Kyle Donovan is a rare and beautiful talent … with a voice that lifts, he sings notes that feel like fire flies on a moist summer evening alongside a deep and slow moving river … this isn’t mundane … it’s invigorating. Few voices are as pure and unwavering in tone and pitch, or as sweet and sensitive in emotion.
Kyle’s quietly expressive stories of life are reminiscent of the best storytellers … none less than Paul Simon, Kyle’s strongest and most obvious muse. “Then and Now” is a love album – the best kind; it’s inspirational. That the album is self produced, self recorded, self mixed and mastered is testament to Kyle’s unrelenting faith and courage in his immense talent. It simply sounds fabulous.
This is an album for the end of the night – at the quietest possible time of day, and mind and body. It ends with the sweetest lullaby, “No Matter the Distance,” a “honey dipped melody” to the love of his parents, knowing “we will always be here, in your heart.”
Kyle spent three years engineering what really is a masterpiece of a solo debut .. and a strong contender for ALBUM of the YEAR on the Colorado Playlist.
MONDAY AUG 26 2019 – Can you believe that we’re less than a month away from autumn? WOW.
That said, there are only 9 weeks left in the new release year, for consideration as one of the best of 2019. 2020 starts in November. Your vote in the MMMM below will matter, so please let me know what you think about the new music shares every week.
Another week, another mistake. As I was listening to hour 2 of the show last night, I noticed I called the new Lumineers‘ EP “Gloria Speaks.” While appropro I suppose, the actual title is “Gloria Sparks,” not to be confused with their other new EP release called “Junior Sparks.”
THE COLORADO PLAYLIST / SPOTIFY
121 songs – 46 followers .. have you checked in this week? Can you name a Boulder band that has 1.6 MILLION SPOTIFY plays on one of their songs from 2014? Yeah, neither could I. So I added it to the playlist this week along with a handful of others. Got a suggestion? Msg me.
Did you miss this week’s or LAST week’s show? You can now stream them on demand! 105.5 The Colorado Sound archives two weeks worth that you can stream at your leisure. They typically update their archives every Monday afternoon. You can also stream the show in real time wherever the show is aired around the state. See the stations and times page for that info.
105.5 The Colorado Sound & the Colorado Playlist Present:
Brent Cowles – Bluebird Theater, Denver – Oct 12
Gasoline Lollipops at Washington’s FoCo Fort Collins Friday, October 4
Gasoline Lollipops “Unleaded” (all acoustic) at Swallow Hill Music(Denver), Saturday, November 9
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club at the Moxi (Greeley) on Sept 20
At Bohemian Foundation, our focus is on building community …by coming together to create and enjoy music.
VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK
One of the MMMM tracks this week. KEEP or DELETE? Vote below. They will be performing at Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience next weekend.
MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)
(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist exclusive premier
Let me know if there’s something you think I should play. Email coloradoplaylist@gmail.com
HOUR 1
Earth Wind & Fire – I’ve Had Enough – Raise! (1981) (D) SUCH – Before Dark – Wide Nose, Full Lips (2019)
Grayson Erhard – I Will – Earthship EP (2018) Wendy Woo – Unwind – Austerity (2011) (D) The Barlow – Carry Me Back – The Barlow (2019)
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Little Rig – Hard Core Broken Heart (2018) These United States – Dead & Gone – These United States (2012) Five Iron Frenzy – Zen & the Art of Xenophobia – Engine of a Million Plots (2013) StillHouse Junkies – Two-Steppin’ On My Heart (Again) – Hillbilly Poetry (2019) (N) Dragondeer – Max Patch (2019)
Reno Divorce – She’s In Love With the Avenue – Ship of Fools EP (2016) Jill Sobule – Where Do I Begin – Nostalgia Kills (2018) Keith Oxman – The Splashers – Caught Between the Lion and the Twins (2008)
HOUR 2
Dianne Reeves – Testify – Bridges (1999) (D) The Lumineers – Life In The City – Gloria Sparks EP (2019) Silver and Gold – Lincoln City – Point A to Point A (2018) piKziL – Felix’s Lament – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016) (D) Shark Dreams – Get Born (2019) Goodnight Freeman – Devil In this Bar – Yugen (2019) Yonder Mountain String Band – Complicated – The Show (2009) The Subdudes – Street Symphony – Street Symphony (2007) (D) Float Like A Buffalo – Gone By Morning (2019)
Bud Bronson & The Good Timers – End Of Our Lives – Between the Outfield and Outer Space (2018) Deborah De La Torre – Baile Cubana – La Cocodrilla (2019)
MONDAY AUG 12 2019 – Well, it was a long weekend. For me, it started last Thursday night when I emceed a show at the Levitt Pavilion featuring Andy Thomas’s Lost Walks, and headliner Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. Then it was onto Bohemian Nights at New West Fest for my 15th season on the Mountain Ave stage.
