Tag: Big Head Todd and the Monsters

The Colorado Sound S7 EP13 April 2013

Goat_Logo_color_on_whiteSome great new music broke on this week’s show – including the first single from Rob Drabkin‘s upcoming 2nd full length due out in June … and a debut by Durango resident Thom Chacon that features Bob Dylan’s legendary rhythm section.  Also shared this week, another cut from the new Paper Bird album, “Rooms.”

In News & Notes, April is Public Radio Music Month.  Please text, msg, email, call your local public radio station and thank them for supporting Colorado Music.  Two major Colorado music events to post about … FoCoMX on April 19 and 20 … and the Upper Colfax Root 40 Music Festival and Expo, April 22-28.  I’ve been invited to speak on two panels during those events, on April 20, and April 22.

I did not come across a new video this week.  I have been, however, enamored of SHEL’s re-imagination of the Led Zepplin classic “Battle of Evermore” … and happened on a video of the girls performing it about two years ago …

The Playlist – S7 EP13 April 2013

The Monocles “The Spider & the Fly” from The Spider & the Fly (1966)
The Rainy Daze “Good Morning Mr. Smith” from That Acapulco Gold (1967)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Resignation Superman” from Beautiful World (1997)
Leslie Brown “Welcome to the Machine” from Tenderly (2012)
SHEL “Battle of Evermore” from SHEL (2012)
(D) Farmington Hill “10 Miles” from Bridge to Nowhere (2013)
Drew Emmitt “Take the Long Way Home” from Long Road (2008)
(N) Paper Bird “Blood & Bones” from Rooms (2013)Achille Lauro “Hard Pressed” from Flight or Flight (2012)
Take to the Oars “Morning Coffee” from The Bow & the Stern (2013)
Monroe Monroe “Adore” from Hello Moon (2011)
No Fair Fights “Kiss From A Rose” from The Sound of Burning Bridges (2011)
Cocktail Revolution “Mistercool” from Better Reception (2008)
John Denver “Rocky Mountain High” from Rocky Mountain High (1972)
Firefall “Strange Way” from Elan (1978)
(N) The Congress “You’ve Got A Friend” from Loft Tapes (2013)
Juno What?! “Shameless” from Shameless (2011)
(D) Thom Chacon “American Dream” from Thom Chacon (2013)Bonnie and The Clydes “Feel The Wheels Turn” from Wrong Side Up (2012)
Great American Taxi “New Millennium Blues” from Reckless Habits (2010)
(N) Euforquestra “Free” from Let Us In (2012)
(D) Rob Drabkin “Down to Fate”  [single] (2013)Katie Herzig “Free My Mind” from The Waking Sleep (2011)
(D) Joshua Trinidad “The Coast” from Maritime (2013)

The Colorado Sound – S7/EP06 Feb 2013 + Video of the Week

chris k july 2010I very often discover new music for this show by browsing multiple publications and the published playlists of a number of regional radio stations.  When I find acts listed as “local” that I’m unfamiliar with I always make it a point of looking them up online.  I’ve discovered many acts that way, several of which have become favorites of mine on the show.  I like using sites like Bandcamp and Soundcloud more than any other when it comes to not only discovery, but also sharing new music here with you.  I also like using YouTube.  I wish more acts would utilize these sites – it makes sharing much easier, and more direct.

One such act I discovered this past week is Esther Sparks & the Whiskey Remedy.  Upon watching their wonderful video “Back to Life” I was immediately uplifted – making it my feel good video of the week, and the current leading contender for Video of the Month when I publish the next News Notes & Spins column on March 1.  Enjoy … I hope it brings you as much “feel good” as it brought me. 

Playlist S7/EP06 Feb 2013

(D) = new album, first time aired on show
(N) = new cut from previously debuted album

Firefall “Wrong Side of Town” from Elan (1978)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Sister Sweetly” from Sister Sweetly (1993)
(D) Fox Street Allstars “Take It or Leave It” from Tough Talk (2013)
(N) Bad Brad & the Fat Cats “Payin’ My Dues” from Eyes on the Prize (2013)
(D) Lisa Bell “Bring the Love” from The Italian Project (2013)
(N) Rachel & the Kings “Fall Down” from Tonic (2013)
(N) Joshua Novak “The Spiller” from Ephemeron (2013)
The Samples “My Town” from Samples (1990)
Jeff Finlin “East by West” from The Tao of Motor Oil (2010)
Tin Horn Prayer “All’s Well That Ends Well” from Grapple the Rails (2012)
Beats Noir! “Going Nowhere (feat. Venus Cruz)” from Where the Sun Goes Down (2013)
(D) Drop Switch “Blame It On Me” from Blame It On Me (2013)
Carmen Sandim Sextet “Brand New” from Brand New (2011)
String Cheese Incident “Walk This Way” from The String Cheese Incident (1997)
Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids “It’s A Summer Night” from Best of Flash Cadillac and The Continental Kids (2010)
(D) The Uncommoners “Head Space” from Time and Other Tricks (2013)
Patrick Dethlefs “The Farther You Go” from Fall & Rise (2012)
Jeff Brinkman “Halo” from Strange (2012)
(D) Blue Canyon Boys “Heartaches Welcome” from Next Go ‘Round (2012)
Coles Whalen “Go Child” from The Whistle Stop Road Record (2009)
Yawpers “Silicone Love” from Capon Crusade (2012)
Take to the Oars “Stones & Sticks” from American Volume (2011)
Fierce Bad Rabbit “In And Out of Mind” from Maestro & the Elephant (2013)
(D) Jesse Manley “A Path Through the Dark” from A Path Through the Dark (2013)
Grant Farm “Tell Me, Tell Me” from Grant Farm (2012)
(N) Jon Wirtz “Watching The World Wake Up” from Tourist (2013)

