MMMM – July 11 2011

Okay, so you can call me a slacker if you want, but I really have been busy with music related things … collecting new music, doing sound, emceeing events, booking bands for events …. You know – stuff like that.  😉  Since I last wrote a reasonable MMMM (Monday Morning Music Meeting) post about new music, I’ve added the following to the show’s catalog.

Here’s the list:

3 Twins Broadband – I Always Cry at the Movies/How Could You Not [singles] (Americana, roots music)

Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear (jazz/roots/piano)

Adam Stern – High Country Gentleman (jazz/rock/funk/country/instrumental guitar)

The Alan Baird Project – Spark the Revival (rock/modern-alternative)

The Broken Spoke – Before There Were Easy Riders (americana/roots music/alt-country-rock)

The Chain Gang of 1974 – Wayward Fire (electronic/dance/modern pop)

Chimney Choir – Chimney Choir (folk, electronic, modern)

Dave Sonner – the American Campus (rock, alt-country-rock, roots rock, pop)

Dotsero – Storyhous (jazz, pop, modern, contemporary, rock)

The Foot. – The Hangman EP (rock/pop, modern)

Great American Taxi – Blair Mountain [single] (roots rock/Americana)

Hazel Miller Band – Come to You Live …. From KUVO (soul/jazz)

The Hickman-Dalton Gang – The Hickman-Dalton Gang Vol. II (alt-country)

I’m With Her – I’m With Her [ep] (singer-songwriter)

Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds (Americana)

Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway (Americana)

Matt Nasi Band – Unsafe and Sound [single] (rock/pop)

The Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco (roots rock/Americana)

Reverend Hooch – Gray Skies [single] (southern rock)

Rose Hill Drive – Americana (hard rock)

Spring Creek – Hold On Me (bluegrass)

Tennis – Is It True? (Brenda Lee cover) [single] (indie pop)

Tyson Ailshie – The Send Off (jazz)

Wendy Woo Band – Austerity (adult pop)

Xiren – Sunshine [single] (adult pop)

Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down (pop)

The Colorado Sound – Vol. 3, Episode 28 2011

Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family “Land of Fire” from Land of Fire (2010)
Sherri Jackson “Maple Tree” from Sherri Jackson (1997)
(NT) The Patti Fiasco “Bottle of Wine” from Patti Fiasco (2011)
(D) The Matt Nasi Band “Unsafe and Sound” [single] (2011)
(D) The Alan Baird Project “Blood, Not Bloody” [single] (2011)
(NT) Zach Heckendorf “All the Right Places” from The Cool Down (2011)
Heather Marie Philipp “To Remember You” from Under the Apple (2008)
Whiskey Blanket “Pound Boom” from No Object (2010)
My Body Sings Electric “Rings” from Changing Color (2011)
(NT) The Foot. “Corner of Sunset” from Hangman EP (2011)
(D) Tennis “Is It True? (Brenda Lee Cover) [single] (2011)
(D) Broken Spoke “I’ll See You Soon” from Before There Were Easy Riders (2011)
(D) Great American Taxi “Blair Mountain” [single] (2011)
(NT) Jim Stranahan “Loco” from Free For All (2011)
Richie Furay “Forever With You” from Heartbeat of Love (2006)
Dan Fogelberg “Full Circle” from Full Circle (2003)
Fierce Bad Rabbit “Love Doesn’t Run” from Spools of Thread (2010)
Andy Hackbarth “Sara Marie” from The Last Love Song (2010)
Dressy Bessy “Who’d Stop the Rain” from Electrified (2005)
Rose Hill Drive “Speed Dial” from Americana (2011)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters “Runaway Train” from Riviera (2002)
Veronica “Hurley Wax” from Emerging From Troubled Days (2011)
(D) Spring Creek “Blue Sky Blue Water” from Hold On Me (2011)
(NT) Finnders and Youngberg “Nebraska” from FY5 (2011)
(D) Hickman Dalton Gang “Elizabeth” from Hickman Dalton Gang Vol 2 (2011)
(D) Hickman Dalton Gang “Mr. Wrong” from Hickman Dalton Gang Vol 2 (2011)
(D) Adam Bodine Trio “Up ‘N Hear” from Up ‘N Hear (2011)

MMMM – #1 – July 1, 2011 — Finnders & Youngberg – FY5

Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
Bluegrass/country
http://findersandyoungberg.com/

“I’ve been sold on you since day one.”  The heartbreak is palpable; the yearning in Mike Finders’ voice implicitly crying.  A bevy of beautific singers swing some joy as the full band join in the very feel good gospel infused “Give A Little Back.”  There’s old timey ..  and at times a sense that it all does somehow remind me a bit of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks circa somewhere in the 70s… but really that’s a very fleeting thing.  Erin Youngberg grabs hold of her own “For Old Time’s Sake” and with the fellas swinging and singing behind her the sashay is all flapper and tease…. and then turns around in the next song and rails against loneliness as a women left “out on the open plains, all alone in the cold dry winds” in the Mike Finders penned “Nebraska.”  “Driftwood” is by far my favorite of the Mike Finders penned and sung tracks on the album. It’s one of those songs that makes you want to push the repeat button … repeatedly even — it’s got one of the most kick ass and tightest vocal harmony arrangements I’ve ever heard.  And at the end, Mike’s palpable yearning in the love song “Just A Friend” is a performance that truly would rival anything heard on the radio in the 50s, 60s, or 70s … or on one of Colorado’s great public/community radio stations today.

Finders & Youngberg a few years ago released the very excellent debut “Keep Your Suitcase Packed.”  It was one of the most spun records in 2009 at public/community radio around the state.  In its first month out at radio around the state in April “FY5” debuted at #2, before landing at #1 for most spins in June 2010.  I expect it will be near the #1 position by the time we get to the year end charts in December… and to be a serious contender for best bluegrass/country album of the year.