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The Colorado Sound – S7/EP08 March 2013

grizzly goat adamsHi.  New Instagram shot … shows my “Grizzly Goat Adams” side my wife says … LOL .  Ok…not much time to sit and chat this morning.  The monthly news, notes, and Top 40 is now 2 days past schedule, and I’m only hoping I’ll get it done sometime today (Sunday March 3).  In the meantime I received more new music this past week than I had time to listen to.  But I did manage to get a fair amount into the show again this week.  Unfortunately, as is sometimes the case, not everything you hear this week will be heard again sometime soon.  I’ve already got 342 songs curated for 2013, and I’m not done importing.  I have 538 in catalog from 2012.  I’ll be doing some weeding this week to be sure.

In the meantime … news … Wendy Woo had surgery yesterday.  A late night post from her husband Charles Snyder while I was at the Skylark doing sound for Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams caught my attention… he told me in a follow up “she had to have surgery on her vocal cords to remove polyps. She had to cancel her next twelve shows which she’s really bumbed about, however the surgery went well and she should be back in a couple of months.”  Good luck to Wendy.  She’s been a staple in our scene for over a decade now, and continues to be a crowd favorite.

Speaking of Halden Wofford and the Hi*Beams – they spent the day yesterday, and will be back spending the day today, at Might Fine Productions finishing tracks for their upcoming new release.  The guys are really excited, and based on what I’ve heard of new material done live it will be another fan favorite.  Don’t expect a lengthy song list this time though – this will be a “smaller” batch of songs and there may be <hint fellows> vinyl in the offering (?).    Also finishing up mixing for a new album at Colin Bricker’s place => Lionel Young Band … bassist Kim Stone blasted out Thursday “Mixing the new Lionel Young Band CD at MFP Studio’s.”  Nice 🙂

Bumped into Kerry and Paul from the Informants last night also … could a new EP be in the making???

Birthday wishes this week to:  Jazz vocalist Erienne Romaine (22).  CJ Nicolai (Reckless Red).  Greta Cornet (FoCoMA, Road 34, 3 Twins Broadband, 12 Cents for Marvin, Mama Lenny & the Remedy). Rebecca Folsom (50).  Chris Citrus Sautoff  (Swallow Hill instructor and all around funk-meister guitarist and sitarist). Pianist Jon Wirtz (33).  Bassist Glenn Tapia (44).  And Colorado native and songstress Katie Herzig is celebrating… congrats to all our friends and family in the scene celebrating one great year of life among us.

I think that’s it … now for our Video Pick of the Week … and the Playlist … the NEWS NOTES & SPINS column should be up tonight … tomorrow morning at the latest, I promise.

VIDEO PICK of the WEEK

THE PLAYLIST

Beast “Spaceman” from “Beast” (1969)
The Samples “Close to the Fires” from Samples (1990)
(D) The Centennial “Meantime” from Nervous System (2013) Elephant Revival “Quill Pen Feather” from It’s Alive (2012)
Pete Kartsounes “Believer” from The Only Way I Know (2011)
Katya Chorover “Little Bird” from Big Big Love (2012)
Strange Americans “Roses On Ice” from A Royal Battle (2012)
Arliss Nancy “Should’ve Been There” from Simple Machines (2012)
Lionel Young Band “Drivin’ Wheel” from On Our Way to Memphis (2011)
Fox Street Allstars “Saturday Night” from Tough Talk (2013)
(D) Confluence “Stay” from I Haven’t Really Been Living (2013)
Raincheck “Right There” from Raincheck (2012)
Earth, Wind & Fire “Reasons” from That’s the Way of the World (1975)
Zuba “Planet Of Love” from South of Eden (1999)
(D) Nina Storey “Think Twice” from Think Twice (2013)
You Me and Apollo “Oh My Molly” from You Me and Apollo (2012)
El Toro de la Muerte “God Alone” from Dancer These Days (2011)
(N) Jeremy Dion “Halleluhjah” from Golden Some Day (2013)
(N) Dennis Wanebo “Running on Gravity” from Running On Gravity (2013)
(D) Andy Palmer “The Monk” from Hazard of the Die (2013)(N) WhiteWater Ramble “Standard Deviation” from Roots & Groove (2013)
(D) Paper Bird “As I Am” from Rooms (2013)
Born in The Flood “If This Thing Should Spill” from If this Thing Should Spill (2007)
Esme Patterson “Jessica” from All Princes, I (2012)
Chris Malley and Bob Schlesinger “Illegal Snakes” from Split Shot (2012)

