Tag: COMMUNITY RADIO

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 EP27 2025

Black Canyon of the Gunnison, 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.

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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. 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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The Subdudes – Any Cure – The Subdudes (1989)
The Samples – My Town – The Samples (1989)
(D) Patrick Dethlefs – Why Not Try – Patty (2025)

Rootbeer Richie & The Reveille – Without You – Never Needed Me (2024)
Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Love is a Gun – Keep On Keepin On (2020)
Zoe Berman – Vitamin D (2025)
Lannie Garrett – Under Paris Skies – Under Paris Skies (2005)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Wipeout Turn – New World Arisin’ (2017)
Delta Sonics – Concrete Hotel – Concrete Hotel (2025)
(D) Mike Clark & The Sugar Sounds – Hot Coffee – Hot Coffee (2025)

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Love Don’t – The Future (2022)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand (Radio Edit) – Witness (2024)
Big Brooklyn – Send It To Me – Everyone Everywhere (2022)

Zephyr – We Got the Love – Heartbeat (1982)
Firefall – Wrong Side Of Town – Elan (1978)
(D) Kyle Hollingsworth – All We Are (2025)

Dechen Hawk – Lady Devine (2021)
Taylor Shae – American Dream (2025)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – This Land Is Our Land Redux – Cipher (2008)
Gabrielle Louise – Big Unbreakable Heart – The Unending Alteration Of The Human Heart (2020)
The River Arkansas – People Call Me Crazy – Tin Years (2025)
(D) Big Gigantic – Free Spirits – Fluorescence (2025)

Jyemo Club – Issa Ting feat. the Reminders (2022)
Sugar Nova – Darkness Turns to Dawn (2024)
Gabriel Mervine – When It’s Sleepytime Down South – Say Somethin’ (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING JULY 13, 2025

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE including spins on the Colorado Playlist – 75 titles tracked.

(D) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 1. KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH – All We Are SP Jun-25
(R) 1. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. BIG GIGANTIC – Fluorescence LP Jun-25
(D) 2. HOLOGRAPHIC AMERICAN – The Grace of Animals LP Oct-24

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.

Please make a donation to help keep the Colorado Playlist around a few more years.


CP S19 EP25 2025 + Lake City review

North Clear Creek Falls, Colorado. Courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

This past week, Claire (Clear Vistas Photography) and I went to Lake City for dark skies and fly fishing. We’ll be sharing some of the stunning landscape and dark sky / Milky Way pics as Claire gets them done. This week’s featured photo is from North Clear Creek Falls, between Lake City and Creede.

And, of course, we took in some live music.

The Mary Stigall Theater is the centerpiece of Lake City Arts, “…celebrating community through year-round arts, culture, and education.” I’ve hosted and appeared at HUNDREDS of open mics. Rarely have I found one where a small community theater is filled with musicians of all ages and skill levels .. AND attendees there to take in the love of performing music.

Friday night, we went to hear some local solo artists at the popular Chillin Inc. Owner/operator Jeff Heaton is in the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame for the years he’s spent performing at Chillin’. Jeff loves his classic folk and country and he even included a touching rendition of Puff the Magic Dragon in the closing set.

Dining in Lake City is another story, entirely. Be prepared for lots of fried food and BBQ, and one Mexican restaurant. The exceptions are Breakfast Hangout & Euphoria, where you can find red snapper, along with duck, on their dinner menu …and the EXQUISITE Climb Elevated Eatery!

The room atmosphere, top flight service and dishes like Taste of the Rockies (elk tenderloin with Colorado lambchops the night we were there), or their signature BLT at lunch, makes Climb essential “fine dining” in this fairly remote Colorado mountain town.

WTG Lake City – we’ll be back.
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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. 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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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.

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CP S19 EP25 2025 on Mixcloud .. where you can also find the previous four episodes.

Rick Roberts – Sail Away – Windmills (1972)
(N) Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Angel Eyes – Lost In The Crowd (2025)
Kiltro – All The Time in the World – Underbelly (2023)
Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
Lionel Young Band – Drivin’ Wheel – On Our Way to Memphis (2012)
Leftover Salmon – Show Me Something Higher – Something Higher (2018)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone (2025)
(N) Justin Lansing – Marilyn Monroe – Rocky Mountain Time (2025)
Wellington Bullings – Because I Want To (2020)
Julian Fulco Perron – About Love (2023)
Peter Sommer – Looks Like This – Tremolo Canteen (2010)

Deuce Mob – My ’64 – Going Solo (1996)
(N) A.J. Fullerton – Passing Time – Magnetic Light (2025)
Kick and the Hug – Contagious (2024)
Johnny & The Mongrels – Louisiana Girl – Creole Skies (2020)
Hunter James & the Titanic – Weekend Holds (2025)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Josephina – Black Beehive (2014)
Tennis – Needle and a Knife – Ritual in Repeat (2014)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Here I Go – Nowhere Next (2024)
(D) The Cody Sisters – Not My Thoughts – All the Quiet People (2025)
Sour Magic – Means to an End – Forbidden Fruit (2023)
The Crooked Rugs – Chasin’ the Wind – Hear & Now (2024)
Steve Denny Trio – Gramophology – Life in New York (2020)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING JUNE 29 2025

ALL STATIONS including the Colorado Playlist – 81 titles tracked
(D) 1. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(2) 2. BLANKSLATE – Lookout Mountain Charley LP Jun-25
(1) 3. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 4. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(3) 4. MAE HUNNIFORD – Yesterday SP Nov-24

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.