Tag: Denver music

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)

The Colorado Sound – S7/EP08 March 2013

grizzly goat adamsHi.  New Instagram shot … shows my “Grizzly Goat Adams” side my wife says … LOL .  Ok…not much time to sit and chat this morning.  The monthly news, notes, and Top 40 is now 2 days past schedule, and I’m only hoping I’ll get it done sometime today (Sunday March 3).  In the meantime I received more new music this past week than I had time to listen to.  But I did manage to get a fair amount into the show again this week.  Unfortunately, as is sometimes the case, not everything you hear this week will be heard again sometime soon.  I’ve already got 342 songs curated for 2013, and I’m not done importing.  I have 538 in catalog from 2012.  I’ll be doing some weeding this week to be sure.

In the meantime … news … Wendy Woo had surgery yesterday.  A late night post from her husband Charles Snyder while I was at the Skylark doing sound for Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams caught my attention… he told me in a follow up “she had to have surgery on her vocal cords to remove polyps. She had to cancel her next twelve shows which she’s really bumbed about, however the surgery went well and she should be back in a couple of months.”  Good luck to Wendy.  She’s been a staple in our scene for over a decade now, and continues to be a crowd favorite.

Speaking of Halden Wofford and the Hi*Beams – they spent the day yesterday, and will be back spending the day today, at Might Fine Productions finishing tracks for their upcoming new release.  The guys are really excited, and based on what I’ve heard of new material done live it will be another fan favorite.  Don’t expect a lengthy song list this time though – this will be a “smaller” batch of songs and there may be <hint fellows> vinyl in the offering (?).    Also finishing up mixing for a new album at Colin Bricker’s place => Lionel Young Band … bassist Kim Stone blasted out Thursday “Mixing the new Lionel Young Band CD at MFP Studio’s.”  Nice 🙂

Bumped into Kerry and Paul from the Informants last night also … could a new EP be in the making???

Birthday wishes this week to:  Jazz vocalist Erienne Romaine (22).  CJ Nicolai (Reckless Red).  Greta Cornet (FoCoMA, Road 34, 3 Twins Broadband, 12 Cents for Marvin, Mama Lenny & the Remedy). Rebecca Folsom (50).  Chris Citrus Sautoff  (Swallow Hill instructor and all around funk-meister guitarist and sitarist). Pianist Jon Wirtz (33).  Bassist Glenn Tapia (44).  And Colorado native and songstress Katie Herzig is celebrating… congrats to all our friends and family in the scene celebrating one great year of life among us.

I think that’s it … now for our Video Pick of the Week … and the Playlist … the NEWS NOTES & SPINS column should be up tonight … tomorrow morning at the latest, I promise.

VIDEO PICK of the WEEK

THE PLAYLIST

Beast “Spaceman” from “Beast” (1969)
The Samples “Close to the Fires” from Samples (1990)
(D) The Centennial “Meantime” from Nervous System (2013) Elephant Revival “Quill Pen Feather” from It’s Alive (2012)
Pete Kartsounes “Believer” from The Only Way I Know (2011)
Katya Chorover “Little Bird” from Big Big Love (2012)
Strange Americans “Roses On Ice” from A Royal Battle (2012)
Arliss Nancy “Should’ve Been There” from Simple Machines (2012)
Lionel Young Band “Drivin’ Wheel” from On Our Way to Memphis (2011)
Fox Street Allstars “Saturday Night” from Tough Talk (2013)
(D) Confluence “Stay” from I Haven’t Really Been Living (2013)
Raincheck “Right There” from Raincheck (2012)
Earth, Wind & Fire “Reasons” from That’s the Way of the World (1975)
Zuba “Planet Of Love” from South of Eden (1999)
(D) Nina Storey “Think Twice” from Think Twice (2013)
You Me and Apollo “Oh My Molly” from You Me and Apollo (2012)
El Toro de la Muerte “God Alone” from Dancer These Days (2011)
(N) Jeremy Dion “Halleluhjah” from Golden Some Day (2013)
(N) Dennis Wanebo “Running on Gravity” from Running On Gravity (2013)
(D) Andy Palmer “The Monk” from Hazard of the Die (2013)(N) WhiteWater Ramble “Standard Deviation” from Roots & Groove (2013)
(D) Paper Bird “As I Am” from Rooms (2013)
Born in The Flood “If This Thing Should Spill” from If this Thing Should Spill (2007)
Esme Patterson “Jessica” from All Princes, I (2012)
Chris Malley and Bob Schlesinger “Illegal Snakes” from Split Shot (2012)