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North Clear Creek Falls, Colorado. Courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

This past week, Claire (Clear Vistas Photography) and I went to Lake City for dark skies and fly fishing. We’ll be sharing some of the stunning landscape and dark sky / Milky Way pics as Claire gets them done. This week’s featured photo is from North Clear Creek Falls, between Lake City and Creede.

And, of course, we took in some live music.

The Mary Stigall Theater is the centerpiece of Lake City Arts, “…celebrating community through year-round arts, culture, and education.” I’ve hosted and appeared at HUNDREDS of open mics. Rarely have I found one where a small community theater is filled with musicians of all ages and skill levels .. AND attendees there to take in the love of performing music.

Friday night, we went to hear some local solo artists at the popular Chillin Inc. Owner/operator Jeff Heaton is in the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame for the years he’s spent performing at Chillin’. Jeff loves his classic folk and country and he even included a touching rendition of Puff the Magic Dragon in the closing set.

Dining in Lake City is another story, entirely. Be prepared for lots of fried food and BBQ, and one Mexican restaurant. The exceptions are Breakfast Hangout & Euphoria, where you can find red snapper, along with duck, on their dinner menu …and the EXQUISITE Climb Elevated Eatery!

The room atmosphere, top flight service and dishes like Taste of the Rockies (elk tenderloin with Colorado lambchops the night we were there), or their signature BLT at lunch, makes Climb essential “fine dining” in this fairly remote Colorado mountain town.

WTG Lake City – we’ll be back.
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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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CP S19 EP25 2025 on Mixcloud .. where you can also find the previous four episodes.

Rick Roberts – Sail Away – Windmills (1972)
(N) Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Angel Eyes – Lost In The Crowd (2025)
Kiltro – All The Time in the World – Underbelly (2023)
Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
Lionel Young Band – Drivin’ Wheel – On Our Way to Memphis (2012)
Leftover Salmon – Show Me Something Higher – Something Higher (2018)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone (2025)
(N) Justin Lansing – Marilyn Monroe – Rocky Mountain Time (2025)
Wellington Bullings – Because I Want To (2020)
Julian Fulco Perron – About Love (2023)
Peter Sommer – Looks Like This – Tremolo Canteen (2010)

Deuce Mob – My ’64 – Going Solo (1996)
(N) A.J. Fullerton – Passing Time – Magnetic Light (2025)
Kick and the Hug – Contagious (2024)
Johnny & The Mongrels – Louisiana Girl – Creole Skies (2020)
Hunter James & the Titanic – Weekend Holds (2025)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Josephina – Black Beehive (2014)
Tennis – Needle and a Knife – Ritual in Repeat (2014)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Here I Go – Nowhere Next (2024)
(D) The Cody Sisters – Not My Thoughts – All the Quiet People (2025)
Sour Magic – Means to an End – Forbidden Fruit (2023)
The Crooked Rugs – Chasin’ the Wind – Hear & Now (2024)
Steve Denny Trio – Gramophology – Life in New York (2020)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING JUNE 29 2025

ALL STATIONS including the Colorado Playlist – 81 titles tracked
(D) 1. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(2) 2. BLANKSLATE – Lookout Mountain Charley LP Jun-25
(1) 3. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 4. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(3) 4. MAE HUNNIFORD – Yesterday SP Nov-24

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and 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.