Stay Tuned – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

CP S18 EP45 2024

GET YOUR VOTES IN! POLLS CLOSE DEC 20.
The 2024 15 Annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

Every year I debut (D) 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.

Chris Daniels & The Kings – Cool Yule – A FlatIron Holiday (2001)
The Lumineers – Blue Christmas (2016)
(N) Yonder Mountain String Band – Nowhere Next – Nowhere Next (2025)
Hunter Stone – Mars (2023)
Cary Morin – Old Guitar – Streamline (2013)
Eva Rose King – After Tale (2024)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Unknown Legend – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Beautiful – Rocksteady (2010)
Jeff Cramer – Lost in the Catacombs – Forever Morning (2024)
(D) The Crooked Rugs – Chasin’ the Wind – Hear & Now (2024)
Dianne Reeves – One For My Baby – Good Night, and Good Luck Soundtrack (2005)
The High Hawks – Somewhere South – Mother Nature’s Show (2023)
Annie Booth Trio – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear – Festive! (2016)

The Apples In Stereo – Holiday Mood – Oh Santa! New & Used Christmas Classics from Yep Roc (2007)
Hunter Stone – Ugly Sweater Party (2024)
(D) Big Dopes – Draggin’ This On (2025)
Bison Bone – High Road to Taos – 40 Grit EP (2023)
SHEL – Rainbow (2020)
The John Magnie Project – You Can Always Come Back Home – Grocery Story (2025)
Liz Barnez – Laughin Yellow – Liz Barnez Band (1993)
Zach Heckendorf – Up – HAWK TALK (2020)
The Motet – Something Better – Love Time (2024)
(D) Stay Tuned – Parts Unknown – Tuned In (2024)
Five Iron Frenzy – So We Sing – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
The Burroughs – Honey Imastar – Honey Imastar (2023)
Sean McGowan – Around the Corner – Union Station (2022)

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HOT SPINS DEC 01-07 2024

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE – 72 TITLES TRACKED
includes spins on the Colorado Playlist
(2) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(3) 2. GRANT SABIN – Work LP Aug-24
(1) 3. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(D) 4. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & Now – LP Oct-24
(R) 5. THE MOTET – Love Time LP Mar-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 around the country.

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CP S17 EP06 2023

February 6, 2023 – I was hoping for either Yonder Mountain String Band or the Infamous Stringdusters to bring a Grammy home to Colorado, but no such luck this year.

Every once in a while it happens. I get sent a record WEEKS before it goes live on your favorite streaming source. In this week’s show there were pre-release debuts from Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck and one from the solo debut from Trent Nelson (Strange Americans).

As I sat here yesterday tabulating this week’s spins I was very pleasantly surprised to see the new album Four from Colorado Music Hall of Fame guitarist Bill Frisell debut at #3.

#COMUSIC TOP FIVE WEEK ENDING FEB 04, 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.

(3) 1. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(2) 2. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(D) 3. BILL FRISELL – Four LP (Nov-22)
(D) 4. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Built On Bones EP (Oct-22)
(D) 4. HOLLOW HEAD – Fake Plastic Trees SINGLE (Jan-23)

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.

Kenny Vaughan – The Things I Do – V (2011)
Kenny Vaughan – Country Music Got A Hold On Me – V (2011)
(D) Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck – Standin’ In the Corner – Learn to Let the Light In (2023)
Sweet Virginia – Blue Skies – Leaving Again (2022)
Augustus – Kick the Doors Down – Color TV and Tall Tales (2020)
Hunter James and the Titanic – Rabbit Run – Signals (2023)
My Body Sings Electric – Change – Part 2: What It Means to Be Afraid (2019)
Fierce Bad Rabbit – Everything Is Alright – Fierce Bad Rabbit (2010)
Mike Clark and the Sugar Sounds – Warm Me Up – Moon Rock (2022)
(D) Trent Nelson – Guide This Light – Where We Begin (2023)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Stuck In Motion – Heavy Diamond Ring (2019)
Mojomama – We Are One – We Are One (2022)
Bill Frisell – Baja – Guitar in the Space Age (2014)

Dusty Drapes – Talkin‘ Boogie – The Red Album (1981)
Starlite Ramblers – Colorado Rose – It’s Enough To Make A Cowboy Outta You (1980)
(D) Everybody Loves An Outlaw – Play Down & Dirty – Takin’ You Down EP (2023)

Adrienne O – What What What (2022)
Float Like a Buffalo – The Day – Back From Nowhere (2019)
Mad Radio – Satellite (2023)
Leftover Salmon – House of Cards – Something Higher (2018)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Children Of The Lord – Cipher (2008)
Thom LaFond – New Wildfire – The Moon Leans In (2022)
(D) Stay Tuned – Friday Night Lights (2023)

Darcy Nelson – Bad (2022)
Dragondeer – Mirage a Trois (2019)
(NT) BTTRFLY Quintet – Verti Marte – Coast (2023)

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