CP S17 EP36 2023

Monday OCT 9, 2023 – Hope you enjoyed the last of the fall colors for the year. Snow is already falling with cozy nights listening to Colorado music in front of a fireplace with a great bottle of Colorado wine (or whiskey) right there with it. It’s also a great time of year to enjoy some live music at some of the best indoor venues anywhere. Check out the live music calendar.

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) is 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.

The Fogcutters – Cry, Cry, Cry! (1965)
The Fantastic Zoo – Light Show (1967)
(N) Heavy Diamond Ring – Sorry You’re Sick (2023)

Erik Lunde – Long Time Overdue – Water From The Stone (2022)
The Burroughs – I Refuse (2021)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Before the Sun – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
Drew Emmitt – Gypsy In My Soul – Long Road (2008)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Pine Box – Always Say Please And Thank You (2000)
Rodney Rice – Get to Where I’m Going – Rodney Rice (2023)
(D) Morning Bear – Splitting of the Wood (2023)

piKziL – Can’t Get Started – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
Mojomama – We Are One – We Are One (2022)
Adam Bodine – Swamp Stomp – Scenes of Changery (2021)

Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids – Brown Water (Apocalypse Blues) – Best of Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids (1977)
Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids – Summer Means Fun – Sons of the Beaches (1975)
(N) Dragondeer – The Says Who (radio edit) – Across The Waves (2023)

Alysia Kraft – Hamilton Pool – First Light (2022)
Gabrielle Louise – Don’t Touch Me – The Unending Alteration Of The Human Heart (2020)
The String Cheese Incident – Lend Me a Hand – Lend Me a Hand (2023)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – All The Love You Need – All The Love You Need (2007)
Zephyr – We Got the Love – Heartbeat (1982)
Hunter James and the Titanic – Queen of it All – Signals (2023)
(N) Bryce Menchaca – Ghost – Salt (2023)

Liz Barnez – Simple Song – Welcome Back (2015)
Sweet Virginia – Blue Skies – Leaving Again (2022)
Yo, Flaco! – Stinger’s Last Stand (Featuring Ron Miles) – The Skinny (2005)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

#COMUSIC TOP SPINS OCT 1-7 2023

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 to track airplay around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered CHART
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or 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

(1) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones LP (May-23)
(D) 2. DRAGONDEER – Across the Waves LP (Jun-23) **
(D) 2. JENNY SHAWHAN – You Got the Magic LP (Aug-23)
(D) 2. *STRAWBERRY RUNNERS – Strawberry Runners LP (Aug-23)
(D) 3. BRYCE MENCHACA – Salt EP (Aug-23)
(D) 3. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Does My Heart Seem Broken? SP (Aug-23)
(D) 3. CRLO – Call Me When Your Heart Remembers EP (Sep-23)
(D) 3. RO$$A¥ – Messenger Who Shot Back LP (Jul-23)
(R) 3. VOLORES – Ages LP (Mar-23)

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CP S17 EP35 2023

Guanella Pass in late Sept courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

MONDAY OCT 02, 2023 — Autumn is my most favorite time of year. September into mid October is when Claire and I most enjoy our long drives through the west. We’ve made it a habit now to rotate in-state and out of state drives. This year, we stayed home except for a day-trip or two to see the fall colors here in Colorado. The colors this year are fantastic, as is the music from our state.

I’m not posting a weekly TOP five this morning… watch for the September TOP 20 later.

In about a month, NOV 6, I will be receiving the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from 105.5 The Colorado Sound (KJAC Greeley). As a part of that, a couple of weeks ago Adam Perry interviewed me for his Mile High Stash podcast – where he asks “what five albums would you take to a remoted Colorado cabin during a zombie apocalypse, armed with nothing but food, water and a crank-powered Victrola.”

Truth is, I only named four – but one is a double album, so there’s that. You’ll have to listen to find out which albums I picked .. oh, and only one has a direct Colorado connection – there’s that too 😉

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) is 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.

