Tag: Denver music

CP S16 EP21 2022

June 20, 2022 – To the dads and grandpas and men who raised or co-raised a child – Happy Father’s Day. Yeah, it’s Sunday and I’m at the desk working as usual.

A very good friend of mine got married this past week. Congratulations to Andy & Allie Sydow. Andy has a new album coming out soon produced by Anders Osborne.

Speaking of new releases, I bumped into longtime Colorado blues artist, songwriter and producer Nic Clark at the wedding party (he actually officiated). He let me know he’s got a new album coming out this year also.

TOP 5 #COMUSIC WK END 6/19/22

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.

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP
  3. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP
  4. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – Stress Dreams LP
  5. MACHETE MOUTH – Machete Mouth EP

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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.

HOUR 1

Townes Van Zandt – My Proud Mountains – Our Mother The Mountain (1969)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Buy For Me The Rain (1967)
(D) Cary Morin & Ghost Dog – Goin’ Down South (2022)

Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Dancin’ Around My Grave (2021)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeth Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
MaryLynn Gillaspie – Dolphin Dance – Secret Language (2022)
The Copper Children – Pity Party – Strange Illusion (2022)
The Apples In Stereo – Seems So – Tone Soul Evolution (1997)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Runaway Train – Riviera (2002)
(D) Dead On A Sunday – Stay (2022)

Porlolo – I QUIT (2019)
Giant Zero – Good Ol’ Days – Shakes Me (2021)
Keith Oxman, Jeff Jenkins, Todd Reid, Mark Simon – Khalid – This One’s For Joey (2022)

HOUR 2

Rick Roberts – Deliver Me – Windmills (1972)
Stephen Stills – It Doesn’t Matter – Manassas (1970)
(D) Jaiel – Sunshine Lovin’ (2022)

Sarah Slaton – Get Up (2021)
The Yawpers – Beale Street – American Man (2015)
Julian Fulco Perron – Not So Fast – In My Garden (2022)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Into the Fire – Get Yourself Outside (2022)
Dianne Reeves – One For My Baby – Good Night, and Good Luck (Soundtrack) (2005)
The Mercury Project – Fenced In – Soapbox Jive (2004)
(D) Fantasy League – Blind (2022)

Lucy Daydream – Dizzy – Awake & Dreaming (2019)
Kind Hearted Strangers – Red & Blue – East-West (2021)
David Bernot – No Problems – Neverending Cycle (2022)

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REVIEW: JEFF FINLIN – SOUL ON THE LINE

You cannot imagine how excited I was to get some kind of message – via the Innerwebs or some otherworldly means – that Jeff Finlin, “Fin” as he’s known locally in Fort Collins, put out a new album. I mean, I was so excited my heart jumped. I immediately dived into the entire album and haven’t stopped listening since.

You can’t find this album on SPOTIFY – yet. The published release date is June 24. HOWEVER – the album was released on May 19 via Continental Record Services out of the Netherlands on Bandcamp.

Produced by Jeff Finlin.
Recorded By Darren Raddach at Stout Studios, Fort Collins, CO.
Jeff Finlin – Drums, electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, percussion, piano
Taylor Tessler – Bass
Joe V. Mcmahan – Electric guitars
Eben Grace – Electric guitars
Eric Straumanis – Electric guitars
Brian Keller – Horns, accordion

Jeff Finlin’s legacy goes back decades. In my case it’s two decades since I first heard his music. Ever since then I have anxiously and quietly pleaded, cajoled and otherwise stamped my goat hoofs for something new.

After all, for as prolific as Jeff as been in his career –  13 critically acclaimed records – I honestly thought another album would never come my way. Silly me; Jeff has basically put out an album every few years. The last, The Guru in the Girl (2017), was a measly five years ago – an eternity it seems in Jeff’s catalogue.

