Chris K's Colorado Playlist

Okay okay … so sorry haven’t been here lately … I’ve been on a sort of vacation … okay – a vacation.  My 75 year old Mom retired at the end of August, and I am moving her to Colorado.  So I flew out to Connecticut, put Mom’s stuff on a truck, put Mom in the car and headed west (not so young man and mom) 😉

We drove south to Frederickburg ,VA and had dinner with an old high school buddy, then drove west to Knoxville TN.  What a hell-hole!  I got out of the car at the hotel and thought I fell into a lake it was so humid.  We went to the local restaurant and had the worst meal of the trip so far …. all attended to by one of the most “I love the Vols, but not more than the Lord… and those boys at the college are ungrateful for all they’re given” racist white women I’ve ever encountered 😦  … no less, about an hour west was the tallest flag pole I’ve ever seen, with the old confederate flag flying high!

There was one VERY VERY cool thing about Knoxville though – sadly.  WDVX – http://www.wdvx.com/ …. damn fine Americana radio … totally supported by local underwriting and listener support.  Check em out 🙂

Days 3 and 4 were spent in Nashville.  WOW!!!  Why I never moved there is beyond me.  It was HOTTTTTTTTTTTT!  and humid.  Maybe that’s why???

So hot that Mom spent our second day there in bed from heat exhaustion – while I did the town.  Music goes from 11AM to 3AM, seven days a week.

If you’re on Broadway, which is the main drag where all the tourists naturally go, seems like everyone plays for tips or a very very small guaranteed and tips ($30 to $40 a man for a 3 to 4 hour set is about what I was quoted by many).  Speaking of … that’s 3 or 4 hours with NO break!!!  Breaks are verboten … they drive customers out the door and down the street.  Sound systems are made up of 16 channel mix wizards and little else…. and are used by the bands from the side of stage in most cases.

I’m sure I’ll have more later .. that’s it for now.

Kinetix “Can’t Undo” from Let Me In (2010)
The Congress “Queen Mary” from The Congress (2010)
The Foot. “Empty Hands” from Primary Colors (2010)
The Fluid “On My Feet” from purplemetalflakemusic (1993)
The Fantastic Zoo “Midnight Snack” from Midnight Snack (1967)
Boenzee Cryque “Candy Coated Lady” from Psychedelic States: Colorado in the Sixties (2007)
Tequila Mockingbird “Actual Size” from Luck And Trouble (2010)
Baily Stauffer and the Katy Janes “Chasing the Change” from Bend or Break (2010)
Mechanical Dan “Mississippi” from Mechanical Dan (2010)
Grant Gordy “Digging Hargreaves” from Grant Gordy (2010)
Danielle Ate the Sandwich “Two Bedroom Apartment” from Two Bedroom Apartment (2010)
Gabrielle Louise “I’ll Turn Myself In On Monday” from Mirror the Branches (2010)
Matt Morris “Money” from When Everything Breaks Open (2010)
Mandy Harvey “Taking A Chance on Love” from Smile (2010)
Adam Stern “Twang Shui” from Twang Shui (2009)
Bobby Walker “Pistol Packin’ Mama” from Way Back When (2010)
After Midnight Jazz Band “Hallelujah I Love Her So” from Midnight in Madison (2010)
John McVey “Lay Your Burden Down” from Unpredictable (2010)
Romano Paoletti “Can You Canoe” from Story of a Lifetime (2009)
Lois Lane “I Must Be Going Out of Your Mind” from The Best of Lois Lane (2004)
Rebecca Folsom “Too Hot Blues” from Water On Stone (2008)
Chris Daniels & the Kings “Depot Street” from That’s What I Like About the South (1989)
The Higher Elevation “Crazy Bicycle” from Crazy Bicycle (1967)
Great American Taxi “Good Night to Boogie” from Reckless Habits (2010)
30db “Susanah” from One Man Show (2010)
Jay Munly “A Gentle Man’s Jihad” from Munly & the Lee Lewis Harlots (2004)
Halden Wofford and the Hi Beams “Sinners and Saints” from Sinners and Saints (2010)
The Dominant 7 “South Corea” from 14 Channels (2010)

Okay — we might could have some fun with this …. I went to a very cool event in Denver recently, put on by some folks who have come up with something very much like Wi (sp?) but w/out controllers.  It attaches to an Xbox gaming system and is called Kinect.  Very very cool stuff indeed.  When the guests arrived they were given Xbox 360 HD Flip video cameras … of course, me being all noob on things non-music related it seems did not know what to make of this new toy —- but I soon learned 😉    Grabbed a bit of the show yesterday … and have been grabbing bits and pieces of bands as I do sound for them at Oskar Blues in Longmont (119 and Hover).  Here’s a snap of yesterday’s radio show.