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CP S18 EP39 2024

The Milky Way, the Comet, and Venus setting over Escalante Canyon, courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

Have you been to “COLORADO 2024” on Spotify? (sorry non-Spotify users) one hundred songs from one hundred artists/bands. When it hits one hundred, it’s one in one out. Every week, I tally the spins for each track. Here’s what was hot this past week. And it’s MUCH different than the radio spins posted below.

(1) 1. OneRepublic – Hurt
(2) 2. The Fray – Time Well Wasted
(3) 3. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Heartless
(4) 4. Jeremiah Fraites (Lumineers), Gregory Alan Isakov – No Surprises
(7) 5. Lucy Daydream – Tear Me Down

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

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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.

Cross country and in-state moving + storage. Located in Fort Collins.

Dean Reed – Our Summer Romance (1962)
Gary Stites – Lonely for You (1959)
(D) The Regular – All My Friends Are Gone and They’re Never Ever Ever Coming Back (2024)
Euforquestra – Arizona to Georgia – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Zoe Berman – Edit Delete and Save – Freezing Heat EP (2021)
Frail Talk – little al – little al (2024)
The String Cheese Incident – Stay Through – Song In My Head (2014)
SHEL – The Battle of Evermore – SHEL (2012)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
(N) The Motet – Something Better (2024)
Dafna – Valentine – I Love You (2020)
Daniel Rodriguez – Mixtape – Vast Nothing (2023)
(N) Andrew Vogt – Behave – Optimistic Infinity House (2024)

16 Horsepower – Coal Black Horses – 16 Horsepower (1995)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Hold On – Slim Cessna’s Auto Club (1995)
(D) The John Magnie Project – Far Country (feat. Erik Lunde) – Grocery Story (2024)
Tierro Band with Bridget Law – Opening (feat. Xerephine) – Everlasting Dance (2023)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand – Witness (2024)
Churchill – Change – The War Within EP (2013)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Wipeout Turn – New World Arisin’ (2017)
Jeff Cramer – Lost in the Catacombs – Forever Morning (2024)
(D) Covenhoven – Only Time Can Tell (2024)
Faith Eliza – Animal Like Me (2022)
Alysia Kraft – Little River – First Light (2022)
Glenn Miller – In the Mood – In the Mood (1939)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles avail)

HOT SPINS WK OCT 20-26 2024

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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 SURVEYED STATIONS STATEWIDE – 67 TITLES TRACKED
*includes spins on the Colorado Playlist
(1) 1. *NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(2) 2. *MEGAN BURTT – Witness LP May-24
(4) 3. LO FI HO HUM – Garage Pop LP Aug-24
(D) 3. THE MILK BLOSSOMS – Open Portal LP Oct-24
(D) 4. *ANDREW VOGT – Optimistic Infinity House LP Jul-24
(D) 4. *JEFF CRAMER – Forever Morning: Pt. 1 LP Aug-24
(4) 4. KAYLA MARQUE – Midheaven LP AUG-24
(R) 4. WIREDOGS – Middle Life EP Sep-24

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CP S15:EP37 2021

Monday SEPT 13 2021 – I put the mask back on. It’s a reminder that COVID is not over with us. #COMUSIC – support.

To go or not to go – that may or may not be the question. Looking at filled football stadiums on tv yesterday, you’d think we returned to 2019 when not one of us had a concern about COVID.

On the other side of that is the number of show cancellations we’re seeing and the number of venues that now require we be vaxxed or have a neg-COVID test result within seventy-two hours.

Check your local listings for cancellations and what you need to do in order to attend.

What is the sound of Colorado in 2021?

Look at what non-commercial community/public/college radio here and around the country play from Colorado and you’d want to think the sound is based in Americana roots grooves.

If you’re a long time fan and you look at who is appearing at this year’s Westword Music Showcase September 17 & 18 you’ll be surprised to find mostly Urban Alternative (a radio format that focuses on hip-hop, R&B and dance genres) acts.

Case in point: Roots Music Report (Colorado) has the new album from Chris Daniels & Hazel Miller at #1 for the 6th consecutive week, with Reverend Freakchild, The High Hawks, Leftover Salmon and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats, A.J. Fullerton, West Side Joe & the Men of Soul, Eddie Turner, Rodney Rice and Nathaniel Rateliff (solo) filling out the TOP 10…

…while Westword is showcasing Dafna, 2MX2, N3ptune, Roka Hueka, Nay Renee, Brothers of Brass, Zanib, Joseph Lamar, Ramakhandra, Neoma, A Meazy, and YaSi on Saturday with less than a handful of more straight-up rock and alternative rock bands.

What’s missing is the sound of Americana – jazz, blues, bluegrass, folk, country-folk, and acoustic roots music with Bison Bone and LVDY the only “Americana” acts represented in the Westword Music Showcase Spotify playlist.

The Westword Music Showcase has certainly changed a lot over the past thirty years, but does Denver really sound that much different from the rest of the state??

The Colorado Playlist & Colorado Sound Present

The Great Salmon Famine – Aggie Theater Sat, Oct 30

The Gasoline Lollipops – Aggie Theater Fri, Nov 26 (day after Thanksgiving)

“Locally Grown” – Family Owned

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TOP FIVE WEEK END SPT 11 2021

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.

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – Survivor SINGLE (Aug-21)
  2. CHRIS DANIELS & HAZEL MILLER– What We Did! LP (Jul-21) **
  3. 2b3 – Jimi LP (Jul-21)
  4. MATTHEW FOWLER – The Grief We Gave Our Mother LP (Sep-21)
  5. COVENHOVEN – “IV” LP (Aug-21)

Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations and featuring advanced search functions for artists and agents.

**serviced to Colorado media by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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HOUR 1

Tim Goodman – New Romeo (1981)
(D) Covenhoven – Everything In Between – IV (2021)

Mojomama – We Are One – The Corona Tapes (2020)
Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts – Modern Outlaw Country – Shovel Full Of Coal (2017)
Reno Divorce – Hopeless and Dopeless ( 2021)
Jay Silence – Whiskey Breath – Grandma’s 45s (2021)
ELLSWORTH – Growing Pains – ELLSWORTH (2021)
DeVotchKa – Curse Your Little Heart – Curse Your Little Heart (2006)
Born In The Flood – Another Night, Another Place – If this thing should spill (2007)
(D) Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Dancin’ Around My Grave (2021)

Lizzy Plotkin – Deep Woods Blues – We Will Sing (2019)
Rodney Rice – Don’t Look Back – Same Shirt, Different Day (2020)
Ron Miles – Binder – Rainbow Sign (2020)

HOUR 2

REO Speedwagon – Ridin’ the Storm Out – Ridin’ the Storm Out (1973)
(D) Scott Warren – Left Out On The Joke – Shadow Bands (2021)

Kyle Emerson – Better – Only Coming Down (2020)
The Motet – Damn! – Totem (2016)
Chris Daniels & Hazel Miller – Born Under A Bad Sign (feat. Fred Gowdy and Todd Park Mohr) – What We Did! (2021)
Dragondeer – Patient Boy (2021)
Liz Barnez – Mind Slippin’ – Inkmarks On Pages (1996)
The String Cheese Incident – Stay Through – Song In My Head (2014)
(D) Matthew Fowler – I’m Still Trying – The Grief We Gave Our Mother (2021)

Slopeside – Prove Me Wrong – Shoot the Moon (2018)
Daniel Rodriguez – Colorado – Sojurn of a Burning Sun (2020)
2b3 – Purple Haze – Jimi (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

https://youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries%3Flist%3DPLjTLYGkfkx3qOpbf-vd7LDjiysKhqHwtU

CP S12 EP26 2018

June, July and August are the three HOTTEST months – musically.  There are more outdoor events – ticketed and free – in our region today than is even possible to chronicle, let alone attend.

Saturday night my girlfriend and I attended a sold out Mishawaka show – Trout Steak Revival with Gasoline Lollipops and Canyon Collected.  It was the last possible Saturday night I had available this summer to get to the Mishawaka for a show, and the overall experience did not disappoint.  A special surprise that night was the acoustic version of Gasoline Lollipops – the first for the band.

It was pretty evident that the sold out audience was there for the two jamgrass bands.  The Gas Pops met reserved appreciation from a polite audience until they revved up the tempos, allowing Don to demonstrate his formidable lead guitar skills and Clay to demonstrate his ability to own any audience I’ve ever seen him in front of.

https://youtu.be/QzjDrcZWXeg

By the end of the set, with Clay raging vocally, the audience was sold.  When the band came back on for a quick set of pics by the house photog, the audience thought maybe they were getting an encore …

Lead guitarist Don Ambory broke out a mandolin, the first time I’ve seen that happen – and he played his 1940’s Gibson acoustic for the Gas Pops set.  He also sat in on three songs with Trout Steak, and played electric guitar – his solos in the Trout Steak set were fan favorites as were the ukulele solos taken by Canyon Collected’s Tia Martini. 

Some of us standing in the “VIP” viewing area commented on the presence of the ukulele in the lineup until Tia demonstrably shredded every jam in the band’s 45 minute crowd pleasing set.

Because of the hour forty minute drive home to the Denver metro we didn’t stay for the entire set by Trout Steak Revival, but based on the overall feel of the night, and the thunderous applause during the first half of their set, I have no doubt that the show didn’t end by midnight.  Trout Steak does stand out as one of the best acoustic jamgrass Americana-folk bands in the region today.

https://youtu.be/l9VjAyTtsI4

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

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Last week I posted the The Best of 2018 So Far.  Beyond the top 5 albums posted, there are some others that stand up well as we’re now beyond mid point of the year.  The new album by Brent Cowles on Dine Alone Records, as well as Covenhoven’s A Kind of Revelation are going to be strong contenders by mid-December when the best of lists for the year come out around the region.

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 or YouTube.

PLAYLIST S12 EP26

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

HOUR 1

Sugarloaf “Green Eyed Lady” from Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You (1975)
(D) Paul DeHaven “No Gold” from King of Gold (2018) 


Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Wipeout Turn” from New World Arisin’ (2017)
(D) Joe Johnson “Snakeskin Dress” from Morgantown (2018)
Slopeside “Prove Me Wrong” from Shoot the Moon (2018)
Elephant Revival “Rhythm of the Road” from Break in the Clouds (2010)
Monocle Band “Can’t Get By” from Monocle Band (2013)
Rusty Young “Down Home” from Waitin’ For the Sun (2017)
(N) Oxeye Daisy “Darling Boy” from Oxeye Daisy (2018) 

The Yawpers “American Man” from American Man (2015)
The Wood Brothers “River Takes the Town” from One Drop of Truth (2018)
Keith Oxman “Brothers, Michael and Jean-Marc” from East of the Village (2017)

HOUR 2

Joe Walsh “Rocky Mountain Way” from The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get (1973)
(D) In The Whale “Highways” from Dopamine (2018)


The Railbenders “Bourbon County” from The Medicine Show (2018)
Katie Glassman & Snapshot “Liza Jane” from Dream A Little Dream (2014)
(N) Covenhoven “Stone and Clay” from A Kind of Revelation (2018)
Strangebyrds “Star Crossed Lovers” from Star Crossed Lovers (2018)
Motet “123” from The Motet (2014)
The Apples in Stereo “Dance Floor” from Travellers in Space and Time (2010)
Wood Belly “Solid Ground” from Solid Ground (2018)
A.J. Fullerton “Smoke & Mirrors” from Kalamath (2017)
iZCALLI “A New Lie” from IV (2018)
Peter Sommer “Upper Manhattan Medical Group” from Happy-Go-Lucky Locals (2017)