Tag: country

CP S19 EP13 2025

It’s Milky Way season. From Colorado National Monument. Courtesy Clear Vistas Photography.

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

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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) 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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CW McCall – Convoy – Best of CW McCall (1975)
Starlite Ramblers – Evangelina – Ain’t It The Truth (1979)
(D) Lee Sims – Wyoming Wind (2025)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Before the Sun – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Into the Fire – Get Yourself Outside (2022)
Holly Lovell – Hello Chelsea – Hello Chelsea (2025)
The Patti Fiasco – Shake – Small Town Lights (2013) **FOCOMX
Dubskin – Just Be Now (feat Lyrics Born) – Light The Dark (2017) **FOCOMX
Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
(N) The Grocery Story – Stick With Love (f. Rhonda Merrick) – Situation on Aisle #3 (2025) **FOCOMX
Heavy Diamond Ring – Friday Night – The Brightest Light EP (2021) **FOCOMX
Izcalli – Waiting for Something (2024) **FOCOMX
Bill Frisell – Baja – Guitar in the Space Age (2014)

Boondoggle & Balderdash – Mr. Driver – Boondoggle & Balderdash (1971)
Beast – I Am – Higher and Higher (1970)
(D) Rob Drabkin – My Train is Coming – City Lights & Country Sides (2025)
The Sweet Lillies – Words – Equality (2023)
Dragondeer – Mirage à Trois – Across The Waves (2023)
Emily Scott Robinson – Cheap Seats – American Siren (2021)
MIDDLE CLASS ROCK STAR
Emily Scott Robinson – Built On Bones – Built On Bones (2022)
(D) Hallie Marie – Sanity (2025)
Five Iron Frenzy – Renegades – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
Elektric Animals – Dreaming/Wishing – A Bear and the Bull (2024)
Eric Lilley Trio – So There – Swing Set (2025)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles avail)

CP S12 EP42 2018

 Monday Nov 5, 2018 – It’s pretty rare that jazz gets featured in the MMMM (Monday Morning Music Meeting) – but this week there are two cuts – one from Jason Klobnak and one from Keith Oxman, who shockingly in this era has no social media or web presence but whose new album is on Spotify.

There were a few cuts not available for this week’s Spotify playlist – so this one runs 1 hour 19 mins.  Enjoy

COMING SOON!  New Brent Loveday & the Dirty Dollars will show up in EP44 of the show.  If you don’t know who Brent Loveday is – look up Reno Divorce.  The new album took several years for Brent to put together, and is one that dives into his alt-country-rock  voice.

105.5 The Colorado Sound & the Colorado Playlist Present:

Brent Cowles w/ special guests Strange Americans at the Bluebird Theater (Denver) Fri, Dec 14

Covenhoven  at Swallow Hill Music (Denver) Fri, Nov 9

Gasoline Lollipops with The Grant Farm at The Fox Theatre (Boulder) New Years Eve, Monday, Dec 31

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – 3 nights! – Dec 28, 29, 31 – Globe Hall

Trout Steak Revival 2 shows…
Fri, Nov 30 at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom (Denver)
Sat, Dec 1 at the Aggie Theatre (Fort Collins)

The Railbenders at The Bluebird Theater (Denver), Friday, Dec 21

Wildermiss with Silver & Gold and Ivory Circle at the Downtown Artery (Fort Collins) Friday, November 9

At Bohemian Foundation, our focus is on building community …by coming together to create and enjoy music.

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

What you’ll find below are new songs on the show this week … listen  and let me know which ones you think I should keep in the Colorado Playlist, and which I should delete.

NOTE:  In order to be included in the MMMM poll, the band/artist must have an embeddable file on Soundcloud, BandCamp, Reverbnation, Spotify or YouTube.

PLAYLIST S12 EP42

(D) = debut of lp, ep or single
(N) = new cut from previously debuted lp or ep

HOUR 1

Zephyr “High Flying Bird” from Sunset Ride (1972)
(D) WhiteWater Ramble “Hollow (feat. Chris Pandolfi)” from Hollow (2018)
Brent Cowles “Lift Me Up (Leave Me Here)” from Cold Times (2017)
Jeff Finlin “Jesus Was a Motorcycle Man” from Ballad Of A Plain Man (2008)
Ariana Saraha “Maiden of Midnight” from Maiden of Midnight (2015)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “A Little Honey” from Tearing At The Seams (2018)
Blue Canyon Boys “Heartaches Welcome” from Next Go ‘Round (2012)
Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) “Beehive” from The Great Collapse (2009)
Silver And Smoke “Sting Like A Bee” from 30P (2018)
(D) Dayton Stone & the Undertones “Hypnotist” from Dayton Stone & the Undertones (2018)  

 Edison “open road” from Familiar Spirit (2016)
Gasoline Lollipops “Homesick Remedy” from Resurrection (2017)
(D) Jason Klobnak “Through Her Eyes” from Friends and Family (2018)  

HOUR 2

Poco “Crazy Love” from The Essential Poco (2005)
(N) Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams “Little Rig” from Hard Core Broken Heart (2018)

 Retrofette “Skeletons” from Skeletons (2017)
The Apples in Stereo “No One in the World” from Travellers in Space and Time (2010)
(D) Pan Astral “Seaside” (2018)  

