Colorado TOP 100 Q1 2013

So, keeping it simple, there are 300 titles on the tracking sheet.  Q1 titles spun = 234.  Here’s the TOP 100.  Next quarterly report comes out in July.

1. DeVotchKaLive with the Colorado Symphony
2. The LumineersThe Lumineers
3. Fierce Bad RabbitMaestro and the Elephant
4. Otis TaylorMy World Is Gone
5. Elephant RevivalIt’s Alive EP
6. Jeff Brinkman BandStrange
7. Beautiful Loser SocietyThe Desperate Promenade
8. The YawpersCapon Crusade
9. Esme PattersonAll Princes, I
10. Leftover SalmonAquatic Hitchhiker
11. A Boy and His KiteA Boy and His Kite
12. You, Me and ApolloS/T [EP]
13. Wire FacesKing Cataract
14. Jon WirtzTourist
15. Blue Canyon BoysNext Go Round
16. Chris DanielsBetter Days
17. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
18. Beats Noir!Where the Sun Goes Down
19. FlobotsThe Circle In the Square
20. ChurchillThe Change EP
21. Bonnie & The ClydesWrong Side Up
22. The GrometBarren
23. The Haunted WindchimesOut with the Crow
24. Danielle Ate The Sandwich{like a king}
25. Grant FarmThe Grant Farm
26. Land LinesLand Lines
27. Grant SabinAnthromusicology
28. Manuel Lopez TrioSearching Out
29. SHELSHEL
30. RaincheckRaincheck
31. Mike Clark & the Sugar SoundsRound and Round
32. O’Brien Party of 7 (CC) – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
33. Joshua Novak Ephemeron
34. Darryl PurposeNext Time Around
35. Bad Brad & the Fat CatsEyes on the Prize
36. Mosey WestMerica
37. Strange AmericansA Royal Battle
38. Kristi SticeUnder the Willow
39. Rachel & the KingsTonic
40. 4H RoyaltyWhere UFOs Go To Die
40. Trout Steak RevivalFlight
41. Carmelita’s LoversGhosts of Our Former Selves
42. A Shoreline Dream“333”
43. The EpiloguesCinematics
44. Paper BirdRooms
45. The SwaybackDouble Four Time
46. Mama Lenny & the RemedyPunches and Hugs
47. Instant EmpireKeep UP!
48. Rob DrabkinLittle Steps EP
49. Brad GoodeChicago Red
49. Poet’s RowPoet’s Row
50. Catch BeesNarratives from a Factory Town
51. Achille LauroFlight or Flight
52. Patrick DethlefsFall & Rise
53. Sofie ReedSimplicity Chased Trouble Away
54. EuforquestraLet Us In
55. Bad Weather CaliforniaSunkissed
55. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
56. The CentennialNervous System
56. WhiteWater RambleRoots & Groove
57. 3 Twins BroadbandCry at the Movies / How Couldya Not [single]
57. Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band f/Erica BrownTangled Road
58. A Mouthful of ThunderSlow Burn
59. The KnewMan Monster
60. Boa & the ConstrictorsMarried to the Blues
60. gogoLabBorder Patrol
61. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String BandForty Years
62. Dennis WaneboRunning On Gravity
62. Eye and the ArrowIf By Fire
63. Tin Horn PrayerGrapple the Rails
64. Lisa BellThe Italian Project
64. Tyler WardHello. Love. Heartache.
65. Zach HeckendorfThe Cool Down
66. Abi Robins Such A Mess
67. Carbon ChoirSakhalin
68. Science PartnerRocky Mountain News
69. PolarityKing of Hearts
70. Halden Wofford & the Hi*BeamsLive at Hodi’s
71. West Water OutlawsReal Killer
72. Esther Sparks & the Whiskey RemedyBack to Life [single]
73. Ending PeopleFill Your Lungs
73. Fred Hess BIG BANDSpeak
73. Glowing HouseDays Run Out
73. Joe SampsonKill Our Friends
73. The JekyllsThe Sweet Factory
74. String Cheese IncidentCan’t Wait Another Day [single]
75. Mango fan Django Indigo Dreams
76. I’m With HerSongs We Said Goodbye To
77. MeniskusStowaway
78. Fox Steet AllstarsTough Talk
79. Jeremy DionGolden Some Days
79. Jesse ManleyA Path Through the Dark
79. John William DavisDead Simple, Vol. 1: You Talk Funny
79. P-NuckleThe System
80. Robert Cline, Jr.All the Right Reasons
81. TennisYoung & Old
82. Calder’s RevolversSteady By Your Side
82. Instant EmpireHeavy Hollow
83. Otis TaylorOtis Taylor’s Contraband
84. Amazing TwinGrown Alone

