Tag: Denver

The Colorado Sound S8|EP03

b-day pic(Sunday, Jan 19, 2014) WOW you guys blew up my FB page yesterday wishing me happy b-day.  Thank you 🙂 I’m not really here today (I am but I’m not).  It’s my oldest daughter’s birthday.  It’s also NFL Championship Sunday – the Final Four  (yep, I’m a total NFL devotee).  “Yesterday” was my b-day (today actually), and I did two sound gigs – one for School of Rock and one for Bluezhouse.  Watching all the birthday wishes come in blows me away… I am truly blown away.

Seem’s Andy Rok is pretty serious about retiring Bop Skizzum.  Bop Skizzum will be playing it’s final show on February 14th.

And, the original Subdudes (John Magnie, Steve Amadee, Johnny Ray Allen, and Tommy Malone) have reunited.  They’ve got two Colorado shows on the books.  In the meantime, John Magnie and Steve Amadee have a new Fort Collins act going called Young Ancients that also features the incredible Cary Morin on guitar and vocals.  Cary is in Memphis this week representing Colorado in the solo/duo category at the International Blues Challenge (IBC Memphis).  Greeley’s Bad Brad & the Fat Cats is also in Memphis representing in the band category. Wow .. hellova week, huh?

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

The Kinetix have a new album ready to release.  These guys have gone through some interesting changes over the past several years.  This is their latest incarnation.  Long way from the “jamband” I first heard of four (five) years ago now?  

PLAYLIST S8|EP03 Jan 2014

Sugarloaf “Colorado Jones” from Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You (1975)
Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids “Did The Boogie (With Your Baby)” from Best of Flash Cadillac and The Continental Kids (2010)
The Belle Jar “Union Station” from Union Station (2013)
Patrick Dethlefs “The Farther You Go” from Fall & Rise (2012)
Patti Fiasco “Small Town Lights” from Small Town Lights (2013)
Soul School “I Would Do Anything” from Chapter One (2014)
The Fray “All At Once” from How to Save A Life (2005)
(D) Justin Roth “Rise” [single] (2013)(N) Drag the River “Wichita Skyline” from Drag The River (2013)
(N) Joe Johnson “Warriors Mine” from New West Sound (2013)
Mama Lenny and the Remedy “In Danger” from Time (You’re Doing Fine) (2014)
Kenny Perkins “Last Goodbye” from Wild Frontier (2011)
Jim Stranahan “Hip Street” from Free For All (2010)
Dan Fogelberg “Rhythm of the Rain” from The Very Best of Dan Fogelberg (2001)
John Oates Band “Sittin’ On Top of the World” from The Bluesville Sessions (2012)
Five Iron Frenzy “It Was A Cold and Stormy Night” from It Was A Cold and Stormy Night (2011)
My Body Sings Electric “Living Proof” from Changing Color (2011)
(N) The Motet “Rich in People” from The Motet (2014)
Bop Skizzum “Say Something” from Say Something (2013)
(N) Megan Burtt & Covenhoven “Fools Gold” from In Good Company (2013)
Bad Weather California “When You Smile” from Sunkissed (2012)
Matt Skinner Band “I’ll Keep Loving” from Native Stranger (2013)
C.W. McCall “Black Bear Road” from CW McCall’s Greatest Hits (1993)
(N) The Wild After “The Ship and the Sea” from Lesson Learned EP (2014)
Andy Hackbarth “Windmills” from Treadmill Horses (2013)
Raincheck “Boogalues” from Raincheck (2012)

Goat, Where Do I Submit?

4 emails and/or phone conversations and/or personal conversations this week all involving the same thing:  Goat, where do I submit?  In a Facebook conversation recently, I broke down the primary types of performance events regionally.

1. Bars/restaurants (think Oskar Blues, Baker Street Pub, Bar SS, Road 34, Ziggies, Eck’s Saloon, etc)
2. Theaters/concert venues (think Herman’s Hideaway, Fox, Aggie, Ogden, Fillmore, Pepsi Center, Red Rocks, Taste of Denver)
3. Private Events (weddings, parties, etc)
4. Municipal Events (Arvada Harvest Festival, Broomfest, Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival, Bohemian Nights @ New West Fest, Colorado State Fair, Boulder County Fair, etc)
5. Festivals (ticketed …Rocky Grass, Telluride Bluegrass, Warped Tour, etc)

Most of us who have played locally know how to reach out to the local bars, and smaller theaters/concert venues.  That’s the bread and butter stuff… But, too often I hear confusion beyond that, hence the “goat, where do I submit?”   Beyond that question is “how do I submit, and to whom?”