Carolyn’s Mother – Back Porch – Joy (1999)
Dressy Bessy – Just Like Henry – Pink Hearts Yellow Moons (1999)
(D) Jenny Shawhan – Stuck in the Middle With You – You Got the Magic (2023)


Yonder Mountain String Band – Into the Fire – Get Yourself Outside (2022)
GRiZ – Astro Funk – Rainbow Brain (2021)
Volores – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
The Apples In Stereo – Dance Floor – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
John Oates/Ryan Tedder – Stone Cold Love – Good Road to Follow (2014)
Sugar Nova – Touch Me, I’m Going to Scream, Pt. II – Halogen (2023)
(D) Heavy Diamond Ring – Place at the Table – All Out of Angels (2023)

The Samples – Close To The Fires – The Samples (1989)
N3ptune, Rusty Steve – Black Horse – Renaissance (2022)
Keith Oxman – The Splashers – Caught Between the Lion and the Twins (2008)

Jux County – Come See – Haxtun (1999)
(D) Bryce Menchaca – Flower Painted Black – Salt (2023)

The Barlow – All My Days – New Year, Old Me (2022)
Sera Cahoone – Always Turn Around – From Where I Started (2017)
Claire Heywood – Does My Heart Seem Broken? (2023)
Born In The Flood – Another night, another place – If this thing should spill (2007)
Mark Oblinger – Living Imitation – High Water Line (2019)
Neon the Bishop – A Damn Good First Impression (2023)
(N) Dragondeer – Across the Waves (radio edit) – Across The Waves (2023)

Philip Bailey – Love Is Real – Love Is Real EP (2010)
Alysia Kraft – Little River – First Light (2022)
BTTRFLY Quintet – Tijuca – Coast (2023)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

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WHAT #COMUSIC IS GETTING SPINS

Top of Trailridge Road Thursday Aug 17 courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

MONDAY AUG 21 – Well, that road trip to SW Colorado last week meant I didn’t get a regular episode of the show produced. Stations were free to choose two from the nine special episodes of the show I have archived: Colorado In the 80s. Colorado In the 90s PT1 and PT2. Colorado Music Hall of Fame 2011-2022, Colorado Women of the 20th Century. Colorado Women of the 21st Century. Colorado Award Winners and Superstars PT1. Best of Caribou Ranch. Songs for and About Colorado.

Don’t forget – many (most) of the stations the Colorado Playlist is broadcast from archive up to two weeks worth of shows. Check links at stations and times to find out.

The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) is 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.

This weekend I put together some new Spotify playlists.
COLORADO MUSIC HALL OF FAME – 79 songs, 5 hr 16 min.
COLORADO 1990s: 20 songs, 1 hr 20 min.
COLORADO 2000s: 30 songs, 2 hr 1 min.
COLORADO 2010s: 40 songs, 2 hr 42 min.

WHAT #COMUSIC IS GETTING SPINS

SUNDAY AUGUST 20 was National Radio Day. As you undoubtedly know by now, I track Colorado music from over a dozen community/public and college stations around the state, including what I play on the Colorado Playlist.

Here’s what received at least one spin on one radio station somewhere in Colorado over the past three weeks. There are seventy-nine titles listed.

LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them.
** = serviced to Colorado media by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC.

