CP S19 EP34 2025

Some of the best from Colorado, from the past to the present. New music from Kyle Harvey, Blankslate, Pink Fuzz, Summer Bedhead.

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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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Judy CollinsHard Lovin’ Loser – In My Life (1966)
Judy CollinsBird On a Wire – Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968)
(D) Kyle Harvey Neon Lights Are Good for the Blues (2025)

King Cardinal Runaway (2022)
Gasoline Lollipops The River – Kill the Architect (2025)
Drew Emmitt Gypsy In My Soul – Long Road (2008)
Katie HerzigCrazy – Weightless (2006)
Big Gigantic Free Spirits – Fluorescence (2025)
(D) BlankslateLamp Post Hearts – Lookout Mountain Charley (2025)

Ambar Lucid Get Lost In the Music (2021)
Teresa SuydamLost Bird – Lost Bird (2024)
Eric Lilley TrioTo Know Not – Swing Set (2025)

The Nitty Gritty Dirt BandI Saw The Light – Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1972)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Fishin’ In The Dark – Hold On (1987)
(D) Pink Fuzz – Animal (2025)

Hunter StoneMars – Portraits of the New/Old West, Vol. 2 (2024)
Dragondeer New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023)
Sweet VirginiaI Don’t Know (2025)
Kerry Pastine and The Crime SceneLet’s Do This Thing – Let’s Do This Thing (2015)
Lionel Young BandKnock These Blues Around – On Our Way to Memphis (2012)
Delta SonicsConcrete Hotel – Concrete Hotel (2025)
(D) Summer BedheadDeep Breathe – The Body Needs a Break (2025)

Alysia KraftLittle River – First Light (2022)
Rootbeer Richie & The ReveilleNever Needed Me – Never Needed Me (2024)
Analog SonSuspended Animation f. Eric Benny Bloom – Keep It Coming (2025)

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CP S17 EP15 2023

Monday April 17, 2023 – It’s official. The Colorado Playlist and Clear Vistas Photography are relocating to Grand Junction this summer, 2023. Folks in Northern Colorado will still hear the show every Saturday at 6AM and Sunday at 6PM on 105.5 The Colorado Sound – and all the stations and times elsewhere will stay the same. We’re just physically moving, to experience life on the western slope. So basically, none of us will miss a beat – and the “groove goes on,” according to a song somewhere. Claire will just have more pictures to share.

It also so happens that we’re out of town this weekend, so there is no TOP FIVE. Please enjoy the new songs in the MMMM and let me know what you think.

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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.

(D) = debut of a single, ep or lp on the show
(N) = new track from previous (D) ep or lp

Beast Spaceman – Beast (1969)
Sugarloaf Don’t Call Us – We’ll Call You (1975)
(D) The DiabolicsElephant Joe (2023)

Keith Murdock Gonna Wanna See Her Again – Keith Murdock (2022)
DeVotchKa Exhaustible – 100 Lovers (2011)
Elektric Animals Constant Static Noise (2023)
Psychodelic ZombiezThe Healing – S.A.C. (1996)
The Still Tide – Change of Address – Between Skies (2019)
Christopher MorseHelp Me Out – Covering Old Scars EP (2023)
(D) Cowboy DaveThis Kind of Living – Venture South (2023)

Chris Daniels & Hazel MillerBorn Under A Bad Sign – What We Did! (2021)
Erik LundeSteel Militia – Water From The Stone (2022)
Dana Landry Quartet Puttin’ On The Ritz – Standard Elevation (2015)

The FluidOur Love Will Still Be There – Glue (1990)
Dressy Bessy Jenny Come On – Pink Hearts Yellow Moons (1999)
(D) Danno SimpsonPills and Motorhead (2023)

