Friday May 15, 2020 – WOW. I can’t recall the last time I pulled a statewide radio airplay chart of Colorado titles, played at Colorado non-comm stations. I know it’s been at least five or six years – and maybe longer.
Normally, I track Roots Music Report. Only a couple of Colorado stations report to RMR, along with several US, European and Internet stations. RMR also doesn’t filter for current year releases. A look at their weekly spins chart shows titles that are a few years old. So, when we look at their spins, we’re getting a more global look at what CO releases are getting played.
There are over 20 non-commercial public/community & college radio stations in our state. Twelve of those stations use playlist generator Spinitron. They include KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KCSU (Fort Collins), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KMSA (Grand Junction), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa-Taos), KSJD (Mancos) and KVNF (Paonia).
Airplay charted April 13-May 14 2020.
All releases May 2019-April 2020.
1 NATHANIEL RATELIFFAnd It’s Still Alright LP
2 TYLER T. Wildflower LP *
3 GABRIELLE LOUISEThe Unending Alteration of the Human Heart LP *
4 DOWN TIMEHurts Being Alive LP
5 DRAGONDEERMirage a Trois SINGLE
6 CASS CLAYTONPlay Nice LP *
7 REVEREND FREAKCHILDThe Bodhisattva Blues LP
7 WHIPPOORWILLThe Nature of Storms LP
8 KERRY PASTINE & THE CRIME SCENECity of Love LP
8 ROBERT SHREDFORDRobert Shredford LP
9 THE WOOD BROTHERSKingdom In My Mind LP
10 MARK OBLINGERHigh Water Line LP *
11 THE MOVERS & SHAKERSLive at Sun Studio LP *
12 CUP-A-JOCrazy Comes Easy LP
13 LOLA RISINGMoving Forward LP
13 THE 14ersMountaintop Folk-Pop LP
14 ESME PATTERSONThere Will Come Soft Rains LP
14 TIERRO BANDTIERRO BAND W/BRIDGET LAW LP
15 DAVID STARR Beauty and Ruin LP
15 THE COPPER CHILDRENSpeaking In Spirits LP
16 DRESSY BESSYFast Faster Disaster LP
17 ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. Keep On Keepin’ On LP
17 ERIC LILLEY TRIOJoie De Vivre LP
17 SHELRainbow SINGLE
17 THE REMINDERSUnstoppable LP
17 WILDERMISS In My Mind LP
18 CHIMNEY CHOIR An Alternative Life LP
18 WHITEWATER RAMBLEPseudonymous LP *
18 WOOD BELLYMan on the Radio LP
19 BIG GIGANTICFree Your Mind LP
19 CAITLIN CANNONTrashCannon LP
19 CITRAOcean SINGLE
19 ELDREN Still Friends SINGLE
19 JOHN STATZEarly Riser LP
19 RYAN DARTDrifter’s Heart LP *
19 THE CATCALLS I Get High SINGLE
19 THE THREADBARONSSongbook for the Weary LP
19 WHITACRESeasons LP
20 FINN O’SULLIVANWhen The Power Comes Back On LP
20 JOHN COMMONThe Low Wines, Vol. 1 EP EP
MONDAY SEPT 30 2019 – Can you believe that September is over already?? WOW! I’m staring at my catalog (see CP2019 Spotify below) and wondering how to begin filtering for Best Of 2019 on the CP.
Thanks for turning up this month … best September visits and views since 2015.
Turns out that September was as hot a month for new releases as it was for the weather we experienced. Here’s a list of the artists and bands that had new releases added in the past month.
Amberly Chalberg
Bear and the Beasts
Blake Brown & the American Dust Choir
Chimney Choir
Cup-A-Jo
David Baker Trio
Deborah de la Torre
DeVotchKa
Eric Lilley Trio
Gabriel Mervine Quartet
Kayla Marque
Kerry Pastine & the Crime Scene
Kyle Emerson
Liptruce
Lisa Bell
Lucy Daydream
Natalie Padilla
Nelson Hinds
Nikki Giron
OneRepublic
Riffter
SUCH
The Drunken Hearts
The Host Club
The Still Tide
The Subdudes
Whippoorwill
Whitacre
At Bohemian Foundation, our focus is on building community …by coming together to create and enjoy music.
VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK
From their upcoming new album … due out in December.
MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)
(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist exclusive premier
Let me know if there’s something you think I should play. Email coloradoplaylist@gmail.com
HOUR 1
Hazel Miller – All The Time In The World – Westword Music Awards Showcase ’95 (1995) (D) Amberly Chalberg – Crazy Bout You – Hi-Line (2019) Michael Kirkpatrick – Strange Desire – Little Muse (2018) Chris Daniels & The Kings – Sweet Memphis – Blues, With Horns Vol. 1 (2017) (D) DeVotchKa – Give Me Something (2019)
Whiskey Autumn – Modern Doubt (2019) Jack Hadley – A War of the Few – Deeper (2008) Jeff Finlin – What’s The Big Idea – Ballad Of A Plain Man (2008) (D) The Subdudes – Lost Religion Blues – Lickskillet (2019)
Monocle Band – Can’t Get By – Monocle Band (2013) David Starr – Maybe You’re Not The One – South And West (2018) (N) Invisible Bird – Keep Digging – Flutter to Fuzz (2018)
HOUR 2
Opie Gone Bad – Sellin’ Myself-1 (1998) (D) Nikki Giron – No Matter How Far (2019) Analog Son – Give More – Funky Mother (2018) Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Rocksteady – Rocksteady (2010) (D) Whitacre – Southbound Train – Seasons (2019)
Brianna Straut – Dark Days – La Mano (2019) Angie Stevens – Give It on Back – Queen of this Mess (2009) Danny Shafer – Wherever You R – Wherever You Are (2013) The Lonesome Days – Chasin Down The Whiskey – The Lonesome Days (2017) (D) Chimney Choir – An Alternate Life – (light shadow) (2020)
Echoes In Reverie – Flatline – Chromesthesia (2016) Matt Skellenger – Showtime – Vitality (2019)
Did you miss this week’s or LAST week’s show? 105.5 The Colorado Sound archives two weeks worth.. They typically update on Monday afternoons. You can also stream the show in real time wherever the show is aired. See the stations and times page for that info.
105.5 The Colorado Sound & the Colorado Playlist Present:
Brent Cowles – Bluebird Theater, Denver – Oct 12
Dragondeer’s Dance Party 1983 at Cervantes Other Side – Thursday, October 31
Gasoline Lollipops at Washington’s FoCo Fort Collins Friday, October 4
Gasoline Lollipops “Unleaded” (all acoustic) at Swallow Hill Music Denver Saturday, November 9
MONDAY SEPT 09, 2019 – Twenty years ago a very special woman in my life created the “picky grumpy old goat” after I returned from a tour of England/Scotland with my band and quit. That idea blossomed into “goat” as I’ve been known ever since. Miss Pattie, aka Mrs. Goat, passed away in 2016.
Over the past few years I’ve asked a handful of graphic artists to refresh the old logo that Miss Pattie did for me. I’m very happy and honored that My Blue Sky drummer Jamie McGregor (Zamar Screen Printing Inc.) caught the essence of the original and provided the perfect update …and a new banner to go with it. Thank you Jamie!
Speaking of My Blue Sky. Original founding member and bassist, David Brandt, has announced he’s leaving the band to focus on family and other personal goals. Good luck to David and the band.
Congratulations are in order for one of Colorado’s BEST – SUCH – whose new album Wide Nose, Full Lips landed in the national Billboard charts. The album hit #25 in the national R&B/Soul Album chart and #5 in the national Heatseekers chart, across all genres. The album debuted at #9 on the iTunes R&B/Soul charts. Check out the latest single from her album in this week’s MMMM below.
I’m also very happy to premier the new release from Sean Kelly of the Samples aka the Samples called Indian Summer. The Samples are a Colorado legacy band that formed after Sean moved here from New England in 1987 and formed the band, then based in Boulder.
