Tag: Denver music

HAPPY 150th COLORADO!

Hoping you had a wonderful weekend celebrating the 150th Anniversary of our wonderful state. I hosted the 18th Annual Dacono Music & Spirits Festival, where ten of our state’s top distilleries competed for one of three trophies highlighting best bottle, best cocktail and best spirit + five premier Colorado bands to go with our nationally touring out of state headliner.

Thanks to the city of Dacono for having me around all these years.

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 releases. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

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.

Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL, AND GENUINELY APPRECIATED.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from  Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my income.

The Colorado Playlist  is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Please make donations via Venmo at  chrisk-2  (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk
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Otis Taylor – Naggin’ Woman Blues – When Negroes Walked the Earth (1997)
Otis Taylor – Twelve String Mile – Fantasizing About Being Black (2017)
(N) Clay Street Unit, Lindsay Lou – Choctaw County – Sin & Squalor (2026)

A.J. Fullerton – Passing Time – Magnetic Light (2025)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) (2020)
Dotsero – Latin Sandwiches (excerpt
Lauren Frihauf – The Thread (2026)
Katie Herzig – Summer – Walk Through Walls (2014)
Rob Drabkin – Little Steps (radio edit) (2013)
Chantil Dukart & the Dukes of Art – The Best Thing – S/T (2026)
Sunsquabi – Pangolin (excerpt)
(N) The Fray – A Light That Waits – A Light that Waits (2026)

King Cardinal – Runaway (2022)
Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It – Let’s Party About It (2025)
Steve Kovalcheck – Fast Eddie – Buckshot Blues (2026)

The Apples in Stereo – Tidal Wave – Fun Trick Noisemaker (1995)
The Apples In Stereo – Told You Once – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
(D) Latin Soul, Atak One, 4ourFive – Legends (2026)

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
Tennis – High Road – Young & Old (2013)
Ben Parrish – Crankbait (excerpt)
Fancy Bits – No Drama – Fancy Bits EP (2026)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Already Gone – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
Flobots – The Circle In The Square – The Circle In The Square (2012)
Graveyard Choir – Stone – The Wake (2025)
Justin Lansing – Ghost Town (excerpt)
(D) Dead Pioneers, The Interrupters – Never Alone – Wagon Burner (2026)

Five Iron Frenzy – It Was a Dark & Stormy Night – Engine of a Million Plots (2013)
Big Gigantic – Free Spirits – Fluorescence (2025)
Spencer Zweifel – Here’s the Situation – The Life or Death Situation (2024)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING AUGUST 2, 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), 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.

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 + 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓
(D) 1. THE ANDES – Unwind LP
(D) 2. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Last Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning SP
(R) 3. 2MX2 – Si Se Puede LP
(R) 3. INSIDE THE MIND – Who I Am SP
(3) 3. LILY NOVA – Pure Intentions / Flashlight SP
(R) 3. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP
(D) 4. DAWN CLEMENT – Dear Ms. Dearie LP
(D) 5. KAMIKAZE PROM NIGHT – Holy Diamond Blue LP
(2) 5. NINA de FREITAS – Madness Everlasting SP
(R) 6. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. TRULY APPRECIATED!

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 releases. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

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.

Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL, AND GENUINELY APPRECIATED.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from  Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my income.

The Colorado Playlist  is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Please make donations via Venmo at  chrisk-2  (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk
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Judy Roderick – Country Girl Blues – Women Blue (1965)
60,000,000 Buffalo – Cocaine Shuffle – Nevada Jukebox (1972)
(D) Dawn Clement – I’m Hip – Dear Ms. Dearie (2026)

LatinSoul, Joshua Trinidad – Mama Pacha (2025)
Trevor Hall – If I Was A Warrior – The Fruitful Darkness (2018)
LVNDR.SOUND – Nightfall (excerpt)
2mx2 – El Valle – Si Se Puede (2026)
The Motet – The Truth – Totem (2016)
Michael Trent – The Winner – The Winner (2010)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Blind – Good As True (2026)
EVANOFF – STARE MESTO (excerpt)
(D) Kamikaze Prom Night – Breeze & Brine – Holy Diamond Blue (2026)

