Rocky Mountain Community Radio – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

Looking up at the sky through an ice castle. Courtesy Claire Mannato

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I’m mostly retired now and the costs of producing the show, tracking airplay and maintaining the site are really starting to eat into my monthly retirement income.

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

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) 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.

Cross country and in-state moving + storage. Located in Fort Collins.

Poco – What A Day – Pickin’ Up the Pieces (1969)
Firefall – Livin’ Ain’t Livin’ – Firefall (1976)
(D) Dan Hochman – Front Row – Shadow Blues (2024)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Before the Sun – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
Euforquestra – Show Me The Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
The Informants – Salvation – Crime Scene Queen (2009)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner – Love Runner (2014)
The Motet – Something Better – Love Time (2024)
(D) Holly Lovell – Hello Chelsea – Hello Chelsea (2025)
Five Iron Frenzy – So We Sing – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
Kiltro – All The Time in the World – Underbelly (2023)
Keith Oxman – Memphis Gene – Doing All Right (2009)

Stephen Stills – Colorado – Manassas (1971)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – I Saw The Light – Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1972)
(D) Teacup Gorilla – Same Scorched Desire – Jane Eyre: No Net Ensnares Me (2025)
The High Hawks – Mother Nature’s Show – Mother Nature’s Show (2024)
Jesus Christ Taxi Driver – Diabolical Catholic – Lick My Soul (2023)
Eminence Ensemble – Moonshine – Inside Looking Out (2024)
Tennis – Ladies Don’t Play Guitar – Yours Conditionally (2017)
DeVotchKa – Curse Your Little Heart – Curse Your Little Heart (2006)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand – Witness (2024)
(D) Brendan Forrest – Song for John Prine – Daydreaming Music Fiend (2024)
Dragondeer – New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023)
Boot Gun – ‘Til It Ain’t – One for the Willing (2024)
Andrew Vogt – Optimistic Infinity House – Optimistic Infinity House (2024)

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HOT SPINS JAN 26-FEB 01 2025

ALL STATIONS – 70 TITLES TRACKED
*includes Colorado Playlist
(2) 1. The Lumineers – Automatic LP Jan-25
(3) 2. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – South of Here LP Apr-24
(4) 3. A.J. Fullerton – Closer LP Mar-24
(R) 3. Megan Burtt – Witness LP May-24
(1) 4. Yonder Mountain String Band – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24

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 and programs

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NOV 13, 2023 – Lifetime Achievement .. don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere until 2026 😉 That said, thank you for being a fan of the show and thank you to KJAC aka 105.5 The Colorado Sound for recognizing me this way. It really means a lot after 45 years working in Colorado music and broadcasting. Check out all the winners of the 2nd Colorado Sound Music Awards.

I started working on the 14th Colorado Playlist Fan/Listener Poll this weekend. I expect to launch it on Friday NOV 24.

#COMUSIC TOP SPINS NOV 05-11 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 to track airplay around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered CHART
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 media in Colorado by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

(D) 1. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – All Out of Angels LP (Sep-23)**
(1) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(2) 3. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(1) 4. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones LP (Apr-23)
(R) 5. VOLORES – Ages LP (Mar-23)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) is 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.

CP S17 EP41 2023

Sugarloaf – Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You – Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You (1975)
Sugarloaf – Colorado Jones – Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You (1975)
(N) Kevin Dooley – Northern Boy – Band of Gypsys (2023)
The Copper Children – Pushin’ On – Strange Illusion (2022)
Jeremy Facknitz – There’s No Going Home Again (feat. Serenity Holloway) – Smilin’ At the Future (2023)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Under Your Spell – City of Love (2019)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Do You Know Thee Enemy? – Unentitled (2011)
Daniel Rodriguez – Mixtape – Vast Nothing (2023)
(N) Heavy Diamond Ring – When You’re Away (feat. Nathaniel Rateliff) – All Out of Angels (2023)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Boom Boom – Beautiful World (1997)
The Infamous Stringdusters – I Didn’t Know – Toward the Fray (2022)
Matt Skellenger – The Lion’s Tooth – Subspace Transmission (2023)

Firefall – Headed for a Fall – Undertow (1980)
Zephyr – Mad Dog – Heartbeat (1981)
(N) Wood Belly – Alamosa Rain – Cicada (2023)
Alysia Kraft – Cold Mountain – First Light (2022)
Silver and Smoke – Sting Like A Bee – 30P EP (2018)
Dragondeer – New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023)
Rose Hill Drive – Cool Cody – Rose Hill Drive (2006)
Reed Foehl – Wolves – Once An Ocean (2009)
Brothers Keeper – He Left You (f. John Popper) (2023)
(N) Sugar Nova – Somebody To Love (2023)
piKziL – Can’t Get Started – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
Jyemo Club – Issa Ting feat. the Reminders (2022)
Jon Wirtz – Watching The World Wake Up – Tourist (2013)

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