Mike Clark and the Sugar SoundsWarm Me Up – Moon Rock (2022)
The SubdudesSocial Aid & Pleasure Club – Behind The Levee (2006)
Deva YoderResting From Their Labors – Be Well (2023)
Zephyr Sold My Heart – Sunset Ride (1971/remaster 2021)
Jon SnodgrassBrave With Strangers – Visitor’s Band (2009)
Kind Hearted StrangersDiesel – Now.here (2023)
(D) Since JulEYEWeight of the World with Mr. Bugatti & Sarcastik – The Dawn of Since (2023)
Wildermiss Supermagical (2020)
Euforquestra Arizona to Georgia – While We Still Got Time (2022)
BTTFLY QuintetBuried Treasure – Coast (2023)

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CP S17 EP13 2023

Grand Junction and Mt. Garfield from Colorado Nat’l Monument – courtesy of clearvistasphotography.com

MONDAY APRIL 03 2023 – As I sat down to put this week’s post together, I got word that the new Leftover Salmon album will drop in May. There’s already a single out that I’ll get to in next week’s show. That’s on top of Leftover Salmon cofounder, “uncle” Vince Herman‘s, debut solo effort that moved up two spots to #6 in the running 2023 TOP 20.

If you’re hoping for a new Big Head Todd & the Monsters release before their Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction, dream on. Band keyboardist, Jeremy Lawton, informed me that “…we are doing a “maybe” on July. Doing a big 7-8 week thing with Blues Traveler so we are going to try to have something for that.” So, July…

You may also notice an asterisk (*) in front of *The Wood Brothers. As I mentioned in the MARCH / 2023 TOP 20 spins report this weekend, *The Wood Brothers are not, specifically speaking, a locally based band. The asterisk (*) denotes Colorado expat musicians who were born and/or raised here, or got started here (or for some other compelling reason) and are still considered part of #COMUSIC.

#COMUSIC TOP FIVE WEEK ENDING 4/01/23

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 and agents to track airplay.

(3) 1. DEVA YODER – Be Well LP (Feb-23)
(1) 2. *THE WOOD BROTHERS – Heart Is the Hero LP (Apr-23)
(D) 3. KIND HEARTED STRANGERSNow.Here LP (Mar-23) **
(D) 4. SUGAR NOVAHalogen LP (May-23)
(D) 5. BRIANA HARRIS – When We’re Found LP (Sep-22)
(D) 5. JULIAN FULCO PERRONAll the Lights SINGLE (Mar-23)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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.

(D) = debut of a single, ep or lp on the show
(N) = new track from previous (D) ep or lp

Dianne ReevesAfro Blue – I Remember (1991)
(D) Deva Yoder Resting From Their Labors – Be Well (2023)

Alysia Kraft Cold Mountain – First Light (2022)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich MooreLosers – Saints & Sinners (2010)
Brothers Keeper He Left You feat. John Popper (2023)
Acoustic JunctionGoodbye World – Strange Days (2000)
Flobots = Me & You (Happy 2gether) (2021)
Jeremy Facknitz There’s No Going Home Again (Feat. Serenity Holloway) – Smilin’ At the Future (2023)
(D) Julian Fulco Perron All the Lights (2023)

Great American Taxi Dr Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show – Dr. Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show (2016)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night SweatsLove Don’t – The Future (2022)
Bill FrisellRebel Rouser – Guitar in the Space Age (2014)

Joe WalshRocky Mountain Way – Rocky Mountain Way (1975)
(N) Sugar Nova Touch Me, I’m Going to Scream, Pt. II – Halogen (2023)

Elektric AnimalsCome Clean – Channels EP (2022)
A.J. FullertonShe’s So Cold – Kalamath (2017)
Adrienne O You Don’t Want My Love (2023)
The Mercury ProjectRefuge – Soapbox Jive (2004)
Cary MorinJamie Rae – Dockside Saints (2020)
Cody QuallsColorado (Save A Place for Us) – Cody Qualls & New Ancients (2023)
(N) Kind Hearted Strangers In the Blue – Now.here (2023) **

Gabrielle Louise If The Static Clears – If The Static Clears (2016)
The Infamous StringdustersDown From the Mountain – Toward the Fray (2022)
Adam BodineSurface Service – Scenes of Changery (2021)

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