’s Barnstorm, during the time that Joe was living in the Denver area.
Connection number two: B.B. King and Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Crossroad Blues from 100 Years of Robert Johnson … a duet with Todd Park Mohr.
June 6 – For Locals x Locals Presented by The Colorado Sound and Scene Magazine featuring Cracker, Post Paradise, Branded Bandits, Red Fox Run, Shaley Scott Band and Winchester Holiday. A music festival to celebrate and honor local musicians and local music industry vendors. The goal of this festival is to create a space for our musical community to thrive. If you are a local musician, we would like to offer you free admission and a beer. If you’re a fan, please be honest and support your local music scene with your ticket purchase. Treat this as an opportunity to meet new musicians, find out about local music industry and catch up with old friends.
June 12 & 13 The Greeley Blues Jam in Greeley with Austin Young– featuring Michaela Rae and friends + Maynard Mills Blues Band + George Whitesell and His All Stars featuring Jill Watkins+The Frails – all female review featuring Erica Brown, MJ, G’Jai, Michaela Rae, Miss Audrey, Susan Phelan & national headliners Delbert McClinton, Elvin Bishop and more.
August 1 – 8th Annual Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival in Dacono. Lineup TBA. The region’s first Spirits Competition event, started four years ago now. Previous headliners have included Richie Furay, Lionel Young, Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon) and others.
The Czars “Killjoy” from Ugly People vs. the Beautiful People (2001) (D) Elin Palmer “Morning Light” from Elin Palmer (2015) Gromet “Sink or Sail” from Colorado Captain (2010) Rachel & the Kings “Not Giving Up” from Tonic (2013) Taarka “River’s Eddy Blues” from Making Tracks Home (2015) Bad Brad & the Fat Cats “Thunder On the Mountain” from Eyes on the Prize (2013) Grant Farm “Engineer” from SpokesBUZZ Vol V: Band Together (2015) Instant Empire “Dead Air” from Lamplight Lost (2015) Dubskin “Release Me” from Release from Fear (2011) Keith Oxman “Caught Between the Lion and the Twins” from Caught Between the Lion and Twins (2008)
HOUR 2
The Moonrakers “I’m All Right” from Anthology (2007)The Rainy Daze “That Acapulco Gold” from That Acapulco Gold (1967) (D) Doves & Wolves “Arkansas” from Doves & Wolves (2015) Bad Weather California “I’ll Reach Out My Hand” from Sunkissed (2012) The Lovely & Talented “Death Of The Lover” from The New American Fable (2010) Otis Taylor “Ain’t No Cowgirl” from Clovis People Vol. 3 (2010) Todd Adelman “The Devil is for Drinking” from Highways & Lowways (2015) Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore “Sunday Street” from Love Runner (2014) (D) The Knew “Rally and Rumble” from Schmew (2015) Safe Boating is No Accident “Dye My Love” from Bonus Features (2014) Dressy Bessy “New Song (From Me To You)” from Dressy Bessy (2003) (D) Ben Haugland “A Weaver of Dreams” from A Million Dreams (2015)
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