To say that the music swirls around and through me is an understatement. What I did manage to glean from the long weekend is that acts like Slim Cessna’s Auto Club (who also performed at Bohemian Nights) are actively working on new releases for later this year and early in 2020.
This coming weekend, I will host and perform at Well-O-Rama in Wellington CO, the first of what I hope will be another continuing series of shows I’m involved with. The show lineup includes Leslie Tom, GOATZ!, The Devil’s Share, Sugar Britches and Jackie & the Racket. 11AM – 6PM / FREE / FAMILY FUN
KBUT / Crested Butte aired an hour of the show on Sunday Aug 11. If you’re a part of that scene, pls let them know you would like them to air both hours, in rotation.
I’m not a picture taking kinda person .. but I snapped this one at Bohemian Nights at New West Fest on Sunday at 12:45PM during Head for the Hills set.
THE COLORADO PLAYLIST / SPOTIFY
Hey! We’re up to 44 followers this week. Would love to see it crack 100 followers by next Monday. Pls share with your friends. There are, currently, 111 songs from some of our best going back to the 60s.
Did you miss this week’s or LAST week’s show? You can now stream them on demand! 105.5 The Colorado Sound archives two weeks worth that you can stream at your leisure. They typically update their archives every Monday afternoon. You can also stream the show in real time wherever the show is aired around the state. See the stations and times page for that info.
105.5 The Colorado Sound & the Colorado Playlist Present:
Brent Cowles – Bluebird Theater, Denver – Oct 12
Gasoline Lollipops at Washington’s FoCo Fort Collins Friday, October 4
Gasoline Lollipops “Unleaded” (all acoustic) at Swallow Hill Music (Denver), Saturday, November 9
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club at the Moxi (Greeley) on Sept 20
At Bohemian Foundation, our focus is on building community …by coming together to create and enjoy music.
VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK
One of the exceptional sets displayed this weekend at Bohemian Nights was the Sunday afternoon opening set by Head for the Hills. I’ve known this band since they began, roughly twelve years ago now. Originally, and primarily, a progressive bluegrass band, they have morphed into something other – part funky rhythm and blues, tied to their more traditional underpinnings laid on top of Americana folk and bluegrass. This video represents their more introspective folkier side.
MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)
(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist exclusive premier
Let me know if there’s something you think I should play. Email coloradoplaylist@gmail.com
HOUR 1
Beast – Spaceman – Beast (1969) (D) Kiltro – If I Lead – Creatures of Habit (2019)
Rateliff & The Night Sweats – You Worry Me – Tearing At The Seams (2018) The Blue Rider – Rattlesnake – Year of the Horse (2016) (D) Write Minded – Goosebumps (2019)
Sarah Slaton – Dance In the Sun (2019) The String Cheese Incident – Up The Canyon – Outside Inside (2001) Gregory Alan Isakov – Amsterdam – The Weatherman (2013) Blake Brown & the American Dust Choir – Between The Lines – Long Way Home (2018) (D) Yasi – Dreams (2019)
Churchill – Gone Too Long – The War Within EP (2013) AJ Fullerton – Kalamath – Kalamath (2017) Jon Wirtz – Watching The World Wake Up – Tourist (2013)
HOUR 2
The Soulsetters, Freddi Henchi Band – Fire – Crown Princes Of Funk: The Last Set (2013/1972) Alpha Centauri – Make It At Rock ‘n Roll – Alpha Centauri (1977) (D) Eldren – Hazy Days (2019)
Deep Pocket – Thieves – I Love You – Blu De (2018) Richard Dean – Wild Night On the Bayou – Vignettes (2017) (D) Lightning Cult – Pacific Hits – EP2: Ether Waves (2019)
Dressy Bessy – Fearless – Fast Faster Disaster (2019) Blue Canyon Boys – Wake Up, The Party’s Over – Blue Canyon Boys (2016) Railbenders – One Foot In The Grave – Segundo (2004) Dragondeer – When I See You – If You Got The Blues (2018) (D) Chloe Tang – Take Care (2019)
Float Like A Buffalo – She Don’t Care (2018) The Knew – Bang the Drum – Man Monster (2012) Brad Goode Quintet – Who Parked the Car? – That’s Right! (2018)
Chris K's Colorado Playlist 