the colorado sound – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

CP S20 EP21 + CUT IT OR KEEP IT, VIDEOS and HOT SPINS

A pretty special week on THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE – 15 videos and most from live sessions. Emerging act Katya Grasso, Andy Frasco and Andy Sydow kick it all off with in-studio live videos. A couple of old schoolers in the video mix with live show videos from DeVotchKa and Slim Cessna’s Auto Club.

Bryce National Park, UT – March 2026 – courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

You’d be right to ask, why Utah? Claire and I love to travel, and we love to drive. And, Utah is, well, at our back door. We live 24.75 miles east of the Utah border and the roads are wide open.

Our most recent journey, in April, took us down through New Mexico and into Big Bend National Park in south Texas, before finishing in Mesa Verde, CO. Claire hasn’t finished working on those pics quite yet… and we’re planning a June shoot …lots more pics coming.

The Grand Junction lineup of GOATZ! will be at the Bacon and Bourbon Festival in Keystone on June 27. The front range lineup will appear in Boulder in late August, before Claire and I hit the road in September. The band will land in Fort Collins in October.

AND MUCH MORE COLORADO MUSIC!

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This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my income.

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.

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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 releases. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

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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Firefall – Love That Got Away – Undertow (1980)
Poco – When It All Began – Legacy (1989)
(D) Katya Grasso – Covered In Sand (2026)

Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
Andy Sydow – Alibi (radio edit) – Time Stands Between EP (2021)
Volores – Shores of Scorpio – Shores of Scorpio (2026)
DeVotchka – Queen of the Surface Streets – Una Volta (2003)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Pine Box – Always Say Please And Thank You (2000)
Gasoline Lollipops – Derailed (2026)
(D) Fancy Bits – No Drama – Fancy Bits EP (2026)

SHEL – You Could Be My Baby – Just Crazy Enough (2016)
Hunter James and the Titanic – Stranger Touch – IV (2025)
Adam Bodine – Jacuzzi Marinade – Ribbons for Pigs (2025)

Jill Sobule – Too Cool To Fall In Love – Things Here Are Different (1990)
Leftover Salmon – Lovin’ In My Baby’s Eyes – The Nashville Sessions (1999)
(D) The Burroughs – Make You Sweat (2026)

A.J. Fullerton – Day’s End – Magnetic Light (2025)
Rootbeer Richie & The Reveille – Without You – Never Needed Me (2024)
Ryan Dart – Dirt Road Woman – If Love Don’t Break You (2026)
King Cardinal – Runaway (2022)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Damaged One – New World Arisin’ (2017)
Ronjo V – Roundabout – Ronjo V (2025)
(D) 2mx2 – El Valle (2026)

Post Truth Serum – The Picnic – Modern Victims (2020)
Grant Sabin – Didn’t Sell My Ring – Work (2024)
Andrew Vogt – El Gato Muy Rico – Optimistic Infinity House (2024)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JUNE 7 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), 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 country.

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST 58 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. EDISON – Million Horses SP
(3) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Way Back Home SP
(D) 2. BEN MARKLEY BIG BAND – Tuesday Morning Feeling LP
(D) 2. TROUBLE’S BRAIDS – Tarantula EP
(D) 3. DYLANOVUS – déjà vu / footprint SP

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CP S14 EP37 2020

Monday SEPT 21 2020 – Expressly and explicitly Colorado from the 60’s to today; from the biggest hit-makers and award winners in Colorado music history to some of the freshest new music emerging from the Centennial state.

Cary Morin, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Lumineers share TOP 5 postings this week in both the in-state chart and the Roots Music Report chart. The outliers include Gasoline Lollipops, Gabrielle Louise, Reverend Freakchild and the Subdudes.

I will not be publishing a post next Monday SPT 28th, or the following Monday, OCT 5. I’ll be on vacation, fishing in Montana.

