Chris K's Colorado Playlist

NEWS & NOTES Chain Gang of 1974 “Devil Is A Lady” from White Guts (2010)
Pretty Lights “Can’t Stop Me Now” from Passing By Behind Your Eyes (2009)
The Heyday “Thick and Thin” from Till We See the Sun (2010)
The Gromet “Merrimack” from Colorado Captain (2010)
The Railbenders “OD’d in Denver” from Segundo (2003)
Kinetix “Can’t Undo” from Let Me In (2010)
Apples in Stereo “Dream About the Future” from Travellers in Space and Time (2010)
Dressy Bessy “Who’d Stop the Rain” from Electrified (2005)
Chris Thompson “Sweet Guilia” from The Road Ahead (2010)
The Mile Markers “Dance Around Ladies” from Take to the Road (2010)
Danielle Ate the Sandwich “17 and 53” from Two Bedroom Apartment (2010)
Kal Cahoone “Boomerang” from Build the Fire (2010)
David Rynhart “A Puddle On the Ground” from By the Hollow Tree (2010)
Greg Harris Vibe Quintet “Taking the Chip Off My Shoulder” from Glass Gold (2010)
Hello Kavita “Midnight Sound” from And Then We Turned Sideways (2008)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters “Rocksteady” from Rocksteady (2010)
Halden Wofford and the Hi Beams “Sinners and Saints” from Sinners and Saints (2010)
Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore “Losers” from Saints & Sinners (2010)
Otis Taylor “Hands On Your Stomach” from Clovis People, Vol. 3 (2010)
NEW Robert Marcey & Familyman Barrett “Wailin for Justice” from Wailin for Justice (2010)
Sherri Jackson “Liberation” from Moments in Denial (1996)
Something Underground “Lovity Love” from Intention & Release (2010)
Fierce Bad Rabbit “Love Doesn’t Run” from Spools of Thread (2010)
NEW Jessica Sonner “Keep On Dreamin’” from Keep On Dreamin’ (2010)
Jeff Finlin “Stones Must Roll” from The Tao of Motor Oil (2010)
Nathaniel Rateliff “Brakeman” from In Memory of Loss (2010)
Dave LeMieux & The House Of Soul “Finding the Groove” from Jazz Shaped (2010)

Monday morning … what better way to wake up to a new day … esp one with autumn in the air … than to listen to some roots reggae.  Only one title on this week’s MMMM … hope you like it as much as I do.

Robert Marcey & Familyman Barrett with the Wailers – Wailin’ for Justice (Dread I)Genre/Style:  reggae, roots reggae
Website: http://dreadimusic.com/
Focus/sampled tracks: Always Eternally, Shame, Dread Lion, Wailin’ for Justice, Love Grows
Notes: Very highly recommended… Jeff Koepke (host – The House Rent Party) turned me onto this record.  My first thought was, “yeah, right … a “local” record with Familyman Barrett and the Wailers.”  But, yes, it’s a Colorado release; written, performed, and co-produced by Greeley resident Robert Marcey – recorded by Andy McKewen at Crucible Studios in El Dorado Springs outside of Boulder … mixed by Jason McDaniel at Airshow Mastering .. and mastered by Jim Wilson at Airshow mastering.

There’s nothing at all online about Robert Marcey that I could find – so I emailed him from his website to make sure he is a Colorado talent.  He responded that he lives in “Greality” … and that this is one of several projects he’s producing with several different recognized “brand name” artists.

The obvious question is, “do I like it?”  Yeah.  I do – very much.  Even without the able assistance of such notable players as Barrett and the Wailers, Robert is authentic – in his writing, his storytelling, and his voice.  What gets me is that here’s this middle-age white guy from “Greality” sounding like he grew up in the thickest of Jamaican reggae culture – immersed in the life and times and music of Bob Marley and his followers … and maybe he was immersed in it all … there’s no way of knowing because there’s nothing online about the guy that tells HIS story … so we have the music to do that for us, and all disbelief is at least temporarily suspended in the listening.

News & Notes:

Pretty Lights “Lonesome Street” from Passing By Behind Your Eyes (2009)
Future Jazz Project “Stress” from True By Design (2007)
John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light “In My Neighborhood” from Beautiful Empty (2010)
Dan Craig “Alchemy (What is This Alchemy)” from Alchemy (2010)
Hot IQs “Firecracker” from An Argument Between the Brain and Feet (2004)
NEW Weather Maps “Weatherman” from Places (2010)
Boulder Acoustic Society “Where Have The Good Ones Gone?” from Champion of Disaster (2010)
Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore “New Boots” from Saints & Sinners (2010)
The Primroses “The Jungle” from No More Light of Day (1997)
The Dualistics “The Optimist” from Crimson (2010)
Fuzzy Killing Machine “Forgiven” from Enjoy & Destroy (2010)
The Lynn Baker Quartet “Color Line” from Azure Intention (2010)
Selasee Atiase “Pray for Me” from African Gate (2010)
Asia Jazz Project f/ Molina Soleil & Aju “Reflections of the Sun Pt. 3 (Son Como Sangre)” from Sacred Paths (2009)
NEW Air Dubai “Restless Youth” from Wonder Age (2010)
Soundrabbit “From the World I Have Known” from Tree Trunk Airplanes (2009)
Fierce Bad Rabbit “All I Have is You” from Spools of Thread (2010)
The Heyday “Midnight Cold” from Till We See the Sun (2010)
Jeff Brinkman “Sometimes” from To the Bones (2010)
After Midnight Jazz Band “Hallelujah I Love Her So” from Autumn Leaves (2009)
NEW Jubilant Bridge “Power Lines” from Power Lines (2010)
Jessica Sonner “Took Your Love” from All We Need (2008)
30db “One Man Show” from One Man Show (2010)
Leftover Salmon “Fayetteville Line” from Leftover Salmon (2004)
Brad Goode “Nightingale” from Tight Like This (2010)