Add to those fantastic new releases one from Jurassic Mark, aka Mark Bliesener, aka Band Guru. Mark Bliesener is one of Colorado’s unsung music industry legacies. Among other things, he is credited with coining the band name Dead Kennedys. He has been the manager for both Lyle Lovett and Big Head Todd & the Monsters. At age 70 he just dropped his solo debut. It’s a rock n roll record with plenty of old school garage and punk. It’s not yet available online. When it is, I’ll share it. In the meantime, if you missed this week’s show you can stream it in the archive section at www.coloradosound.org
Now that the summer outdoor concert season is over, my band GOATZ! is back to playing at some of our favorite indoor venues, and a couple of new ones. In particular, we’ve very happy to be playing at the new Broadway Roxy and Nissi’s Entertainment Venue & Event Center (Lafayette) in October. Make sure to check our concert listings at www.goatzmusic.com/shows
COLORADO PLAYLIST / SPOTIFY
129 songs from 129 artists dating back to 1960 & 53 current followers. I’d LOVE to hit 100.
Did you miss this week’s or LAST week’s show? You can now stream them on demand! 105.5 The Colorado Sound archives two weeks worth that you can stream at your leisure. They typically update their archives every Monday afternoon. You can also stream the show in real time wherever the show is aired around the state. See the stations and times page for that info.
105.5 The Colorado Sound & the Colorado Playlist Present:
Brent Cowles – Bluebird Theater, Denver – Oct 12
Dragondeer’s Dance Party 1983 at Cervantes Other Side – Thursday, October 31
Gasoline Lollipops at Washington’s FoCo Fort Collins Friday, October 4
Gasoline Lollipops “Unleaded” (all acoustic) at Swallow Hill Music Denver Saturday, November 9
At Bohemian Foundation, our focus is on building community …by coming together to create and enjoy music.
VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK
One of the very intriguing artists to emerge from Denver the past few years, Kayla Marque almost didn’t get here. A couple of years ago, she suffered from vocal problems, along with other personal issues, that prompted the title of her upcoming album Brain Chemistry (Left Brain / Right Brain) on which she deals not only with matters of the heart, but mental health issues as well.
MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)
(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist exclusive premier
Let me know if there’s something you think I should play. Email coloradoplaylist@gmail.com
SELECTED TRACKs
As sometimes happens, even YouTube doesn’t have all the songs I have in the CP collection.
HOUR 1
Rare Silk – Sugar – New Weave (1983) (D) Kyle Donovan – If This Is Love – Then and Now (2019) Andy Ard – Come Over Here – Like That EP (2018) Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts – Modern Outlaw Country – Shovel Full Of Coal (2017) (N) SUCH – The Real Thing – Wide Nose, Full Lips (2019) Wendy Woo – The Weather – The Immigrant (2019) Drew Emmitt – Take The Long Way Home – Long Road (2008) Great American Taxi – Appalachian Soul – Streets of Gold (2007) (D) The Samples – Cry Cry Cry – Indian Summer (2019)
Sarah Snead – All I’ve Got – Wake Tomorrow (2018) The String Cheese Incident – Can’t Wait Another Day – Song In My Head (2014) (N) La Cocodrilla – Bop Bop Bop Bop – La Cocodrilla (2019)
HOUR 2
Electric Swingset – Inebriated Witch Doctor – Inebriated Witch Doctor (1996) Hillbilly Hellcats – Rockabilly Rebel – Our Brand (1998) (D) Jurassic Mark – Young Man’s Mind – Jurassic Mark (2019) Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Better Move It On Home – I Make My Own Luck (2018) Francis & the Wolf – What Is Left – Ladies & Gentlemen (2017) (N) My Body Sings Electric – Change – Part 2: What It Means to Be Afraid (2019) Shannon Ogden – In the Car – Live at Swallow Hill (2019) Braddigan – Fallin’ – Watchfires (2005) Katie Herzig – Best Day Of Your Life – The Waking Sleep (2011) Lizzy Plotkin – Deep Woods Blues – We Will Sing (2019) (D) Collusion – Busted – City of Angels (2019)
John Statz – Strong Enough – Darkness On the San Juans (2018) Tiffany Christopher – Somewhere Behind the Sun – Tremendous Heart (2016) Sunsquabi – Land Sloth – Instinct (2019)
Friday May 15, 2020 – WOW. I can’t recall the last time I pulled a statewide radio airplay chart of Colorado titles, played at Colorado non-comm stations. I know it’s been at least five or six years – and maybe longer.
Chris K's Colorado Playlist 