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Fairyland, Bryce National Park, UT, April 2026. Courtesy Clear Vistas Photography.

I’m writing this on Sunday afternoon. The edge of CO and UT is our backyard and a major reason we moved to Grand Junction in 2024 – to be closer to some of the best dark sky conditions in the country. Bryce Nat’l Park in Utah is one of the most surrealistically beautiful places in the US. Claire captured this week’s featured shot when we traveled there in April for a long weekend.

The fires you may have read or heard about over the weekend were within ten to twenty miles from our home in Grand Junction, to the south and west.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. BUT I’M NOT. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my income.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

YOUR SUPPORT IS GENUINELY APPRECIATED.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). 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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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year releases. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

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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Acoustic Junction – Oh Me Oh My – Strange Days (2000)
The Samples – Radio Song – Return To Earth (2001)
(D) Alysia Kraft, Veronica May – Learn that Groove (2026)

Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
The Sweet Lillies – Words – Equality (2023)
Jesus Christ Taxi Driver – Too Cold for Golf – Taxi the Rich (2026)
Dango Rose – Singularity (radio edit) – The Forgotten Years EP VOL. Two (2022)
Fierce Bad Rabbit – Chasing After Things ( We Don’t Know The Names) – Spools of Thread (2011)
The Lumineers – Big Shot – Brightside (2021)
Wildermiss – Kiss the Weeds (2026)
(N) Dianne Reeves – Tequila Mockingbird – Star Child (2026)

2MX2 – El Desmadre (2024)
Giant Walking Robots – What You See (2025)
Ellyn Rucker – Blues for Big Scotia – Ellyn (1988)

Girard – Hello Operator – Girard (1976)
Tommy Bolin – Bustin’ Out – For Rosey – Private Eyes (1976)
(D) Cary Morin – It Matters to You Now – Songs From Anguilla 2026 (2026)

Joe Johnson – Interstate Lovesick Song – Morgantown (2018)
Jaguar Stevens – Persephone – Dead Miner’s Daughter (2026)
MaryLynn Gillaspie – Matte Kudasai – Secret Language (2022)
The Reminders – Dust and Bones – Unstoppable (2019)
Gracie Bassie – One (2026)
(N) Chantil Dukart – Show Me What Love Is – Chantil Dukart & the Dukes of Art (2026)

Stillhouse Junkies – Moonrise Over Ridgway – Small Towns (2022)
Aubrey Dale – ‘Til the Cows Come Home (2025)
Eric Lilley Trio – Scrapple From the Pineapple – Swing Set (2025)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE – LIVE AND IN THE STUDIO

11 studio and live performance videos this week.  Live on stage or in the studio videos this week from: The Sweet Lillies live on GFF, Fierce Bad Rabbit live at the Triple Nickel Tavern, Colorado Springs, Giant Walking Robots live at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, The Reminders NPR Tiny Desk contest, Stillhouse Junkies live on Red Barn Radio.

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JUNE 28.

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), Indie1023 (Denver)

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the country.

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST
(R) 1. FANCY BITS – Fancy Bits EP
(R) 2. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread SP
(R) 3. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP
(D) 3. smear – Close to You SP
(D) 4. BOBBY WIENS – Focus LP

THANK YOUR SUPPORT. SINCERELY APPRECIATED.