Live Music Colorado – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

CP S19 EP21 2025

Blue Mesa Reservoir, Gunnison, CO + Milky Way courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

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The Monday Morning Music Meeting courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs.

Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.

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This week’s show features music not available on any streaming service. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore’s new album is only available via Bandcamp. Andy Sydow‘s new EP with his live band, the Minor League, is not out yet.

Two other releases of note are also not on streaming services: The Grocery Story Situation on Isle #3 and Concrete Hotel, the new album from the Delta Sonics. So the only place you can hear them is here on the Colorado Playlist.

Rick Derringer – Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo – All American Boy (1973)
Sugarloaf – Tongue In Cheek (radio edit) – Spaceship Earth (1971)
(D) Jay Stott – Econoline Van (2025)
The High Hawks – Somewhere South – Mother Nature’s Show (2024)
Sweet Virginia – Blue Skies – Leaving Again (2022)
The Grocery Story – You Don’t Knock (f. Erik Lunde) – Situation on Isle #3 (2025)
Last Call Romance – One Step Too Close – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 (2023)
Fast Eddy – Take A Look (2022)
piKziL – Along The Dark Horizon (2024)
(D) Taylor Shae – American Dream (2025)
The Velveteers – Charmer And The Snake – Nightmare Daydream (2021)
Dragondeer – Jolee (2024)
Paa Kow – African Lady – Cookpot (2017)

Dan Fogelberg – Longer – Phoenix (1979)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – An American Dream – American Dream (1979)
(D) Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – I’ve Got The Blues – Lost In The Crowd (2025)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
CITRA – Ocean (2020)
Dr. Joe – Let It Shine – Songs of Joy, Unity and Revolution (2025)
Tennis – Runner – Swimmer (2020)
Musketeer Gripweed – More Than Ever – More Than Ever EP (2021)
The Delta Sonics – Concrete Hotel – Concrete Hotel (2025)
(D) Andy Sydow & the Minor League – Night Skin – Life Goes By EP (2025)
The Copper Children – Pity Party – Strange Illusion (2022)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand (Radio Edit) – Witness (2024)
Keith Oxman – The Midgets – A Little Taste (1995)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING MAY 31, 2025

ALL STATIONS, including the Colorado Playlist – 73 titles tracked
(1) 1. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation on Isle #3 LP Oct-24 (not avail online)
(D) 2. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25 (not avail online)
(2) 2. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(5) 3. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 3. NO DREAMS – Good Life + All Bent Out Of Shape SP Mar-25
(R) 4. piKziL – Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(D) 4. TO BE ASTRONAUTS – Sense EP Apr-25

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and Indie1023 (Denver) …

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the country.

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CP S17 EP29 2023

Red Indian Paintbrush near the Flat Tops courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

MONDAY JULY 31, 2023 – I won’t say that Aug 5th is my official retirement party, because it isn’t – but it is a soft retirement, as I get set to move to Grand Junction in the coming months.

I’m very excited to host my 15th Dacono Music & Spirits Festival on Sat, Aug 5th with the Record Company, Patti Fiasco, Musketeer Gripweed, 2MX2, Shelvis & the Roustabouts, and Eric Golden, along with our annual opening / set up youth band from Castle Rock.

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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I designed the Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) as a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

Supertramp – Give A Little Bit – Even In The Quietest Moments (1977)
(D) Dianne Reeves – Someone to Watch Over Me – Sweet Water Soundtrack (2023)

Dango Rose – The Singularity (radio edit) – The Forgotten Years EP VOL. Two (2022)
YaSi – World Is Burning – Coexist With Chaos EP (2021)
Andy Monley & the High Horse – Make You Mine – Totem (2023)
The Patti Fiasco – Saved By Rock And Roll – Saved By Rock And Roll (2016)
16 Horsepower – Coal Black Horses – 16 Horsepower (1995)
Deva Yoder – Resting From Their Labors – Be Well (2023)
(D) Isadora Eden – Haunted (2023)

A.J. Fullerton – Say You’ll Stay – The Forgiver and the Runaway (2021)
Kick and the Hug – Girl You’ve Changed – Ladies & Gentlemen (2022)
BTTFLY Quintet – Marauders – Coast (2023)

Steely Dan – Bodhisattva – Countdown To Ecstasy (1973)
(D) Alysia Kraft – Electric Blooms (2023)

Emily Scott Robinson – Old Gods – American Siren (2022)
Leftover Salmon – Black Hole Sun – Brand New Good Old Days (2021)
2MX2 – El Desmadre (2023)
Musketeer Gripweed – Rich Man’s Child – More Than Ever (2021)
The String Cheese Incident – Stay Through – Song In My Head (2014)
Kiltro – All The Time in the World – Underbelly (2023)
(D) Wood Belly – Play Me Out (2023)

Judy Roderick – Country Girl Blues – Women Blue (1965)
Mojomama – We Are One – We Are One (2022)
Gerald Albright – Taking Control – G (2016)

#COMUSIC TOP FIVE WK ENDING JULY 30 2023

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, offering search functions for artists and agents to track airplay.

(D) Debuted in TOP 5
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them.
** = serviced to Colorado media by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC.

(5) 1. *THE WOOD BROTHERS – Heart Is the Hero LP (Apr-23)
(1) 2. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(3) 3. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones LP (May-23)
(4) 4. LAST CALL ROMANCE – One Step Too Close SP (Apr-23)**
(R) 4. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – What If I EP (May-23)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

https://youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries%3Flist%3DPLjTLYGkfkx3r_hQXs5epT3dzrSnriUm7Y