The Colorado Sound – V4 EP41 2012 + Pepper Tree (review) + Alchemy (video)

I guess it was a week or so ago when I mentioned to my wife I had not heard anything in years from John William Davis, and I wondered how he’d been since I last saw him round about 2005 or maybe 06.  His debut album, Dreams of the Lost Tribe, has remained a vibrant part of my music consciousness for fully a decade now, a wonderful still frame of deep Southern mysticism and mythology …of swamp moss, diamond backs, hurricanes, bull gators, floods and deep spiritualism.  So, it was with considerable joy that I caught a post by John on Facebook this week – announcing a new recording; this one a stripped down guitar and vocal release, no less a work in lyrical imagery or in his incredibly adroit guitar style.  On the first single, Pepper Tree, he begins by telling us he’s been staring at a crack in the wall indeterminately, waiting for it to blink, before enjoining us to be aware of the chimpanzee in the tree who he imagines looks a “whole lot like you and me.”  In the telling, a baboon wants to kick the chimp’s ass and a crocodile wants to “gobble you up with that pepper seasonin’.”  Cocaine contrails and perfume bombshells, an angel with bent wings and a tail on fire…. and in all of it a lesson for living … “if you ever get stuck up in the pepper tree, you’d better hang on tight if you happen to sneeze.”

We’re blessed here in Colorado to have a couple of fellas who know how to use words to paint stories with details that lesser songwriters can only imagine and then attempt to conjure with vapid cliches.   As John William Davis is just releasing his new work, Jeff Finlin is preparing one – a kickstarter project in place, and a new video accomplished with the help once again of award winning steel guitarist and up and coming filmmaker Sally Van Meter.  Enjoy.

PLAYLIST

(D) = debut of new album, ep or single release.  (N) = a new track from previously debuted album or ep.  (D) and (N) => linked to artist/band.

The Samples “Tom Joad” from Return to Earth (2001)
Acoustic Junction “Strange Days” from Strange Days (2000)
(D) Ten Pound Elephant “Talk to Me” from Ten Pound Elephant (2012)
Petals of Spain “Working 9 to 5” from Late Night Visitor (2011)
FaceMan “Feeding Time” from Feeding Time (2012)
(N) I’m With Her “Hang Among the Stars” from I’m With Her (2011)
Firefall “Cinderella” from Firefall (1976)
Chris Thompson & the Coral Creek String Band “Catfish John” from Forty Years (2012)
Ash Ganley and Lyons Rock Council “Elysian Fields” from Dark Fuel (2006)
(D) John William Davis “Pepper Tree” from Dead Simple, Vol. 1: You Talk Funny (2013)
Cary Morin “Sing It Louder” from Sing It Louder (2011)
(D) Jill Brzezicki “The Horizon” from The Horizon (2012)
After Midnight Jazz Band “A Smooth One” from Midnight in Madison (2010)
Dan Fogelberg “Part of the Plan” from Souvenirs (1974)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Broken Hearted Savior” from Sister Sweetly (1993)
(N) Jeff Brinkman “Face” from Strange (2012)
(N) Bop Skizzum “Known It All Along” from Coloradical (2012)
Places “Honesty” from No More Wasted Days (2012)
(N) Beats Noir! “Going Nowhere (feat. Venus Cruz)” from Where the Sun Goes Down (2013)
The Blender Cats “Somethin’s Gotta Give” from Just Like This (2012)
Megan Burtt “Walls Come Down” from Megan Burtt (2008)
Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams “Hippie In My House” from Midnight Rodeo (2006)
Palmer Divide “Knockin’ At Your Door” from Shenandoah Train (2009)
Esme Patterson “My Young Man” from All Princes, I (2012)
Lumineers “Ho Hey” from The Lumineers (2012)
Strange Americans “Roses On Ice” from A Royal Battle (2012)
Shirley “4th of July” from From A Bright Clearing (2012)