Not only is today Dec 1, but it is Sunday – the day I take every week to write up the weekly playlist and do the shares … not today. I need to get News Notes and Spins done and published. New shares and videos etc next week.
Here’s the Playlist for S7EP44 Nov/Dec 2013.
Freddi / Henchi and the Soulsetters “I Want to Dance, Dance, Dance” from Crown Princes of Funk: The Last Set (2010) Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids “Hot Summer Girls” from Best of Flash Cadillac and The Continental Kids (2010) (N) Dr. Izzy Band “Old Black Crow” from Blind and Blues Bound (2014) Cary Morin “Live A Little” from Streamline (2013) Kenny Perkins “Tiny Distraction” from Kenny Perkins (2008) (D) Katie Glassman “Sweet Lies” from Dream A Little Dream (2014) Rachel James “My Favorite Time of Year” from My Favorite Time of Year (2011) Earth, Wind & Fire “Fantasy” from All ‘n’ All (1977) (D) H*Wood “One Love” from Doubt Kills (2013) Elephant Revival “Birds and Stars” from These Changing Skies (2013) Mosey West “Old Stone” from Bermuda (2013) (D) Patrick Dune “Breckenridge Paradise” from Middle Ground (2012) Ben Haugland “Lift” from The Point Of No Return (2012) Dan Fogelberg “Rhythm of the Rain” from The Very Best of Dan Fogelberg (2001) Firefall “Headed for a Fall” from Elan (1978) (D) Bop Skizzum “Say Something” from Say Something (2014) Full Belly “New Voice” from New Voice (2011) (N) Megan Burtt & the Congress “Send Me Down the River” from In Good Company: The Colorado Sessions Vol. 1 (2014) (D) Jesse Furay Lynch “I Wish It Would Rain” from I Wish It Would Rain (2014) Opie Gone Bad “Blue Christmas (feat. John Common and Jessica DeNicola)” from Opie Gone Christmas (2011) Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Runaway Train” from Riveria (1998) Great American Taxi “Poor House” from Paradise Lost (2011) (D) Soul School “Out of Your League” from Chapter One (2014) Churchill “The War Within” from War Within EP (2013) The Fray “Love Don’t Die” from Love Don’t Die (2013) H2 Big Band “You’re It!” from You’re It! (2011)
The big take-a-ways from the Denver Music Summit – be REMARKABLE, build and control a substantial email list, and “you can’t manage what you don’t measure.” You’d think these would be concepts ingrained in the psyche of every kid who has ever aspired to play the stage at Red Rocks … well, maybe not the measure and manage part LOL. That’s more management 101, than guitar shredding 101.
We’re living in an era of more new music, put out more frequently, than at any time in history. There are more bands (artists), more places to play, and more stations than ever broadcasting and talking about music from here in Colorado.
As I get ready to begin the final month of the 7th season of the show, and this being the last week in November, I am terribly thankful for the stations that air the show, the musicians who make the music I play on the show, and you for listening and supporting Colorado music (and for reading my rants and ramblings here). Thank you.
I still get folks asking if they can hear the show online, or download it as a podcast. No, I don’t podcast – and yes, you can stream the show when the stations broadcast it (except KFVR Pueblo – they don’t stream). If you’d like, you can also go to The Colorado Sound Live365 for a continuous stream of what I think is some of the best of what’s in my library. Nights rock a little harder than days, and days go back in time a bit further than nights.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be busy culling data for the year end charts, and the Best of 2013 show which will get aired Dec 28-Jan 3. Check local listings here for a time and station near you … if you’re one of the “loyals” and believe you’ve got a firm handle on what went on musically this past year, I’d like you to reach out to me directly at thecoloradosound@gmail.com.
Bumped into some friends at the Denver Music Summit this weekend … new music is one the way from AdrienneO, and I’ll have new tracks to share with you next week from Bop Skizzum and Katie Laurel – along with an exclusive debut by Katie Glassman and Snapshot – and I’m very very pleased to announce that I’ll have the exquisite pleasure of breaking new music from Jesse Furay Lynch …and I’ll introduce you to the music of an award winning Canadian artist who now makes Denver his home.
As there wasn’t a lot of new music in the show this week, and what was new I couldn’t find on Soundcloud or Bandcamp (my preferred way to share btw) – so shares this week from a new records that came out earlier this year … enjoy … and welcome to the show 🙂
VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK:SuCh is an award winning actress, singer, and songwriter from Denver, by way of Chicago, by way of NYC, by way of Haitian immigrants. Her story, as reported by Westword in Feb 2012, is worth the read.
