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The Colorado Sound S9 | EP5 Jan 2015

I’m working on NEWS NOTES & SPINS FEB 1.  I worked a couple of really excellent shows this weekend.  Friday night I worked with the Lionel Young Band featuring Arthur Lee Land… who is now the lead singer / guitarist in Great American Taxi.  Saturday night it was Ethyl & the Regulars, a band I’ve worked with a number of times going back ten years or so.  The newest permutation features Heidi Hamill on lead vocals …

PLAYLIST S9 | EP5

HOUR 1

Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids “Brown Water (Apocalypse Blues)” from Best of Flash Cadillac and The Continental Kids (2010)
Zephyr “High Flying Bird” from Sunset Ride (2000)
(D) Wasteland Hop “Only Us” from Symbiotic Clock (2015)
You Me and Apollo “Don’t Sleep for Free” from You Me and Apollo (2012)
The Seers “Deaf In June” from Cellophane Eyes (2014)
(N) Grant Farm “Engineer” from SpokesBUZZ Vol V: Band Together (2015) Rob Drabkin “Hope In A Hopeless World” from Little Steps EP (2013)
3 Twins “Little Bird” from De Nada (2013)
Soul School “I Would Do Anything” from Chapter One (2014)
Richie Furay “We Were the Dreamers” from Hand In Hand (2014)
Paul Mullikin “Cole’s Blues” from Time Is Now (2014)

HOUR 2

Rick Derringer “Rock and Roll, Hootchie Koo” from All American Boy (1973)
Elton John “Caribou” from Caribou (1974)
Brothers Keeper “Nothing To Do” from Todd Meadows (2014)
Johnny Hickman “The Great Decline” from Palmehenge (2005)
Yawpers “Faith and Good Judgement” from Spokesbuzz Volume 5 (2014)
(D) Nathaniel Rateliff “Something Beautiful” from Closer (2015)
Wendy Woo “Surprise Me” from Gonna Wear Red (2002)
(D) Rose Quartz “Medicine” from Axis of Love (2015)  Churchill “The War Within” from War Within EP (2013)
Aakash Mittal Quartet “Jeeju’s Jeeju” from Ocean (featuring Ron Miles) (2013)

The Colorado Sound S9 | EP4 Jan 2015

There are days when I WISH for something insightful to write.  I usually write this post on Sunday, but Sunday got jacked. Maybe it’s just the week after birthday let down.  Hmmmm.

One item of interest, for those inclined … “Oskar Blues is stoked to be partnering withBolderBOULDER  for our first ever “Battle of the Bands” competition. If you know a band that would be an ideal fit for this type of event please read the specifications below and send an email to race@bolderboulder.com by 5:00pm on Monday.” That doesn’t leave you much time, sorry to say. (disclaimer  I will likely be doing sound for these events).

  • Preliminaries take place on either Feb. 18th or 25th. Two finalists will be selected to play in the finals on Saturday, Feb. 28th at Oskar Blues Grill & Brew in Lyons, CO.
  • The winning band gets $2,000, a paid gig at HMLS patio on Friday, May 22nd and will also be featured on the OB main stage at the BolderBOULDER on Monday, May 25th(band must have availability on both dates.)
  • Second place winners will receive $500 in cash.
  • A track from the winning band will also be featured the KBCO BolderBOULDER Bootleg CD vol. 11 and included in the downloadable tracks available on KBCO.com

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

PLAYLIST S9 | EP4 2015

HOUR1

(D) = debut new lp/ep or single
(N) = new single from previously debuted ep/lp

Acoustic Junction “Oh Me Oh My” from Strange Days (2000)
Sherri Jackson “Don’t Forget Me” from Catalyst (2000)
(D) Equally Challenged “Like It Was” from EQC2 (2015)
(D) Eef & the Blues Express “I Need You To Leave Me Alone” from All Rivers Run to the Sea (2015)
Euforquestra “Solutions” from Fire (2014)
Philip Bailey “Love Is Real” from Love Is Real (2010)
OneRepublic “I Lived” from Native (2013)
Fierce Bad Rabbit “Time Machine” from Maestro & the Elephant (2013)
Eldren “We Just Want the World” from SpokesBUZZ Vol V: Band Together (2015)
Petals of Spain “Love (Really Breaks)” from Petals of Spain (2013)
Great American Taxi “AM Radio” from Paradise Lost (2011)
Railbenders “Sweet Caroline” from Segundo (2003)
Megan Burtt “Send Me Down the River (w/the Congress)” from In Good Company (2013)
Bill Frisell “Baja” from Guitar In the Space Age (2014)

