News Notes & Spins – August 1, 2011

There isn’t always much to say. July has been a long hot month. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ve got two regional festivals I will be participating in – the Carbon Valley Music Festival on Aug 6 in Dacono, CO, featuring the Drew Emmitt Band, the Hazel Miller Band, Onda, Boa and the Constrictors, Bonnie & the Clydes, Lalla Rookh & the Frederick High School Gold Tones Jazz Band

… and Bohemian Nights at New West Fest, Aug 12-14 … featuring some 80 acts on 9 stages … you’ll find me once again emceeing the main stage beginning Friday evening.

Aug 8 is apparently the day set for the new programming at KRFC Fort Collins … while the impending changes at 1340 AM with ex- radio 1190 GM Mike Flanagan driving is set for some time in September.  Best wishes all around.

Here’s what got played at radio in July.

TOP 40 ALBUM SPINS – July 2011
(136 titles reported / 348 titles listed)
(LM) TM
(D) = debut, first time on chart)
(R) = re-entered chart)

(1) 1.  Finnders & Youngberg – FY5 (self) Bluegrass, americana
(15) 2.  Wendy Woo Band – Austerity (woomusic) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(D) 3.  Rose Hill Drive – Americana (Slowly and Shirley) Rock, modern/hard rock
(R) 4.  Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits (Thirty Tigers) Rock, americana
(3) 5.  Devotchka – 100 Lovers (Anti-) Indie/adult alternative
(D) 6.  Jim Stranahan – Free For All (Capri) Jazz
(D) 6.  Spring Creek – Hold On Me (self) Bluegrass 
(4) 7.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds (Ruff Shod Records) Folk, americana
(D) 8.  Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco (self) Rock, country-rock, americana
(R) 9.  Rene Marie – Voice of My Beautiful Country (Motema) Jazz, vocal
(D) 10. The Hickman-Dalton Gang – The Hickman-Dalton Gang Vol II (self) Americana, country-rock
(D) 11. The H2 Big Band – You’re It! (Jazzed Media) Jazz 
(5) 12. John Oates – Mississippi Mile (PS Records) Americana, blues
(7) 13. Rob Roper – Misfit (self) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(14) 14. John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty (Free School) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(R) 15. Brad Goode – Tight Like This (Delmark) Jazz    
(20) 15. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Spools of Thread (self) Rock/pop, alternative/indie
(D) 16. Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear (self) Jazz, piano
(D) 16. Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds (self) Americana, folk    
(17) 17. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee (Blank Tape) Americana, folk-rock
(21) 18. Adam Stern – High Country Gentleman (self) Various, instrumental guitar
(21) 18. Dave Sonner – the American Campus (self) Rock/pop, americana
(D) 18. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down (self) Rock/pop, singer-songwriter
(8) 19. Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm (Q&B Records) Americana, country*
(R) 20. Bonnie and The Clydes – Bonnie And The Clydes (self) Americana, classic country
(D) 20. Judy Wexler – Under A Painted Sky (Jazzed Media) Jazz, vocal
(R) 21. Andy Hackbarth – The Last Love Song     (January Records) Pop, adult contemporary
(R) 21. Jeff Finlin – The Tao of Motor Oil (Bent Wheel) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(R) 21. Megan Burtt – It Ain’t Love (self) Rock/pop, contemporary adult
(22) 21. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled (Alternative Tentacles) Rock, adult alternative
(R) 22. Bop Skizzum – Push (self) Funk/R&B/Soul 
(12) 22. Hazel Miller Band – Coming to You Live… From KUVO (self) Jazz, r&b, vocals
(R) 22. Musketeer Gripweed – Dyin’ Day (self) Rock, blues, jamband
(12) 22. Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3 (Telarc) Blues, trance-blues
(17) 22. Veronica – Emerging from Troubled Days (self) Rock, alternative
(D) 23. Broken Spoke – Before There Were Easy Riders (Broken Spoke) Americana, alt-country
(17) 23. Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family – Land of Fire (Black Eye Watching) World, African
(6) 23. Tennis – Cape Dory (Fat Possum) Pop, indie
(2) 24. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson (Ryko) Blues    
(R) 25. My Body Sings Electric – Changing Color (self) Rock, modern/alternative
(D) 25. Paper Bird – Carry On (Long Spoon) Americana

Fell Out of TOP 40 – July
(9)  Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New*
(10) Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen
(11) Bop Skizzum – Beauty Queen
(13) John-Alex Mason – Jook Joint Thunderclap
(13) Tyler Gilmore’s Ninth and Lincoln w/ Cuong Vu – Static Line
(14) Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints
(14) The Quiet American – Vol. II
(15) The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wayward Fire
(16) Dotsero – Storyhouse
(16) Eric Forsyth – The Thin of Thick Things
(16) Katey Laurel – From Here
(16) The Blue Canyon Boys – Mountain Bound
(17) Kenny Perkins – Wild Frontier*
(18) Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man – Joie De Vivre
(18) Molly Cottrell – Molly Cottrell
(19) Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
(20) Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway*
(20) The Heyday – Till We See the Sun
(21) Signal Path – The Prosaic Fades
(22) Bobby Walker – Way Back When*
(22) Danielle Ate the Sandwich – Two Bedroom Apartment

