Bill Frisell – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

Great Sand Dunes Nat’l Park June 2022 – courtesy Claire Mannato

Monday Feb 13, 2023 – Happy (early) Valentine’s Day. Sadly, we lost two more members of the Colorado music scene this past week, when it was reported that longtime Denver music veteran, Jimmy Ayers, passed away after a long and drawn out battle with cancer. Blues guitarist Jeremy Vasquez also passed away.

Jeremy was a long time SoCO musician who lived in Texas for the past few years, but was really admired among CO blues guitarists. As posted by long time scene drummer Kyle Borthick, “Jimmy Ayers was a pillar of the community. A true gentleman and a righteous guy all the way around.” RIP fellas.

TOP 5 #COMUSIC WEEK ENDING FEB 11, 2023

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, offering search functions for artists and agents to track airplay.

(2) 1. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(1) 2. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(3) 3. BILL FRISELL – Four LP (Nov-22)
(D) 4. JAIEL – the Magical World Of Black Girlhood EP (Apr-22)
(D) 4. NAHKEEM – It Was All A Dream EP (Oct-22)
(D) 4. YONNAS – Feven LP (Nov-22)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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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.

16 Horsepower – Black Soul Choir – Sackcloth ‘N’ Ashes (1995)
The Apples In Stereo – About Your Fame – Tone Soul Evolution (1997)
(D) Sour Magic – Means to an End (2023)

Oko Tygra – West Coast (is burning) (2022)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Friday Night – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
Euforquestra – Show Me the Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Big Gigantic – The Little Things – Brighter Future (2016)
Selasee & The Fafa Family – Time for Peace – Time for Peace (2014)
Roger Green – Enter As You Leave – Enter As You Leave (2023)
(D) Riker Lynch – Remedy (2023)

The Burroughs – Zero Sum Game (2021)
Stillhouse Junkies – Colorado Bound – Small Towns (2022)
The Motet – Back Seat – All Day (2023)

Leftover Salmon – Highway Song – Euphoria (1997)
(D) Cary Morin – Killing the Blues – Innocent Allies (2023)
Dragondeer – Stay High (2020)
Sugar Nova – Tiny Helicopters (2023)
Megan Burtt – Real Thing – The Bargain (2015)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Hey Delila – Black Beehive (2014)
Daniel Rodriguez – Wheels Fell Off the World (2023)
(D) Volores – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)

Speakeasy Tiger – Limbs – The Public (2009)
Andy Sydow – Alibi – Time Stands Between EP (2021)
Steve Kovalcheck, Peter Sommer, Paul Romaine, Ken Walker – Homecoming – Ghost Orchid (2022)

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Live Music Colorado featuring LiveMusicMegaSearch™

February 6, 2023 – I was hoping for either Yonder Mountain String Band or the Infamous Stringdusters to bring a Grammy home to Colorado, but no such luck this year.

Every once in a while it happens. I get sent a record WEEKS before it goes live on your favorite streaming source. In this week’s show there were pre-release debuts from Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck and one from the solo debut from Trent Nelson (Strange Americans).

As I sat here yesterday tabulating this week’s spins I was very pleasantly surprised to see the new album Four from Colorado Music Hall of Fame guitarist Bill Frisell debut at #3.

#COMUSIC TOP FIVE WEEK ENDING FEB 04, 2023

(3) 1. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(2) 2. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(D) 3. BILL FRISELL – Four LP (Nov-22)
(D) 4. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Built On Bones EP (Oct-22)
(D) 4. HOLLOW HEAD – Fake Plastic Trees SINGLE (Jan-23)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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Kenny Vaughan – The Things I Do – V (2011)
Kenny Vaughan – Country Music Got A Hold On Me – V (2011)
(D) Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck – Standin’ In the Corner – Learn to Let the Light In (2023)
Sweet Virginia – Blue Skies – Leaving Again (2022)
Augustus – Kick the Doors Down – Color TV and Tall Tales (2020)
Hunter James and the Titanic – Rabbit Run – Signals (2023)
My Body Sings Electric – Change – Part 2: What It Means to Be Afraid (2019)
Fierce Bad Rabbit – Everything Is Alright – Fierce Bad Rabbit (2010)
Mike Clark and the Sugar Sounds – Warm Me Up – Moon Rock (2022)
(D) Trent Nelson – Guide This Light – Where We Begin (2023)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Stuck In Motion – Heavy Diamond Ring (2019)
Mojomama – We Are One – We Are One (2022)
Bill Frisell – Baja – Guitar in the Space Age (2014)

Dusty Drapes – Talkin‘ Boogie – The Red Album (1981)
Starlite Ramblers – Colorado Rose – It’s Enough To Make A Cowboy Outta You (1980)
(D) Everybody Loves An Outlaw – Play Down & Dirty – Takin’ You Down EP (2023)

Adrienne O – What What What (2022)
Float Like a Buffalo – The Day – Back From Nowhere (2019)
Mad Radio – Satellite (2023)
Leftover Salmon – House of Cards – Something Higher (2018)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Children Of The Lord – Cipher (2008)
Thom LaFond – New Wildfire – The Moon Leans In (2022)
(D) Stay Tuned – Friday Night Lights (2023)

Darcy Nelson – Bad (2022)
Dragondeer – Mirage a Trois (2019)
(NT) BTTRFLY Quintet – Verti Marte – Coast (2023)

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