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CP S19 EP31 2025

Moose in Maroon Lake 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.

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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The Christines – Hollow – The Christines (1994)
The Old Soul – Oldest Religion – Old Soul (1996)
(D) Katie Yeager – Revolution, Baby! (2025)

The Fretliners – Memories of You – Three of a Kind EP (2024)
A.J. Fullerton – Passing Time – Magnetic Light (2025)
The Patti Fiasco – Small Town Lights (2013)
Liz Barnez – Simple Song – Welcome Back (2015)
Ben Garcia – Sweet & True (2025)
(D) DJ Williams – Just Got Paid – Gravity & Grace (2025)

Angela Heart – Red (2023)
Fast Eddy – In Too Deep – To the Stars (2024)
The Jason Klobnak Quartet – Through Her Eyes – Friends & Family (2018)

Chicago – Feelin’ Stronger Every Day – VI (1973)
Zephyr – The Radio Song – Going Back To Colorado (1971)
(D) Vivian Oblivion – Animals (2025)

Mike Clark and the Sugar Sounds – Jet Black Cadillac – Moon Rock (2022)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone – Wildflower Lane (2025)
Judy Collins – When I Was A Girl In Colorado (2022)
Chris Daniels and the Kings – The Biggest Heartache On The Block – The Spark (2005)
Ragged Union – This Old Cowboy – Pyramid Stairs (2025)
(D) GRiZ – Found Your Love – Gemini EP (2025)

Niceness – What A Day – Realize (2021)
iies. – Graffiti Swing – Don’t Forget the Dot (2024)
Tia Fuller – Descend to Barbados – Angelic Warrior (2012)

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HOT SPINS WK ENDING AUG 17, 2025

ALL STATIONS including spins on the Colorado Playlist – 67 titles tracked
(1) 1. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25
(3) 2. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(R) 3. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Wildflower Lane LP Mar-25
(R) 4. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(D) 4. DJ WILLIAMS – Gravity & Grace LP May-25

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CP S19 EP10 2025

Sand Crane Festival, Alamosa CO March 2025 courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

I’ve been doing some housekeeping and updating recently; have you noticed?

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VENUES – NOT FRONT RANGE
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I’m incredibly happy to announce I’ll be taking part in this year’s FoCoMX. Hope to see you there .. GOAT HUGS!

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

starrsguitars.com

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) 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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HOUR 1

Dianne Reeves – Sky Islands – Dianne Reeves (1987)
Dianne Reeves – How High The Moon – I Remember (1991)
(D) Tyler Grant – Goat Canyon Trestle – Flatpicker (2025)
Last Call Romance – One Step Too Close – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 (2023)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold (feat. the Main Squeeze) (2025)
The Apples In Stereo – Nobody But You – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
Sherri Jackson – Time & Time – Sherri Jackson (1997)
Grant Sabin – Work – Work (2024)A
(D) Daniel Rodriguez – El Dorado ( 2025)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Place at the Table – All Out of Angels (2023)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand – Witness (2024)
Garrett Sayers Trio – Diatribe – Thinkbox (2017)

HOUR 2

Lannie Garrett feat. Nelson Rangell – Comes Love – Comes Love (1995)
Lannie Garrett – C’est Si Bon – Under Paris Skies (2005)
(D) Racyne Parker & Andy Sydow – Get Close – Will You Go With Me? (2025)
Julian Fulco Perron – All the Lights (2023)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeth Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
Jaiel – Bet On Me (feat. Adiel Mitchell) (2024)
Big Gigantic – The Little Things – Brighter Future (2016)
DeVotchKa – Straight Shot – This Night Falls Forever (2018)
Planes Mistaken For Stars – Modern Logic – Do You Still Love Me? (2025)
(P) Christine Alice – All Kinds Of Minds – Wood, Strings & Simple Things (2025)
Alysia Kraft – Little River – First Light (2022)
Clay Street Unit – Engine Trouble (2024)
David Baker Trio – Shiny Stockings – Minus Piano (2019)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

*Lannie Garrett and Christine Alice releases not available

HOT SPINS WEEK MARCH 09-15 2025
ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE including the Colorado Playlist

70 TITLES TRACKED 386 SPINS
(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(2) 2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(3) 2. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 3. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(D) 3. LOLITA – My Head f. DMD the Producer SP Feb-25
(D) 3. STILL HOUSE STRING BAND – Still House String Band EP Feb-25

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 and programs

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REVIEW: MARYLYNN GILLASPIE- SECRET LANGUAGE

Colorado is known for world class jazz, strange as that might sound. Colorado is also known historically for world class vocal jazz. Denver native Dianne Reeves has earned five Grammy Awards and an honorary Doctorate from Julliard for her work in that genre.

Boulder based Rare Silk earned two Grammy nominations for their vocalese / vocal jazz in the early ’80s, and Lannie Garrett blessed area stages into the 21st century with her torch and big band jazz stylizations.

MaryLynn Gillaspie started out with Rare Silk, a vocal quartet that she, her sister Gaile and Marguerite Juneman formed in the late seventies as a trio to sing songs influenced by and in the style of swing-era acts like the Andrews Sisters. Their debut, New Weave, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Jazz Vocal–Duo or Group category. Rare Silk ended their run in 1988.

MaryLynn Gillaspie wouldn’t be heard from again until 2012, when she began showing up with local Boulder/Denver musicians, sitting in for a song or two. That gave her the confidence to step into the studio, twenty-five years after Rare Silk ended.

Here’s a collection of songs MaryLynn has recorded since re-emerging in the scene a decade ago.

Secret Language (2022)

To be honest, with the exception of the standards, Dolphin Dance and Fly Me to the Moon, I knew almost nothing about the rest of the songs on the album. They could have all been self-penned for all I knew before opening it up and reading about it.

Fortunately, I listened without any real bias that way – it was a clean listen. And then I looked to see who wrote what.

It’s a shame really that I can’t find any liner notes. It would be nice to see who played what on each track. Based on the bits and pieces I have been able to collect, the notes read like a who’s who of Denver/Boulder talent, produced by Grammy winning Boulder composer and producer Kip Keupper at Coupe Studios.

Dophin Dance is a genuine joy. MaryLynn took the Herbie Hancock tune and wrote an original set of lyrics and a vocal melody for it. She also penned an original set of lyrics to Pat Metheny‘s (It’s Just) Talk. Not limited to being inspired by and influenced by jazz (old or new), MaryLynn turned to King Crimson‘s 1981 album Discipline for an utterly original retelling of Matte Kudasai.

As it stands now, on May 15 2022, MaryLynn’s return to full length “vinyl” (euphemistically speaking) is the stand out jazz album of the year from Colorado. It’s great to hear that voice again after more than THIRTY-FIVE years.