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The Colorado Sound S9 EP18 May 2015

Short and to the point – here’s this week’s playlist.  Everything else will be in the May 1 News Notes and Spins column … It’s been a crazy couple of weeks with the Denver Music Summit, FOCOMX, and Spokebuzz.  Lots of things shaking.  Stay tuned. In the meantime, In the Whale pretty much never ceases to surprise – check out this week’s new music share and don’t forget to hit up the new Offstage Beyond the Music segment with Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore.

PLAYLIST S9 EP18 MAY 2015

HOUR 1

Joe Walsh “Here We Go” from Barnstorm (1972)
Sugarloaf “Country Dawg” from Spaceship Earth (1971)
(D) In The Whale “Mail” from Full Nelson (2015) Yawpers “Sister Mary” from Spokesbuzz Volume 4 (2014)
The Swayback “Queen’s Dance” from Long Gone Lads (2008)
Todd Adelman “Right Before You Said Hello” from Highways & Lowways (2015)
Leftover Salmon “Sing Up To the Moon” from Aquatic Hitchhiker (2012)
Lion Drome “Winter” from Curve of the Earth (2014)
El Toro de la Muerte “Like A Ghost” from Dancer These Days (2011)
Elephant Revival “Birds and Stars” from These Changing Skies (2013)
Rose Quartz “Something to Believe” from Axis of Love (2015)
The Motet “Afro Disco Beat” from Instrumental Dissent (2007)

HOUR 2

Acoustic Junction “Every Heart” from Strange Days (2000)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Rocksteady” from Rocksteady (2010)
(D) Otis Taylor “Peggy Lee” from Hey Joe Opus Red Meat (2015)
Brothers Keeper “Cold Rain” from Todd Meadows (2014)
Pandas & People “Still Young” from Pandas & People (2014)
Drew Schofield “Break It Down” from 150 Million (-1) (2014)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore “Train Home” from Love Runner (2014)
(N) Ivory Circle “And I Try” from Isoceles (2015) Fierce Bad Rabbit “Crystall Ball” from Living Asleep (2014)
Ben Markley ~ Clint Ashlock Quintet “Chasing Light” from The Return (2014)

The Colorado Sound S9|EP17 April/May 2015

Day 2 Denver Music Summit.  The Future of the Music Business + an industry round table with about 20 or so local, regional, and out of state musicians and industry personnel.  I think the big takeaway for me was realizing we’re sitting in a pretty good place here in Colorado.

UCD Professor Storm Gloor covered the current trends and fast changing technologies that are shaping the near future, without prognosticating on what may or may not happen years from now.  And the round table discussion I took part in more or less reinforced what I already felt, that despite the nearly horrific rise in the price of housing our creative community continues to set a standard looked at and talked about coast to coast – and that the only thing missing are jobs in publishing, licensing, and management and booking agencies, which for now at least are still safely settled on either coast.

Another pretty big takeaway from the weekend was verification that 18-24 and 45-64 audiences exist for both music discovery and live music attendance, and it’s the 25-44 crowd that’s largely absent at live music events, but still the most desired radio audience for advertisers.  This has been true for a few decades now.

The question was brought up, when the last of the baby boomers (now 50) pass on through, what happens?  After all, how many acts can still fill stadiums?  Jagger et.al. are now in their mid-seventies .. the youngest members left of the WWII generation … and the average age of the average touring musician today is 52, at the youngest end of the boomer generation.  One of the most likely outcomes is the demise of the full on stadium show and a rise in smaller venues (in the 1500+ seat range) and festival events.  Who is the next act or acts capable of doing stadium shows?

Video Pick of the Week

I had my camera with me, but as usual it was the spontaneous “oh crap I’d better shoot some stuff” moment that compelled me to take it out the holster and actually push record.  Here’s just a taste of what I saw on Saturday night.  I did a full audio recording of the DMS, but haven’t had time to review and edit.

PLAYLIST S9|EP17

HOUR 1

Mollie O’Brien “When I’m Gone” from Things I Gave Away (2000)
Yo, Flaco! “Skeptamistic” from Skeptamistic (2001)
John Common “The River Is Moving” from The River Is Moving (2015)
Tennis “Bad Girls” from Ritual In Repeat (2014)
Fierce Bad Rabbit “Time Machine” from Maestro & the Elephant (2013)
Plum “Behind Your Man” from Behind Your Man (2015)
Devotchka “Transliterator” from A Mad & Faithful Telling (2008)
John Statz “One Way Opens” from Tulsa (2015)
Montropo “Something to See” from Follow Me (2015)
Danielle Ate the Sandwich “Like A King” from Like A King (2012)
Railsplitters “Met That Day” from The Faster It Goes (2015)
Rich Lamb “Deja Blues” from Music Along the Way (2008)

