Greeley – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

CP S19 EP32 2025

Pretty much every week I share a picture from somewhere in our state, taken by my partner Claire. This week’s picture is a recent view from Basalt, CO.

Colorado’s night skies are among some of the best in the country.

We learned this week that Breckenridge has now been declared an official dark sky community. Paonia became an official dark sky community a year ago, September.

I hope you enjoy the photos and it encourages you to go visit our dark sky parks and communities in Colorado. And, I hope you listen to music from Colorado when you do 🙂 ~ Chris K.

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air.

I make this show available at no cost to the stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. 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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The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

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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Dianne Reeves – Hesitation – Welcome To My Love (1982)
Rare Silk – New York Afternoon – New Weave (1983)
(N) Gasoline Lollipops – Working for the Devil – Kill the Architect (2025)

Andy Sydow – Follow The Rain Down – Night Skin (2024)
Leftover Salmon – Brand New Good Old Days – Brand New Good Old Days (2021)
Kyle Hollingsworth – All We Are – All We Are LP (2025)
Carolyn Hunter – Comedown (2022)
Wendy Woo – Good Old Days (2022)
Hunter James & the Titanic – Weekend Holds – IV (2025)
(D) Darryl Purpose – Better – Connected / Better (2025)

Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Fortune Teller (2021)
Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts – Tonight, A Party! (2024)
Big Brooklyn – Send It To Me – Everyone Everywhere (2022)

Earth, Wind & Fire – Africano – That’s The Way of the World (1975)
(D) Sugar Nova – House of the Jaguar, Pt. 1 (2025)

The Motet – Something Better – Love Time (2024)
Dragondeer – Patient Boy (2021)
Stillhouse Junkies – Down the Line – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon (2025)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Unknown Legend – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
The Patti Fiasco Oil – Small Town Lights (2013)
The Barlow – High Spirits – High Spirits (2025)
(D) Questshun – Won’t Fall (2025)

Wildermiss – Supermagical (2020)
Bobby Walker – Outta Sight, Outta Mind – Outta Sight (2024)
Steve Denny Trio – Gramophology – Life in New York (2020)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING AUGUST 24, 2025

ALL STATIONS including spins on the Colorado Playlist – 75 titles tracked

(R) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(R) 2. MARFA – Daisy SP Sep-24
(D) 3. GHOST GNOTES – how does compliments LP Apr-25
(2) 3. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(R) 4. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
(1) 4. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25

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CP S19 EP30 2025

Summertime Milky Way over Lake San Cristobal, Lake City courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

__________________

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. I make this show available at no cost to the stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. 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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Danny Holien – Colorado – The Tumbleweed Records Story 1971-1973 (1972)
Stephen Stills – Colorado – Manassas (1971)
(D) Cole Schiefele – In Case You Ever Come Around (2025)

The Motet – Thinkin Too Much – Thinkin Too Much (2024)
Dressy Bessy – I’m Still Here (2021)
Andy Eppler – Don’t Say My Name – Valley of the Sin Eaters (2025)
The Mercury Project – Refuge – Soapbox Jive (2004)
Megan Burtt – Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – The Bargain (2015)
Tennis – 12 Blown Tires – Face Down In the Garden (2025)
(N) Analog Son – Insatiable f. Adryon de Leon – Keep It Coming (2025)

Gregory Alan Isakov – The Fall – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
Sugar Nova with G. Love & Special Sauce – Cool Me Down (2024)
Adam Bodine – Jacuzzi Marinade – Ribbons for Pigs (2025)

Babyface – Stone Cold – Babyface (1975)
Freddi Henchi and the Soulsetters – Fire – Crown Princes Of Funk: The Last Set (1972)
(D) Daniel Rodriguez, Wesley Schultz – Dig A Lover’s Grave – Dig A Lover’s Grave EP (2025)

Claire Heywood – Alone Woman – Water is All I See (2024)
N3ptune – Black Horse (radio edit) – Renaissance (2022)
Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
The Czars – What I Can Do For You – Before…But Longer (2008)
Katie Herzig – Walk Through Walls (2014)
Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
(D) Big Samir, South of France – Running Out of Time (2025)

Wellington Bullings – Because I Want To (2020)
Dragondeer – Jolee (2024)
Paa Kow – African Lady – Cookpot (2017)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles avail)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING AUG 10 2025

ALL STATIONS including spins on the Colorado Playlist – 74 titles tracked
(D) 1. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(D) 1. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25
(D) 2. MYSTEE – Forget Me Not EP Jul-25
(D) 3. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Dig A Lover’s Grave EP Jul-25
(2) 3. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 3. mon cher – Lush (ft. Best Man) SP Jun-25