Chris K's Colorado Playlist

MMMM – Monday, April 5, 2010

And the hits keep pouring in… as I expected, April and May are the months when we see a deluge of new releases, as bands gear up for the summer concert season and the lucrative merchandising opportunities that come with festivals and outdoor concerts of all types.  Among the biggest releases to hit my desk this week was the new Nathaniel Rateliff – In Memory of Loss (Rounder Records)… I previewed this album in one of my Songs of the Day posts recently.  Let me just say the entire album is remarkable and will easily make best of lists with music journalists and radio programmers regionally.

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The Apples in Stereo – Travelers In Space and Time (Yep Roc/Simian)
Genre/Style: Indie Pop
Website: www.applesinstereo.com
Notes: Free Download of Dance Floor is available at the band’s website.  From the promo notes:  “I wanted to make a futuristic pop record, to reach out to the kids of the future.  It’s what I imagine more highly-evolved pop might sound like: shiny soul music with robots and humans singing together.” It is that …

Chadzilla – Lil’Roo (single)
Genre/Style: Rock
Website: http://chadzillamusic.com/
Notes: Free Download of Lil’Roo available at the artist’s website.  Chadzilla is the touring drummer for Slim Cessna’s Auto Club and the leader of Chadzilla and the Asteroids.  He is also the creator of House of Rock (a teen to adult rock ensemble) at the Swallow Hill Music Association.  This is the first single off of Chadzilla’s upcoming album “View From the Backseat – Part 1.”  The official release date is TBD.

Bill McKay – Bill McKay
Genre/Style: jamband, r&b, funk, blue-eyed soul
Website: www.myspace.com/billmckay1
Notes: Bill McKay is the keyboardist for Leftover Salmon and the Fox St. Allstars.  He also toured with the Derek Trucks band for five years and was a founding member of the Denver based Double Parked, a band that also featured guitarist Adam Stern, who shows up on this album throughout – along with Chadzilla, who co-produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered with Bill.

The Hollyfelds – Lo Bueno, Lo Malo, Lo Feo
Genre/Style: Americana, country
Website: www.thehollyfelds.com
Notes: Lo Bueno, Lo Malo, Lo Feo appears to be official name of the 7” vinyl single that the band is releasing in May.  There are two songs on the radio advance cd – “Either Way” (sampled) and “How to Be Gone.”  Once again the girls show off their wonderful harmonies and classic country roots.

Gadzukes! – New & Used
Genre/Style: Americana, old-timey, ukulele, trad-jazz mixed with trad-country
Website: www.gadzukesmusic.com/
Notes: Not too many folks will take on the challenge of covering such American songbook classics as Stompin’ at the Savoy (1934 Benny Goodman), or Jimmy Webb’s 1967 classic By the Time I Get to Phoenix on the same recording – let alone do these and other standards featuring ukuleles as the dominant instrument.  Nancy Thorwardson and Patrick Cullie are those brave souls.  The album actually came out last summer – but I only recently got a copy when I did sound for the band.  It’s not only great to hear songs my parents introduced me to being recorded today, it’s even nicer that it was done so uniquely.

Devotchka “Vengo! Vengo!” from Una Volta (2003)
The Subdudes “Work Clothes” from Street Symphony (2007)
NEW – Apples in Stereo “Dance Floor” from Travelers in Space and Time (2010)
NEW – The Foot. “High Design” from Primary Colors (2010)
NEW – The Rouge “Lady Luck” from Blasting Room session (C. Jak) (2010)
The Autumn Film “Always the Same” from The Ship and the Sea (2010)
Candy Claws “The Sun Is My Girl” from In the Dream of the Sea Life (2009)
NEW – Wentworth Kersey “Sun and Moon” from ((O)) (2010)
Andrea Ball “Letter” from Dial Tone (2010)
Hello Kavita “Colorado” from To A Loved One (2009)
Ash Ganley “Lonely World” from Cruel Waters (2008)
Rebecca Folsom “Not A Child” from Shine (2004)
Aakash Mittal Quartet “Mughal Impressions” from Videsh (2009)

