Happy first unofficial day of summer – Happy Memorial Day from a USAF veteran. Many are lost, few are remembered by more than those they left behind. I hope you lost no one and remember all who have been.
I took some time this weekend to twist, tweak, massage, and manipulate The Colorado Sound LIVE365. There currently are over 860 tracks in the online catalog. The average listening span is 18 minutes. In the last 30 days, 335 songs have been heard at least once. The top ten songs heard are:
- Brothers Keeper – Days Go By
- The Samples – Close to the Fires
- A Tom Collins – Baby Doll
- The Yawpers – Faith and Good Judegment
- The Swayback – Double Four Time
- The Subdudes – Sarita
- Pandas & People – Out to Sea
- Pandas & People – On My Way
- Kramies – The Wooden Heart
- Chain Station – Don’t Build Me Up
This weekend I added songs by Analog Son, Atomga, Ben Haugland, Brothers Keeper, Chris Daniels & The Kings, Doves & Wolves, Edison, Elin Palmer, Esme Patterson, Fox St., Glowing House, Great American Taxi. The H2 Big Band, In The Whale, Instant Empire, Jeff Austin, John Common, John Statz, Judge Roughneck, King Cardinal, the Knew, Land Lines, MEDIC, Michal Menert, Modern Suspects, Natalie Walker, Otis Taylor, Plum, Racing On The Sun, The Railsplitters, The Raven and the Writing Desk, Richie Furay, Rose Quartz, The Samples, SHEL, Sherri Jackson, The String Cheese Incident, The Subdudes, Taarka, Toad In the Hole, Todd Adelman, Treehouse Sanctum, Wendy Woo (Band / Trio), Whiskey Autumn. See full list of currently featured bands/artists.
VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK
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JOIN ME THIS SUMMER AT:
June 6 – For Locals x Locals Presented by The Colorado Sound and Scene Magazine featuring Cracker, Post Paradise, Branded Bandits, Red Fox Run, Shaley Scott Band and Winchester Holiday. A music festival to celebrate and honor local musicians and local music industry vendors. The goal of this festival is to create a space for our musical community to thrive. If you are a local musician, we would like to offer you free admission and a beer. If you’re a fan, please be honest and support your local music scene with your ticket purchase. Treat this as an opportunity to meet new musicians, find out about local music industry and catch up with old friends.
June 12 & 13 The Greeley Blues Jam in Greeley with Austin Young– featuring Michaela Rae and friends + Maynard Mills Blues Band + George Whitesell and His All Stars featuring Jill Watkins+The Frails – all female review featuring Erica Brown, MJ, G’Jai, Michaela Rae, Miss Audrey, Susan Phelan & national headliners Delbert McClinton, Elvin Bishop and more.
August 1 – 8th Annual Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival in Dacono. Lineup TBA. The region’s first Spirits Competition event, started four years ago now. Previous headliners have included Richie Furay, Lionel Young, Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon) and others.
August 9 – The Colorado Sound Presents Hazel Miller, Chris Daniels & the Kings, Goatz!, andWilliam’s Reserve on Aug 9 at the Mishawaka
THE COLORADO SOUND IS SUPPORTED BY
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PLAYLIST S9 EP21 2015
Five new music shares this week … that’s a lot I think. I was lucky that all the shares had Bandcamp pages. Please download, buy and/or share. Every dollar and every share is one more today than yesterday and how bands go from strictly “local” to “regional” to “national.”
HOUR 1
Poco “Crazy Love” from The Essential Poco (2005)
Firefall “You Are the Woman” from Firefall (1976)
(D) Treehouse Sanctum “Pilot & Crew” from Pilot & Crew (2015) The Samples “Nothing Lasts For Long” from No Room (1992)
Katie Herzig “Drug” from Walk Through Walls (2014)
(D) Modern Suspects “Told You So” from Modern Suspects (2015)The Fray “Hurricane” from Helios (2014)
Ivory Circle “And I Try” from Isoceles (2015)
String Cheese Incident “25th of November” from One Step Closer (2005)
Hot Rize “Blue Is Fallin’” from When I’m Free (2014)
Young Ancients “Nobody Loves You” from Y/A (2014)
Ben Haugland “Lift” from The Point Of No Return (2012)
HOUR 2
Big Head Blues Club “Crossroads Blues (w/B.B. King)” from Big Head Blues Club: 100 Years of Robert Johnson (2011)
(D) Edison “Be Someone” from Ghosts (2015) Arthur Lee Land “Cracked Wide Open” from Cracked Open (2013)
Yawpers “Faith and Good Judgement” from Spokesbuzz Volume 5 (2014)
(D) King Cardinal “Gasoline” from One A Giant EP (2015) Ark Life “Let Your Heart Break” from The Dream of You and Me (2014)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore “Keep It Clean” from Saints & Sinners (2010)
(D) Michal Menert “Everything Shines” from Space Jazz (2015) Natalie Walker “Trust” from Strange Bird (2015)
Ben Markley ~ Clint Ashlock Quintet “The Return” from The Return (2014)
Of the things I found to add, I came across the latest from Michal Minert of Pretty Lights fame by way of Listen, the high school/college hip-hop group that featured Michal with Derek Smith (Pretty Lights) and Cory Eberhardt (DubSkin) … I’m not normally a big EDM fan, mostly because for me it usually lacks song structure – a big issue for my ears. However, in this case, Michal displays an uncanny ear for fusing EDM with jazz, hip hop, and electronica styles to produce Space Jazz. Of course being slightly stoned on some good sativa coupled with listening under a set of Audio Technica ATHM45 studio earphones helped immensely. Next step is to turn it up to 11 in the living room lol…. check it out – it’s a pretty cool listen. 
Chris K's Colorado Playlist 