Tag: Denver

CP S13 EP35 2019

MONDAY SEPT 09, 2019 – Twenty years ago a very special woman in my life created the “picky grumpy old goat” after I returned from a tour of England/Scotland with my band and quit.  That idea blossomed into “goat” as I’ve been known ever since.  Miss Pattie, aka Mrs. Goat, passed away in 2016.  

Over the past few years I’ve asked a handful of graphic artists to refresh the old logo that Miss Pattie did for me.  I’m very happy and honored that My Blue Sky drummer Jamie McGregor (Zamar Screen Printing Inc.) caught the essence of the original and provided the perfect update …and a new banner to go with it.  Thank you Jamie! 

Speaking of My Blue Sky.  Original founding member and bassist, David Brandt, has announced he’s leaving the band to focus on family and other personal goals.  Good luck to David and the band.

Congratulations are in order for one of Colorado’s BEST – SUCH – whose new album Wide Nose, Full Lips landed in the national Billboard charts.  The album hit #25 in the national R&B/Soul Album chart and #5 in the national Heatseekers chart, across all genres.  The album debuted at #9 on the iTunes R&B/Soul charts.  Check out the latest single from her album in this week’s MMMM below.

I’m also very happy to premier the new release from Sean Kelly of the Samples aka the Samples called Indian Summer.  The Samples are a Colorado legacy band that formed after Sean moved here from New England in 1987 and formed the band, then based in Boulder.

Add to those fantastic new releases one from Jurassic Mark, aka Mark Bliesener, aka Band Guru.  Mark Bliesener is one of Colorado’s unsung music industry legacies. Among other things, he is credited with coining the band name Dead Kennedys. He has been the manager for both Lyle Lovett and Big Head Todd & the Monsters. At age 70 he just dropped his solo debut. It’s a rock n roll record with plenty of old school garage and punk. It’s not yet available online.  When it is, I’ll share it.  In the meantime, if you missed this week’s show you can stream it in the archive section at www.coloradosound.org

Now that the summer outdoor concert season is over, my band GOATZ! is back to playing at some of our favorite indoor venues, and a couple of new ones.  In particular, we’ve very happy to be playing at the new Broadway Roxy and Nissi’s Entertainment Venue & Event Center (Lafayette) in October.  Make sure to check our concert listings at www.goatzmusic.com/shows

COLORADO PLAYLIST / SPOTIFY

129 songs from 129 artists dating back to 1960 & 53 current followers.  I’d LOVE to hit 100.

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
  • Dragondeer’s Dance Party 1983 at Cervantes Other Side – Thursday, October 31
  • Gasoline Lollipops at Washington’s FoCo Fort Collins Friday, October 4
  • Gasoline Lollipops “Unleaded” (all acoustic) at Swallow Hill Music Denver Saturday, November 9

FOR MORE SHOWS SEE COLORADOSOUND.ORG

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 very intriguing artists to emerge from Denver the past few years, Kayla Marque almost didn’t get here.  A couple of years ago, she suffered from vocal problems, along with other personal issues, that prompted the title of her upcoming album Brain Chemistry (Left Brain / Right Brain) on which she deals not only with matters of the heart, but mental health issues as well.

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

SELECTED TRACKs

As sometimes happens, even YouTube doesn’t have all the songs I have in the CP collection.

HOUR 1

Rare Silk – Sugar – New Weave (1983)
(D) Kyle Donovan – If This Is Love – Then and Now (2019)
Andy Ard – Come Over Here – Like That EP (2018)
Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts – Modern Outlaw Country – Shovel Full Of Coal (2017)
(N) SUCH – The Real Thing – Wide Nose, Full Lips (2019)


Wendy Woo – The Weather – The Immigrant (2019)
Drew Emmitt – Take The Long Way Home – Long Road (2008)
Great American Taxi – Appalachian Soul – Streets of Gold (2007)
(D) The Samples – Cry Cry Cry – Indian Summer (2019)


Sarah Snead – All I’ve Got – Wake Tomorrow (2018)
The String Cheese Incident – Can’t Wait Another Day – Song In My Head (2014)
(N) La Cocodrilla – Bop Bop Bop Bop – La Cocodrilla (2019)

HOUR 2

Electric Swingset – Inebriated Witch Doctor – Inebriated Witch Doctor (1996)
Hillbilly Hellcats – Rockabilly Rebel – Our Brand (1998)
(D) Jurassic Mark – Young Man’s Mind – Jurassic Mark (2019)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Better Move It On Home – I Make My Own Luck (2018)
Francis & the Wolf – What Is Left – Ladies & Gentlemen (2017)
(N) My Body Sings Electric – Change – Part 2: What It Means to Be Afraid (2019)


Shannon Ogden – In the Car – Live at Swallow Hill (2019)
Braddigan – Fallin’ – Watchfires (2005)
Katie Herzig – Best Day Of Your Life – The Waking Sleep (2011)
Lizzy Plotkin – Deep Woods Blues – We Will Sing (2019)
(D) Collusion – Busted – City of Angels (2019)


John Statz – Strong Enough – Darkness On the San Juans (2018)
Tiffany Christopher – Somewhere Behind the Sun – Tremendous Heart (2016)
Sunsquabi – Land Sloth – Instinct (2019)

Kyle Donovan – Then and Now

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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.

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CP S13 EP33 2019

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

FOR MORE SHOWS SEE COLORADOSOUND.ORG

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)