The Colorado Sound S7 EP17 May 2013

station controlLOL … ok, I have no shares this week… it happens.  It’s been one of those weeks.  I’d say that I highly recommend the new debuts this week, but that kinda goes without saying.  Very pleased that I was able to debut the new Head for the Heels this week – way in advance of their upcoming new album due out in July.  Fans of Dan Fogelberg, John Denver, and James Taylor will enjoy the new Danny Shafer album, Wherever You Are.   And, I continue to be impressed with the Beki Hemingway record, “I Have Big Plans for the World” that I’ve been featuring the past few weeks now.

I got an interesting email from miss Megan Burtt this week.. she’s up to some kinda good …but it’s a secret and she ain’t tellin.  LOL.  Based on the questions she was asking me, this is going to be fun to see develop.  In the meantime I’m looking forward to a new record from her.  Got to hang out and do sound for Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams this weekend.  Their new album is going to the mastering stage – with a hopeful done date by the end of May.  Count on hearing it here first.  Katie Glassman showed up for the second set… she’s heading into the studio on Monday to record her sophomore effort.

On next week’s show new music from AdrienneO and Sam Lee

In the meantime check out The Colorado Sound “TV” – the best of what I’ve found to date on YouTube 

PLAYLIST S7 EP17 May 2013

Zephyr “Sold My Heart” from Sunset Ride (2000)
Jill Sobule “Cinnamon Park” from Underground Victorious (2004)
Rob Drabkin “Little Steps” from Little Steps EP (2013)
Petals of Spain “I Gotta Know” from Soul Canon (2013)
Robert Marcey & Familyman Barrett & the Wailers “Shame” from Wailin for Justice (2010)
(D) Desirae Garcia “Hardly Are You Lonely” from Ill Fitting (2013)
(N) Andy Hackbarth “Treadmill Horses” from Treadmill Horses (2013)
Jeff Brinkman Band “Halo” from Strange (2012)
Ryan Chrys “The Road Never Ends” from A Lick & A Promise (2013)
(D) Head for The Hills “Take Me Back” from Take Me Back (2013)
(D) Austin Young & No Difference “Blue As Can Be” from Blue As Can Be (2013)
Great American Taxi “New Millennium Blues” from Reckless Habits (2010)
Ben Haugland “The Point of No Return” from The Point Of No Return (2012)
Acoustic Junction “Strange Days” from Strange Days (2000)
Earth, Wind & Fire “Evil” from Head to the Sky (1973)
(N) Churchill “Gone Too Long” from War Within EP (2013)
Megan Burtt “Other Side of Lonely” from It Ain’t Love (2010)
Bop Skizzum “Do You Want It?” from Coloradical (2012)
(D) Danny Shafer “American In Me” from Wherever You Are (2013)
(D) Jeff Scroggins & Colorado “New Mexico” from Western Branches (2013)
(N) Beki Hemingway “Skybound” from I Have Big Plans for the World (2013)
The Fray “All At Once” from How to Save A Life (2005)
A Boy and His Kite “You Want It, You Got It” from A Boy and His Kite (2012)
The Autumn Film “Love Is An Avalance” from 8 Track Tape (2012)
Places “The Fire” from No More Wasted Days (2012)
(N) Brad Goode “All Fall Down” from Chicago Red (2013)

The Colorado Sound S7 EP12 + New Video/Album Pick

grizzly goat adamsMarch 31 — Sunday — Happy Easter (if you celebrate such things).  Today is also the day when I have to finish up the NEWS NOTES & SPINS for April 1.  Doesn’t mean though that I neglected this week’s playlist post or something new that hit my desk yesterday while I was working on the spins data.

