Joe Johnson – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

Rendezvous Park – Winter Park – Sat Aug 13 2022

AUG 15 2022 – It was a fun and fulfilling day in the rain in Winter Park on Saturday. I mc’d the Stellas Gives Back to Grand County Search and Rescue benefit. The show featured Tara Rose, Andy Sydow and Slopeside. It poured for most of the event. The only act able to complete a full set was Andy Sydow and his band.

Other than Tara Rose, I’ve known members of Slopeside for over twenty years, and Andy Sydow for eight or nine. If nothing else, it was really great getting reacquainted and caught up on life and music.

Not a lot of people showed up, given the weather conditions. Those who did huddle under whatever rain protection there was were treated to some major league Colorado musician perseverance. All who took the stage showed the scant audience the range and quality of what our scene is all about. Much love to everyone! It really was a special kinda day. I was really honored to be a part of it.

TOP 5 #COMUSIC WKEND 8/13/22

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, designed to benefit community/public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents.

THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP
ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP
NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – The Future LP
KING CARDINAL – In Tall Buildings SINGLE
A PLACE FOR OWLS – A Place for Owls LP

MMMM (MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING)

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I designed the Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) as a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

Firefall – Just Remember I Love You – Luna Sea (1977)
Firefall – You Are The Woman – Firefall (1976)
(D) Drunken Hearts – Sunlight (feat. Big Richard) (2022)

Greg Schochet – Fool Such As I (feat. Halden Wofford) – Amblin’ Man (2021)
Finn O’Sullivan – When The Power Comes Back On (2020)
MaryLynn Gillaspie – Matte Kudasai – Secret Language (2022)
Big Gigantic x GRIZ – Open Your Mind (2022)
Chris Daniels & The Kings – Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens – Louie Louie (1997)
The String Cheese Incident – Born On The Wrong Planet – Born On The Wrong Planet (1996)
(D) The Crags – Raven – Watch for the Sun (2022)

The Blue Rider – Rattlesnake – Year of the Horse (2016)
Christopher Charles Romero – My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (2021)
Keith Oxman –Afreaka – Glimpses (2018)

The Iquanas – Late At Night – The Iquanas (1992)
(D) Joe Johnson – Everybody Needs Love (2022)

Carolyn Shulman – Matter of Time – Grenadine & Kerosene (2021)
The 89s – Apple Of My Eye – Wash Away (2020)
Lettuce – Keep That Funk Alive (feat. Bootsy Collins) – Unify (2022)
Carolyn Hunter – Hardest Part (2022)
Zuba – Planet Of Love – South Of Eden (1998)
Leftover Salmon – Dance On Your Head – The Nashville Sessions (1999)
(D) A.J. Fullerton – Little Light – Modern Songwriters Vol. 1 (2022)

Megan Burtt – The Bargain – The Bargain (2015)
Scott Kinsey and Mer Sal – Time Out of Mind – Adjustments (2021)
Brad Goode – Tight Like This – Tight Like This (2010)

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June, July and August are the three HOTTEST months – musically. There are more outdoor events – ticketed and free – in our region today than is even possible to chronicle, let alone attend.

Saturday night my girlfriend and I attended a sold out Mishawaka show – Trout Steak Revival with Gasoline Lollipops and Canyon Collected. It was the last possible Saturday night I had available this summer to get to the Mishawaka for a show, and the overall experience did not disappoint. A special surprise that night was the acoustic version of Gasoline Lollipops – the first for the band.

It was pretty evident that the sold out audience was there for the two jamgrass bands. The Gas Pops met reserved appreciation from a polite audience until they revved up the tempos, allowing Don to demonstrate his formidable lead guitar skills and Clay to demonstrate his ability to own any audience I’ve ever seen him in front of.

By the end of the set, with Clay raging vocally, the audience was sold. When the band came back on for a quick set of pics by the house photog, the audience thought maybe they were getting an encore …

Lead guitarist Don Ambory broke out a mandolin, the first time I’ve seen that happen – and he played his 1940’s Gibson acoustic for the Gas Pops set. He also sat in on three songs with Trout Steak, and played electric guitar – his solos in the Trout Steak set were fan favorites as were the ukulele solos taken by Canyon Collected’s Tia Martini.

Some of us standing in the “VIP” viewing area commented on the presence of the ukulele in the lineup until Tia demonstrably shredded every jam in the band’s 45 minute crowd pleasing set.

Because of the hour forty minute drive home to the Denver metro we didn’t stay for the entire set by Trout Steak Revival, but based on the overall feel of the night, and the thunderous applause during the first half of their set, I have no doubt that the show didn’t end by midnight. Trout Steak does stand out as one of the best acoustic jamgrass Americana-folk bands in the region today.

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

At Bohemian Foundation, our focus is on building community …by coming together to create and enjoy music.

Last week I posted the The Best of 2018 So Far. Beyond the top 5 albums posted, there are some others that stand up well as we’re now beyond mid point of the year. The new album by Brent Cowles on Dine Alone Records, as well as Covenhoven’s A Kind of Revelation are going to be strong contenders by mid-December when the best of lists for the year come out around the region.

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

What you’ll find below are new songs on the show this week … listen and let me know which ones you think I should keep in the Colorado Playlist, and which I should delete.

NOTE: In order to be included in the MMMM poll, the band/artist must have an embeddable file on Soundcloud, BandCamp, Reverbnation or YouTube.

PLAYLIST S12 EP26

(D) = debut of lp, ep or single
(N) = new cut from previously debuted lp or ep

HOUR 1

Sugarloaf “Green Eyed Lady” from Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You (1975)
(D) Paul DeHaven “No Gold” from King of Gold (2018)

Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Wipeout Turn” from New World Arisin’ (2017)
(D) Joe Johnson “Snakeskin Dress” from Morgantown (2018)
Slopeside “Prove Me Wrong” from Shoot the Moon (2018)
Elephant Revival “Rhythm of the Road” from Break in the Clouds (2010)
Monocle Band “Can’t Get By” from Monocle Band (2013)
Rusty Young “Down Home” from Waitin’ For the Sun (2017)
(N) Oxeye Daisy “Darling Boy” from Oxeye Daisy (2018)

The Yawpers “American Man” from American Man (2015)
The Wood Brothers “River Takes the Town” from One Drop of Truth (2018)
Keith Oxman “Brothers, Michael and Jean-Marc” from East of the Village (2017)

HOUR 2

Joe Walsh “Rocky Mountain Way” from The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get (1973)
(D) In The Whale “Highways” from Dopamine (2018)

The Railbenders “Bourbon County” from The Medicine Show (2018)
Katie Glassman & Snapshot “Liza Jane” from Dream A Little Dream (2014)
(N) Covenhoven “Stone and Clay” from A Kind of Revelation (2018)
Strangebyrds “Star Crossed Lovers” from Star Crossed Lovers (2018)
Motet “123” from The Motet (2014)
The Apples in Stereo “Dance Floor” from Travellers in Space and Time (2010)
Wood Belly “Solid Ground” from Solid Ground (2018)
A.J. Fullerton “Smoke & Mirrors” from Kalamath (2017)
iZCALLI “A New Lie” from IV (2018)
Peter Sommer “Upper Manhattan Medical Group” from Happy-Go-Lucky Locals (2017)

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