THE COLORADO PLAYLIST 2006-2026 – MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Roadtrippin through Utah … March 2026

20 SEASONS is a long time to do something. The Colorado Playlist got its start in April 2006 at 88.9 KRFC in Fort Collins. Since then it has been broadcast by over a dozen community based radio stations in our state, covering over 30 FM frequencies in Colorado and Taos, New Mexico.

This week’s show is just some of the musical highlights over the past 20 seasons. I’m sure we can all point to what I didn’t fit in …but there’s only room for about twelve tracks an hour and there have been thousands of releases.

I hope you enjoy this week’s show.

AND WE’RE OFF AGAIN!! – NO POST APRIL 13 and likely not APRIL 20 either, since Claire and I are heading south for a couple of weeks on a nighttime photo expedition (yeah, she’s still filtering through shots from our Bryce trip, LOL).

I’m happy to say that I added spins from the Jazz Oasis in the City, KUVO, this week. It means a lot to see some of our great jazz artists getting some love in the city.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. I am retired now and there are monthly costs associated with the show that honestly stretch my insanely limited retirement income.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). 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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Every week I hope to bring you some of the best of Colorado music from across the decades, and around the state. I also usually share a new landscape photograph by my life-partner, Claire/Clear Vistas Photography.

There is no current website for Claire’s work. If you see a photo you like and would like to have printed, let me know. 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 since 1998.

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. This is where you come in.

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

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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DeVotchKa I Cried Like a Silly Boy – Curse Your Little Heart (2006)
Born In The FloodIf this thing should spill – If this thing should spill (2007)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Wheel Whimper and Wail – Desire and Dissolving Men (2007)
OneRepublic Apologize – Dreaming Out Loud (2007)
Flobots Handlebars – Fight With Tools (2008)
Lynn Patrick When You Find What You’re Looking For (excerpt)
Chris DanielsBetter Days – Better Days (2012)
ChurchillThe War Within – The War Within EP (2013)
Pretty LightsYellow Bird – A Color Map of the Sun (2013) (radio edit)
The LumineersHo Hey – The Lumineers (2012)
Justin LansingGhost Town (excerpt)
The VelveteersCharmer And The Snake – Nightmare Daydream (2021)
Jobi Riccio Sweet (radio edit) – Whiplash (2023)
Marfa Daisy (2025)
Euforquestra Instant Coffee – Fire (2014)

Rose Hill Drive Cool Cody – Rose Hill Drive (2006)
Gregory Alan Isakov Big Black Car – This Empty Northern Hemisphere (2009)
The Apples In StereoDance Floor – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
Five Iron FrenzyIt Was a Dark & Stormy Night – Engine of a Million Plots (2013)
Sunsquabi Pangolin (excerpt)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night SweatsS.O.B. – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (2015)
Big GiganticBrighter Future – Brighter Future (2016)
The Motet So High – Totem (2016)
Cary Morin Nobody Gotta Know – Dockside Saints (2020)
Ben Parrish Crankbait (excerpt)
WildermissSupermagical (2020)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) (2020)
Leftover Salmon Let’s Party About It – Let’s Party About It (2025)
Ron MilesBinder – Rainbow Sign (2020)

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), 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 count.

(D) = debut HOT SPINS
(R) = re-enter HOT SPINS

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 + 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 – 60 TITLES TRACKED
(𝐑) 1. Emily Scott RobinsonAppalachia LP Oct-25 (americana)
(D) 2. Jesus Christ Taxi DriverTax the Rich LP Jan-26 (rock, alternative)
(2) 3. MagooWhat A Life LP Oct-25 (jamband)
(𝐃) 4. Bobby Wiens Focus LP Mar-26 (jazz)
(𝐑) 4. The Tammy ShineOk Shine Ok LP Dec-25 (rock, pop, indie)

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#COMUSIC TOP 20 APRIL+ 2023

MAY 01, 2023 – WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW! You blew the roof off this sucker! You set an ALL TIME thirteen year high for views and visits for APRIL, by a HUGE margin. Thank you. Much love.

Every Sunday I survey over a dozen community/public and college stations, which includes spins on the Colorado playlist.

The monthly survey period is from the first week ending with a Sunday, through the last week ending with a Sunday.  Yearly spins are pulled and calculated from December through the next November.

The annual new release year begins in November, although there are some released in October that make the cut. I track all titles for a full calendar year from the official date of release.

Titles are linked to its respective YouTube page.

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist105.5 The Colorado SoundIndie 102.388.9 KRFC  and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, offering search functions for artists and agents to track airplay.

You can almost always expect a nationally known band to place high up on the charts.

*The Wood Brothers are not, specifically speaking, a locally based band. The Boulder raised Chris and Oliver Wood, aka *The Wood Brothers, are in the #COMUSIC conversation in much the same way as *Shovels and Rope, one-half of which is Denver raised Michael Trent. Chris, Oliver and Michael all grew up here, but moved after high school to pursue music full time elsewhere. Hence the * in front of their names.

I also include Colorado expats living elsewhere in my tracking, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them. So the new *The Wood Brothers get counted in my tracking along with Leftover Salmon cofounder and Colorado Music Hall of Fame inductee, *Vince Herman, who now lives in Nashville. His solo debut, Enjoy the Ride, gets counted as part of #COMUSIC.

TOP 20 AIRPLAY APRIL 2023

(D) – debuts in the TOP 20
(R) – reentered TOP 20

(1) 1. *THE WOOD BROTHERS – Heart Is the Hero LP (Apr-23)
(D) 2. SUGAR NOVA – Halogen LP (May-23)
(D) 3. WHITE ROSE MOTOR OIL – The Gift of Poison EP (Mar-23)
(D) 4. THE SAVAGE BLUSH – Ether Dome LP (Mar-23)
(D) 5. SAUCE.K Ease the Pain SINGLE (Nov-22)
(R) 6. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP (Jun-22)
(10) 7. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Vast Nothing LP (Mar-23)**
(2) 8. DEVA YODER – Be Well LP (Feb-23)
(6) 8. VOLORES – Ages LP (Mar-23)
(R) 9. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)**
(R) 9. MUSKETEER GRIPWEED – Long Past Time LP (Sep-22)
(14) 10. REBECCA FOLSOM – Sanctuary LP (Mar-23)
(D) 11. KIND HEARTED STRANGERS – Now.Here LP (Mar-23) **
(D) 12. TAYLOR SHAESmall Town America SINGLE (Mar-23)
(D) 12. THE BURROUGHS – Found My Groove SINGLE (Apr-23)
(D) 13. SPLIFF TANK Got Snakes SINGLE (Mar-23)
(D) 13. SPLIFF TANKLie SINGLE (May-22)
(D) 14. THE LOSERS CLUBGoing Nowhere SINGLE (Feb-23)
(D) 15. MYSTEEHard Candy SINGLE (Feb-23)
(D) 15. THE LOSERS CLUBKevin? SINGLE (Mar-23)

TOP 20 AIRPLAY 2023 (DEC ’22-APRIL)

(1) 1. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)**
(2) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP (Jun-22)
(14) 3. *THE WOOD BROTHERS – Heart Is the Hero LP (Apr-23)
(3) 4. JULIAN FULCO PERRON  In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(4) 5. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Channels EP (May-22)
(6) 6. *VINCE HERMAN – Enjoy the Ride LP (Nov-22)
(17) 7.  DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Vast Nothing LP (Mar-23)**
(5) 7. TRAVIS MCNAMARA – Moon Calendar LP (Mar-23)
(15) 7. VOLORES – Ages LP (Mar-23)
(7) 8. BRIANA HARRIS – When We’re Found LP (Sep-22)
(16) 9. MUSKETEER GRIPWEED – Long Past Time LP (Sep-22)
(7) 10. BEVIN LUNA – Madison and Angelus LP (Jun-22)
(D) 11. SUGAR NOVA – Halogen LP (May-23)
(15) 12. IZCALLI – Rebirth LP (Jul-22)
(12) 13. TENNIS – Pollen LP (Jan-23)
(10) 14. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – Small Towns LP (Sep-22)
(D) 15. DEVA YODER – Be Well LP (Feb-23)
(8) 16. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Jan-22)
(9) 17. MIKE CLARK & THE SUGAR SOUNDS – Moon Rock LP (Mar-22)
(11) 18. WILDERMISS W.I.F.I. SINGLE (Aug-22)

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#COMUSIC – TOP 30 AUGUST 2022

from the top of Old Fall River Rd – Rocky Mountain National Park – AUG 2022

SEPT 01, 2022 – Thanks for the best month of views for an August since 2014! At the bottom of the AUG TOP 30 you’ll find TOP “10” charts for 88.9 KRFC Fort Collins, Indie 102.3105.5 The Colorado Sound and eleven other stations around the state that report to Spinitron.

Spin data is pulled weekly on Sundays and may overlap from previous month. Monthly spin data is compiled on the last day of the month.

  • Seventeen debuts (D) for the month.
  • Ten titles stayed from previous month
  • Three titles re-entered (R ) the TOP 30.

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist105.5 The Colorado SoundIndie 102.3 and eleven stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, designed to benefit non-commercial community/public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents.

(2) 1. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Jan-22)
(3) 2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP (Nov-21)
D 3. A PLACE FOR OWLS A Place for Owls LP (Aug-22)
D 3. THE PATIENT ZEROSSlow Motion Sickness LP (Jul-22)
D 4. KNUCKLE PUPS TV Ready LP (Jul-22)
(10) 5. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP (Jun-22)
D 5. ISADORA EDENCovers EP (Jul-22)
D 6. SUPER BUMMER The Futuresick EP (Apr-22)
D 7. EDWINA MABENGo Tell Yesterday SINGLE (Mar-22)
(5) 8. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
D 9. JOSHUA DAY Nauseous SINGLE (Jun-22)
(7) 10. BEVIN LUNA – Madison and Angelus LP (Jun-22)
(13) 11. LETTUCE – Unify LP (Jun-22)
D 11. MUNLY & THE LUPERCALIANS – Kinnery of Lupercalia; Undelivered Legion LP (May-22)
(4) 12. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – Stress Dreams LP (Jan-22)
D 13. HELLO, MOUNTAINEverything In Between SINGLE (Feb-22)
(12) 14. MOJOMAMA – We Are One LP (Jun-22)
D 14. PEOPLE LIKE MEStay Together for the Dog SINGLE (May-22)
D 15. KING CARDINAL In Tall Buildings SINGLE (Jun-22)
D 16. CASS CLAYTONWe’re All Going Down SINGLE (Jun-22)
R 17. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS Channels EP (May-22)
D 18. ADIEL MITCHELL Pink Lemonade LP (Jun-22)
D 18. JEFF FINLIN Soul On the Line LP (Jun-22)
D 18. SUGAR BRITCHES No One Cares That It’s Your Birthday LP (Jul-22)
(12) 19. MOJOMAMA – We Are One LP (Jun-22)
(11) 19. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Get Yourself Outside LP (Feb-22)
R 20. BIG RICHARD BANDWalls of Time SINGLE (Mar-22)
R 20. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BANDDirt Does Dylan LP (May-22)
D 21. RAGGED UNIONSomebody Call the Doctor SINGLE (Aug-22)
D 21. WOOD BELLY – Great Big Skies LP (Jun-22)

88.9 KRFC AUGUST TOP 10
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1. ALYSIA KRAFT First Light LP (Jun-22)
(2) 2. BEVIN LUNA Madison and Angelus LP (Jun-22)
D 3. SUGAR BRITCHES No One Cares That It’s Your Birthday LP (Jul-22)
(3) 4. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATSThe Future LP (Nov-21)
(5) 5. BLUES CIRCUS Old-Time Blues Revue LP (Jul-22)
(1) 5. EUFORQUESTRA While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(3) 6. MOJOMAMA We Are One LP (Jun-22)
(4) 6. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BANDGet Yourself Outside LP (Feb-22)
(7) 7. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BANDDirt Does Dylan LP (May-22)
(6) 8. THE LUMINEERS Brightside LP (Jan-22)

INDIE 102.3 AUGUST TOP 10
(2) 1. THE LUMINEERS Brightside LP (Jan-22)
D 2. A PLACE FOR OWLSA Place for Owls LP (Aug-22)
D 3. KNUCKLE PUPSTV Ready LP (Jul-22)
D 4. ISADORA EDENCovers EP (Jul-22)
D 4. THE PATIENT ZEROSSlow Motion Sickness LP (Jul-22)
D 5. SUPER BUMMERThe Futuresick EP (Apr-22)
D 6. EDWINA MABEN Go Tell Yesterday SINGLE (Mar-22)
D . JOSHUA DAYNauseous SINGLE (Jun-22)
(3) 7. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS The Future LP (Nov-21)
D 8. MUNLY & THE LUPERCALIANSKinnery of Lupercalia; Undelivered Legion LP (May-22)

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND AUGUST TOP 10
(2) 1. THE LUMINEERSBrightside LP (Jan-22)
(1) 2. GREENSKY BLUEGRASSStress Dreams LP (Jan-22)
(3) 3. TRASH CATThe Tide LP (Dec-21)
(3) 4. ALYSIA KRAFTFirst Light LP (Jun-22)
(4) 4. THE CROOKED RUGSThat! LP (Nov-21)
(4) 5. BLAKK MANTRAA Song of the West SINGLE (Jun-22)
(4) 5. BROTHERS OF BRASSEgress SINGLE (Mar-22)
R 5. JAGUAR STEVENS Jaguar Stevens LP (Sep-21)
R 5. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATSThe Future LP (Nov-21)
(4) 6. BEVIN LUNAMadison and Angelus LP (Jun-22)

KAFM, KBUT, KCSU, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KRZA, KSJD, KSUT, KVNF – AUGUST TOP 10
(5) 1. LETTUCE Unify LP (Jun-22)
(4) 2. THE CRAGS Watch for the Sun LP (Jul-22)
(2) 3. THE LUMINEERS Brightside LP (Jan-22)
R 4. BIG RICHARD BAND Walls of Time SINGLE (Mar-22)
(5) 4. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND Dirt Does Dylan LP (May-22)
D 5. STILLHOUSE JUNKIESNever Going Back Again EP (Jul-22)
R 5. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERSToward the Fray LP (Jan-22)
(7) 5. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BANDGet Yourself Outside LP (Feb-22)
R 6. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS Stress Dreams LP (Jan-22)
D 6. RAGGED UNION Round Feet, Chrome Smile LP (Aug-22)

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