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Colorado Playlist – S11 EP05

If you’re thinking, “man, Chris is late getting this up today,” you’re right — overslept by 2 hours.  I blame the second beer yesterday.  Yes, I’m a football freak.  I watch just about any game on tv.  But what the Patriots did yesterday was BEYOND amazing.

In this week’s MMMM (Monday Morning Music Meeting) I put a repeat up from late in 2016, that we did not get a chance to vote on … so this week’s new music picks include tracks from Michael Hornbuckle, Patrick Dethlefs, Spiral Cell and the Steve Law Band, who we broke open a new track from this week following the success that he had in last week’s poll.  New cuts from Stella Luce and Russ Hopkins are not included in this week’s MMMM due to lack of an embeddable file.

In last week’s MMMM, the Steve Law Band and Shaley Scott pulled the greatest number of votes, with each winning out with those who voted … and in a surprise, Tennis is the first act to score a 100% DELETE.

New releases hitting my desk this week from Selina Albright (soul / r&b), Gasoline Lollipops (rock, alt-country), and Erik Applegate (jazz).

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Support for the Colorado Playlist comes courtesy of The Historic Mishawaka Amphitheatre — Celebrating over 100 yrs of music and dancing in the Poudre Canyon.

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IN COLORADO MUSIC HISTORY

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 available on SoundCloud, BandCamp, Reverbnation or YouTube.

PLAYLIST S11 EP05

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

HOUR 1

Jimmy Ibbotson “Saints and Sots” from More Than Mountains (1996)
(N) Michael Hornbuckle “Sweat” from Soulrepo (2016)

String Cheese Incident “Sweet Spot” from SCI Sound Lab, Vol. 1 (2016)
Jon Snodgrass “Remember My name” from Visitor’s Band (2009)
(D) Patrick Dethlefs “I Was Your Age” from Beauty In the Unknown (2017) 


Robert Marcey & Familyman Barrett “Love Grows” from Wailin for Justice (2010)
(N) Russ Hopkins “Pleasant Street” from Kairos (2017)
Achille Lauro “lightning” from Flight or Flight (2012)
(D) Stella Luce “Bleed” from Bleed (2017)
AdrienneO “Burn” from Elevation (2016)
Xiren “Jesus Was an Alien” from Trip-R (2008)
Jim Stranahan Band “Straight from the Source” from Migration To Higher Ground (2014)

HOUR 2

The Christines “In Your Space” from Living At the Bottom of the Sea (1996)
(D) Spiral Cell “Taste” from The Maze In the Tree Rings (2017) 


Leftover Salmon & Cracker “Eurotrash Girl” from Oh Cracker, Where Art Thou? (2003)
(N) Steve Law Band “What She Gonna Say” from Dancer (2017)

Isa and JoeAlan “Slumlord” from Lifelines (2014)
My Blue Sky “Kick off Them Shoes” from My Blue Sky (2017)
Sherri Jackson “tell me” from Catalyst (2000)
Wheelchair Sports Camp “Mary Had a Little Band” from No Big Deal (2013)
Instant Empire “Keep Up!” from Keep Up! (2013)
The Apples in Stereo “energy” from New Magnetic Wonder (2007)
Analog Son “Shady Nights” from Stomp and Shout (2015)

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COLORADO PLAYLIST S11 EP04

We’ve settled in nicely for 2017.  New releases for 2017 include:

  1. B-Suite – S/T (Fort Collins)
  2. Cary Morin – Cradle to the Grave (Fort Collins)
  3. Catfish Kray Blues Band – Ripples (Denver)
  4. Dave Beegle – River of Peace (Loveland)
  5. Eric Staumanis – All Your Passing Through (Fort Collins)
  6. Gasoline Lollipops – Resurrection (Boulder)
  7. Ginny Mules – S/T (Denver)
  8. Great American Taxi – Dr. Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show (Boulder)
  9. Grim&Darling – Indigo (Denver)
  10. High Friction – to: whome it may concern (Denver)
  11. Homebody – Better Use of Leisure Time (Denver)
  12. The Hustle Kings – Stand Up (Let Love Be Your Guide) (Denver)
  13. James Egbert – Friction (Denver)
  14. John Weeks Band – Dark Angel (Denver)
  15. The Lindells – Long Holiday Motel (Delores)
  16. Matt Fuller – City Life (Denver)
  17. Michael Hornbuckle – Soulrepro (Denver)
  18. My Blue Sky – S/T (Denver)
  19. Nathaniel Rateliffe & the Night Sweats – A Little Something More From (Denver)
  20. Petals of Spain – Daydream (Denver)
  21. Rossonian – Late Kids EP (Denver)
  22. Russ Hopkins – Kairos
  23. South to Cedars – Sunny State (Fort Collins)
  24. Spiral Cell – The Maze In the Tree Rings (Denver)
  25. Stella Luce – Bleed (Fort Collins)
  26. Steve Law Band – Dancer (Denver)
  27. 5 & Dimer’s – If It’s All A Game (Denver)

Half of that group came in Nov/Dec .. but even factoring that, it looks like we might be headed for a strong year of over 200 new releases.

In Colorado Music History

Video Pick of the Week

mishawakaSupport for Chris K’s Colorado Playlist comes courtesy of The Historic Mishawaka Amphitheatre — Celebrating over 100 yrs of music and dancing in the Poudre Canyon.

