Dayton Stone & the Undertones – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

Barr Lake, Brighton, CO – Winter 2022 courtesy of ClearVistasPhotography

MONDAY MARCH 13, 2023. Claire and I are off to Death Valley this week. Looking forward to some desert warmth and spring flowers. So, if there’s no post next Monday, you know why.

The word is out that I’m “retiring.” Not entirely. I’m leaving Northern Colorado radio & music after a forty-five year run and moving to Grand Junction. I will continue to produce the Colorado Playlist. And who knows what else I can do in “retirement.”

#COMUSIC TOP FIVE WK ENDING 3/11

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 and agents to track airplay.

*The Wood Brothers are not, specifically speaking, a locally based band, but as it custom on the Colorado Playlist I also include Colorado expats living elsewhere – so long as they were born and raised here, or got started here .. so the new Wood Brothers tracks (one due out in April) get included.*

(2) 1. THE WOOD BROTHERS – Pilgrim SINGLE (Feb-23)
(4) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP (Jun-22)
(D) 2. DANI JAY – Nice 2 Meet Me EP (Dec-22)
(1) 2. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(D) 3. DEVA YODER – Be Well LP (Feb-23)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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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.

Chris Daniels & The Kings – All For The Love Of Lill – Louie Louie (1997)
Boa and the Constrictors – Me & My Baby Got Somethin Goin On – Snake Eyes (1998)
(D) The Desert Furs – Existing Just For Fun (2023)

Mojomama – Point of View – We Are One (2022)
Volores – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
DeVotchKa – 100 Other Lovers – 100 Lovers (2011)
Leftover Salmon – Places – Something Higher (2018)
Head for the Hills – Nothing But the Blues – Turn the Time EP (2023)
(D) Down Time – Just Because – Spirit (2023)

Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Dancin’ Around My Grave ( 2021)
Lines of Drift – Big Breaks – Big Breaks (2022)
Blumer Haus – Ode To Brubeck – Boy Meets Groove (2021)

David Booker – Good Evenin’ Everybody – OH Brother, I’m Here (2001)
David Booker – It’s Your Voodoo Workin’ – OH Brother, I’m Here (2001)
(D) Dayton Stone & the Undertones – Pretender (2023)

Bevin Luna – Masquerade – Madison and Angelus (2022)
Brent Cowles – Keep Moving – How To Be Okay Alone (2018)
The Motet – False Prophets – All Day (2023)
The Lumineers – Ophelia – Cleopatra (2016)
Otis Taylor – Red Meat – Hey Joe – Opus Red Meat (2015)
Emily Scott Robinson – Double Double – Built On Bones (2023)
(D) Grace Devine, Ronan Andrews – Holy (2023)

Claire Heywood – Crushed Lemons (2021)
The Infamous Stringdusters – Down From the Mountain – Toward the Fray (2022)
Keith Oxman – The Gojon Jazz Messengers – This One’s For Joey (2022)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles included)

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View from Colorado National Monument looking north towards Grand Junction and Fruita

AUG 01 2022 – WOW! You all blew the monthly view count out of the park! Thank you for visiting. I’ll get the JULY monthly spins up in a day or two. In the meantime, check out the new music and videos in this week’s MMMM from Twenty Hands High, Dayton Stone & the Undertones, Violet Pilot and Dzirae Gold.

We finally got to visit Colorado Playlist sponsor Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge! If you’re looking for some nice wood, this is the place. Yeah, they send, but they’d rather you stop by the store. I sat and picked on a few beautiful Larrivee guitars – my favorite since I own two. It was great to meet store manager Candace. Sadly, David Starr wasn’t home this trip. Next time my friend!

Speaking of visiting Cedaredge – we spent a few days in Grand Junction this past week. We went to a show at the Avalon Theater. This is one of the nicest sit-down venues in our state. At just under 1100 seats, the recently renovated state-of-the art theater features comfortable seating, exquisite line of sight, sound and lighting, all experienced while sitting near the back of the orchestra section.

Local blues legend Bobby Walker has opened there for several national stars many times over the years. David Starr will be supporting the classic yacht rock band America coming up on Aug 20.

Another Grand Junction venue worth visiting is the Mesa Theater, about a two minute walk down the block from the Avalon on Main Street. There was a poster up featuring the Tejon Street Corner Thieves from Colorado Springs who recently appeared there. InTheWhale is there on AUG 27.

If you’re partying on Main Street in Grand Junction, there are several very nice restaurants to enjoy. We ate at the Winery, a long standing fine dining restaurant in a “…90 year old building that used to house a horse drawn carriage fire station.” Buyer beware, this is not a budget friendly restaurant.

There’s also the French inspired LeRouge! We enjoyed one of the nicest charcuteries we’ve had anyplace, before the concert. They and the Winery have wonderful wine lists, as you’d expect of the region. And then there’s the British Isles themed Goat and Clover Tavern. You KNOW we ate there! Every picture in the place has a goat in it. Hmmmmm.

The British / Irish Pub inspired menu features bangers and mash as well as corned beef and cabbage …and somehow or other the owners are connected to Elijah Craig bourbon distillers.

I will be returning to Grand Junction to emcee KAFM‘s Annual Radio Daze Music Fest and Fundraiser on Sept 10.

Don’t overlook Grand Junction! Also, the wineries in the area are big supporters of Colorado based acoustic music.

TOP 5 #COMUSIC WKEND 7/31/22

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, designed to benefit community/public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents.

THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP
MUSKETEER GRIPWEED – Hard Times SINGLE
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – Stress Dreams LP
MIKE CLARK & THE SUGAR SOUNDS – Moon Rock LP
FAST EDDY – Take A Look LP

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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Dan Fogelberg – As The Raven Flies – Souvenirs (1974)
(D) Twenty Hands High – Back to Wichita (2022)

LVDY – Gold (2021)
Wellington Bullings – Because I Want To (2020)
Elektric Animals – Head in the Ground – Channels EP (2022)
Erik Lunde – Steel Militia – Water From The Stone (2022)
Acoustic Junction – Every Heart – Strange Days (2000)
Conjunto Colores – Planeta – Lo Mejor Del Conjunto Colores (2002)
(D) Dayton Stone & the Undertones – Cake (2022)

The Still Tide – High Wire – Run Out (2017)
Musketeer Gripweed – Rich Man’s Child – More Than Ever (2021)
The Chip Stephens Trio – Beans & Weenies – Holding on What Counts (2007)

Sugarloaf – Green-Eyed Lady – Best Of Sugarloaf (1975)
(D) Violet Pilot – Lazy Lions (2022)

Kind Hearted Strangers – Red & Blue – East/West (2021)
A.J. Fullerton – She’s So Cold – Kalamath (2017)
Bluebook – Shake Shake – Shake Shake (2022)
Richie Furay – Somebody Like You (2022)
The Wendy Woo Trio – Crisis – Luxury (2007)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Salt and the Sea – That Sea,The Gambler (2007)
(D) Dzirae Gold – Snooze for an Hour (2022)

piKziL – Here’s The News – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
David Starr – Every Kind of People – Touchstones (2021)
H2 Big Band – BMG – You’re It! (2015)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all songs may be included)

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