HOUR 2

Leftover Salmon & Cracker “Low” from Oh Cracker, Where Art Thou? (2003)
(D) Raven and the Writing Desk “On A Wire” from some get started (2015)
(N) Natalie Walker “Nothing Lasts Forever” from Strange Bird (2015)
OneRepublic “Feel Again” from Native (2012)
Calder’s Revolvers “Leave Ya Be” from Sunday Morning (2014)
Bill Frisell “Messin’ with the Kid” from Guitar In the Space Age (2014)
Hazel Miller Band “I’m Still Looking” from I’m Still Looking (2001)
Drag the River “Not That Kind” from Drag The River (2013)
(N) Todd Adelman “Cold Mississippi Blues” from Highways & Lowways (2015)
Head for The Hills “Take Me Back” from Blue Ruin (2013)
Brad Goode “St. Louis Blues” from Chicago Red (2013)

The Colorado Sound S9|EP16 APRIL 20 2015

Goat_Logo_color_on_whiteI spent Sunday afternoon with Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore.  That conversation will be featured as our Offstage …Beyond the Music segment in May while Mollie and Rich are on tour in Scotland, before returning for shows in Arkansas and Oklahoma.  Don’t forget to check out this week’s segment with Hazel Miller.  Rich and Mollie’s fist segment goes “live” on May 4.

Have you been listening to the show?  No?  Hmmm.  Have you been keeping up with the In Colorado Music History segments?  Here are the two latest.   

How bout The Colorado Sound Live365?  When was the last time you checked that out?  Seems we’ve lost a lot of you the past few months.  Hmmmmmm….. if you haven’t tuned in lately there’s a lot of new music being played, and a special dinner time jazz show from 6-8 every Mon-Fri.  You can also download the Live365 app and take the show with you.  It streams easily.

Please share with your friends in SW Colorado — COMING Thursday MAY 7 10PM to Durango, Pagosa, Farmington, and other SW locations on Four Corners Public Radio, KSUT

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

PLAYLIST S9|EP16

HOUR1

Philip Bailey “I Know” from Continuation (1983)
The Apples in Stereo “Ruby” from Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999)
(N) Esme Patterson “Oh Let’s Dance” from What Do You Call A Woman (2015)
Taarka “River’s Eddy Blues” from Making Tracks Home (2015)
Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family “Land of Fire” from Land of Fire (2010)
(D) Ivory Circle “Faces and Colors” from Isoceles (2015) Fierce Bad Rabbit “Wildflowers” from Maestro & the Elephant (2013)
(N) Wendy Woo Band “On With the Show” from Tipping Point (2015)
Safe Boating is No Accident “Bonus Features” from Bonus Features (2014)
Gregory Alan Isakov “Big Black Car” from This Empty Northern Hemisphere (2009)
(N) Trout Steak Revival “Ours for the Taking” from Brighter Every Day (2015)
Matt Skellenger “The Curve” from New Radio (2014)

HOUR2

Cracker “Euro-trash Girl” from Get On With It: The Best Of (2006)
Zephyr “Mad Dog” from Heartbeat (1982)
Richard Dean “Radium Dial” from Accidental Human (2015)
Paul Kimbiris “Dark Side of Pearl” from Dark Side of Pearl (2014)
Jeff Austin “15 Steps” from The Simple Truth (2015)
Selina Albright “Didn’t Cha Know” from Brighter (2013)
Hazel Miller Band “Moon Was Right” from Coming To You Live…From KUVO (2011)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “I Get Smooth” from Black Beehive (2014)
Richie Furay “Hand In Hand” from Hand In Hand (2015)
Ben Markley “5-20” from Second Introduction (2009)

JOIN ME THIS SUMMER AT:

Locals x Locals at the Mishawaka Amphitheatre on June 6.  A festival to celebrate and honor local musicians, featuring Cracker, Post Paradise, and more.  I’ll be doing Offstage interviews and a special one hour top 12 mix of some of the hottest new music of the year.

The Greeley Blues Jam in Greeley on June 13, with Austin Young- featuring Michaela Rae and friends + Maynard Mills Blues Band + George Whitesell and His All Stars featuring Jill Watkins + The Frails- all female review featuring Erica Brown, MJ, G’Jai, Michaela Rae, Miss Audrey, Susan Phelan & national headliners Delbert McClinton, Elvin Bishop and more.

Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival in Dacono on Saturday Aug 1.  I’ll announce the acts in about a month.

The Colorado Sound Presents Hazel Miller, Chris Daniels & the Kings, Goatz!, and William’s Reserve on Aug 9 at the Mishawaka

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