Rocky Mountain High – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

CP S20 EP09 2026

AIRDATES FEB 28-MAR 03 2026
MMMM – YaSi, E.M.E., Ryan Dart, VOLORES + This Week On YouTube with from Andy Sydow, Heavy Diamond Ring, Cary Morin, Emily Scott Robinson, Ryan Dart, The Dirty Turkeys, Big Head Todd & the Monsters and Volores.

The Grand Mesa as seen from Glade Park, above the Colorado Nat’l Monument

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. BUT I’M NOT.

Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

I’m retired. This show has been my passion for 20 years. There are monthly costs associated with the show that honestly stretch my limited retirement income now.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is essential and sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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Every week I hope to bring you some of the best of Colorado music from across the decades, and around the state. I also usually share a new landscape photograph by my life-partner, Claire/Clear Vistas Photography.

There is no current website for Claire’s work. If you see a photo you like and would like to have printed, let me know. Email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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Otis Taylor – Naggin’ Woman Blues – When Negroes Walked the Earth (1997)
Otis Taylor – Twelve String Mile – Fantasizing About Being Black (2017)
(D) YaSi – Suddenly I See (2026)

Andy Sydow – In Love and a Hard Luck Sayer – Night Skin (2025)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Friday Night – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
Lynn Patrick – When You Find What You’re Looking For (excerpt)
A.J. Fullerton, Lauren Frihauf – Slow Killer (2025)
The String Cheese Incident – Let’s Go Outside – Song In My Head (2014)
Cary Morin – Let Me Hear The Music – When I Rise (2018)
Emily Scott Robinson – Dirtbag Saloon – Appalachia (2026)
The Terra Surfers – Nerved Up! (excerpt)
(D) E.M.E. – Cover Me (2026)

DeVotchKa – I Cried Like a Silly Boy – Curse Your Little Heart (2006)
Analog Son – This Time Around f. Adryon de Leon – Keep It Coming (2025)
Lettuce – Gold Tooth – Cook (2025)

Tinkers Punishment – kill daisy – Tinkers Punishment (2000)
Michael Trent – Bad Luck – The Winner (2010)
(N) Ryan Dart – Dirt Road Woman – If Love Don’t Break You (2026)

The River Arkansas –Gimmie That Sound – Tin Years (2025)
The Dirty Turkeys – Undercover Billionaire – Cowboy Caravan (2024)
Dotsero – Latin Sandwiches (excerpt)
Sun Jr. – Vixen – The Many Moon Hex (2026)
White Rose Motor Oil – Hotel With No Name – You Can’t Kill Ghosts (2020)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Broken Hearted Savior – Live Monsters (1998)
Pink Fuzz – Animal (2025)
The Delta Sonics – Just Playin’ (excerpt)
(N) Volores – Shores of Scorpio – Shores of Scorpio (2026)

Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – What Can You Do – Hard Core Broken Heart (2018)
Grant Sabin – Didn’t Sell My Ring – Work (2024)
Annie Booth – Queen Bee – Wanderlust (2014)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

FEATURING: Andy Sydow, Heavy Diamond Ring, Cary Morin, Emily Scott Robinson, Ryan Dart, The Dirty Turkeys, Big Head Todd & the Monsters and Volores.

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING MARCH 01 2026

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐖𝐈𝐃𝐄 + 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 – 74 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. Emily Scott Robinson – Appalachia LP Oct-25
(1) 2. Big Richard – Pet LP Nov-25
(R) 3. The Infamous Stringdusters – 20/20 LP Aug-25
(D) 4. Volores – Shores of Scorpio LP Oct-25
(D) 5. E.M.E. – Cover Me SP Nov-25

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CP S19 EP43 2025

AIRDATES SAT DEC 06-FRI DEC 12 2025 MMMM = Bo Depena, David Lawrence & the Spoonful, The Dirty Turkeys, The Tammy Shine

HAPPY HOLLY-DAZE. As we wind down the year, I hope you’ll HELP SUPPORT THE COLORADO PLAYLIST in your year end giving.

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. It will turn 20 years old in 2026!

Your support is essential to keeping it on the air.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

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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Acoustic Junction – Strange Days – Strange Days (2000)
Dressy Bessy – I Saw Cinnamon – Sound Go Round (2002)
(D) Bo Depena – Half of My Mistakes – Rather Move Up (2026)

Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die – Growing Pains (2025)
Augustus – Kick the Doors Down – Color TV and Tall Tales (2020)
Packaging – In Your Pocket – Packaging (2025)
Paper Bird – To the Light – Paper Bird (2016)
Edie Carey – The Chain – The Veil (2022)
Gasoline Lollipops – The River – Kill the Architect (2025)
(D) David Lawrence & the Spoonful – My House is Burning (2026)

Heavy Diamond Ring – Already Gone – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
The Lumineers – Blue Christmas (2016)
Keith Oxman – I Was Doing All Right (George Gershwin) – Doing All Right (2009)

Otis Taylor – Naggin’ Woman Blues – When Negroes Walked the Earth (2000)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Viceroy Filter King – Always Say Please And Thank You (2000)
(D) The Dirty Turkeys – Soul Sugar (2026)

Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Crush – Her Way Out (2024)
King Cardinal – Christmas List (2019)
Analog Son – This Time Around f. Adryon de Leon – Keep It Coming (2025)
SHEL – You Could Be My Baby – Just Crazy Enough (2016)
The String Cheese Incident – Vertigo (2019)
Clay Street Unit – Rollin‘ – Sin and Squalor (2026)
(D) The Tammy Shine – Junk Mail – Ok Shine Ok (2026)

Planes Mistaken For Stars – Modern Logic – Do You Still Love Me? (2025)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Crime Scene Christmas – It’s a Crime Scene Christmas! (2015)
Gerald Albright – Taking Control – G (2016)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles)

HOT SPINS WEEK DEC 07. 2025

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), KLZR (Westcliff), 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 count.

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYIST = 83 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. DRUNKEN HEARTS – The Other Side SP Nov-25
(D) 2. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Tumbleweed w/JJ Grey SP Nov-25
(D) 2. ELBOW BROTHERS – Trinidad SP Nov-25
(R) 2. TENNIS – Face Down in The Garden LP Feb-25
(D) 3. ALEJANDRA MEZA – Too Bad, So Sad SP Jul-25
(D) 3. CLAY STREET UNIT – Where Have You Gone? / Let’s Get Stoned SP Sep-25
(D) 3. DOGTAGS – KNORR EP Apr-25
(R) 3. EVA ROSE KING – After Tale LP Feb-25
(R) 3. THE RIVER ARKANSAS – Tin Years LP Apr-25