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CP S12 EP30 2018

Gotta love Monday mornings after a full weekend of brain daze and music … oh, wait … I’m thinking of next Monday, when I don’t know if I’ll still be okay to sit and type a few lines, after three days of Bohemian Nights at New West Fest, and one night of Yarmonygrass (in/near Bond and State Bridge and Rancho Del Rio).

Yarmonygrass is a non-profit, volunteer-powered event that benefits the Coral Creek Kids Music Project to bring music performance and education to underserved kids in Colorado. GOATZ! is excited and honored to be the opening act on Thursday Aug 9.

BIG THANKS to everyone involved with the 11th Annual Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival that took place Saturday. Despite about a half hour wind storm that was borderline “shut down” level we made it to the end without incident – and with a FABULOUS (pun intended) show from the FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS, The Burroughs, Taylor Scott Band, Bonnie & the Clydes, Andy Sydow, and Veggie Matters. Also big thanks to the City of Dacono.

I received an email last week that the Colorado Playlist will no longer be aired on 88.9FM KRFC Fort Collins. Basically, management has decided to no longer air syndicated programming.

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

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

“All I’ve Got” music video by Sarah Snead, produced by Kyle Lamar and Josh Pinsky from Digital Myle, starring Phyllis Spielman and Eddie James, and Sarah’s husband Michael Hornbuckle. The video follows a relationship of two women showing the camaraderie that occurs despite going through hard times.

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 EP30

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

HOUR 1

Dan Fogelberg – Stars – Live From Ebbets Field Vol. 4 (1974)
(D) Rowan Kerrick – How Many Times – Foolish (2018)

Kyle Emerson – Post-Egomania – Dorothy Alice (2017)
Blue Canyon Boys – Just An Old Dirt Road – Blue Canyon Boys (2016)
(PREM)– Edison – Take Me Home – Lion’s Heart EP (2018)

Plutinos – Hand In Hand – Plutinos EP (2018)
The String Cheese Incident – Sing A New Song – Outside Inside (2001)
Andy Palmer – Good Son – Hazard of the Die (2013)
(D) Gingerbomb – Wildfire – Wildfire(2018)
AJ Fullerton – Lover Come Back – Kalamath (2017)
I, Alone – Good Fight – Collateral Beauty (2018)
Jon Wirtz – Country – Tourist (2013)

HOUR 2

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will The Circle Be Unbroken – Greatest Hits (1972)
(D) Silver and Smoke – Sting Like A Bee – 30P ep (2018)

Brent Cowles – Lift Me Up – Cold Times (2017)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Rocksteady – Rocksteady (2010)
(D) Interstate Stash Express – Sheet of Foam – Evacuee (2018)

Retrofette – Skeletons (2017)
Katie Glassman & Snapshot – Good Times Gone By – Dream a Little Dream (2014)
Liz Barnez – Simple Song – Welcome Back (2015)
(D) Dallas Thornton – I Wonder – Talking To Myself (2018)

Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts – High Life – Shovel Full Of Coal (2017)
The Wood Brothers – Laughin’ or Crying – One Drop of Truth (2018)
Jaden Carlson Band – Keep It Movin’ – Keep It Movin’ (2018)

CP S12 EP26 2018

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.