Rocky Mountain High – Page 2 – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

Sand Crane Festival, Alamosa CO March 2025 courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

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VENUES – FRONT RANGE
VENUES – NOT FRONT RANGE
CONCERT SERIES & FESTIVALS
MUSIC CALENDAR
MUSIC RESOURCES

I’m incredibly happy to announce I’ll be taking part in this year’s FoCoMX. Hope to see you there .. GOAT HUGS!

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THE COLORADO PLAYLIST

Hi folks. I could use your help, please.

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.

Please support by using Venmo at chrisk-2 OR the form at the bottom of this page (I prefer Venmo).

If you represent a business that would like my listeners to know about you, email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com for details.
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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.
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HOUR 1

Dianne Reeves – Sky Islands – Dianne Reeves (1987)
Dianne Reeves – How High The Moon – I Remember (1991)
(D) Tyler Grant – Goat Canyon Trestle – Flatpicker (2025)
Last Call Romance – One Step Too Close – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 (2023)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold (feat. the Main Squeeze) (2025)
The Apples In Stereo – Nobody But You – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
Sherri Jackson – Time & Time – Sherri Jackson (1997)
Grant Sabin – Work – Work (2024)A
(D) Daniel Rodriguez – El Dorado ( 2025)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Place at the Table – All Out of Angels (2023)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand – Witness (2024)
Garrett Sayers Trio – Diatribe – Thinkbox (2017)

HOUR 2

Lannie Garrett feat. Nelson Rangell – Comes Love – Comes Love (1995)
Lannie Garrett – C’est Si Bon – Under Paris Skies (2005)
(D) Racyne Parker & Andy Sydow – Get Close – Will You Go With Me? (2025)
Julian Fulco Perron – All the Lights (2023)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeth Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
Jaiel – Bet On Me (feat. Adiel Mitchell) (2024)
Big Gigantic – The Little Things – Brighter Future (2016)
DeVotchKa – Straight Shot – This Night Falls Forever (2018)
Planes Mistaken For Stars – Modern Logic – Do You Still Love Me? (2025)
(P) Christine Alice – All Kinds Of Minds – Wood, Strings & Simple Things (2025)
Alysia Kraft – Little River – First Light (2022)
Clay Street Unit – Engine Trouble (2024)
David Baker Trio – Shiny Stockings – Minus Piano (2019)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

*Lannie Garrett and Christine Alice releases not available

HOT SPINS WEEK MARCH 09-15 2025
ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE including the Colorado Playlist

70 TITLES TRACKED 386 SPINS
(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(2) 2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(3) 2. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 3. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(D) 3. LOLITA – My Head f. DMD the Producer SP Feb-25
(D) 3. STILL HOUSE STRING BAND – Still House String Band EP Feb-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 and programs

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The Colorado Sound is produced every week on Wednesday. It gets sent out to stations on Thursday to air the next week as the station chooses. Mostly it’s heard over the weekend. On Saturday morning I learned that Colorado folk legend, Zen Cowboy Chuck Pyle died the night before, Friday November 6. Because the show is pre-produced, there was no way for me to mention it in this week’s episode.

For me, Chuck was a shadow … I never really got to know his music well until I collected his cds for this show — hence the inexplicably prophetic programming of his classic “Colorado” this week. And he wasn’t that old to be honest – not as old goes today. Or maybe he was and I just never thought about it. He was 70 when he moved on to “Higher Ground” – one of the few reasons he gave for moving to Colorado to begin with in 1965. RIP Chuck – may YOUR Colorado forever be in our heart.

