MMMM – Monday April 18, 2011

MMMM …. an irregular Monday Morning Music Meeting … takes less than five minutes … HOT new adds to The Colorado Sound.

FEATURED ARTIST/RELEASE – MOLLY COTTRELL S/T EP Sample Tracks:  Not What I Need [single, 2010], Undecided Blue, Fellow Travelers (Molly Cottrell, EP, 2011)
Genre/Style:  neo-soul, vintage r&b/soul, gospel
RIYL:  Otis Redding, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse
Website: http://mollycottrell.webstarts.com/
Notes:  “Not What I Need” produced by Ryan West (Kanye West, Jay Z, Rihanna).  There’s a link to free downloads (hi-res available) on Molly’s website.  One word = delectable.  Molly has one seriously cool sounding voice, a compliment that Ryan West also passed on.  She’s got mad skillz and deep soul.  Molly has been among us for four years, attending school at the University of Denver-Lamont School of Music, majoring in voice.  I hope she intends to stay in Denver for many more years.  The EP is very nicely co-produced and recorded, mixed, and mastered by DU/Lamont School of Music graduate and two-time Downbeat award winning recording engineer Drew Sowell (the Foote., Ellison Park, N.E.R.D.) at Sowell Sound Productions  and Lamont Recording Studios.

3 MINUTE RIDE – A ROCKNROLL ROADTRIP  The Whiskey Bottles – Ain’t No Crime
Sample Track:  Blackjack Betty
RIYL:  Black Crowes, Drive By Truckers, Lucinda Williams
Genre/Style:  Rock, alternative-country-rock
Website:  http://www.thewhiskeybottles.com/
Notes:  #1 most spun Colorado release at KAFM (Grand Junction) last month, breaking the RMMN TOP 40 at #19.

John Statz – Ghost Towns
Sample Track:  Ghost Towns
RIYL:  Tom Petty, Ryan Adams
Genre/Style:  Rock, roots, alternative-country-rock
Website: http://www.johnstatz.com/
Notes: Originally from the Madison, Wisconsin area – Ghost Towns was mostly recorded there w/Madison players, with a couple of tracks recorded in Bupapest (the Budapest Sessions EP was just released).  Ghost Towns has been nominated for a Madison Area Music Award for “Folk/Americana Album of the Year,” from the Madison Area Music Association (MAMA), an award that John also won in 2007.  Welcome to Colorado John 🙂

a. Tom Collins – OH NO!
Sample Track:  Pants Off Dance Off
Genre/Style – Notes:  rock, unique, experimental, folk, americana, blues, jazz, traditional, modern, complex, tongue-in-cheek, lo-fi, irreverent.
Website:  http://atomcollins.bandcamp.com/album/oh-no

Veronica – Emerging from Troubled Days
Sample Track:  Hurley Wax
Genre/Syle:  rock, garage rock, roots rock, punk
Website:  http://veronica.bandcamp.com/album/emerging-from-troubled-days (free download)
Notes:  In one way or another this band has been around since about 94, when Baldo Rex guitarist Ted Thacker wanted a side-project.  “Frederick” needs a radio edit, but that song and Hurley Wax are the go-to tracks on the album.

Stingray Jones & the Mad Men – Bad Girl [single]
Genre/Style: rock, roots, country-rock
Website:  http://stingrayjones.bandcamp.com/
Notes:  this band features Glenn Esparza on guitar (Goldie & the Bears, The Jars,  Savage Henry, Wish We Were Floyd, Chute Nine, Sherry Jackson)

 

The Colorado Sound Vol 3. Episode 16 2011

New feature this week… the past few weeks I’ve been doing historical artist segments – acts that perhaps we don’t tend to think of as being strictly local or regional, as well as one or two so far who are in fact strictly speaking local/regional (Wendy Woo, for example). This week’s segment is on Dan Fogelberg … see below.