Darren Garvey “First of the Year” from Heart Attack Sleeves – ep (2018)
Elephant Revival “Rhythm of the Road” from Break in the Clouds (2010)
John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light “Love Is a Shark” from Beautiful Empty (2011)
Jill Sobule “Where do I Begin” from Nostalgia Kills (2018)
(D) Ethyl & the Regulars “I Didn’t Want to Fall” from Honest Work (2018)
Gabrielle Louise “If the Static Clears” from If The Static Clears (2016)
Devotchka “Exhaustible” from 100 Lovers (2011)
(D) Keith Oxman “Afreaka” from Glimpses (2018)

The Colorado Sound – V4 EP10 2012

Ok, so I like keep telling folks – if it ain’t from Colorado I don’t know jack — so how was I supposed to know that the new Big Head & the Monsters “Sexy and I Know It” is a cover of the LFMAO track?   Huh?  Well?  If it ain’t from Colorado I don’t know it … (with extremely few exceptions).    I had to go to youtube to check out the LFMAO version (also finding Todd’s solo version … see below).  Can’t say as I care much for LFMAO’s version, but then I’m not a Venus beach type anyway — give me some “303” – speaking of which, Broken Tongues is representin’ – check out their intro video below … … Todd’s version of the song is much better IMO LOL.

I had one very great nearly three hour hang over a couple pints of Irish ale with Katie Glassman this week … after doing sound for her trio last week I became enthralled with the uniqueness of her voice – vocally and musically.  Turns out that before Sir Paul McCartney did his swing album, Katie had envisioned doing one of her own, complete with five songs that ultimately appeared on Paul’s disc … so, she does the Beatles classic Honey Pie and would love to get it to Sir Paul.  Anyone got his number?  If so, please pass it along to Katie.

Katie’s Snapshot gets my nod for featured album of the month on the Colorado Sound.  John Macy at Silo along with friends like bassist Eric Thorin who arranged / co-arranged four of the tracks, and an all-star band that includes keyboardist Eric Moon and E-tones drummer Christian Teele as well as over a dozen other world class session players and award winners  make it one seriously fun record … especially if you’re into Texas country-swing-jazz with a dollup of airy indie-pop cuteness drizzled throughout Katie’s vocal stylization.

The Lumineers is counted as a debut this week – although I’ve had this particular track for several weeks now, Dualtone just sent the album out – and it’s picking up mad adds at stations around the state, including  KBCO (Boulder), KFMU (Steamboat), KSMT (Breckenridge), KSPN (Aspen), and KYSL (Breckenridge) – making it a sure shot for a #1 Out of the Box (OTB) DEBUT for the month.

And just because it’s too much fun, I included the newly released video from the Hickman-Dalton Gang in this week’s post … ’bout one of the best country videos I’ve seen come out of CO the past couple of years… it forces at least a big grin and some foot stompin. … lay that one in next to Gary Bragg’s hilarious Free Range video…

Here’s what got played on this week’s show.

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “This Is How We Do It in the Country” from Blovdy Tenent Trvth Peace (2004)
(D) Chimney Choir “ace of spades” from (ladder) (2012)
Juno What?! “You Can’t Stop It” from Shameless (2011)
Tommy Metz “Dreams Will Collide” from The Blossom Frontier (2010)
Electric Swingset “Inebriated Witch Doctor” from Inebriated Witchdoctor (1996)
(D) Rebel Tongue “Lose Hope” from Movin’ On (2012)
Coles Whalen “Wrecking Ball” from I Wrote This for You (2012)
Kelly J “I Didn’t” from It’s A Jungle Out There (2007)
After Midnight Jazz Band “Hit That Jive, Jack” from Hit That Jive, Jack (2012)
(D) Overcasters “Moonshift” from Curses/Prayers (2012)
El Toro de la Muerte “Things In My Head” from Dancer These Days (2011)
Carmen Sandim Sextet “Sampa” from Brand New (2011)
The Apples in Stereo “Same Old Drag” from New Magnetic Wonder (2007)
Pretty Lights “Future Blind” from Making Up a Changing Mind (2010)
(D) The Lumineers “Ho Hey” from The Lumineers (2012)


(N) Broken Tongues “The Way” from Crooked Skyline (2012)

Selasee Atiase “Pray for Me” from African Gate (2010)
Railbenders “Sweet Caroline” from Segundo (2003)
(N) Hickman Dalton Gang “Construction Man” from Vol. II (2011)

Lionel Young Band “Blues & Boogie Woogie” from On Our Way to Memphis (2011)
(D) Big Head Todd & the Monsters  “Sexy and I Know It” [single] (2012) – The cut I played on the show is a full band version that BTHM keyboardist and local producer/engineer (Hickman Dalton Gang among others) sent to me .. that he described to me as having been worked on in many different places out on the road this winter.  The video is Todd rockin it solo.

(N) Katie Glassman “Honey Pie” from Snapshot (2012)
The Swayback “Lost Lake Woods Club” from Double Four Time (2012)
Soul Merchants “Crowns of Glory” from Soul Merchants (2007)
(N) Varlet “In My Pocket” from The Drifter (2012)
Jim Stranahan “Caliente” from Free For All (2010)