There is no single best way to approach this challenge.  A large number of the folks who buy talent statewide do not have the level of technical sophistication at their finger tips to find out who’s who and what do they do, so they rely on their sphere of influence in their communities.  That sphere of influence includes local community radio and members of other local media who might be familiar with bands in the region.

Six years ago the question had to do with getting Colorado music on radio, and out to media in general.  I think we’ve done a good job of working on that puzzle with the media service package.  This past year, right at about 30 titles were sent out to radio, tv, and print media statewide.  Many of those albums received some airplay in some markets around the state.  Beginning this month, I’m adding a new service, sending packages to municipal event buyers around the state.

Buyers will be making all their buying decisions between now and April.  If you’d like to be in the game, now’s the time to do it.  For more information, please email me at chriskmusic@gmail.com.

PS:  no metal, hardcore, loud rock, or rap.  Thank you.

The Colorado Sound S7 EP39 OCT 2013

chris at ob hmls sunday june 16 2013Monday / Oct 28, 2013: Good morning. Not a lot of time this morning, and obviously not yesterday either considering this didn’t get done and posted til now. Full day of music yesterday in support of CAN’D AID FOUNDATION at Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids in Longmont. Felonius Smith, Grant Farm bluegrass, and Rocktin’ Grove killed it noon to five …and then we had our Sunday evening show upstairs in the loft with David Williams gypsy jazz featuring David and Enion Tiller. All in all a really magnificent day of music.

So, what do Glenn Frey, Joe Cocker, Joe Walsh, and Rick Derringer have to do with Colorado music history? Three are current or past residents in the state – and two were produced by a famous rock producer who had a label in Denver (Tumbleweed) in the 60s, who recorded the first two records to come out of Caribou Ranch, and who subsequently went on to become the Eagles producer in the mid-70s.

Video Pick of the Week:  Danny Shafer and his family are among those who lost their home and possessions in Lyons this year.  There have been numerous benefits in support of Danny, the Tillers, and the many others who have lost because of the floods.  This video is from one of those benefits… grab the Kleenex kids.  

PLAYLIST S7 EP39 OCT 2013

Glenn Frey “Smuggler’s Blues” from Solo Collection (1984)
Joe Cocker “Hard Knocks” from Hard Knocks (2012)
Joe Johnson “Ketchikan” from New West Sound (2013)
(N) Petals of Spain “Love (Really Breaks)” from Petals of Spain (2013) 
(N) Equally Challenged “All My Love” from Equally Challenged (2013) 
Nathaniel Rateliff “Don’t Get Too Close” from Falling Faster Than You Can Run (2013)
(D) Balue “Grow Up” from Quiet Dreamer (2013) 
Dressy Bessy “Anyone Can See” from Holler and Stomp (2008)
Gromet “Sink or Sail” from Colorado Captain (2010)
Whiskey Bottles “Fell In Love With A Stranger” from Grandville (2013)
Alan & Martin “Missin’ Kissin’ You” from Only Boys Back Then (2012)
Palmer Divide “Knockin’ At Your Door” from Shenandoah Train (2009)
Keith Oxman “All Dudes” from Doing All Right (2009)
Joe Walsh “Rocky Mountain Way” from The Smoker You Get The Player You Get (1973)
Rick Derringer “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo” from All American Boy (1973)
(D) The Fray “Love Don’t Die” from Love Don’t Die (2013)
Churchill “Ark In A Flood” from Change EP (2012)
Jeff Brinkman “Halo” from Strange (2012)
(N) Poco “Rockin’ Horse Blues” from All Fired Up (2013)
Lisa Bell “Bring the Love” from The Italian Project (2013)
(D) David Starr “Alive Again” from Alive Again (2013)
String Cheese Incident “Tinder Box” from Untying the Not (2003)
(N) Monocle Band “Water Sky” from Monocle Band (2013)
(N) Taarka “Go to the Ledge” from Adventures in Vagabondia (2013)
Tia Fuller “Ralphie’s Groove” from Angelic Warrior (2012)