“Between April 1 and July 31, Colorado’s music industry lost 8,327 jobs and $344.6 million in sales revenue, according to a report released this week by Denver Arts & Venues. This represents 51% of total employment in the industry statewide and 24% of its annual sales revenue, wrote Colorado State University researcher Michael Seman.
Denver took the hardest hit, with losses in the metro region estimated at 4,525 jobs and $213.7 million in sales revenue — or more than half of all jobs in the region’s music industry and 25% of its annual sales revenue. The majority of these losses at both the state and regional level are in the “musicians, managers and agents” and “live events” sectors of the industry, the report said.
And this is after only six months.”
This article from The Know/Denver Post hit me particularly hard this morning. I’m a “old timer” in the Colorado music scene. I’ve been here since the 70s – doing what I do – music and radio. In fact, music and radio is all I do and all I’ve done since the late 90s when I closed down my previous family owned/operated business.
RADIO can’t replace what we’ve lost. Not even close. However, as a fan one thing we can all do is support locally produced independent non-commercial public/community and college radio stations. There are over 20 such stations in Colorado today. That’s where most Colorado music is heard today.
Today, the Colorado Playlist is broadcast by 12 stations and is heard over 24FM frequencies 58 hours a week in Colorado. AND I NEED YOUR HELP. I borrowed heavily to keep Colorado music on the airwaves, since my prime sources of revenue are now gone. At some point I need to generate revenue to pay back the loans and pay the bills.
I’ve reduced my normal ad-support rates by 50% for COVID affected businesses. Want your business mentioned statewide? Email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com for information.
If you’d care to make a donation pls do so via PayPal at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com or at Chrisk-2 on Venmo.
Sincerely and with Love,
Chris “K” Kresge
Founder / President / Producer / Host
Rocky Mountain Music Network LLC
The Colorado Sound
Monday AUG 10 2020DOWN TIME may have the most resilient release out this year – maintaining its TOP 5 weekly status, even as Nathaniel Rateliff’s latest falls from the TOP 5. THREE of this week’s TOP 5 were recorded at Dockside Studios in Maurice, Louisiana.
Established in 1989, Dockside is known internationally for its illustrious string of albums by B.B. King, Sixteen Horsepower, and Sunny Landreth to name just a few. Add Cary Morin, the Gasoline Lollipops and Johnny & the Mongrels to the list — all three of which make this week’s TOP 5.
TOP 5 WK ENDING AUGUST 08
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COLORADO RADIO (14 stations / 132 titles tracked)
1. CARY MORIN – Dockside Saints LP (Jul-20)
2. POST TRUTH SERUM – Modern Victims LP (Mar-20)
3. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – All the Misery Money Can Buy SINGLE (Aug-20)
4. JOHNNY & THE MONGRELS – Creole Skies LP (Jul-20)
5. DOWN TIME – Hurts Being Alive LP (Mar-20)
ROOTS MUSIC REPORT(includes international, national and Internet radio stations irrespective of date / year of release)
Not a lot of movement this week with the TOP 5 essentially remaining the same and recent releases from Kayla Marque and Andy Sydow still maintaining TOP 40 positions. Fifty Dollar Friend jumps back into the TOP 40 at #18 with their debut album In Black & White.
1. REVEREND FREAKCHILD– The Bodhisattva Blues LP (Mar-20)
2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF – And It’s Still Alright LP (Feb-20)
3. CARY MORIN – Dockside Saints LP (Jul-20)
4. LEE SIMS – A Few More Miles to Go LP (May-20)
5. MOJOMAMA – Red White and Blues LP (May-18)
The Mishawakais a legendary music venue, restaurant and bar located 13.7 miles up the Poudre Canyon Highway (CO 14) in the stunning Poudre Canyon in Bellvue, CO. NOW OPEN for food, music and movies.
MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)
Every week I share some or all of the new music played on the show with you, here in the MMMM. Your rating gets factored into my decision in what to maintain in the show’s “for airplay” library.
A REMINDER: Please listen to ALL of the songs and rate them. Thanks 🙂
(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist premier / not available online
Michael Jackson – Smooth Criminal – Bad (1987) **Caribou Ranch Collection**
(N) Johnny & The Mongrels – Louisiana Girl – Creole Skies (2020)
Coal Town Reunion – 1984 – Stories We Tell (2019) Angie Stevens & The Beautiful Wreck – Heaven Knows (Revisited) – Beautiful & True (2016) Vivian – The Warped Glimmer – The Warped Glimmer (2020) Fifty Dollar Friend – Not Thinking About You – In Black and White (2020) Zephyr – Don’t Come Back – Heartbeat (1981) Dan Fogelberg – Phoenix – Phoenix (1980) (P) Claire Heywood – Letter Day (2020) Michal Menert & The Pretty Fantastics – See You Again – From the Sea (2019) Whiskey Blanket – Rule The Roost (Featuring Macklemore) – No Object (2010) Keith Oxman – Breeze (Blow My Baby Back) – East of the Village (2017)
HOUR 2
Return To Forever – Sorceress – Romantic Warrior (1976) **Caribou Ranch Collection**
(D) Barry Ollman – Lockdown Times (2020)
Jill Sobule – Where Do I Begin – Nostalgia Kills (2018) Trash Cat – Robot Girlfriend – Welcome to Trash City (2019) Big Gigantic – Friends (feat. Ashe) – Free Your Mind (2020) The String Cheese Incident – Vertigo – SCI Sound Lab Radio EP (2019) The Apples In Stereo – Can You Feel It? – New Magnetic Wonder (2007) OneRepublic – Won’t Stop – Dreaming Out Loud (2007)
(N) Sean Waters & the Sunrise Genius – Moon Down – Easy Graces EP (2020)
Audible – Delicate – First Contact (2019) Dubskin – That Day Will Come – Light The Dark (2017) Gerald Albright – Slam Dunk – Slam Dunk (2014)
THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE
VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK
The latest from Eldren was filmed in Denver and Japan. Eldren once again shows off their considerable skills and are recent adds on the Colorado Playlist and at 105.5 The Colorado Sound.