ADDED – July 2011
Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear
Air Dubai – Soul and Body [single]
Alan Baird Project – Spark the Revival
Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat
Bonnie & the Beard – Bonne & the Beard
Chimney Choir – Chimney Choir
Ernie Martinez – Blue Range
Georgann Low – Les Progres De L’Amour (Seasons Of Love)
Grant Sabin – The Homesick EP
Grass It Up – Live
Great American Taxi – Blair Mountain [single]
H2 Big Band – You’re It!
Kim Jones – Lucky Girl*
Matt Nasi Band – Unsafe and Sound [single]
No Fair Fights – The Sound of Burning Bridges
Paper Bird – Carry On
Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco
Rose Hill Drive – Americana
Spring Creek – Hold On Me
Tennis – Is It True? [single]
The West – The West
Thief River – Thief River
Tony Rosario – Mexican Train
Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down

REPORTING STATION CHART
No Report this month = KGNU (Boulder), KBUT (Crested Butte), KCSU (Fort Collins), Radio 1190 KVCU (Boulder)

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1. The Whiskey Bottles – Ain’t No Crime
2. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3. Tony Rosario – Mexican Train
4. Boulder Acoustic Society – Champion of Disaster
4. Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
4. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
4. Spring Creek – Hold On Me
4. Stray Grass – Written in the Stars

KDNK (Carbondale)
1. Bobby Walker – Way Back When*
1. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
2. Adam Stern – High Country Gentleman
2. Beth Quist – New Moon
2. Devotchka – 100 Lovers
2. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2. Spring Creek – Hold On Me

KOTO (Telluride)
1. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
2. Rose Hill Drive – Americana
3. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5

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KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1.  The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wayward Fire
2.  Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3
3.  Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
3.  Grass It Up – Live
3.  The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco
2. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
3. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity
4. Musketeer Gripweed – Dyin’ Day
5. Paper Bird – Carry On
6. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee

KUNC (Greeley)
1. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity
2. Justin Roth – Now You Know
3. Katey Laurel – From Here
4. Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
4. Grant Gordy – Grant Gordy
4. John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty

KUVO (Denver)
1. Judy Wexler – Under A Painted Sky
2. Jim Stranahan – Free For All
2. Rene Marie – Voice of My Beautiful Country
3. Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear
4. H2 Big Band – You’re It!

KVNF (Paonia)
1. Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
2. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
2. The Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee
3. Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3
4. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
4. John Oates – Mississippi Mile

The Colorado Sound
1. Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds
1. Rose Hill Drive – Americana
2. Dave Sonner – the American Campus
2. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
3. The Hickman-Dalton Gang – Vol. II
3. Rob Roper – Misfit

(*serviced to radio and press by Rocky Mountain Music Network)

The Colorado Sound – Vol. 3, Episode 30 2011

NEWS & NOTES: Yo, Flaco! “American Music” from Goin’ At It (2002)
Lord of Word and The Disciples of Bass “Rise” from Green & Red Bands for Lands (1997)
(NT) Dave Sonner “Be Sure” from The American Campus (2011)
Lindsey O’Brien Band “Night Voice” from As Long As It Matters (2008)
Brock Gleeson Band “Butter Cream” from Run Like Hell (2011)
Fox Street Allstars “Somebody In the World For You” from Welcome to the Mighty Pleasin’ (2011)
(NT) Kevin Dooley “Moonlight Highway” from Moonlight Highway (2011)
Great American Taxi “One of These Days” from Reckless Habits (2010)
Megan Burtt “It Ain’t Love” from It Ain’t Love (2010)
Acoustic Junction “Oh Me Oh My” from Strange Days (2000)
My Body Sings Electric “Step Into the Light” from Changing Color (2011)
Speakeasy, Tiger “Awake” from The Public (2009)
(D) The H2 BIG BAND  “Blue Brews” from You’re It! (2011)
Martha’s Wake “Kisses From The Sun” from Time & Elements (1998)
Sugarloaf “Myra Myra” from Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You (1975)
(NT) Hickman Dalton Gang “Wildcard” from Hickman Dalton Gang Vol 2 (2011)
Gary Bragg “She Canceled the Cable” from High Plains Storm (2011)
Melanie Susuras Band “Faithful Follower II” from Stop to Stand (2008)
(D) Beats Noir! “Not For You” from 13 Tracks From the Dark Side of The Beat (2011)
Rose Hill Drive “Telepathic” from Americana (2011)
(D) Snake Rattle Rattle Snake “Break the Same” from Sineater (2011)
Rob Roper “Me” from Misfit (2011)
(NT) Zach Heckendorf “The Cool Down” from The Cool Down (2011)
Jami Lunde “Some Place Tonight” from Big Black Birds (2011)
Otis Taylor “Hands On Your Stomach” from Respect The Dead (2001)
Brad Goode “Nightengale” from Tight Like This (2010)

Most Played 2011 …. so far.

