Denver – Page 2 – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

CP S19 EP34 2025

Some of the best from Colorado, from the past to the present. New music from Kyle Harvey, Blankslate, Pink Fuzz, Summer Bedhead.

YEP .. as promised, we’re officially on vacation in NC. That said, I prepped this post before we left 😉 NO HOT SPINS THIS WEEK. A goodnight picture from Claire at Highline Lake State Park. We went looking for the Northern Lights and shot the Big Dipper.

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.

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Judy Collins – Hard Lovin’ Loser – In My Life (1966)
Judy Collins – Bird On a Wire – Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968)
(D) Kyle Harvey – Neon Lights Are Good for the Blues (2025)

King Cardinal – Runaway (2022)
Gasoline Lollipops – The River – Kill the Architect (2025)
Drew Emmitt – Gypsy In My Soul – Long Road (2008)
Katie Herzig – Crazy – Weightless (2006)
Big Gigantic – Free Spirits – Fluorescence (2025)
(D) Blankslate – Lamp Post Hearts – Lookout Mountain Charley (2025)

Ambar Lucid – Get Lost In the Music (2021)
Teresa Suydam – Lost Bird – Lost Bird (2024)
Eric Lilley Trio – To Know Not – Swing Set (2025)

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – I Saw The Light – Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1972)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Fishin’ In The Dark – Hold On (1987)
(D) Pink Fuzz – Animal (2025)

Hunter Stone – Mars – Portraits of the New/Old West, Vol. 2 (2024)
Dragondeer – New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023)
Sweet Virginia – I Don’t Know (2025)
Kerry Pastine and The Crime Scene – Let’s Do This Thing – Let’s Do This Thing (2015)
Lionel Young Band – Knock These Blues Around – On Our Way to Memphis (2012)
Delta Sonics – Concrete Hotel – Concrete Hotel (2025)
(D) Summer Bedhead – Deep Breathe – The Body Needs a Break (2025)

Alysia Kraft – Little River – First Light (2022)
Rootbeer Richie & The Reveille – Never Needed Me – Never Needed Me (2024)
Analog Son – Suspended Animation f. Eric Benny Bloom – Keep It Coming (2025)

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#COMUSIC TOP 30 AUGUST 2025

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP PLEASE

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. I make this show available for no cost to the stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

If you represent a business and would like my listeners to know about you, email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com for details.
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Every week I survey more than a dozen Colorado community/public and college stations, including Colorado Playlist spins on respective stations. The weekly survey period runs from midnight Sunday through the following Saturday.

The monthly survey period runs from the first week ending with a Saturday through the last week ending with a Saturday. Titles are linked to its respective YouTube page.

Titles are tracked from the date of release of the first single from an LP/EP, for twelve months. Example: DOR = DEC 2023. I stopped tracking it in NOV 2024 (twelve months).

KAFM, KBUT, KCSU, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA and KVNF are surveyed via Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay on over three hundred stations and programs around the country.

LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
(*) = No longer lives in Colorado, but counted as long as they got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them.
(**) = serviced to media in Colorado by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

(D) = DEBUT IN TOP 30
(R) = REENTER TOP 30

You’re most likely to hear Colorado music on one of three stations along the Northern Front Range: Indie 102.3, 105.5 The Colorado Sound and 88.9 KRFC. Their HOT SPINS are listed below.

TOP 30 AUGUST 2025
(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25
(3) 3. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(R) 4. MARFA – Daisy SP Sep-24
(D) 5. GLAMOUR SHOT – High Tide SP May-25
(D) 6. GHOST GNOTES – how does compliments LP Apr-25
(D) 7. MON CHER – Lush SP Jun-25
(D) 8. ON THE DOT – Sea in Between LP May-25
(16) 9. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(14) 10. SOUR MAGIC – Silver Sands SP May-25
(6) 11. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(17) 12. BIG GIGANTIC – Fluorescence LP Jun-25
(R) 12. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Wildflower Lane LP Mar-25
(D) 13. RIAH – Trauma Bond LP Sep-24
(D) 14. ANALOG SON – Keep It Coming LP Jan-25
(8) 15. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
(7) 16. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Cowboy Caravan LP Apr-25
(D) 17. RIAH – Stand By You (feat. El Javi and Dominick L. Williams) SP Jun-25
(17) 17. THE RIVER ARKANSAS – Tin Years LP Apr-25
(D) 18. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(D) 19. LETTUCE – Gold Tooth / Rising to the Top SP Jul-25
(D) 19. MYSTEE – Forget Me Not EP Jul-25
(18) 20. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(15) 20. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(D) 21. DJ WILLIAMS – Gravity & Grace LP May-25
(5) 21. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 22. AUGUSTUS – Matchbox SP Jun-25
(D) 22. BEVIN LUNA – Shimmer SP Jun-25
(R) 22. CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Lakota SP Oct-24
(D) 22. QUESO RA – Glass SP May-25
(D) 22. RAGGED UNION – Pyramid Stairs LP Jun-25

88.9 KRFC – 43 TITLES TRACKED
(9) 1. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(1) 2. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 3. MYSTEE – Forget Me Not EP Jul-25
(5) 4. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(7) 5. CHRISTINE ALICE – Wood, Strings & Simple Things LP Feb-25
(D) 5. SIDEYEARD SANCTUARY – American Classics, Vol. II LP Jun-25

INDIE 102.3 (KVOQ) – 16 titles tracked
(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. GLAMOUR SHOT – High Tide SP May-25
(D) 3. GHOST GNOTES – how does compliments LP Apr-25
(D) 4. MON CHER – Lush SP Jun-25
(D) 4. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND (KJAC) – 38 titles tracked
(1) 1. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(2) 1.CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Lakota SP Oct-24
(1) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(R) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(1) 1. QUESO RA – Glass SP May-25
(2) 1. SOUR MAGIC – The Hive LP May-25

KAFM, KBUT, KDNK, KFFR, KOTO, KRZA, KSJD, KSUT, KVNF – 46 titles tracked
(1) 1. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(3) 2. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(R) 2. STILL HOUSE STRING BAND – Still House String Band EP Feb-25
(2) 2. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
(7) 3. DAVID STARR – Must Be Blue LP Feb-25
(D) 3. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP Jun-25