Rick Roberts, Richie Furay, and Jock Bartley are three of our most legendary musicians still living, in Colorado today. They all seem to be staying fairly active. I’ve been enjoying a new album that each of the three of them appear on – along with drummer Patrick Shanahan. Thanks to bassist Mike Gallivan for hipping me to this info: Patrick was in the Soul Survivors, part of the Denver Big 3 with the Moonrakers and Boenzee Cryque. He also played with Rusty Young in a Country Trio when they were in Jr High. After the Soul Survivors, he went to LA with Randy Meisner and Allen Kemp and became Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band.
I know that Richie is finishing up a new solo album as we speak, and there’s been rumors floating around the scene that Rick has been encouraged to step back in behind the mic and give us some new music. I have no doubt Jock will be a part of whatever Rick does next.
The album I’ve been enjoying is The Piedbmont Brothers Band – III. It’s an unusual project in that it’s essentially one guy out of N. Carolina and another from Italy who have teamed up with several notable players to continue the country-rock traditions originated in the 60s by guys like Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco and others.
Check ’em out … with 5 current or former Coloradoans on board it gets an official Colorado Connection (CC) designation and will get some love on The Colorado Sound…
So, keeping it simple, there are 300 titles on the tracking sheet. Q1 titles spun = 234. Here’s the TOP 100. Next quarterly report comes out in July.
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Maestro and the Elephant
4. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
5. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
6. Jeff Brinkman Band – Strange
7. Beautiful Loser Society – The Desperate Promenade
8. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
9. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
10. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
11. A Boy and His Kite – A Boy and His Kite
12. You, Me and Apollo – S/T [EP]
13. Wire Faces – King Cataract
14. Jon Wirtz – Tourist
15. Blue Canyon Boys – Next Go Round
16. Chris Daniels – Better Days
17. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
18. Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down
19. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
20. Churchill – The Change EP
21. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up
22. The Gromet – Barren
23. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
24. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
25. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
26. Land Lines – Land Lines
27. Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology
28. Manuel Lopez Trio – Searching Out
29. SHEL – SHEL
30. Raincheck – Raincheck
31. Mike Clark & the Sugar Sounds – Round and Round
32. O’Brien Party of 7 (CC) – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
33. Joshua Novak – Ephemeron
34. Darryl Purpose – Next Time Around
35. Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – Eyes on the Prize
36. Mosey West – Merica
37. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
38. Kristi Stice – Under the Willow
39. Rachel & the Kings – Tonic
40. 4H Royalty – Where UFOs Go To Die
40. Trout Steak Revival – Flight
41. Carmelita’s Lovers – Ghosts of Our Former Selves
42. A Shoreline Dream – “333”
43. The Epilogues – Cinematics
44. Paper Bird – Rooms
45. The Swayback – Double Four Time
46. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
47. Instant Empire – Keep UP!
48. Rob Drabkin – Little Steps EP
49. Brad Goode – Chicago Red
49. Poet’s Row – Poet’s Row
50. Catch Bees – Narratives from a Factory Town
51. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
52. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise
53. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away
54. Euforquestra – Let Us In
55. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
55. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
56. The Centennial – Nervous System
56. WhiteWater Ramble – Roots & Groove
57. 3 Twins Broadband – Cry at the Movies / How Couldya Not [single]
57. Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band f/Erica Brown – Tangled Road
