CP S16 EP19 2022

Chris & Claire – Black Canyon of the Gunnison OCT 2021

ON THE ROAD AGAIN – May begins our annual road trip season around the state… sorta. We’ve been on a few road trips since March already – just not specifically in Colorado.

This week we are in Westcliffe, enjoying their dark sky community, taking Milky Way photos (Claire), doing some fishing (Chris) and visiting our friends at KLZR. Here’s a Milky Way shot from Westcliffe last July.

Milky Way from outside of Westcliffe CO July 2021

What Music Streaming Service Do You Use? Please respond to the poll, and please make sure to leave your age group for research purposes.

TOP 5 #COMUSIC SPINS – WK END 5/29

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC  and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, designed to benefit community/public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents.

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP
  3. ANTHONY RUPTAK – Backrooms LP (Apr-22)
  4. THE WHITE MOMS White Moms III: Men Working LP (Mar-22)
  5. FIA NYXX – Red Umbrella LP (Apr-22)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

I designed the Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) as a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

HOUR 1

Dave Grusin – Kaleidoscope (with the Trio and the Quintet) (1965)
(D) Brent Boland – Forevermore (2022)

Greg Schochet – Fool Such As I (feat. Halden Wofford) – Amblin’ Man (2021)
Rob Drabkin – Little Steps (2013)
Fast Eddy – Take A Look – Take A Look (2022)
Elektric Animals – Come Clean – Channels EP (2022)
Jill Sobule – Supermodel – Jill Sobule (1995)
Electric Swingset – Middle Ground – Inebriated Witch Doctor (1996)
YaSi – Guilty (2021)
(D) Waiting Til Three – Nothing at the Top – Rollin’ Days (2022)

The Blue Rider – Rattlesnake – Year of the Horse (2016)
Tennis – Need Your Love – Swimmer (2020)
(D) Keith Oxman/Jeff Jenkins – The Gojon Jazz Messengers – This One’s For Joey (2022)

Johnny Smith – Walk, Don’t Run – Kaleidoscope (1967)
The Soul Survivors – Hung Up On the Losing You (1965)
(D) Blakk Mantra – A Song of the West (2022)
CITRA – Ocean (2020)
Psychodelic Zombiez – The Doctor – Things That Are Brown (2015)
Alysia Kraft – Little River – First Light (2022)
Sweet Virginia – Leaving Again – Leaving Again (2022)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Spanish Highway – All The Love You Need (2007)
The Films – Strange Hands – Don’t Dance Rattlesnake (2006)
Jon Snodgrass – Bad New Lands – Tace (2020)
(D) Juno Rossa – Die Trying – Die Trying EP (2022)

piKziL – Here’s The News – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
Tyler T. – I’ll Be Fine – Wildflower (2020)
Paa Kow – The Way I Feel – Cookpot (2017)

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REVIEW: JEFF FINLIN – SOUL ON THE LINE

You cannot imagine how excited I was to get some kind of message – via the Innerwebs or some otherworldly means – that Jeff Finlin, “Fin” as he’s known locally in Fort Collins, put out a new album. I mean, I was so excited my heart jumped. I immediately dived into the entire album and haven’t stopped listening since.

You can’t find this album on SPOTIFY – yet. The published release date is June 24. HOWEVER – the album was released on May 19 via Continental Record Services out of the Netherlands on Bandcamp.

Produced by Jeff Finlin.
Recorded By Darren Raddach at Stout Studios, Fort Collins, CO.
Jeff Finlin – Drums, electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, percussion, piano
Taylor Tessler – Bass
Joe V. Mcmahan – Electric guitars
Eben Grace – Electric guitars
Eric Straumanis – Electric guitars
Brian Keller – Horns, accordion

Jeff Finlin’s legacy goes back decades. In my case it’s two decades since I first heard his music. Ever since then I have anxiously and quietly pleaded, cajoled and otherwise stamped my goat hoofs for something new.

After all, for as prolific as Jeff as been in his career –  13 critically acclaimed records – I honestly thought another album would never come my way. Silly me; Jeff has basically put out an album every few years. The last, The Guru in the Girl (2017), was a measly five years ago – an eternity it seems in Jeff’s catalogue.

Soul On the Line doesn’t move far from Jeff’s established Americana trad folk-rock style that travels nicely in the car with the likes of John Hiatt, Levon Helm or Bob Dylan. A literary mastermind, Jeff’s songs have taken us on an journey of life filled with vivid imagery. In the lead single, “…we walk the line, years repeating all our tears and time. Compromise our patron saint …hangin’ out with our Soul On the Line.”

Throughout the album, Jeff touches on issues that as he’s said are about “…these extreme and harrowing times we currently live in. Everything about our existence seems to be hanging in the balance.”

In What Went Wrong he ponders, “We all get tired of waiting, waiting on ourselves, so then we go and settle, set our feet in something else and then wonder why we can’t feel nothing here at all; and we’re stuck here on the telephone …wondering what went wrong.”

The songs on this album are not about the hope for the future. Jeff’s reflections and voice are those of an aged muse, tired and worn out from the battering waves of the very life that has inspired so many of his greatest stories in song and verse.

Jeff’s Northern Colorado friends and worldwide fans will love and adore and cherish this album as yet another intimate chapter in our friend’s collection. I’d suggest first timers visit earlier albums like Epinonymous, his highly acclaimed fourth album, before diving into this one.

CP S16 EP18 2022

Picture = Curious Theater 25th Anniversary Subscriber Brunch, Sat May 21 2022

MAY 23, 2022 – Colorado is known for being an arts friendly state. Not only do we have one of the most vibrant music scenes in the country but we have a world class art museum to go with renowned live theater venues like Curious Theater Company in Denver, named #1 Live Theater Venue by Best Things Colorado.

Claire and I are annual subscribers. It was great to great a preview of the upcoming 2022-23 season and to be a part of the 25th Anniversary celebration. There’s a great article in 5280 about founders Chip Walton and Dee Covington, who will leave the company at the end of its 25th season.

What Music Streaming Service Do You Use? Please respond to the poll, and please make sure to leave your age group for research purposes.

TOP 5 #COMUSIC SPINS – WK END 5/22

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC  and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, designed to benefit community/public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents.

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP
  3. ANTHONY RUPTAK – Backrooms LP (Apr-22)
  4. THE WHITE MOMS White Moms III: Men Working LP (Mar-22)
  5. FIA NYXX – Red Umbrella LP (Apr-22)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

I designed the Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) as a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

HOUR 1

Firefall – Cinderella – Firefall (1976)
Poco – Pickin’ Up The Pieces – Pickin’ Up The Pieces (1969)
(D) Russ Hopkins – I’m Not Ready Yet (2022)
Claire Heywood – Letter Day (2020)
Slow Caves – Out of State – Falling (2019)
Carolyn Hunter – Hardest Part (2022)
Dango Rose – Singularity – The Forgotten Years EP VOL. Two (2022)
Bad Weather California – I’ll Reach Out My Hand – Sunkissed (2012)
Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band – Tell Me Daddy (f. Erica Brown) – Tangled Road Again (2013)
Leftover Salmon – Category Stomp – Brand New Good Old Days (2021)
(D) Andy Eppler – How Can You Rebuild a Soul – Lonely Disco EP (2022)
Porlolo – I Was A Fool (Wasting Time) – Porlolo (2018)
Eddie Turner – Change In Me – Change In Me (2021)
Adam Bodine – Surface Service – Scenes of Changery (2021)

HOUR 2

Elton John – Someone Saved My Life Tonight – Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975)
(D) Wood Belly – Old Home – Great Big Skies (2022)

Bison Bone – Tell All Our Friends – The Lost Weekend EP (2021)
Sarah Slaton – Dance In the Sun (2019)
A.J. Fullerton – Oh Frustration (2022)
Ambar Lucid – Get Lost In the Music – Get Lost In the Music (2021)
Wildermiss – Carry Your Heart – Lost With You EP (2017)
The Mercury Project – Refuge – Soapbox Jive (2004)
(D) The Motet – Breathe Deeper (2022)

The Still Tide – Give Me Time – Run Out (2017)
Giant Zero – Good Ol’ Days – Shakes Me (2021)
(D) Sean McGowan – Cumbres & Toltec – Union Station (2022)

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