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CP S19 EP14 2025 FOCOMX

HAPPY FOCOMX! APRIL 18-19 I’m leaving the western slope on Wed this week for Fort Collins. Looking forward to seeing some of my NoCO friends and family. I’ll be emceeing the Odell stages on Sat and doing a set at 5:45 on the OBC Wine Project Stage … See who’s playing!

NO MMMM this week. Enjoy the show.

David Lawrence and the Spoonful – The Seeds We Sow (2022)
Blue Canyon Boys – Winsborough Cotton Mill Blues – House Full Of Sorrow (2009)
Giant Walking Robots – Brick by Brick – Wake Up (2024)
Jenny Shawhan – You Got the Magic (2023)
Co-Stanza – Daykiller (2025)
Hunter James and the Titanic – Stranger Touch – IV (2025)
Cary Morin – Indian Hunters Return – Innocent Allies (2023)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone (2025)
West Side Joe & The Men of Soul – Keep On Climbin’ – Keep On Climbin’ (2021)
Lolita – My Head (2025)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeth Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
Graham Good and the Painters – Get After Life – Get After Life (2024)
Edison – Open Road – Familiar Spirit (2016)
Adam Bodine – Ribbons for Pigs – Ribbons for Pigs (2025)

Dr. Joe – Let It Shine – Songs of Joy, Unity and Revolution (2025)
The Copper Children – Pity Party – Strange Illusion (2022)
the Patti Fiasco – Love Letter – Juicy EP (2024)
Mojomama – We Are One – We Are One (2022)
The Grocery Story – You Don’t Knock (f. Erik Lunde) – Situation on Isle #3 (2025)
Little Trips – Too Hot to Hold – Little Trips 2023 (2023)
Megan Burtt – Restless – The Bargain (2015)
Mama Lenny and the Remedy – Party Girl (2020)
Barbara – For Good Measure – Project Traction (2024)
Dubskin – That Day Will Come – Light The Dark (2017)
Flobots – Me & You (Happy 2gether) (2021)
Spencer Zweifel – In the Palm of Your Hand – The Life or Death Situation (2024)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE = 50 picks by the Colorado Playlist

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING APRIL 13, 2025

KAFM, KBUT, KCSU, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA and KVNF are surveyed via Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay on over three hundred stations and programs around the country.

LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
(*) = No longer lives in Colorado, but counted as long as they 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

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE inc the Colorado Playlist – 74 titles tracked

(1) 1. The Lumineers – Automatic LP Jan-25
(2) 2. The Velveteers – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 3. Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go it Alone SP Mar-25
(3) 3. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation in Aisle #3 LP Mar-25
(4) 4. THE GALENTINES – “1140” LP Dec-24
(D) 5. Chella & The Charm – Happy Hour EP Mar-25
(D) 5. ELKA – Cold Feet, Soft Landing EP Mar-25

CP S18 EP12 2025

Needle Rock / Paonia CO courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

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.

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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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Mary Flower – Memphis Town – Blues Jubilee (1994)
Mary Flower – Your Baby Gave You Nuthin’ But the Blues – Rosewood & Steel (1996)
(N) The Barlow – It Ain’t Mine (2025)
Fast Eddy – In Too Deep – To the Stars (2024)
Jon Snodgrass – Bad New Lands – Tace (2020)
piKziL – Exit Strategy (2025)
the Reminders – Dust and Bones – Unstoppable (2019)
Michael Trent – Bad Luck – The Winner (2010)
The Motet – Something Better – Love Time (2024)
(N) Los Mocochetes – Huaraches (Radio Edit) – Huaraches/Sun Will Shine (2025)
The 89s – Apple Of My Eye – Wash Away (2020)
Volores – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
(D) Adam Bodine – Jacuzzi Marinade – Ribbons for Pigs (2025)

Jill Sobule – I Kissed A Girl – Jill Sobule (1995)
Jill Sobule – Where Do I Begin – Nostalgia Kills (2018)
(D) iies. – Graffiti Swing – Don’t Forget the Dot (2024)
Boot Gun – ‘Til It Ain’t – One for the Willing (2024)
despAIR Jordan – Train Wrecks of the Great Lakes – Before Your Wings Gave Out (2021)
Teacup Gorilla – Same Scorched Desire – Jane Eyre: No Net Ensnares Me (2025)
The Czars – Killjoy – The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People (2001)
DeVotchKa – The Common Good – 100 Lovers (2011)
Teresa Suydam – Lost Bird – Lost Bird (2024)
(D) 2classic – Kickstand (2025)
Wood Belly – Play Me Out – Cicada (2023)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Crush – Her Way Out (2024)
Keith Oxman – East Tritonal Rundown – Caught Between the Lion and the Twins (2008)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles avail)

HOT SPINS WEEK MARCH 24-31 2025
ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE including the Colorado Playlist

76 titles, 376 spins
(1) 1. The Lumineers – Automatic LP Jan-25
(2) 2. The Velveteers – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(R) 3. The Burroughs – Got to Free Your Mind SP Feb-25
(R) 3. Nathaniel Rateliff & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(D) 4. Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go it Alone SP Mar-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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CP S18 EP30 2024

Yes, that’s me and my life-partner Claire from Clear Vistas Photography – standing on the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge in New Mexico recently.

It’s late … but here it is. Don’t forget to let us know what you think of the new music.

The Monday Morning Music Meeting 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.

HOUR 1
Sugarloaf – Green Eyed Lady – Sugarloaf (1970)
(D) Jeff Cramer – The Fighting – The Fighting (2024)
Cary Morin – Indian Hunters Return – Innocent Allies (2023)
Earl Nelson & the Company – Raise My Window – Drinkin’ Muddy Water (2024)
Zephyr – Sun’s a Risin’ – Zephyr Deluxe Edition 2014 (1969)
Paper Bird – As I Am Rooms (2013)
Clay Street Unit – Engine Trouble (2024)
(D) Frail Talk – little al (2024)
The String Cheese Incident – Brand New Start – One Step Closer (2005)
Angie Stevens & The Beautiful Wreck – NorthStar – Learn to Let the Light In (2023)
Greg Schochet – Panhandle Rag – Amblin’ Man (2021)

HOUR 2
Open Road – I’m So Blue – Open Road (2000)
Yonder Mountain String Band – 40 Miles From Denver – Elevation (1999)
(D) Hunter James and The Titanic – Why You Always Thinking You’ll End up Alone? (2024)
Hunter Stone – Mars (2023)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Already Gone – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
Kick and the Hug – Contagious (2024)
The Still Tide – Change of Address – Between Skies (2019)
The Motet – Highly Compatible – Death Or Devotion (2019)
Mama Lenny and the Remedy – Everybody Wants Some (2024)
(D) Racyne Parker – Most Likely To Be (2024)
Bevin Luna – Masquerade – Madison and Angelus (2022)
Elektric Animals – Feel Something (2023)
Euforquestra – Some Things Are Not Known (2020)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

#COMUSIC WK AUG 10-17 2024

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 at more than 300 stations and programs around the country.

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE – 68 TITLES TRACKED
*includes Colorado Playlist spins
(D) 1. Jeff Cramer – Forever Morning: Pt. 1 LP Aug-24
(2) 2. Frail Talk – Microspirit LP Aug-24
(2) 3. Big Dopes – Moon Car SP Apr-24
(R) 4. Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Her Way Out LP Nov-23
(2) 5. Nathaniel Rateliff & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24

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