NEWS & NOTES:  

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: 

Donate to the Colorado Sound (click) – This show is provided at no cost to participating stations. It requires many hours a week to research, write, and produce.  I’ve received no compensation over the past several years – it has truly been exclusively a labor of desire and love.  I don’t have a traditional day job – this is all I do – music – Colorado music … whether booking, doing sound, or doing this show.  Please consider donating.  Like any of the musicians whose music I share on this program it feels good to know that your fans are willing to support your efforts. – Thank You! 🙂 – goat

(D) = debut, first time played on show
(NT) = new track from album already debuted

(D) Duncan Tuck “Trees” from Malaguena (1973)
Beast (Colorado) “Spaceman” from “Beast” (1969)
Danielle Ate the Sandwich “Two Bedroom Apartment” from Two Bedroom Apartment (2010)
The Subdudes “Social Aid & Pleasure Club” from Behind the Levee (2006)
Robert Marcey & Familyman Barrett “Wailin for Justice” from Wailin for Justice (2010)
Broken Everlys “Rocket Fuel” from Stoned In Juarez (2011)
(D) Veronica “Frederick” from Emerging From Troubled Days (2011)
The Outfit “Strange Bones” from Broken West Wishbone Test (2011)
The Gromet “Fritzel” from Colorado Captain (2010)
Rainville “She Scares Me” from Longest Street In America (2002)
Bop Skizzum “Beauty Queen” from Beauty Queen (2011)
Hot IQs “Firecracker” from An Argument Between the Brain and Feet (2004)
My Body Sings Electric “Step Into the Light” from Changing Color (2011)
The Dominant 7 “South Corea” from 14 Channels (2010)
(D) Stingray Jones and the Mad Men “Bad Girl (radio edit)” from Bad Girl (radio edit) [single] (2010)
(D) John Statz “Ghost Towns” from Ghost Towns (2010)
Liz Barnez “Laughin Yellow” from Liz Barnez Band (1993)
John McVey “Unpredictable” from Unpredictable (2010)
The David James Band “Street Performer” from Street Performer (2011)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters “Runaway Train” from Riviera (2002)
The Love Royale “Sunday” from Love Letters (2010)
The String Cheese Incident “Sometimes a River” from One Step Closer (2005)
Bonnie and The Clydes “Got No Time For You” from Bonnie And The Clydes (2011)
Dan Fogelberg “As The Raven Flies” from Souvenirs (1974)
Dan Fogelberg “Come to the Harbor” from Love In Time (2009)
(D) Greg Garrison “Blackwell’s Reel” from Low Lonesome (2011)

The Colorado Sound – Vol 3 Ep 15, 2011

NEWS & NOTES –

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(D) = debut, first time played on show
(NT) = new track from album already debuted

(D) Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family “Land of Fire” from Land of Fire (2010)
Selasee Atiase “African Gate” from African Gate (2010)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters “Ramblin’ On My Mind” from Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson (2011)
John-Alex Mason “Riding On” from Jook Joint Thunderclap (2011)
Fox Street Allstars “Somebody In the World for You” from Welcome to the Mighty Pleasin’ (2011)
Firefall “Winds of Change” from Elan (1978)
(D) The Whiskey Bottles “As I Dig This Grave” from Ain’t No Crime (2011)
Rebecca Folsom “Pretty Song” from Water On Stone (2008)
Devotchka “Transliterator” from A Mad & Faithful Telling (2008)
Boulder Acoustic Society “So Confused” from Punchline (2009)
Peter Sommer “The Sweeper” from Tremolo Canteen (2010)
Sixteen Horsepower “Coal Black Horsepower” from 16 Horsepower (1995)
(NT) Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “Thy Will Be Done” from Unentitled (2011)
(NT) Finnders & Youngberg “Red Mountain Pass” from FY5 (2011)
Joe Johnson “Don’t Let Your Blue Eyes Cry” from A Time to Dance (2011)
Paper Bird “Lost Boys” from When the River Took Flight (2010)
Wil Key “Can You Feel It?” [single] (2011)
Old Soul “Oldest Religion” from Old Soul (1996)
Born in The Flood “If This Thing Should Spill” from If this Thing Should Spill (2007)
Nina Storey “Love Me Enough” [single] (2011)
Earth, Wind & Fire “Runnin’” from Runnin’ (1977)
Earth, Wind & Fire “The One” from Illumination (2004)
Brad Goode “Nightengale” from Tight Like This (2010)