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 available on SoundCloud, BandCamp, Reverbnation or YouTube.

PLAYLIST S11 EP04

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

HOUR 1

Acoustic Junction “Think About It” from Acoustic Junction (1996)
(D) Shaley Scott “Careful” [single] (2017) 


Churchill “The War Within” from War Within EP (2013)
John-Alex Mason “Riding On” from Jook Joint Thunderclap (2011)
(N) Great American Taxi “Dr. Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show” from Dr. Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show (2017)
String Cheese Incident “Sometimes a River” from One Step Closer (2005)
(D) Steve Law Band “Free” from Dancer (2017)

Rebecca Folsom “Let’s Be Too Much” from Shine (2004)
(D) Tennis “Ladies Don’t Play Guitar” from Your’s Conditionally (2016) 

Andy Hackbarth “My Baby Don’t Run” from Treadmill Horses (2013)
The Railbenders “Whiskey Rain” from Segundo (2003)
(D) Matt Fuller’s Simpatico Trio “Emma Sue” from City Life (2017) 

HOUR 2

The Subdudes “All the Time In the World” from Primitive Streak (1996)
(D) Grim&Darling “Alchemy” from Indigo (2017) 

The Apples in Stereo “Dancefloor” from Travellers in Space and Time (2010)
Kerry Pastine & the Crime Scene “Follow Me” from Let’s Do This Thing! (2015)
(D) Pamlico Sound “Getcha Self” from Jive Church (2016)

Brothers Keeper “Cold Rain” from Todd Meadows (2014)
Drew Emmitt “Take the Long Way Home” from Long Road (2008)
Patti Fiasco “Oil” from Small Town Lights (2013)
(N) 5 & Dimer’s “Stop and Smell the Roses” from If It’s All A Game (2017)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “Wasting Time” from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (2015)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Please Don’t Tell Her” from Beautiful World (1997)
Space Orphan “Free Swag” from Shut Up About The Sun (2016)

COLORADO PLAYLIST – BEST OF 2016 PT1

Defining “best of” is not easy.  What makes something the “best of?”

Charles Dickens wrote in A Tale of Two Cities,

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”

It was the worst of times for me this year.  All the good of 2016 is overshadowed by my friend and my wife Pattie passing away on Feb 2.  We knew each other for 18 years, and the people who knew her best, her daughters, insist that she was never happier than the years she spent with me in Colorado.  And of unbelievably far less significance, this blog site took a massive hit in visitors and page views as I took time off and changed the name and url …

It was the best of times for me this year.  I adopted my oldest daughter Shannon, Pattie’s biological daughter, as an adult child, and it was completed four days before my wife, and our daughter’s mom passed away.

It was the best of times for me this year.  “Chris K’s Colorado Playlist” (originally The Colorado Sound) celebrated it’s 10th Anniversary on the air.  Thank you to KRFC (88.9 FM Fort Collins) – that was where the show started in April 2006.

Today the show is on statewide… including Aspen, Vail, Telluride, Durango, Pagosa, Steamboat Springs, Colorado Springs, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs, the Wet Mountain Valley and of course along the I25 corridor from Denver to Cheyenne.

It was the best of times for me this year.  A radio station, KJAC, not only adopted my old show name, The Colorado Sound, but hired me on as the Saturday morning 6A-noon on air host, and de factor Colorado music “consultant.”   That station is known as 105.5 The Colorado Sound, and it’s having a big impact on the Northern Front Range music and radio scene.

I can’t thank my friends at 105.5 The Colorado Sound enough for their support in 2016.  They’ve been there through everything I’ve gone through this year.  This year would be much different without their support.

It was the best of times for me this year.  KZYR, The Zephyr in Vail and KCMJ in Colorado Springs joined the Rocky Mountain Music Network LLC network airing both hours of the Colorado Playlist in “prime” times .. The Zephyr on Sunday evenings at 6PM and KCMJ on Saturday afternoons at 3PM.  105.5 The Colorado Sound added the show on Sundays at 10AM (hour 1) and at 10PM (hours 1+2).

It was the best of times for me this year.  Thanks to incredible friends and fans along with Mishawaka Amphitheatre and Oskar Blues Fooderies, I was able to devote myself to promoting Colorado music full time.

It was the best of times for me this year.  I relaunched GOATZ! following my wife’s deathbed wish to both me and our wonderful friend and guitarist Chris Jackowski that we keep playing …and for me to never ever ever put down my guitar again.  That done, we played some incredible shows over the summer…

…including a repeat of our 2015 debut gig at the Mishawaka Amphitheatre and our debut at Bohemian Nights at New West Fest … the first such appearance in my 12 years of being involved with the event.

And, I finally made my way into the studio behind the gentle insistence of my friend Colin Bricker at Mighty Fine Productions in Denver. “Sweet Inspiration” due out in March (?)

Deciding what was the “Best of” as far as recordings are concerned is much more challenging, since beauty or the lack thereof is so personally subjective.  How do we decide?  That coming up in PT2 of the Best of 2016.

… and of far less significance, December’s visitors and page views are the second best in the history of this blog site.

But at least as far as PT 1 goes, it was a pretty bittersweet year.