Big Head Todd and the Monsters “Runaway Train” from Riviera (2002)
NEW – Jon Ridnell “Angels” from Reliance (2010)
Great American Taxi “Reckless Habits” from Reckless Habits (2010)
Emmitt-Nershi Band “Surfing the Red Sea” from New Country Blues (2009)
Houses “Me & Mr. Kelly” from Summer (2009)
Carbon Choir “Bullet Past Your Head” from High Beams (2010)
Gritch “Sunday Morning Train (Electronic)” from Sunday Morning Train (2009)
NEW – Nathaniel Rateliff “Early Spring Till” from In Memory of Loss (2010)
Rainville “Pass That Bottle Down” from Collecting Empties (1999)
NEW – The Haunted Windchimes “Don’t Take My Baby Away” from Honey Moonshine (2010)
Six Months to Live “Knock Three Times” from This Is What Happens (2009)
Wendy Woo Trio “Crisis” from Luxury (2007)
Dave LeMieux & The House Of Soul “Finding the Groove” from Jazz Shaped (2010)

Someone asked me if I’d post the entire list of album titles we currently have logged … here it is .. Release dates Jan ’09 thru March ’10

May-09    20XIII – Take Two and Call in the Morning
Nov-09    A Melodic Daydream – A Little Weird
Nov-09    Aakash Mittal Quartet – Videsh
Oct-09    Adam Bodine Trio – The Chauffer
Mar-09    Adam Stern – Twang Shui
May-09    After Midnight – Autumn Leaves
Feb-10    Almost Legends – Eyes
Aug-09    Aloft in the Sundry – Fore (ep)
Mar-10    Andrea Ball – Dial Tone
Sep-09    Andy Ard – What She Did
Aug-09    Andy Irvine – Soul Clap
May-09    Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck – Queen of This Mess
May-09    Arliss Nancy – Dance to Forget
Sep-09    Asia Jazz Project f/ Molina Soleil & Aju – Sacred Paths
Apr-09    Bad Weather California – Young Punks
Mar-10    Barbara Ernst – April Child: Mistura Bela (Beautiful Mix)
Feb-09    Ben Markley – Second Introduction
Mar-10    Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Smokestack Lightening (single)
Feb-09    Bill Frisell – The Best of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1: Folk Songs
Apr-10    Bill McKay – Bill McKay
Apr-09    Blue Canyon Boys – House Full of Sorrow
Jan-09    Bobby Walker – Git It
Jan-09    Bonnie Lowdermilk – Up To Now
Aug-09    Boulder Acoustic Society – Punchline
Sep-09    Candy Claws – In the Dream of the Sea Life
Mar-10    Carbon Choir – High Beams
Oct-09    Chad Price – Smile Sweet Face
Nov-09    Chris Daniels & Bmaster – We’ll Meet Again
Feb-10    Chuck Pyle – The Spaces In Between
Aug-09    Churchill – Churchill
Sep-09    Coles Whalen – The Whistle Stop Road Record
Apr-09    Cowtown – No End of Love
Feb-09    Dan Craig – the Accidents e.p.
Feb-10    Dango Rose – Banjo Poems
Mar-09    Danielle Ate The Sandwich – Things People Do
Mar-10    Dave LeMieux & House of Soul – Jazz Shaped
Mar-10    David Williams & the Wildgrass Band – The Crazy Kind
Oct-09    Death Hickey Blues – Raleigh St.
Jan-09    Debajo del Agua – The World Upside Down
Sep-09    Devil Got Five – Devil Got Five
Jan-10    Dovekins – Dovekins
Feb-09    Drag the River – Bad at Breaking Up
Jan-09    Dualistics – Dualistics ep
Sep-09    Dubskin – No End In Time
Aug-09    Dwarf Planets – Far and Away Sessions
May-09    Eileen Simon – The Visit
Jan-10    Ellyn Cornelison Rucker & Ross Cornelison – Every Time We Say Goodbye
Sep-09    Emmitt-Nershi Band – New Country Blues
Sep-09    Erik Applegate – Red Skies
Jul-09    Erik Lunde – Another Country
May-09    Ethyl & the Regulars – Fill ‘er Up With…
Oct-09    Euforquestra – Soup
Nov-09    Everything Absent or Distorted – The Lucky One
Jul-09    Fafi aka 3Percent – Groove or Die
Jun-09    Fierce Bad Rabbit – Everything Is Alright
Mar-10    Fierce Bad Rabbit – All I Have is You (single)
Nov-09    Flashbulb Fires – Glory
Mar-10    Flobots – Survival Story
Aug-09    Flying Dragon Orchestra – Flying Dragon Orchestra
Aug-09    Fred Hess – Hold On
Mar-09    Glove Trucker – Tengo Sueno
Mar-10    Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits
May-09    Gregory Alan Isakov – This Empty Northern Hemisphere
Apr-09    Gritch – Sunday Morning Train EP
Aug-09    GT and the Sidewinders – Across America
Jul-09    Handpicked Holler! – Road to Gemini
Aug-09    Hard Pressed – In A Different Time
Dec-09    Head for the Hills – Head for the Hills
Oct-09    Hello Kavita – To A Loved One
Jun-09    Honey Don’t – Honey Don’t
May-09    Houses – Spring EP
Aug-09    Houses – Summer EP
Oct-09    Houses – Fall EP
May-09    Jasco – Ain’t Just Blues
Sep-09    Jen Korte & the Loss – Jen Korte & the Loss
Jan-09    Jeremy Dion – Finally
Jan-10    Joel Decatur – Seeking the House-Builder
Jan-10    John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty
Dec-09    Jon Ridnell – Reliance
Feb-09    Jon Snodgrass – Visitor’s Band
Mar-10    Jonathan Tierstan & Ten Tiers – Ten Tiers
Aug-09    Juno What?! – Late Night
Apr-09    Keith Oxman – Doing All Right
Apr-09    King For A Day – Ghost In the Mainstream
May-09    Kort McCumber – Ain’t the Same As Before
Jan-10    Kosmos – Skeptics In Love
Aug-09    Kyle Hollingsworth – Then There’s Now
Dec-09    Leftover Salmon – Celebrating 20 Years of Leftover Salmon
Jul-09    Lelah Simon – Third Week of April
Jan-09    Lionel Young – Beautiful Day
Jan-10    Loose Cannon Bluegrass – Loose Cannon Bluegrass
Sep-09    Los Rojos Calientes – Corazon
Jun-09    Love.45 – Into the Ether
Sep-09    M. Pyres & New Past Tense – Apart The Echo
Aug-09    Maree McRae – Urgency
Sep-09    Martin Gilmore – Martin Gilmore
Aug-09    Marty Jones & the Great Unknowns – Drink & Song
Sep-09    Mary Louise Buirgy & Pamela Robinson – A Call To Prayer
Nov-09    Mary Stribling – Litlting Little Heart
Jan-10    Matt Morris – When Everything Breaks Open
Jan-09    Matt Skellenger – Parentheticals
Jan-10    Megan Burtt – It Ain’t Love
Jan-09    Meryl Romer – So Sure
Jun-09    Michaela Ray – Blues With A Backbone
May-09    Mighty Eighteen Wheeler – Stimuls Package
Oct-09    Mike Schikora – This Cowboy’s In Love
Jun-09    Mojomama – My Heart for You
Mar-10    Molina Soleil & Aju f/ DJ Icewater – Soulaju
Dec-09    Moonspeed – Flowers of the Moon
Oct-09    Moors & McCumber – Moors & McCumber
May-09    Motorhome – Almost Vegas
Mar-09    Nancy Thorwardson – Something In the Air
May-09    Neil Bridge 7+ – “Yes, I Am Still Here”
Jan-10    New Ben Franklins – New Ben Franklins
Jul-09    Ode to the Marionette – Uncomfortable Situation
May-09    Other Side of Clearview – Sweet Release
Jun-09    Otis Taylor – Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
Jan-10    Paean – Songs For Us To Sing
Jun-09    Palmer Divide – Shenandoah Train
Oct-09    Papa Juke – Junkin’ at Jack’s
Jun-09    Paper Bird – A Sky Underground ep
Jun-09    Paul Soderman – This House is Blue!
Oct-09    P-Nuckle – Stand Up and Bitch