58. A Mouthful of Thunder – Slow Burn
59. The Knew – Man Monster
60. Boa & the Constrictors – Married to the Blues
60. gogoLab – Border Patrol
61. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years
62. Dennis Wanebo – Running On Gravity
62. Eye and the Arrow – If By Fire
63. Tin Horn Prayer – Grapple the Rails
64. Lisa Bell – The Italian Project
64. Tyler Ward – Hello. Love. Heartache.
65. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
66. Abi Robins – Such A Mess
67. Carbon Choir – Sakhalin
68. Science Partner – Rocky Mountain News
69. Polarity – King of Hearts
70. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
71. West Water Outlaws – Real Killer
72. Esther Sparks & the Whiskey Remedy – Back to Life [single]
73. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs
73. Fred Hess BIG BAND – Speak
73. Glowing House – Days Run Out
73. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
73. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory
74. String Cheese Incident – Can’t Wait Another Day [single]
75. Mango fan Django – Indigo Dreams
76. I’m With Her – Songs We Said Goodbye To
77. Meniskus – Stowaway
78. Fox Steet Allstars – Tough Talk
79. Jeremy Dion – Golden Some Days
79. Jesse Manley – A Path Through the Dark
79. John William Davis – Dead Simple, Vol. 1: You Talk Funny
79. P-Nuckle – The System
80. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons
81. Tennis – Young & Old
82. Calder’s Revolvers – Steady By Your Side
82. Instant Empire – Heavy Hollow
83. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
84. Amazing Twin – Grown Alone
LOL … ok, I have no shares this week… it happens. It’s been one of those weeks. I’d say that I highly recommend the new debuts this week, but that kinda goes without saying. Very pleased that I was able to debut the new Head for the Heels this week – way in advance of their upcoming new album due out in July. Fans of Dan Fogelberg, John Denver, and James Taylor will enjoy the new Danny Shafer album, Wherever You Are. And, I continue to be impressed with the Beki Hemingway record, “I Have Big Plans for the World” that I’ve been featuring the past few weeks now.
I got an interesting email from miss Megan Burtt this week.. she’s up to some kinda good …but it’s a secret and she ain’t tellin. LOL. Based on the questions she was asking me, this is going to be fun to see develop. In the meantime I’m looking forward to a new record from her. Got to hang out and do sound for Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams this weekend. Their new album is going to the mastering stage – with a hopeful done date by the end of May. Count on hearing it here first. Katie Glassman showed up for the second set… she’s heading into the studio on Monday to record her sophomore effort.
On next week’s show new music from AdrienneO and Sam Lee …
In the meantime check out The Colorado Sound “TV” – the best of what I’ve found to date on YouTube
PLAYLIST S7 EP17 May 2013
Zephyr “Sold My Heart” from Sunset Ride (2000) Jill Sobule “Cinnamon Park” from Underground Victorious (2004) Rob Drabkin “Little Steps” from Little Steps EP (2013) Petals of Spain “I Gotta Know” from Soul Canon (2013) Robert Marcey & Familyman Barrett & the Wailers “Shame” from Wailin for Justice (2010) (D) Desirae Garcia “Hardly Are You Lonely” from Ill Fitting (2013) (N) Andy Hackbarth “Treadmill Horses” from Treadmill Horses (2013) Jeff Brinkman Band “Halo” from Strange (2012) Ryan Chrys “The Road Never Ends” from A Lick & A Promise (2013) (D) Head for The Hills “Take Me Back” from Take Me Back (2013) (D) Austin Young & No Difference “Blue As Can Be” from Blue As Can Be (2013) Great American Taxi “New Millennium Blues” from Reckless Habits (2010) Ben Haugland “The Point of No Return” from The Point Of No Return (2012) Acoustic Junction “Strange Days” from Strange Days (2000) Earth, Wind & Fire “Evil” from Head to the Sky (1973) (N) Churchill “Gone Too Long” from War Within EP (2013) Megan Burtt “Other Side of Lonely” from It Ain’t Love (2010) Bop Skizzum “Do You Want It?” from Coloradical (2012) (D) Danny Shafer “American In Me” from Wherever You Are (2013) (D) Jeff Scroggins & Colorado “New Mexico” from Western Branches (2013) (N) Beki Hemingway “Skybound” from I Have Big Plans for the World (2013) The Fray “All At Once” from How to Save A Life (2005) A Boy and His Kite “You Want It, You Got It” from A Boy and His Kite (2012) The Autumn Film “Love Is An Avalance” from 8 Track Tape (2012) Places “The Fire” from No More Wasted Days (2012) (N) Brad Goode “All Fall Down” from Chicago Red (2013)