The Colorado Sound S7/EP05 Feb 2013 + Video of the Week.

chris k july 2010Every week I receive a fairly large amount of new music to evaluate for the show.  I’d say most of what I get makes it on-air at least once.  I don’t know if that’s because I’m only receiving the cream of the crop, or if we’ve just become that good in Colorado.  I like to think it’s a bit of both.

I’m often found cruising Facebook, scanning for items of information I can use in the news and notes section of the show, or just information about artists in general to talk about.  Recently, I saw a post for a show that got my attention, not because of the headliner, but because I mistook the message and thought a different band was having a cd release party… whereupon I immediately contacted that band about their new cd.  Of course, to my chagrin, I discovered I had made a mistake.  I was subsequently turned onto a new artist … whose cd release party it really was … and was told that she’d done very well on YouTube, with 24,081 subscribers and 2,399,645 video views, and that she sells out the rare show she does locally.  So, with that background – may I please introduce to you Miss Elise Lieberth with our video of the week selection.  

PLAYLIST S7/EP05 Feb 2013

(D) = album debut
(N) = new song debut

Dianne Reeves “Afro Blue (Live)” from The Best of Dianne Reeves (2000)
Wendy Woo “Wide Awake and Dreaming” from Wide Awake and Dreaming (1999)
Beats Noir! “Where the Sun Goes Down” from Where the Sun Goes Down (2013)
Tyler Ward “The Way We Are” from Hello. Love. Heartbreak (2012)
The Fray “Over My Head (Cable Car)” from How to Save A Life (2005)
Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band featuring Erica Brown “Tangled Road” from Tangled Road (2012)
(D) Ryan Chrys “The Road Never Ends” from A Lick & A Promise (2013)
Hickman-Dalton Gang “Construction Man” from Hickman-Dalton Gang Vol. II (2011)
You Me and Apollo “Oh My Molly” from You Me and Apollo (2012)
(D) A Boy and His Kite “You Want It, You Got It” from A Boy and His Kite (2012)
(N) Carmelita’s Lovers “Need to Know” from Ghosts of Our Former Selves (2013)
Moetones “Roadhouse” from Lowbrow (2012)
Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra “Beauty and the Beast” from Sharks And Manatees (2012)
Chris Daniels & the Kings “Congo Square” from Live Wired! (1995)
Leftover Salmon “Dance On Your Head” from The Nashville Sessions (1999)
(N) John William Davis “Same Old Devil” from Dead Simple, Vol. 1: You Talk Funny (2013)
Sofie Reed “Leaving This Morning” from Simplicity Chased Trouble Away (2012)
(D) Bad Brad & the Fat Cats “Thunder On The Mountain” from Eyes on the Prize (2013)
(D) Catch Bees “Brevity” from Narratives from a Factory Town (2013)
(D) Jeremy Dion “Desperate Mama” from Golden Some Day (2013)
(D) Josh Dillard “Dandelion Clocks” from The Whale & the Sea (2011)
The Jekylls “You’re Probably Right” from The Sweet Factory (2012)
Ten Pound Elephant “Talk to Me” from Ten Pound Elephant (2012)
Whiskey Blanket “Rule the Roost” from No Object (2010)
(D) gogoLab “Tumbleweeds” from Border Patrol (2013)

The Colorado Sound – V4 EP18 2012

Video – it’s the way things are done.  In a CNBC special on The Future of TV we learn that the lines between traditional television and internet television have blurred – and that changes in the next ten years will greatly overshadow changes made over the previous 25 years.  At a local level, video and radio will merge — more and more radio will ustream video along with audio content.