HOUR 2

Manassas “It Doesn’t Matter” from Manassas (1972)
Firefall “You Are the Woman” from Firefall (1976)
(N) Chris Daniels & the Kings with Freddi Gowdy “Cool Breeze” from Funky To the Bone (2015)
(N) Richard Dean “Radium Dial” from Accidental Human (2015)
The Samples “Warm & Sunny” from Black & White (2004)
Sofie Reed “When the Saints Go Marching In” from Red Hen (2014)
Todd Adelman “The Devil is for Drinking” from Highways & Lowways (2015)
Jeff Finlin “East by West” from The Tao of Motor Oil (2010)
Born to Wander “I Can’t Help It” from Born to Wander (2014)
Head for The Hills “Dependency Co.” from Blue Ruin (2013)
Dana Landry Trio “To Wane” from Memphis Skyline (2014)

The Colorado Sound S9 EP3 2015

Goat_Logo_color_on_whiteBirthdays are funny – aren’t they?  Happy birthday to me.  There’s a line I crossed – that line that says, “dude you’re old now.”  They’re right you know — I don’t feel “old.”  I know old people — like over 80 old.  I’m not that.   Long way to 80.  Lots of music to do until then.  Will I feel “old” when I turn 80?  I’ll let you know when I get there.  Until then, this is what I got … music … Colorado music.

I did sound for Lionel Young this weekend.  He told me there’s a new album coming out late Feb/early March.  There’s also a new Wendy Woo Band album due out about the same time, if memory serves.  Also coming in two weeks, a conversation with Wendy and her husband Charles in their home on Offstage Beyond the Music.

Word on the street this weekend is that Eck’s Saloon in Denver (Lakewood) has shut down.  Unconfirmed reports suggest they “couldn’t pay the bills.” There is speculation among some that the previous owners will take it over and reopen.  Will see what I can find out Monday.

So, Open Air 1340 AM is set to move to 102.3 FM on Monday Jan 26 — this should be fun.  Look out DENVER!

(EDIT) This move is not unprecedented. In 2005, KCUV / 1510 AM, Denver’s first and only attempt at an Americana format, moved onto 102.3 FM.  The experiment lasted three years.  Better luck to Open Air, a Colorado Public Radio (CPR) station.  Also, Paris on the Platte closed.

I also spoke with John Magnie this weekend (Young Ancients/the Subdudes).  He let me know the new Y/A album will be out late Feb/early March … to tease it here’s a new video.

PLAYLIST S9 EP3

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

Dusty Drapes & the Dusters “Talkin’ Boogie” from The Red Album (1981)
C.W. McCall “Wolf Creek Pass” from Best Of C W Mccall (1997)
(D) Ben Gallagher “Hungry Ghost” from Heart Shaped Rocks (2015) Zephyr “Don’t Come Back” from Heartbeat (1982)
(N) Strange Americans “The Scene” from That Kind of Luster (2014) Such (Su Charles) “Open Book” from Trial and Error (2014)
The Motet “Like We Own It” from The Motet (2014)
(N) Maxwell Hughes “Pulled One Over” from SpokesBUZZ Vol V: Band Together (2015)
(D) Danielle Ate the Sandwich “The Drawing Back of Curtains” from The Drawing Back of Curtains (2015)
Whiskey Blanket “Pound Boom” from No Object (2010)
Matt Skellenger “Momentum” from New Radio (2014)

Bob Lind “Colorado Line” from Colorado Line (1971)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Some of Shelly’s Blues” from Uncle Charlie (1970)
(D) Todd Adelman “Right Before You Said Hello” from Highways & Lowways (2015)
The Samples “Wild River” from Return to Earth (2001)
(D) Chris Daniels & the Kings with Freddi Gowdy “Funky to the Bone” from Funky To the Bone (2015)
OneRepublic “Love Runs Out” from Native (2013)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Resignation Superman” from Beautiful World (1997)
Jennifer Lane “I’m So Ready” from In A Magazine (2008)
Kate LeRoux “It Doesn’t Matter At All” from Phoenix (2014)
Dana Landry Trio “Frank’s Tune” from Memphis Skyline (2014)