In this week’s show I pulled a tribute to Richie Furay — from his days with Buffalo Springfield from their last album, and from Poco’s first album.  Is is these incredible early bands in Richie’s career that have established him as one of the most legendary of Colorado’s musicians.  He’s in the studio now with John Macy and friends finishing up a new solo effort due for release this year.  I have no doubt it will be yet another legacy record in his career, although for sure not all his previously released solo efforts have been all that…

VIDEO / NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK
I’m a junkie.  I’m always looking for that next new hit, that next “wow” moment that releases all the feel good at one time … sometimes it’s brutally ecstatic, but then you get the occasional “on second thought” moment when you realize that there’s always that next great hit and maybe this one wasn’t all that – ya know?

Durango singer-songwriter Thom Chacon just breathed his voice on me and released that energy.  I think that what I’m hearing is pretty significant – like the first time I heard Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road” in ’88 or Son Volt’s “Trace” in ’95.  Those are seminal recordings, rare performances …anything that’s compared to them had better bring it – one shot – one hit – all the feel good in one huge rush.  And it had better be worth more than one dose …otherwise it’s just another pissed load.

The album production notes really are the tie-off … “This record was recorded using all discrete transistor and vacuum tube technology in an all analogue format with Bob Dylan’s fabulous rhythm section (Tony Garner on bass and George Recile on drums).”  The record is finished masterfully and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl.

Before you even get to the notes though, it’s Thom who’s offering …that early free “what’s this” thing that happens before the full rush comes on …it happens within half a song, half of the first song, the 2:29 “Innocent Man.”  It’s in the voice, in the way he tells the story.  In “American Dream,” the first official single and video off the album, a sense of fatalism comes into the picture with lines like “I’m worth more dead cuz baby I owe.”  “Juarez, Mexico” could be a sister song to some of Dave Alvin’s folkier tomes.  “Alcohol” stings as you know it does when the needle breaks the flesh – “oh, I’m sick, I’m shivering and I want nothing more than to spend time with you.”  It only works if it’s pure …and Thom is every bit that – pure.  At least that’s the hope now, isn’t it?

All in smooth haze and all, what I’m hearing tonight has a transcendent quality …and if not for the crowded bazaar today it seems on first blush that it could easily be considered in the same vein as…

…now, admitting you have a problem, as the first step to recovery, only works if you want to recover, right?

…yeah, no …not this time …not tonight.

Maybe tomorrow.

PLAYLIST S7 EP12

(C) = current title
(G) = gold
(R) = recurrent
(D) = debut album, ep, or single
(N) = new song from previously debuted album or ep

(G) Rick Roberts “West Wind” from She Is A Song (1973)
(G) Dan Fogelberg “Full Circle” from Full Circle (2003)
(C) Ryan Chrys “Stand & Be Counted” from A Lick & A Promise (2013)
(C) You Me and Apollo “Oh My Molly” from You Me and Apollo (2012)
(C) Johnny Hickman “Another Road” from Tilting (2012)
(R) Rachel James “We Don’t Care” from Not Giving Up (2011)
(G) Basheba Earth “Galaktik Luv” from Mothership (2006)
(R) Mahlon Hawk “Blackbird” from Black Edge (2011)
(C) Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band featuring Erica Brown “Tangled Road” from Tangled Road (2012)
(C) WhiteWater Ramble “Standard Deviation” from Roots & Groove (2013)
(G) Yonder Mountain String Band “Criminal” from The Show (2009)
(G) Ninth + Lincoln Orchestra “Your Cent” from Ninth & Lincoln (2008)
(G) Buffalo Springfield “Kind Woman” from Last Time Around (1968) *tribute to Richie Furay*
(G) Poco “Calico Lady” from Pickin’ Up The Pieces (1969) *tribute to Richie Furay*
(C) Chris Daniels “Sister Delores” from Better Days (2012)
(C) Jeff Brinkman Band “Ordinary Day” from Strange (2012)
(C) Lisa Bell “Bring the Love” from The Italian Project (2013)
(N) Congress “Killing Me Softly” from Loft Tapes (2013)
(C) Fierce Bad Rabbit “Carry On” from Maestro & the Elephant (2013)
(G) Freddi / Henchi and the Soulsetters “I Want to Dance, Dance, Dance” from Crown Princes of Funk: The Last Set (2010)
(R) Petals of Spain “Working 9 to 5” from Late Night Visitor (2011)
(C) Strange Americans “Plastic Pearls” from A Royal Battle (2012)
(C) Idlewhile Band “Dragonfly” from Live at the Walnut Room EP Vol 1 (2012)
(D) Matt Skellenger “My Side” from The Owls Are Not What They Seem (2013)