The Crooked Rugs – Chasin’ the Wind – Hear & Now (2024)
The Grocery Story – You Don’t Knock (f. Erik Lunde) – Situation on Isle #3 (2025)
(D) Shuga T, Eddie Roberts – Carousel – Matriarch (2026)

Buffalo Springfield – Kind Woman (1968)
Poco – What A Day (1969)
(D) The Andes – Unwind – Keep It Together (2026)

Rob Drabkin – My Train is Coming – City Lights & Country Sides (2025)
Big Dopes – Moon Car (2024)
Poudre Valley Playboys – Shooting for the Stars (excerpt)
Chella & the Charm – December – Happy Hour EP (2025)
Wildermiss – Carry Your Heart – Lost With You EP (2017)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Hey Delila – Black Beehive (2014)
Inside the Mind – Who I Am (2026)
Sunsquabi – Fisher Cat (excerpt)
(D) Gasoline Lollipops – Last Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning (2026)

Ambar Lucid – Get Lost In the Music (2021)
Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
Keith Oxman – (I’ve Got) Beginners Luck – East of the Village (2017)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JULY 26, 2016

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), 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.

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 + 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓
(R) 1. Volores – Shores of Scorpio LP
(2) 2. Nina de Freitas – Madness Everlasting SP
(D) 3. The Hip Snacks – Out On A Limb LP
(2) 3. LILY NOVA – Pure Intentions / Flashlight SP
(R) 3. Road Pony – Roll the Dice SP
(D) 3. Stylie – Cruisin‘ SP

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Nighttime on Lake John, near Walden Colorado. No smoke to obscure the night skies, and well, the fishing was great, but catching them wasn’t … courtesy Clear Vista photography.

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 releases. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

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.

Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL, AND GENUINELY APPRECIATED.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from  Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my income.

The Colorado Playlist  is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Please make donations via Venmo at  chrisk-2  (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk
__________________

Yonder Mountain String Band – Half Moon Rising – Elevation (1999)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Blind – Good As True (2026)
(D) Big Richard – Smokey Joe (2026)

Chris Daniels and the Kings – All For The Love Of Lill – Louie Louie (2001)
Stillhouse Junkies – Down the Line – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon (2025)
Lynn Patrick – When You Find What You’re Looking For (excerpt)
Gasoline Lollipops – Way Back Home (2026)
Dragondeer – Mirage a Trois – Mirage a Trios (2019)
Wendy Woo – The Immigrant (2019)
Katya Grasso – Covered In Sand (2026)
The Delta Sonics – Backtrackin’ Again (excerpt)
(D) The Yawpers – Starting Over – Teething (2026)

Jill Sobule – Where Do I Begin – Nostalgia Kills (2018)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold (feat. the Main Squeeze) (2025)
Steve Kovalcheck, Peter Sommer, Paul Romaine, Ken Walker – Homecoming – Ghost Orchid (2022)

Dean Reed – Our Summer Romance (1960)
Gary Stites – Lonely for You (1959)
The Astronauts – Baja (1963)
(D) A.J. Fullerton – Change Is Inevitable – Baretone EP (2026)

The Lumineers – Same Old Song – Automatic (2025)
Trevor Hall – fire on your house – In and Through the Body (2020)
The Terra Surfers – Nerved Up! (excerpt)
Road Pony – Roll the Dice (2026)
The Czars – Killjoy – The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People (2001)
Safe Boating is No Accident – Dye My Love – Bonus Features (2014)
Volores – The Huntress – Shores of Scorpio (2026)
Maddy O’Neil & Clozee – Zest Please (excerpt)
(D) Stylie – Crusin‘ (2026)

Deca – Breadcrumbs (radio edit) – The Ocean (2013)
LVDY – Fleeting (2025)
Paa Kow – African Lady – Cookpot (2017)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JULY 19, 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), 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.

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 + 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓
Aubrey Dale – Fireweed LP
King Cardinal – Reviver LP
LILY NOVA – Pure Intentions / Flashlight SP
Nina de Freitas – Madness Everlasting SP
Rhett Haney – Cold Beer & Cocaine SP
Teresa Suydam – Here Today But Gone SP
Velvet Daydream – Smoke & Mirrors LP

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT