#COMUSIC – TOP 30 MAY 2022

June 01, 2022 – I added something new for the MAY TOP 30. Beneath the TOP 30 you’ll find TOP 10 charts for 88.9 KRFC Fort Collins, Indie 102.3, 105.5 The Colorado Sound and ten other stations around the state that report to Spinitron.

Only seven titles stayed in the MAY TOP 30, crossing over from APRIL: Seventeen titles were (D) debuts for the month; fourteen of which were featured for the month at Indie 102.3. Six titles re-entered the chart.

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

Titles are linked to their respective YouTube pages, if available.

(2) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP (Nov-21)
(1) 2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Oct-21)
(D) 3. FIA NYXX – Red Umbrella LP (Apr-22)
(D) 4. ANTHONY RUPTAK – Backrooms LP (Apr-22)
(D) 5. ONE FLEW WEST – The Blur LP (Apr-22)
(D) 6. THE WHITE MOMS – White Moms III: Men Working LP (Mar-22)
(D) 7. COMPANION – If I Were A Ghost EP (Apr-22)
(19) 8. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Get Yourself Outside LP (Feb-22)
(D) 9. JEFF CORMACK – Modern Love SINGLE (Feb-22)
(D) 10. CONRAD MATA – Nosferatu SINGLE (Apr-22)
(D) 11. BEAR AND THE BEASTS – Into the Kiln SINGLE (Jan-22)
(D) 11. CREPE GIRL – Someone, Someone Real SINGLE (Apr-22)
(D) 12. ADDIE TONIC – Seether SINGLE (Dec-21)
(D) 12. JEFF CORMACK – Who Are We SINGLE (Apr-22)
(D) 12. SUITABLE MISS – Sunshine SINGLE (Apr-22)
(-) 13. A.J. FULLERTON – Oh Frustration SINGLE (Feb-22)
(D) 14. CREPE GIRL – Je T’aime SINGLE (Apr-22)
(D) 15. BEAR AND THE BEASTS – Boat Drinks SINGLE (Mar-22)
(D) 16. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND – Dirt Does Dylan LP (May-22)
(-) 17. ERIK LUNDE – Water From a Stone LP (Jul-21)
(D) 18. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Channels EP (May-22)
(14) 19. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Get Yourself Outside LP (Feb-22)
(8) 20. SWEET VIRGINIA – Leaving Again LP (Feb-22)
(-) 21. BISON BONE – The Lost Weekend EP (Nov-21)
(-) 21. KICK AND THE HUG – Ladies & Gentlemen LP (Jan-22)
(-) 21. MADDY and KEV – Take A Ride EP (Nov-21)
(5) 21. MIKE CLARK & THE SUGAR SOUNDS – Moon Rock LP (Mar-22)
(10) 21. NIC CLARK – Love Your Life: Songs for the Whole Family LP (Jun-21)
(-) 22. AMBAR LUCID – Get Lost In the Music EP (Jun-21)
(D) 22. KAITLYN WILLIAMS – Under These Lights (Live) LP (Apr-22)

KRFC 88.9FM FORT COLLINS TOP 10 TITLES MAY 2022
1.NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP
2. ERIK LUNDE –  Water From a Stone LP
3. NIC CLARK – Love Your Life: Songs for the Whole Family LP
4. SWEET VIRGINIA – Leaving Again LP
4. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP
5. GRACE KUCH – Studio Sessions at Mighty Fine Productions LP
5. GRACE KUCH – Got that Style (feat. Ronnie Earl) SINGLE
5. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND –  Dirt Does Dylan LP
6. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Get Yourself Outside LP
7. ANIMAL ELECTRICITY – TheSameThings LP

INDIE 102.3 TOP 10 MAY TITLES
1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP
2. FIA NYXX – Red Umbrella LP
3. ANTHONY RUPTAK – Backrooms  LP
4. ONE FLEW WEST – The Blur  LP
4. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP
5. THE WHITE MOMS – White Moms III: Men Working LP
6. COMPANION – If I Were A Ghost EP
7. JEFF CORMACK – Modern Love SINGLE
8. CONRAD MATA – Nosferatu SINGLE
9. BEAR AND THE BEASTS –  Into the Kiln SINGLE

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND TOP 10 MAY
1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP
2. COLE SCHEIFELE – The Hideaways LP
3. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Crushed Lemons SINGLE
4. BIG RICHARD BAND – Walls of Time SINGLE
4. BLAKK MANTRA – A Song of the West SINGLE
4. KING CARDINAL – Runaway SINGLE
4. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Oct-21)
4. ZOE BERMAN – Freezing Heat EP
5. A.J. FULLERTON – Oh Frustration SINGLE 
5. ALYSIA KRAFT – Little River SINGLE

KAFM, KBUT, KCSU, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KRZA, KSJD, KVNF
TOP 10 TITLES MAY 2022
1. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Oct-21)
2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP (Nov-21)
3. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Get Yourself Outside LP (Feb-22)
4. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND –  Dirt Does Dylan LP
5. A.J. FULLERTON – Oh Frustration SINGLE
5. BLUMER HAUS – Boy Meets Groove LP
5. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Toward the Fray LP
6. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – Stress Dreams LP
7. CHRIS DANIELS & HAZEL MILLER – What We Did! LP
7. RICHIE FURAY – Somebody Like You SINGLE

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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

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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.