Being in the music business involved with records nearly my entire life now, perhaps the most commonly asked question I get is “what kind of music do you listen to?”  And I always say the same thing:  I have two collections today –  Colorado and Americana, and I rarely ever listen to anything from my Americana collection.  I am very proud of my Colorado collection.  I believe it is either the largest in the state today, or if not it is certainly one of the top three or four I’m sure.

The collection grows daily, and contains well over 3000 tracks from the late 50s to the present – both active and archived.  That doesn’t count the stuff I did not keep .. and it does not include overtly religious (no praise & worship, etc) metal, hardcore, garage punk, or thug-rap … if there’s a definite weakness it’s in titles from the 80s … there just doesn’t seem to be too many, despite my best efforts in locating some.  Anyway … here are the most played titles in my collection so far in 2011 ….

Most played titles in my library since January 2011 … all Colorado

1. Kenny Perkins – Wild Frontier*
2. Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen
3. Broken Everlys – Stoned In Juarez
4. Fox Street Allstars – Welcome to the Mighty Pleasin’
5. Ego vs Id – Taste
6. Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New*
7. Devotchka – 100 Lovers
8. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled
9. John-Alex Mason – Jook Joint Thunderclap
10. Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm*
11. Katey Laurel – From Here
12. Bonnie and The Clydes – Bonnie And The Clydes
13. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
14. Take to the Oars – American Volume
15. Churchill – Happy/Sad
15. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Spools of Thread
16. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
17. Tennis – Cape Dory
18. Joe Johnson – A Time to Dance
19. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
20. David James Band – Street Performer
21. John Oates – Mississippi Mile
22. Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints
23. Musketeer Gripweed – Dyin’ Day
23. Rob Roper – Misfit
23. Rose Hill Drive – Americana
24. The Big Motif – Does It Weigh Heavy
25. Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man – Joie De Vivre
26. My Body Sings Electric – Changing Color
27. Whiskey Blanket – No Object*
28. Dave Sonner – the American Campus
29. Freddi / Henchi and the Soulsetters – Crown Princes of Funk: The Last Set
30. Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds
30. Rene Marie – Voice Of My Beautiful Country
31. John McVey – Unpredictable
32. Molly Cottrell – Molly Cottrell
33. Bob Rea – Ragged Choir
34. FaceMan – FaceMan
35. Andrew Vogt – Cats Afoot
36. Bop Skizzum – Beauty Queen
37. Air Dubai – Soul & Body [single]
38. Juno What?! – Shameless
38. Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway*
38. Kinetix – Let Me In
38. Mesita – Here’s to Nowhere
39. The Quiet American – Vol. II
40. Chris Thompson – The Road Ahead*
40. John Mieras – Painted Glass

Here’s the break out by genre/format groupings

ADULT Alternative / Contemporary Adult / Roots Rock / Singer-songwriter
1. Kenny Perkins – Wild Frontier*
3. Broken Everlys – Stoned In Juarez
4. Fox Street Allstars – Welcome to the Mighty Pleasin’
5. Ego vs Id – Taste
7. Devotchka – 100 Lovers
8. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled
11. Katey Laurel – From Here
20. David James Band – Street Performer
23. Musketeer Gripweed – Dyin’ Day
23. Rob Roper – Misfit
24. The Big Motif – Does It Weigh Heavy
28. Dave Sonner – the American Campus
31. John McVey – Unpredictable
34. FaceMan – FaceMan
40. Chris Thompson – The Road Ahead*
40. John Mieras – Painted Glass

Jazz / Funk / Soul / R&B / HipHop
2. Peter Sommer – Tremolo Canteen
6. Carmen Sandim Sextet – Brand New*
27. Whiskey Blanket – No Object*
29. Freddi / Henchi and the Soulsetters – Crown Princes of Funk: The Last Set
30. Rene Marie – Voice Of My Beautiful Country
32. Molly Cottrell – Molly Cottrell
35. Andrew Vogt – Cats Afoot
36. Bop Skizzum – Beauty Queen
37. Air Dubai – Soul & Body [single]
38. Juno What?! – Shameless

AMERICANA / Blues / Bluegrass / Country / Folk
9. John-Alex Mason – Jook Joint Thunderclap
10. Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm*
12. Bonnie and The Clydes – Bonnie And The Clydes
13. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
16. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
18. Joe Johnson – A Time to Dance
19. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson
21. John Oates – Mississippi Mile
22. Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams – Sinners & Saints
30. Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds
33. Bob Rea – Ragged Choir
38. Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway*
39. The Quiet American – Vol. II

ALTERNATIVE / Indie / Pop
14. Take to the Oars – American Volume
15. Churchill – Happy/Sad
15. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Spools of Thread
17. Tennis – Cape Dory
23. Rose Hill Drive – Americana
25. Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man – Joie De Vivre
26. My Body Sings Electric – Changing Color
38. Kinetix – Let Me In
38. Mesita – Here’s to Nowhere

(* serviced to radio and press by Rocky Mountain Music Network)