Please help Rocky Mountain Music Relief feed musicians. Donations of $15 or more receive a #COmusic COVID mask as a thank you. Proceeds will benefit food needy musicians and their families. Please make sure to provide your address so we can mail your mask.
Monday AUG 03 2020 – Cary Morin’s new album, Dockside Saints, isn’t yet officially available for mass consumption via Spotify or YouTube but that doesn’t mean it’s not getting some love from radio where it jumps to #1 this week in the statewide radio airplay chart. Charlie Stevens new self titled release (serviced by Rocky Mountain Music Network LLC) makes its debut this week at #3, while Down Time extends its TOP five position another week.
The Video Pick of the WeekI Can’t Breathe (Again) Feat. Wil Guice, Chy Reco, Ramond, A Meazy (at bottom of post) is a tribute to the BLM movement. Created by some of Denver’s top hip-hop producers and emcees, in a state of mourning for black lives taken by police, the video is a stunning local reminder of what we’ve seen on the streets and in the news this summer.
Live music is alive and doing as reasonably well as we might expect during COVID. A long interior drive this weekend took us into Walden, Winter Park, Grand Lake and Estes Park. Grand Lake and Estes were of course jumpin. We heard several acoustic acts singing hits from various small stages.
My friends at the Mishawaka have concerts on the calendar with the likes of the Yawpers (AUG 29) and Patti Fiasco (AUG 28).
Aug 8: Bret Billings w Greg Schochet & Halden Wofford
Aug 9: Taarka
I am happy to support FOCOMA (Fort Collins Musician Association) Drive and Jive – a weekly series showcasing some of Northern Colorado’s popular acts.
Please help Rocky Mountain Music Relief feed musicians. Donations of $15 or more receive a #COmusic COVID mask as a thank you. Proceeds will benefit food needy musicians and their families. Please make sure to provide your address so we can mail your mask.
TOP 5 WK ENDING AUGUST 01
Spinitron Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations, record promoters are among those most likely to benefit from the detailed search function. Currently 12 Colorado radio stations use Spinitron.
COLORADO RADIO(14 stations / 112 titles tracked)
1. CARY MORIN – Dockside Saints LP (Jul-20)
2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF – And It’s Still Alright LP (Feb-20)
3. CHARLIE STEVENS – Charlie Stevens LP (Jul-20)
4. DOWN TIME – Hurts Being Alive LP (Mar-20)
5. WHITEWATER RAMBLE – Pseudonymous LP (Feb-20)
ROOTS MUSIC REPORT(inc international, national and Internet radio; irrespective of date / year of release)
1. REVEREND FREAKCHILD– The Bodhisattva Blues LP (Mar-20)
2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF – And It’s Still Alright LP (Feb-20)
3. CARY MORIN – Dockside Saints LP (Jul-20)
4. MOJOMAMA – Red White and Blues LP (May-18)
5. LEE SIMS – A Few More Miles to Go LP (May-20)
The Mishawakais a legendary music venue, restaurant and bar located 13.7 miles up the Poudre Canyon Highway (CO 14) in the stunning Poudre Canyon in Bellvue, CO. NOW OPEN for food, music and movies.
MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)
Every week I share some or all of the new music played on the show with you, here in the MMMM. Your rating gets factored into my decision in what to maintain in the show’s “for airplay” library.
A REMINDER: Please listen to ALL of the songs and rate them. Thanks 🙂
(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist premier / not available online
HOUR 1
Billy Joe Shaver – Fit to Kill and Going Out In Style – I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal…But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Someday (1981) Billy Joe Shaver – I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Someday) – I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal…But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Someday (1981) (D) John March – Sweet Lorraine – For Once In My Life, a Tribute to Ted Green (2020)
SUCH – The Real Thing – Wide Nose, Full Lips (2019) Dream Feed – Push and Pull – Dream Feed (2018) Two Faces West = Brand New Suit – Brand New Suit (2020) Del Shamen – Come Back Mountain Jill – Singles 1 to 3 (2020) Freddi Henchi – Moonlightin’ (1974) Rare Silk – American Eyes – American Eyes (1985)
(D) Jayme Stone – Future Promise – Awake (2020) South to Cedars – Supernovacaine – Tell Everyone (2019) Great American Taxi – Dr Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show – Dr. Feelgood’s Traveling Medicine Show (2016) Space Orphan – Superphonic – Shut Up About the Sun (2017)
HOUR 2
The Beach Boys – Good Timin’ – 15 Big Ones (1976) The Beach Boys – It’s O.K. – 15 Big Ones (1976) (N) Cary Morin – Blue Delta Home – Dockside Saints (2020)
Shovels & Rope – Carry Me Home – By Blood (2019) Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Damaged One – New World Arisin’ (2017) Post Truth Serum – THE DISCOTHEQUE – MODERN VICTIMS (2020) Jeremy Facknitz – Little Devils – From Those Sweet Ashes (2020) Lord Of Word And The Disciples Of Bass – The Open Door (1996) The Fluid – On My Feet – Purplemetalflakemusic (1992) (D) Tejon Street Corner Thieves – Demons – Demons EP (2020)
White Rose Motor Oil – Billings to Pueblo – One for the Ages EP (2019) Mama Lenny and the Remedy – Lock and Key – Rain Fire (2016) Paa Kow – Cookpot – Cookpot (2017)
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