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Fall colors along the Flat Tops scenic highway, courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

The Monday Morning Music Meeting is 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.

Rick Derringer – Cheap Tequila – All American Boy (1973)
Chicago – Just You ‘N’ Me – Chicago VI (1973)
(D) Carolyn Shulman – Old Farm House – Heart On A Wire (2024)
Leftover Salmon – Blue Railroad Train (feat. Billy Strings) – Grass Roots (2023)
Mama Lenny and the Remedy – Everybody Wants Some (2024)
The String Cheese Incident – Sirens – Untying the Not (2003)
OneRepublic – Mercy – Waking Up ( 2009)
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (2024)
(D) Giant Walking Robots – Sick (2024)
Big Gigantic x GRIZ – Open Your Mind (2022)
Volores – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
Fred Hess Band – Norman’s Gold – Single Moment (2015)

Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids – Good Times, Rock & Roll (1975)
Starwood – One Time Band – Home Brew (1975)
(N) Earl Nelson & the Company – Black Jack Mama (2024)
Dragondeer – New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023)
Ryan Chrys – Another Round – Hearts Deluge (2021)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Like Lightning (2024)
The Reminders – Dust and Bones – Unstoppable (2019)
Kyle Hollingsworth – All Falls Apart – 50 (2018)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Glorious Full Moon – Her Way Out (2024)
Andy Sydow – Every Little Thing About Love – Night Skin (2024)
Katie Herzig – Drug – Walk Through Walls (2014)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Love Don’t – The Future (2022)
Annie Booth – Blues for Narcissism – Wanderlust (2014)

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 to track airplay at more than 300 stations and programs around the country.

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE – 61 TITLES TRACKED
*includes spins on the Colorado Playlist
(R) 1. *BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS – Her Way Out LP Nov-23
(R) 2. *HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Like Lightning SP Jul-24
(R) 3. MEGAN BURTT – Witness LP May-24
(1) 3. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(D) 4. *ANDY SYDOW – Night Skin LP Jun-24

105.5 The Colorado Sound & The Colorado Playlist Present

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Photo courtesy of Claire Mannato

Monday JAN 10, 2022 – Happy Monday morning. Due to a computer glitch this past weekend, the Colorado Playlist did not air correctly at KJAC 105.5 The Colorado Sound. New programming software can have some bugs ya know? It did and will, however, air correctly at the other stations this week.

The MMMM (Monday Morning Music Meeting) is a bit interesting this week. I showcased a couple of songs this week on the show that came out from late 2020 (2 Gentlemen) to early 2021 (Carolyn Shulman).

2 Gentlemen features Denver bassist Windall Armour who many may recall from his days in Opie Gone Bad. He and long time friend Kenny James (currently in Atlantic City) bring the funk hard on It’s All About the Views, a song that “…talks about where we are with social media and our fixation on collecting views as well as status in the social world.”

Carolyn Shulman was a pleasant find a couple of weeks ago. The Denver by way of Houston lawyer and singer-songwriter has earned considerable praise and folk radio airplay for her Americana country-folk, inspired by Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Patty Griffin.

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats not only held on to the #1 spot in the TOP 5 this week and at Roots Music Report.com, but appears to be increasing in the number of spins reported statewide. Remember, RMR.com also represents airplay of Colorado releases outside of Colorado – including internationally and on Internet radio stations that report.

I do expect to see the new album from Yonder Mountain String Band make a strong impression statewide, since debuting at #8 at RootsMusicReport.com. I do not expect to see it rise to TOP 5 status in my reporting due to lack of play on the top two stations spinning Colorado music in our state. The same is true for the new album by Colorado native Corey Harris, whose album The Insurrection Blues is currently #2 at Roots Music Report but doesn’t show up at the stations I survey weekly.

STATION OF THE WEEK

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105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND & THE COLORADO PLAYLIST PRESENT

The Drunken Hearts – Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO FRI FEB 4, 2022

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TOP 5 COLORADO SPINS WEEK ENDING JAN 08 2022

TOP 5 and TOP 30 charts are pulled from published spins of current releases (twelve months old) at 13 Colorado non-profit community/public and college radio stations. Eleven Colorado radio stations currently utilize Spinitron.

Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents at http://www.spinitron.com

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP (Nov-21)
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Sep-21)
  3. LEFTOVER SALMON– Brand New Good Old Days LP LP (Mar-21)
  4. A.J. FULLERTON – The Forgiver and the Runaway LP (Mar-21)
  5. CHRIS DANIELS & HAZEL MILLER – What We Did! LP (Jul-21)

MONDY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

Serving Cedaredge CO over 20 years.

Dianne Reeves – 32 Flavors – Beautiful Life (2013)
(D) Carolyn Shulman – Matter of Time – Grenadine & Kerosene (2021)

Wellington Bullings – Because I Want To (2020)
Jeff Austin – 15 Steps – The Simple Truth (2015)
Dirty Shrines – Every Mile – Digital Ego (2021)
Dechen Hawk – Lady Devine (2021)
Bobby Walker – Detroit Boogie – Bobby Walker (2008)
Drew Emmitt – Gypsy In My Soul – Long Road (2008)
(D) Drunken Hearts – Beat Up, Beat Down, and Broken – Wildflower Sessions

Whiskey Blanket – Pound Boom – No Object (2010)
Wildermiss – Supermagical (2020)
Gabriel Mervine – Sunlight – Say Somethin’ (2021)

HOUR 2

Earth Wind & Fire – Devotion – Open Our Eyes (1974)
(D) 2 Gentlemen – All About the Views (2021)

Kyle Hollingsworth – We Were the Young (2020)
Edison – Open Road – Familiar Spirit (2016)
Carolyn Hunter – Felt Like Love – Lovelight (2022)
Guy Margalit – 4YOU (feat. Dafna) (2021)
Leftover Salmon – Dance On Your Head – The Nashville Sessions (1999)
The String Cheese Incident – Stay Through – Song In My Head (2014)
(D) Yonder Mountain String Band – Into the Fire – Get Yourself Outside (2022)

Taylor Scott Band – Curiosity – All We Have (2019)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Already Gone – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
Jason Klobnak – Through Her Eyes – Friends and Family (2018)

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