CP S18 EP35 2024

the Milky Way arch over the Balanced Rock at Moab, courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

MONDAY SEPT 30 — THERE IS NO MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING THIS WEEK – turns out two of the three new releases this week are not yet available on YouTube. Neither has been officially released yet, so please listen to HOUR 2 of the show if you’d like to hear them.

(N) Chris Daniels & the Kings rerecorded Sonny Landreth‘s “Congo Square” for their 40th Anniversary release, shared in HOUR 1.

(D) Claire Heywood has been a regular on the show over the past four years. She’s already got one song from her upcoming new album in active rotation on 105.5 the Colorado Sound and on the Colorado Playlist.

(D) piKziL is Liza Oxnard and Kip Kuepper – a conversation with Liza a few weeks ago, catching up on life, prompted the premier of a new single from them this week on the show.

Speaking of YouTube – I include several available videos in THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE. If you’re an artist with a new video or you know of a new video I should include, let me know. Email coloradoplaylist@gmail.com. You can also check out over thirteen years of archived weekly and monthly collections at Chris K’s Colorado Playlist.

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

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.

HOUR 1
Joe Cocker
I Come In Peace – Fire It Up (2012)
John OatesIt’s All Right – Mississippi Mile (2011)
The GrahamsGlory Bound – The Grahams (2023)
Alysia KraftHamilton Pool – First Light (2022)
The River ArkansasLady Luck – Any Kind of Weather (2019)
Cary Morin Indian Hunters Return – Innocent Allies (2023)
Daniel RodriguezColorado – Sojurn of a Burning Sun (2020)
The Yawpers Human Question – Human Question (2019)
A.J. FullertonHumility – Closer (2024)
(N) Chris Daniels and the Kings with Fred GowdyCongo Square – 40: Blues With Horns Volume II (2024)
Tennis Needle and a Knife – Ritual in Repeat (2014)
Euforquestra Show Me The Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
The Motet Belly – Breathe (1999)

HOUR 2
Dusty Drapes
Cielito Lindo – The Red Album (1981)
Zephyr Mad Dog – Heartbeat (1981)
(N) Claire HeywoodAlone Woman – Water is All I See (2024)
Gregory Alan Isakov Before the Sun – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
Big Head Todd and The MonstersWipeout Turn – New World Arisin’ (2017)
American Culture Let It Go (feat. Midife) – Hey Brother, It’s Been A While (2024)
Dressy BessyNew Song (From Me to You) – Dressy Bessy (2003)
LVDY Lean In – Gold (2021)
Thom LaFond I Will Love You – Lawless (2024)
(D) piKzil Along The Dark Horizon (2024)
YaSi World Is Burning (radio edit) – Coexist With Chaos EP (2021)
The Sweet LilliesWords – Equality (2023)
Keith OxmanBrothers, Michael and Jean-Marc – East of the Village (2017)

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist105.5 The Colorado SoundIndie 102.388.9 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 – 60 TITLES TRACKED
*includes spins on the Colorado Playlist
(1) 1. Nathaniel Rateliff & THE NIGHT SWEATSSouth of Here LP (Apr-24)
(4) 2. A.J. FullertonCloser LP (Mar-24)
(R) 3. Chris Daniels and the Kings“40” Blues with Horns Vol. II LP (Apr-24)
(3) 3. KiltroKiltro SP (Aug-24)
(R) 4. Thom LaFondLawless LP (Feb-24)

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CHRIS DANIELS & THE KINGS WITH FREDDI GOWDY “40: BLUES WITH HORNS VOLUME II” A REVIEW

Next to Firefall (1976), Chris Daniels and the Kings (1984) is the longest running band in Colorado with a founding original member.  40 years. Chris’s 20th album. Two Colorado Music Hall of Fame singers, entertainers and songwriters teaming up for their fourth album of funky mayhem since 2010. Freddi Gowdy, one-half of Colorado Music Hall of Fame inductees the Freddi-Henchi Band and the legendary hall of fame musician, music educator and former executive director of Swallow Hill, Chris Daniels.  

The story of the band is best told by Chris in the 24-page booklet that accompanies this 40th year celebration of joy, love for each other and danceable funk and rhythm and blues grooves due for release on August 9th.   

My personal favorites are, in no particular order, the Freddi-Henchi classics I Like Funky Music and I Like Your Shoes, the Sonny Landreth classic Congo Square and the still wonderful duet Stealin’ Candy with fellow Colorado Music Hall of Fame artist, Hazel Miller.  Two other tracks that warrant serious consideration are I Need Some Good Luck Bad on the blues side and Everybody’s a Millionaire on the horn-drenched Cory Wong side of things. 

I guess you could say I’m a bit biased in my praise.  I’ve been a fan of Chris Daniels and the Kingsthe Freddi-Henchi Band and Hazel Miller since the 80s.  Chris, Freddi and Hazel have each become great friends in my life over the past twenty plus years now. 

Over the years, Chris and I have done business together with me booking his band and helping him promote every album since “The Spark” and I became a guest lecturer and eventually adjunct faculty at CU Denver thanks to Chris.  I’ve also had the tremendous pleasure of appearing with my band, Goatz!, along with the Kings and Hazel at the legendary Mishawaka Amphitheatre in the Poudre Canyon, outside of Fort Collins, CO.

The music on “40” brought me to tears of joyous memories of dancing to some of the greatest and most loved musical legends our state has ever produced.  Congratulations Chris … what a marvelous and wonderful experience you’ve brought us all. Happy “40.”

Chris “K” Kresge / Rocky Mountain Music Network / The Colorado Playlist 

Join Chris Daniels & the Kings with Freddi Gowdy appearing with the War & Treaty at the 16th Dacono Music and Spirits Festival on AUG 3.