2MX2 – Arriba y Abajo SP Jun-23
2MX2 – El Desmadre SP Feb-23
ADDIE TONIC – Brutal SP Jun-23
ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms SP Jun-23
ALYSIA KRAFT – Killer Bees SP Jul-23
*ANDY SYDOW – Little Crown EP Jun-23
ANGELA HEART – Red SP Jun-23
ANTONIO LOPEZ – The Future Is Now SP Apr-23
BABAUX & THE PEACEMAKERS – Moments in Time LP May-23
BELLHOSS – Better Now SP Jul-23
*BILL FRISELL – Four LP Nov-22
BLEAK MYSTIQUE – Less Of You SP Jul-23
BLEAK MYSTIQUE – Only ‘Cause I Wanted To SP Feb-23
BLOOD BROTHERS 303 – The Moon Is My Mistress SP Jun-23
BONNIE & TAYLOR SIMS – Devil and the Deep Blue SP Jun-23
BRAD GOODE – The Unknown LP Feb-23
BRITT DEVENS – Goodbye LA SP Jul-23
BROKEN RECORD – Blueprinting SP Jun-23
BROTHERS KEEPER – He Left You (f. John Popper) SP Jan-23
BROTHERS OF BRASS – Mile High SP Mar-23
BTTRFLY QUINTET – Coast LP Nov-22
BURROUGHS, the – Honey Imastar LP Jun-23
CALAMITY – Chiromanc LP Jul-23
CATCALLS, the – Muddy Waters SP Apr-23
CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Does My Heart Seem Broken? SP Aug-23
CROOKED RUGS, the – Metropolis LP Mar-23
DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Vast Nothing LP Mar-23**
DRAGONDEER – New Dawn Get Down SP Jun-23**
EL JAVI – I Am SP Apr-23
ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Feel Something SP Jul-23
FREE DRACULA – Oh, Cupid SP Jul-23
GIANT WALKING ROBOTS – Tonight SP Apr-23
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – Congratulations and Condolences SP May-23
GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones LP May-23
INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, the – As It Was SP Jul-23
JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Lick My Soul LP Mar-23
JOHNNY & THE MONGRELS – Magnolia and Pine LP Dec-22
JULIAN FULCO PERRON – About Love SP Aug-23**
JULIAN FULCO PERRON – All the Lights SP Mar-23
KILTRO – Underbelly LP Apr-23
LAST CALL ROMANCE – One Step Too Close SP Apr-23**
LEFTOVER SALMON – Grass Roots LP May-23
MATT SKELLENGER GROUP – Subspace Transmission LP Feb-23
MIRANDA FLING – Interstate Name Calling SP May-23
MUSKETEER GRIPWEED – Long Past Time LP Sep-22
N3PTUNE & RUSTY STEVE – Shadow SP Jun-23
NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – What If I/Buy My Round SP May-23
NATHANIEL RILEY – Bird Songs LP Jun-23
NIC CLARK – Everybody’s Buddy LP Jun-23
NOVA KICKS, the – Metallic Hips/Records SP Aug-23
POUDRE VALLEY PLAYBOYS – Shooting for the Stars LP Jun-23
REVEREND FREAKCHILD – Songs of Beauty for Ashes of Realization LP Jul-23
ROBOT TENNIS CLUB – If These Walls Could Talk, You Wouldn’t Listen LP Jan-23
RODNEY RICE – Rodney Rice LP May-23
sashiBOOM – Work In Progress SP Dec-22
sashiBOOM – Tell Me About Her SP Jun-23
SID SRIRAM – Do the Dance SP Jun-23
SOUND OF HONEY – Dozens of Colors LP Mar-23
STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – Small Towns LP Sep-22
STONE JACKALS – Chemical Canopy EP Nov-22
STRANGEBYRDS – Highway Islands LP Feb-23
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, the – Lend Me a Hand LP Jun-23
SUGAR NOVA – Halogen LP Mar-23
TELLER – Make Me Hate U SP May-23
TIERRO BAND W BRIDGET LAW – Everlasting Dance LP Dec-22
TRAVIS MCNAMARA – Moon Calendar LP Mar-23
TWO FACES WEST – Postcards From Lonely Places LP Jun-23
*VINCE HERMAN – Enjoy the Ride LP Nov-22
VOLORES – Ages LP Mar-23
WHITE ROSE MOTOR OIL – The Gift of Poison EP Mar-23
WILDERMISS – Getting’ Old Rock &Roll SP Jul-23
WILDERMISS – Identify! AUG-23
WOOD BELLY – Play Me Out SP Jul-23
*WOOD BROTHERS, the– Heart Is the Hero LP Apr-23

TOP 5 #COMUSIC SPINS AUG 13-19

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.

(D) Debuted in TOP 5
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them.
** = serviced to Colorado media by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC.

(1) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones LP May-23
(3) 2. KILTRO – Underbelly LP Apr-23
(D) 3. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Lick My Soul LP (Mar-23)
(2) 4. DRAGONDEER – New Dawn Get Down SP Jun-23**
(5) 5. THE BURROUGHS – Honey Imastar LP Jun-23

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