Here are six hand picked videos … 4 of which are live performances. To see more, check out Chuck Pyle YouTube Channel

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(MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING)

Coral Creek / Coral Creek
(Coral Creek Music – 2016)

“…the band has followed in the footsteps of their forefathers, and very quickly gotten not just up to speed, but on their own plane.” – Marquee Magazine (Boulder) Nov 1, 2015

Styles: Americana, country-rock, jamband, rock
If You Like: Buffalo Springfield, Flying Burrito Brothers, Leftover Salmon, Railroad Earth
Produced by Tim Carbone (Railroad Earth).
Engineered and Mixed by Todd Divel at Silo Sound (Denver)
Notes: features dual lead singers Chris Thompson and Bill McKay (Leftover Salmon, Derek Trucks Band) with instrumental contributions from Rob Garland (bass), Jack Watson (drums), Luke Bulla (fiddle – Lyle Lovett Large Band, Kentucky Thunder), Andy Thorn (Leftover Salmon), Anders Beck (Greensky Bluegrass), Tim Carbone (Railroad Earth), Tyler Grant (Grant Farm), Arthur Lee Land (Great American Taxi), Scott Messersmith (formerly of The Motet) and Tanya Shylock (True Blue Band)

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Joel Ansett / The Nature of Us
(Joel Ansett Music – 2016)

Styles: soul, blue-eyed soul, pop
If You Like: Hall & Oates, John Mayer, Bill Withers, OneRepublic, The Fray, Meese
NOTES: Joel is a relative newcomer to the Denver scene — a musical immigrant from Seattle by way of (apparently?) Pennsylvania where no doubt he picked up some of the very clean Philly-soul embodied on the record.
SOUNDCLOUD – TRACKS

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KUNC Colorado Music Spotlight

NOV 10-13

Lionel Young Band (DEBUT)
Savage Cabbage (DEBUT)
Tuesday 10: 20 am & 11:20 pm
Wednesday 12:20 pm
Thursday 11:20 am & 9:20 pm
Friday 1:20 pm
91.5FM Northern Front Range/Denver
91.7FM Denver, Golden
102.7FM Boulder
online at KUNC.org

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY

The Colorado Sound is supported by listener donations, and by local businesses and organizations. Sponsorship opportunities are very limited. If you have an organization or business that would like a bit more statewide exposure during the upcoming holiday season please contact me at thecoloradosound@gmail.com for more information.

The Colorado Sound is supported by the Mishawaka Amphitheater … and yes, they have shows year round … during the cold months indoor in the SpokesBUZZ lounge … see www.themishawaka.com for upcoming events.

The Colorado Sound SUPPORTS SpokesBUZZ … a Colorado 501C3 non-profit dedicated to supporting the global visibility of Colorado sound and culture and to developing the professionalism of our local artists. More info atwww.SpokesBUZZ.org

The Colorado Sound PLAYLIST CS S9|EP43

HOUR 1

The Christines “In Your Space” from Living At the Bottom of the Sea (1996)
The Fluid “On My Feet” from purplemetalflakemusic (1993)
Augustus “Bloodbath” from Into Frames (2015)
Garuud Effekt “Cut Me” from Cut me (2014)
Chuck Pyle “Colorado” from Higher Ground – Songs of Colorado (2007)
(N) Liz Barnez “Simple Song” from Welcome Back (2015)
Longest Day Of The Year “Last Gray Day” from Carapace (2015)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “Look It Here” from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (2015)
(D) Joel Ansett “Kingdom Come” from The Nature of Us (2016)
Euforquestra “Road Funk” from Fire (2014)
GogoLab “Tumbleweeds” from Border Patrol (2013)

HOUR2

Acoustic Junction “Penny for Your Thoughts” from Love It For What It Is (1991)
Mollie O’Brien “Eleezah” from Big Red Sun (1998)
(D) Coral Creek “Way Back” from Coral Creek (2016)
Reed Foehl “Caroline” from Lost in the West (2014)
Brothers Keeper “Days Go By” from Todd Meadows (2014)
Strange Americans “Rocks Rolls” from That Kind of Luster (2014)
Old Soul “Oldest Religion” from Old Soul (1996)
Natalie Walker “Trust” from Strange Bird (2015)
Juno What?! “You Can’t Stop It” from Shameless (2011)
(N) The Yawpers “Doin It Right” from American Man (2015)
(N) Von Stomper “Let It Roll” from Americado (2015)
Aakash Mittal Quartet “Jeeju’s Jeeju” from Ocean (featuring Ron Miles) (2013)

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