Soul On the Line doesn’t move far from Jeff’s established Americana trad folk-rock style that travels nicely in the car with the likes of John Hiatt, Levon Helm or Bob Dylan. A literary mastermind, Jeff’s songs have taken us on an journey of life filled with vivid imagery. In the lead single, “…we walk the line, years repeating all our tears and time. Compromise our patron saint …hangin’ out with our Soul On the Line.”

Throughout the album, Jeff touches on issues that as he’s said are about “…these extreme and harrowing times we currently live in. Everything about our existence seems to be hanging in the balance.”

In What Went Wrong he ponders, “We all get tired of waiting, waiting on ourselves, so then we go and settle, set our feet in something else and then wonder why we can’t feel nothing here at all; and we’re stuck here on the telephone …wondering what went wrong.”

The songs on this album are not about the hope for the future. Jeff’s reflections and voice are those of an aged muse, tired and worn out from the battering waves of the very life that has inspired so many of his greatest stories in song and verse.

Jeff’s Northern Colorado friends and worldwide fans will love and adore and cherish this album as yet another intimate chapter in our friend’s collection. I’d suggest first timers visit earlier albums like Epinonymous, his highly acclaimed fourth album, before diving into this one.

CP S16 EP18 2022

Picture = Curious Theater 25th Anniversary Subscriber Brunch, Sat May 21 2022

MAY 23, 2022 – Colorado is known for being an arts friendly state. Not only do we have one of the most vibrant music scenes in the country but we have a world class art museum to go with renowned live theater venues like Curious Theater Company in Denver, named #1 Live Theater Venue by Best Things Colorado.

Claire and I are annual subscribers. It was great to great a preview of the upcoming 2022-23 season and to be a part of the 25th Anniversary celebration. There’s a great article in 5280 about founders Chip Walton and Dee Covington, who will leave the company at the end of its 25th season.

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TOP 5 #COMUSIC SPINS – WK END 5/22

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.

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP
  3. ANTHONY RUPTAK – Backrooms LP (Apr-22)
  4. THE WHITE MOMS White Moms III: Men Working LP (Mar-22)
  5. FIA NYXX – Red Umbrella LP (Apr-22)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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.

HOUR 1

Firefall – Cinderella – Firefall (1976)
Poco – Pickin’ Up The Pieces – Pickin’ Up The Pieces (1969)
(D) Russ Hopkins – I’m Not Ready Yet (2022)
Claire Heywood – Letter Day (2020)
Slow Caves – Out of State – Falling (2019)
Carolyn Hunter – Hardest Part (2022)
Dango Rose – Singularity – The Forgotten Years EP VOL. Two (2022)
Bad Weather California – I’ll Reach Out My Hand – Sunkissed (2012)
Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band – Tell Me Daddy (f. Erica Brown) – Tangled Road Again (2013)
Leftover Salmon – Category Stomp – Brand New Good Old Days (2021)
(D) Andy Eppler – How Can You Rebuild a Soul – Lonely Disco EP (2022)
Porlolo – I Was A Fool (Wasting Time) – Porlolo (2018)
Eddie Turner – Change In Me – Change In Me (2021)
Adam Bodine – Surface Service – Scenes of Changery (2021)

HOUR 2

Elton John – Someone Saved My Life Tonight – Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975)
(D) Wood Belly – Old Home – Great Big Skies (2022)

Bison Bone – Tell All Our Friends – The Lost Weekend EP (2021)
Sarah Slaton – Dance In the Sun (2019)
A.J. Fullerton – Oh Frustration (2022)
Ambar Lucid – Get Lost In the Music – Get Lost In the Music (2021)
Wildermiss – Carry Your Heart – Lost With You EP (2017)
The Mercury Project – Refuge – Soapbox Jive (2004)
(D) The Motet – Breathe Deeper (2022)

The Still Tide – Give Me Time – Run Out (2017)
Giant Zero – Good Ol’ Days – Shakes Me (2021)
(D) Sean McGowan – Cumbres & Toltec – Union Station (2022)

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