PLAYLIST S7 EP43 Nov 2013
The Monocles “The Spider & the Fly” from The Spider & the Fly (1966) The Higher Elevation “The Diamond Mine” from The Diamond Mine (1967) Lothar & the Hand People “Machines” from Presenting… (1968) AdrienneO “Innocence” from Superchromatic (2013) A Boy and His Kite “You Want It, You Got It” from A Boy and His Kite (2012) Kinetix “Never Too Late” from Never too Late (2013)The Belle Jar “Union Station” from Union Station (2013) Bare Bones “Come In/Stay Out” from Bare Bones (2011) Esme Patterson “Jessica” from All Princes, I (2012) You Me and Apollo “Oh My Molly” from You Me and Apollo (2012) Instant Empire “Cadillac Road” from Keep Up! (2013)(D) Honey Don’t “Breaking Down” from Heart Like a Wheel (2013) Drew Emmitt “Tangled Up In Blue” from Freedom Ride (2002) Brad Goode “Reverse the Charges” from Tight Like This (2010) Bob Lind “How Dare you Love Me” from Finding You Again (2013)
(N) Poco “Neil Young” from All Fired Up (2013) The Apples in Stereo “Strawberryfire” from Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999) Andy Palmer “Good Son” from Hazard of the Die (2013) Elephant Revival “Grace of A Woman” from These Changing Skies (2013)
(N) Megan Burtt & SHEL “Sweet Mystery” from In Good Company: Megan Burtt & Friends – the Colorado Sessions Vol. 1 (2014) Andy Hackbarth “My Baby Don’t Run” from Treadmill Horses (2013)Yo, Flaco! “American Music” from Goin’ At It (2002) Flobots “The Rose and the Thistle” from The Circle in the Square (2012) Railsplitters “Jackson Town” from The Railsplitters (2013) Kevin Dooley “Silvery Moon” from Moonlight Highway (2011) Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “Viceroy Filter King” from Always Say Please and Thank You (2000) Manuel Lopez Trio “Samba Grubinho” from Searching Out (2013)
Friday night was a special event. As you might know, unless I’m working a show, Miss Pattie and I rarely actually go out. I traded out a sound gig this weekend to attend the benefit for Love Hope Strength. Love Hope Strength is a local Colorado / Denver based non-profit, that seeks to provide diagnostics and treatment for cancer worldwide by promoting their work and engaging participants at concerts globally.
From their mission statement: At Love Hope Strength we turn concerts into lifesaving events. Through our GET ON THE LIST campaign we register marrow donors resulting in matches from concerts around the world. Through unique events, like Everest Rocks and Kilimanjaro Rocks, we build cancer centers, giving people access to early detection and quality cancer care. More info at http://www.lovehopestrength.org
The concert to benefit Love Hope Strength was stimulating, engaging, funny, warm, and musically splendid. Where, as they mentioned, they might get 50 people signed up at a Red Rocks show, 5o of those among the 300+ who were on hand Friday night got ON THE LIST.
On stage guests included project founder/executive producer Megan Burtt with friends Chris Daniels, John Magnie, Reed Foehl and Tyler Depres (Science Partner) with members of the Congress, SHEL, Bop Skizzum, Chimney Choir, Rachel & the Kings, the Epilogues, and Covenhoven. Audience “guests” were too numerous to mention – and the room did look to be sold out with standing room only by show time.
A note about this and other shows (the few) I’ve been too at the Soiled Dove Underground — show began promptly at 8, there was an intermission at about 8:50, and the second act ended at 1030, allowing plenty of time to mingle with the band and pony up to the merch table. My wife and I were out of there before 1130, a real treat for a local show.
Radio stations and print media around the state will have the LOVE HOPE STRENGTH benefit compilation IN GOOD COMPANY within the next week. Also coming to radio via Rocky Mountain Music Network = Estes Park artist Brad Fitch record Columbine Blue. Brad looks uncannily like John Denver (he does a John Denver tribute show) – so much so that even a limo driver used to ferrying luminaries got a bit whigged out when he met Brad, and who reportedly remarked, “John Denver is dead, right?”
Some radio news to report this week. KVNF Mountain Grown Community Radio seeks a weekday morning host for NPR’s Morning Edition and Regional News from KVNF. This person will serve as the primary voice for KVNF’s regional news coverage. As such, the ideal candidate has a strong voice and professional news delivery that fits into both NPR and KVNF’s programming and journalistic philosophies. This position will be part-time, contract labor, 12-20 hours per week. Hours will be 6-8:30 AM weekdays. More details at http://kvnf.org/post/kvnf-hiring-morning-news-host
VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK:
I discover “new” bands every single day of the week, either because they send me cds, or links, or I discover them accidentally. I don’t know how I discoveredAnchorage… but at least the name resonated with me since I lived there as a kid for 7 years. New music this week:
PLAYLIST S7 EP42 NOV 2013
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Resignation Superman” from Beautiful World (1997) the Subdudes “Papa Dukie & the Mud People” from Behind the Levee (2006) (D) Blake Brown & American Dust Choir “Rise n’ Fight” from The American Dust Choir (2014) (D) West Water Outlaws “Caught in the Headlights” [single] (2014)Rose Hill Drive “Pictures of You” from Americana (2011) (D) Dr. Izzy Band “Dirt Bed” from Blind and Blues Bound (2014) Boa & the Constrictors “Married to the Blues” from Boa’s Blues (2013) (D) Kerry Pastine & the Crime Scene “Motor Vixen From Hell” from Motor Vixen From Hell (2014)Drew Emmitt “Take the Long Way Home” from Long Road (2008) (D) Samuel Mouton “Smoke and Chill” from Paradise (2013) Nathen Maxwell & the Original Bunny Gang “Stick To My Guns” from White Rabbit (2010) Carmen Sandim Sextet “Sampa” from Brand New (2011) India.Arie “Slow Down” from Voyage to India (2002) Sherri Jackson “Simple Pleasures” from Catalyst (2000) (D) Jon Snodgrass & Dead Peasants “On the Outside” from Songs of Tony Sly: a Tribute (2013) Beautiful Loser Society “Hank’s Lament” from The Desperate Promenade (2013) Great American Taxi “One of These Days” from Reckless Habits (2010) (D) Katie Herzig “Little Bit of Love” from Secret Road – As Heard on TV (2014)Jeff Brinkman “Strange” from Strange (2012) Devotchka “Along the Way” from A Mad & Faithful Telling (2008) (N) Tennis “100 Lovers” from Small Sound (2013) (D) Calders Revolvers “See To Believe” from See To Believe (2014)(N) Whiskey Blanket “Batto Nox” from From the Dead of Dark (2014) Bop Skizzum “Known It All Along” from Coloradical (2012) GogoLab “Tumbleweeds” from Border Patrol (2013)
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