Down Time – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

Barr Lake, Brighton, CO – Winter 2022 courtesy of ClearVistasPhotography

MONDAY MARCH 13, 2023. Claire and I are off to Death Valley this week. Looking forward to some desert warmth and spring flowers. So, if there’s no post next Monday, you know why.

The word is out that I’m “retiring.” Not entirely. I’m leaving Northern Colorado radio & music after a forty-five year run and moving to Grand Junction. I will continue to produce the Colorado Playlist. And who knows what else I can do in “retirement.”

#COMUSIC TOP FIVE WK ENDING 3/11

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, offering search functions for artists and agents to track airplay.

*The Wood Brothers are not, specifically speaking, a locally based band, but as it custom on the Colorado Playlist I also include Colorado expats living elsewhere – so long as they were born and raised here, or got started here .. so the new Wood Brothers tracks (one due out in April) get included.*

(2) 1. THE WOOD BROTHERS – Pilgrim SINGLE (Feb-23)
(4) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP (Jun-22)
(D) 2. DANI JAY – Nice 2 Meet Me EP (Dec-22)
(1) 2. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(D) 3. DEVA YODER – Be Well LP (Feb-23)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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I designed the Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) as a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

Chris Daniels & The Kings – All For The Love Of Lill – Louie Louie (1997)
Boa and the Constrictors – Me & My Baby Got Somethin Goin On – Snake Eyes (1998)
(D) The Desert Furs – Existing Just For Fun (2023)

Mojomama – Point of View – We Are One (2022)
Volores – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
DeVotchKa – 100 Other Lovers – 100 Lovers (2011)
Leftover Salmon – Places – Something Higher (2018)
Head for the Hills – Nothing But the Blues – Turn the Time EP (2023)
(D) Down Time – Just Because – Spirit (2023)

Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Dancin’ Around My Grave ( 2021)
Lines of Drift – Big Breaks – Big Breaks (2022)
Blumer Haus – Ode To Brubeck – Boy Meets Groove (2021)

David Booker – Good Evenin’ Everybody – OH Brother, I’m Here (2001)
David Booker – It’s Your Voodoo Workin’ – OH Brother, I’m Here (2001)
(D) Dayton Stone & the Undertones – Pretender (2023)

Bevin Luna – Masquerade – Madison and Angelus (2022)
Brent Cowles – Keep Moving – How To Be Okay Alone (2018)
The Motet – False Prophets – All Day (2023)
The Lumineers – Ophelia – Cleopatra (2016)
Otis Taylor – Red Meat – Hey Joe – Opus Red Meat (2015)
Emily Scott Robinson – Double Double – Built On Bones (2023)
(D) Grace Devine, Ronan Andrews – Holy (2023)

Claire Heywood – Crushed Lemons (2021)
The Infamous Stringdusters – Down From the Mountain – Toward the Fray (2022)
Keith Oxman – The Gojon Jazz Messengers – This One’s For Joey (2022)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles included)

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MONDAY MAY 25 2020 – And “another one bites the dust.” It was announced over the weekend that the fields of Planet Bluegrass will not be open for the season – eliminating the Forty-Seventh Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the 48th Annual RockyGrass Festival, and the 30th Annual Folks Festival.

New this week = Indie 102.3 spins have been added to the weekly chart action.

At Bohemian Foundation, our focus is on building community …by coming together to create and enjoy music. Bohemian Foundation’s NoCo Music Relief Fund provides assistance for individuals in the Northern Colorado Music Community who are severely financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic

TOP 5 SPINS – WEEK ENDING MAY 23 2020

SPINITRON: (Titles released May 2019-May 2020) KAFM, KBUT, KCSU, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KMSA, KOTO, KRFC, KRZA, KSJD, KVNF … also included is INDIE 102.3 (not a Spinitron reporter)

1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF – And It’s Still Alright LP
2. ESME PATTERSON – There Will Come Soft Rains LP
3. WHITACRE – Seasons LP
4. DOWN TIME – Hurts Being Alive LP
5. KILTRO – Creatures of Habit LP

ROOTS MUSIC REPORT (All CO titles – regardless of year of release)
In-state + national, international and Internet stations playing Colorado titles

1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF – And It’s Still Alright LP (2020)
2. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – The Bodhisattva Blues LP (2020)
3. MOJOMAMA – Red, White and Blues LP (2018)
4. THE LUMINEERS – III LP (2019)
5. LEE SIMS – A Few More Miles to Go LP (2020)

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

You make a big difference in what gets played on the show. 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

The Fogcutters – That’s Where I’ll Be (1969)
Lothar & The Hand People – Machines – Presenting… (1968)
(D) MODA – MODA MODA (2020)

The Yawpers – Dancing on My Knees – Human Question (2019)
The Drunken Hearts – Black Snake – The Prize (2018)
(N) Down Time – Hurts Being Alive – Hurts Being Alive (2020)

Andy Frasco – Keep On Keeping On – Keep On Keepin On (2020)
Zuba – Trippin – South Of Eden (1998)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – It’s Alright – Live Monsters (1998)
Caitlin Cannon – Mama’s A Hairdresser – The TrashCannon Album (2020)

Abby Brown – Heart On Fire – Heart On Fire (2019)
Reno Divorce – She’s In Love With the Avenue – Ship of Fools EP (2016)
(D) Dylan McCarthy – The Jamestown Turnaround – Lost & Found (2020)

HOUR 2

Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids – Good Times, Rock & Roll – Best of Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids (1975/2010)
The Moonrakers – I’m All Right – Anthology (1964/2006)
(D) Andy Sydow – Wicked Dreams – Wicked Dreams EP (2020)

Pint and a Half – Spinnin’ My Wheels – Not To Forget (2019)
Gasoline Lollipops – Mustangs – Soul Mine (2018)
Claire Heywood – Python – I Won’t Resign My Love For That Old Dream (2020)
Big Gigantic – Free Your Mind (feat. Jennifer Hartswick) – Free Your Mind (2020)
Chris Daniels & The Kings – Choo-Choo-Ch’ Boogie – Louie Louie (2001)
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Blues Fallin’ Down – Midnight Rodeo (2006)
Boa and the Constrictors – I Don’t Recall – Boa and the Constrictors (2003)
(N) Esmé Patterson – All Mine – There Will Come Soft Rains (2020)

SUCH – Before Dark – Wide Nose, Full Lips (2019)
Retrofette – Skeletons (2017)
Brian Claxton – The Yard – The Yard (2020)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

Gabrielle Louise – The Unending Alteration of the Human Heart is one of the most added new albums being reported by Spinitron stations as of May 23, and is currently TOP 10 in state-wide spins.

Rocky Mountain Music Relief Inc – provides financial and in-kind support to those individuals, groups and organizations within our Colorado music industry that have been impacted physically, financially and/or emotionally due to the occurrence of natural disasters or unforeseen tragedies within their communities.

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