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CP S19 EP44 2025

AIRDATES DEC 13-19 2025
MMMM = Greensky Bluegrass, Emily Scott Robinson, Estin & the 86’d, G-Stylez

HAPPY HOLLY-DAZE. As we wind down the year, I hope you’ll HELP SUPPORT THE COLORADO PLAYLIST in your year end giving.

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. It will turn 20 years old in 2026!

Your support is essential to keeping it on the air.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.
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Dianne Reeves – I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Christmas Time Is Here (2004)
(D) Greensky Bluegrass feat. Nathaniel Rateliff – Past My Prime – XXV (2026)

The Barlow – High Spirits – High Spirits (2025)
Graham Good and the Painters – Get After Life (2024)
LatinSoul, Joshua Trinidad –Mama Pacha (2025)
MaryLynn Gillaspie – Skippy’s Dream (‘Hypnagogia’) – Secret Language (2022)
The Yawpers – American Man – American Man (2015)
Sour Magic – Silver Sands (2025)
(D) Emily Scott Robinson – Dirtbag Saloon (2026)

(D) Lid Dixon – Holiday Landslide – NoCO Sings the Holidays VOL 1 (2025)

The Burroughs – Honey Imastar – Honey Imastar (2023)
Adam Bodine – Jacuzzi Marinade – Ribbons for Pigs (2025)

Big Head Todd and the Monsters – I’m Glad (at Christmas Time) (2018)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Holly Jolly Rock & Roll Party – It’s a Crime Scene Christmas! (2015)
(D) Estin & the 86’d – The Streets (2026)

Rootbeer Richie & The Reveille – Without You – Never Needed Me (2024)
Daniel Rodriguez – Colorado – Sojurn of a Burning Sun (2020)
A.J. Fullerton – Passing Time – Magnectic Light (2025)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner – Love Runner (2014)
Born In The Flood – Low Flying Clouds – The Fear That We May Not Be (2005)
piKziL – Exit Strategy (2025)
(D) G-Stylez – Just A Dream (2026)

(D) White Rose Motor Oil – First Song About Santa – Merry Crisis (2025)

Teresa Suydam – Lost Bird – Lost Bird (2024)
Eric Lilley Trio – Bud Bop – Follow Up (2020)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING DEC 14 2025

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and Indie1023 (Denver) …

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the count.

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 89 TITLES TRACKED
(2) 1. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(3) 1. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP Sep-25
(D) 1. DIRTY TURKEYS – Soul Sugar SP Nov-25
(R) 2. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(R) 2. PACKAGING – Packaging LP Jun-25
(D) 2. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25
(3) 3. ALEJANDRA MEZA – Too Bad, So Sad SP Jul-25
(D) 4. LETTUCE – Rising to the Top / Cook SP Jul-25

CP S19 EP41 2025

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING NOV 24 = FIREFALL, MACKENZIE RAE & BUCKSHOT MOON, EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON, THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS

The Northern Lights from the Colorado National Monument, courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THIS SHOW.

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. It will turn 20 years old in 2026!

Your support is essential to keeping it on the air.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
__________________

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.

CP S19 EP41 2025 HR1

Rare Silk – New York Afternoon – New Weave (1983)
Ellyn Rucker – One Morning In May – Ellyn (1988)
(N) Firefall – So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star – Friends & Family 2 (2025)

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Heartless – South of Here (2024)
Jeff Finlin – Soul On the Line – Soul On the Line (2022)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone– Wildflower Lane (2025)
Cassie Taylor – Black Coffee – Blue (2011)
Otis Taylor – The Devil’s Gonna Lie – Otis Taylor’s Contraband (2012)
Leftover Salmon – Good Dog (Radio Edit) – Let’s Party About It (2025)
(N) Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon – Lonesome and Free – Lonesome and Free (2025)

Roger Green – Enter As You Leave (radio edit) – Enter As You Leave (2023)
Jaguar Stevens – Pink Hypnotic (2024)
Brad Goode – Tight Like This – Tight Like This (2010)

CP S19 EP41 HR2

Judy Collins – Both Sides Now – Both Sides Now (1966)
John Denver – Leaving on a Jet Plane – John Denver Sings (1966)
(D) Emily Scott Robinson – Appalachia (2025)

Marfa – 66 (2024)
Faith Eliza – Call the Healer (2023)
The Galentines – Rear View Mirror – 1140 (2025)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Broken Hearted Savior – Sister Sweetly (1993)
The Motet – So High – Totem (2016)
Big Gigantic – Free Spirits – Fluorescence (2025)
(N) The Infamous Stringdusters – Light At The End Of the Day – 20/20 (2025)

Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand (Radio Edit) – Witness (2024)
Jon Snodgrass – Bad New Lands – Tace (2020)
Garrett Sayers Trio – Diatribe – Thinkbox (2017)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

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HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING NOV 23, 2025

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and Indie1023 (Denver) …

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the country.

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 68 TITLES TRACKED

  1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
  2. BEST MAN – People Pleaser LP May-25
  3. AUTUMNAL – the seed becomes exposed LP Sep-25
  4. THE PHOTO ATLAS – Hello Hospital EP Aug-25
  5. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP Oct-25

PLEASE SUPPORT

CP S19 EP30 2025

Summertime Milky Way over Lake San Cristobal, Lake City courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.

__________________

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. I make this show available at no cost to the stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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Danny Holien – Colorado – The Tumbleweed Records Story 1971-1973 (1972)
Stephen Stills – Colorado – Manassas (1971)
(D) Cole Schiefele – In Case You Ever Come Around (2025)

The Motet – Thinkin Too Much – Thinkin Too Much (2024)
Dressy Bessy – I’m Still Here (2021)
Andy Eppler – Don’t Say My Name – Valley of the Sin Eaters (2025)
The Mercury Project – Refuge – Soapbox Jive (2004)
Megan Burtt – Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – The Bargain (2015)
Tennis – 12 Blown Tires – Face Down In the Garden (2025)
(N) Analog Son – Insatiable f. Adryon de Leon – Keep It Coming (2025)

Gregory Alan Isakov – The Fall – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
Sugar Nova with G. Love & Special Sauce – Cool Me Down (2024)
Adam Bodine – Jacuzzi Marinade – Ribbons for Pigs (2025)

Babyface – Stone Cold – Babyface (1975)
Freddi Henchi and the Soulsetters – Fire – Crown Princes Of Funk: The Last Set (1972)
(D) Daniel Rodriguez, Wesley Schultz – Dig A Lover’s Grave – Dig A Lover’s Grave EP (2025)

Claire Heywood – Alone Woman – Water is All I See (2024)
N3ptune – Black Horse (radio edit) – Renaissance (2022)
Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
The Czars – What I Can Do For You – Before…But Longer (2008)
Katie Herzig – Walk Through Walls (2014)
Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
(D) Big Samir, South of France – Running Out of Time (2025)

Wellington Bullings – Because I Want To (2020)
Dragondeer – Jolee (2024)
Paa Kow – African Lady – Cookpot (2017)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles avail)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING AUG 10 2025

ALL STATIONS including spins on the Colorado Playlist – 74 titles tracked
(D) 1. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(D) 1. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25
(D) 2. MYSTEE – Forget Me Not EP Jul-25
(D) 3. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Dig A Lover’s Grave EP Jul-25
(2) 3. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 3. mon cher – Lush (ft. Best Man) SP Jun-25