Talent advisers, agencies, and buyers will increasingly rely on video instead of audio demos as a way to vet acts for festivals, muni-events, private events, and other gigs – and as a means of promoting the event itself.  People want to SEE what they’re getting as well as HEAR what they’re getting.  TASTE, TOUCH, and SMELL come next… but that’s really in the future.  3-D hologram tv and video is not too far off however.

I launched a video channel under The Colorado Sound banner over at YouTube –  I attempted to embed the entire thing here, but no go …. so here’s a couple of featured videos from this week’s youtube channel rotation …

Zach Heckendorf has fast become one of our rising stars in Colorado, since he graduated high school in 2011 (?) and had his debut produced by Brett Dennen.  He’s on his way to “all the right places,” according to Ricardo Baca at the Denver Post.  “All The Right Places” was shot at various locations around Denver and Colorado, including Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Mile High Stadium, Caribou Ranch Recording Studio, and Union Station.  Zach is the first artist to record at Caribou Ranch since it burned down in 1985.  Zach opens for Michael Franti & Spearhead at Red Rocks on June 8.  

I started off the show this week, as I have every week the past couple of months, with a nod to a Colorado legend, who many people don’t know lived here from the 70s until his passing in 2007 … Dan Fogelberg originally came to Colorado along with some pals like Glen Frye and Don Henley – who were working out the Eagles in Aspen in the early 70s.  Dan didn’t care for Aspen – too busy and too much partying apparently.  He wound up buying Chris Hillman’s (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Bros., Manassas, The Desert Rose Band) place in Nederland.  In 1980, he bought land in Pagosa Springs.  He built a ranch and recording studio and moved there permanently in 1982.

Dan Fogelberg “As The Raven Flies” from Souvenirs (1974)


Nathen Maxwell & the Original Bunny Gang “Stick To My Guns” from White Rabbit (2010)
(N) Rob Drabkin “Graceland” from Rob Drabkin Live {1-19-12 Bluebird Theater} (2012)
Megan Burtt “It Ain’t Love” from It Ain’t Love (2010)
(N) In The Whale “Heels” from Cake (2012)
(N) Megan Redmond “Crazy Daisies” from Dreamland (2012)
John Denver “Paradise” from Rocky Mountain High (1972)
Finnders and Youngberg “Driftwood” from FY5 (2011)
Rob Roper “Me” from Misfit (2011)
Coles Whalen “Beautiful Without Me” from I Wrote This for You (2012)
Monroe Monroe “Adore” from Hello Moon (2011)
Dressy Bessy “Who’d Stop The Rain” from Electrified (2005)
(N) Tennis “Robin” from Young and Old (2012)
Keith Oxman “All Dudes” from Doing All Right (2009)

In the second hour of this week’s show, I began with 2 original Colorado legendary acts – Leftover Salmon, formed in 1990 by merging Vince Herman and Drew Emmitt’s respective projects at the time …and Otis Taylor, who’s history runs deep and includes time spent with Zephyr.  Otis is today considered one of the most original and unique bluesmen in the country – a unique approach that is just now beginning to influence a new generation of blues artists here and around the world.

(N) Leftover Salmon “Bayou Town” from Aquatic Hitchhiker (2012)
Otis Taylor “Hands On Your Stomach” from Respect The Dead (2001)


The Lovely & Talented “Angelitos” from The New American Fable (2010)
The Congress “Distance” from Whatever You Want (2012)
Mama Lenny & the Remedy “Not A Girl To Keep” from Punches & Hugs (2012)
Robert Marcey & Familyman Barrett “Love Grows” from Wailin for Justice (2010)
Zach Heckendorf “Tye Dye March” from The Cool Down (2011)
Rose Hill Drive “Telepathic” from Americana (2011)
(N) Danielle Ate the Sandwich “Pet Store” from Things People Do (2009)
Houses “Me & Mr. Kelly” from Summer (2009)
(D) Joe Sampson “Moon Up Above” from Kill Our Friends (2012)
Bare Bones “Come In/Stay Out” from Bare Bones (2011)
H2 Big Band “Blue Brews” from You’re It! (2011)