Sep-09    Post Paradise – Here to Anywhere
Jan-09    Poudre River Band – The Bellvue Dome
Oct-09    Pretty Lights – Passing By Behind Your Eyes
Dec-09    Quillion – To the Hilt
Dec-09    Railbenders – Like A Wheel
Mar-09    Redline Rockets – RPM Thousands
May-09    Reed Foehl – Once An Ocean
Jan-09    Rhythm Angels – Girls Like Us
Jul-09    Ricky Sweum – Pulling Your Own Strings
Jan-09    Rob Drabkin – On These Heavy Feet
Oct-09    Robin Davis – Robin Davis
Mar-10    Romano Paoletti – Story of a Lifetime
Feb-09    Ron Holleman – Shambhala Jazz
Dec-09    Rosalie – Metaphors for Hard Living
Jan-10    Runaway Express – Howlin At the Moon
Jun-09    Saints – Saints
Aug-09    Savage Henry – Step Lively
Nov-09    Scott Von – The Age of Plenty
Aug-09    Shel – Try to Scream
Nov-09    Six Months to Live – This Is What Happens
Aug-09    Sonnenblume – Sonnenblume
Feb-09    SoundRabbit – Tree Trunk Airplanes
Jan-10    Sour Boy, Bitter Girl – Songs About the Landscape or Songs About Wolf Army
Aug-09    Speakeasy, Tiger – The Public
May-09    Spring Creek – Way Up On a Mountain
May-09    Stanleytones – Women Make Me Act Like A Fool
May-09    Stella Luce – Zugenruhe
Oct-09    String Cheese Incident – Trick or Treat
Mar-09    Taarka – Seed Gathering for a Winter Garden
Mar-10    Tage Plantell – Words and Music
Oct-09    Tango Red Tapestry – The Window EP
Jan-10    Tequila Mockingbird – Luck & Trouble
Sep-09    The Apples In Stereo – #1 Hits Explosion
Mar-10    The Autumn Film – The Ship and the Sea
Dec-09    The Beautiful Loser Society – The Long Slow Decline
Mar-10    The Big Motif – Big Motif
Oct-09    The Changing Colors – Ghost of Red Mountain
Jan-10    The Congress – The Congress
Jan-09    The Delta Sonics – Never Enough
Jan-10    The Don’t and Be Carefuls – Risk Assessment
Dec-09    the Epilogues & the Photo Atlas – Friendship EP
Oct-09    The Grippe – The Grippe
Mar-09    The Hollyfelds – Black Heart Blue e.p.
Mar-09    The Honey Gitters – Barrel-Sniffer’s Holiday
Sep-09    The Inactivists – Love Songs and Other Songs About Love
Aug-09    The Informants – Crime Scene Queen
Mar-10    The Intervention Band – Homey
Mar-10    The Jurassicasters – The Jurassicasters
Feb-09    The Kirkpatrick Project – Opportunity
Mar-10    The Knew – The Knew’s Pulperia
Oct-09    The Mitguards – Lookin’ For Something True
Jul-09    The Motet – Dig Deep
May-09    The North 17th Street Band – Dirt On the Tires
May-09    The Piggies – Rusted Bullets
Oct-09    The Reminders – Recollect
Nov-09    The Stone Project – An Art to Life
Jan-09    The Subdudes – Live at the Rams Head
Aug-09    The Subdudes – Flower Petals
Jul-09    The Trampolines – Between the Lines
Sep-09    Todd Adelman & the Love Handles – Todd Adelman & the Love Handles
Mar-10    Tommy Metz – The Blossom Frontier
Jan-09    Trinity Demask – Crucible
Aug-09    Trucker’s Daughter – Broken Down Love
Nov-09    Ukulele Loki’s Gadabout Orchestra – Gadabout Orchestra
Dec-09    Various Artists – Love, Everyday Joe’s | Vol. 3: Wake Up, O Sleeper
Dec-09    Vices I Admire – The Politics of Apathy
Apr-09    Weekend Weather – Heat Lightning
Nov-09    Weird Turn Prose – Sundowner
Jun-09    Wendy & Robin – Saving Grace
May-09    Wentworth Kersey – (O)
Sep-09    Yonder Mountain String Band – The Show
Jul-09    Yvonne Meek – Mosaic
Jan-09    Zonky Tonk Zydeco – Zydecoliosis