Dial up a 50+ year retrospective at the CP from the 60s to Today on Spotify or check out a playlist of tracks from 2020 at CP2020. CP Best of the Decade 2010-2019 and CP Caribou Ranch Collection. PLS be sure to follow.

You can also find every playlist I’ve ever made on my YouTube channel, dating back to 2012. PLS be sure to subscribe.

TOP 5 WK ENDING SEPT 19 2020

Spinitron Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations, record promoters and artists are among those most likely to benefit from the detailed search function. Currently 11 Colorado radio stations utilize Spinitron.

COLORADO RADIO (15 stations / 165 titles tracked)

1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – All the Misery Money Can Buy LP (Aug-20)
2. CARY MORIN– Dockside Saints LP (Jul-20)
3. NATHANIEL RATELIFF – And It’s Still Alright LP (Feb-20)
4. THE LUMINEERS – III LP (Sep-19)
5. GABRIELLE LOUISE – The Unending Alteration of the Human Heart LP (May-20)

ROOTS MUSIC REPORT (includes international, national and Internet radio stations regardless of date / year of release)

1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF– And It’s Still Alright LP (Feb-20)
2. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – The Bodhisattva Blues LP (Mar-20)
3. THE LUMINEERS – III LP (Sep-19)
4. CARY MORIN – Dockside Saints LP (Jul-20)
5. THE SUBDUDES – Lickskillet LP (May-18)

The Mishawaka is a legendary music venue, restaurant and bar located 13.7 miles up the Poudre Canyon Highway (CO 14) in the stunning Poudre Canyon in Bellvue, CO. NOW OPEN for food, music and movies.

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

Every week I share some or all of the new music played on the show with you, here in the MMMM. Your rating gets factored into my decision in what to maintain in the show’s “for airplay” library.

A REMINDER: Please listen to ALL of the songs and rate them. Thanks 🙂

(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist premier / not available online

HOUR 1

Crawler – Sail On – Snake Rattle & Roll (1978) **Caribou Ranch Collection**
(D) Brent Cowles – Shine – It’s Coals. (2020)

Cup-A-Jo – Can’t You See – Crazy Comes Easy (2019)
The Wood Brothers – Sparkling Wine – One Drop of Truth (2018)
Gabrielle Louise – See In The Dark – The Unending Alteration Of The Human Heart (2020)
Andy Frasco – I’ve Got a Long Way to Go – Keep On Keepin On (2020)
Acoustic Junction – Think About It – Acoustic Junction (1996)
The Samples – Here And Somewhere Else – Here And Somewhere Else (1998)
(P) Dango Rose – Ring Out! (2020)
Kelly Augustine – Thunder on the Mountain – Light in the Lowlands (2019)
OneRepublic – Future Looks Good – Oh My My (2016)
Keith Oxman – Afreaka – Glimpses (2018)

HOUR 2

Trillion – Hold Out – Trillion (1978) **Caribou Ranch Collection**
(D) Blakk Mantra – Perhaps We’ll Live – Welcome to El Rey Blvd (2020)

The Motet – What You Gonna Bring – Death Or Devotion (2019)
Chris Daniels & The Kings – Fried Food/Hard Liquor – Blues, With Horns Vol. 1 (2017)
(D) Valdez – Saint Munchausen (2020)

Finn O’Sullivan – When The Power Comes Back On – When The Power Comes Back On (2020)
Blue Canyon Boys – I Want You to Want Me – House Full Of Sorrow (2009)
SHEL – The Battle of Evermore – SHEL (2012)
(D) 2MX2 – Elevator (feat. Aja Black of the Reminders) (2020)

The Blue Rider – Rattlesnake – Year of the Horse (2016)
DeVotchKa – Straight Shot – This Night Falls Forever (2018)
La Cocodrila – Bop Bop Bop Bop – La Cocodrila (2019)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

CP S14 EP36 2020

Monday SEPT 14 2020 – Expressly and explicitly Colorado from the 60’s to today; from the biggest hit-makers and award winners in Colorado music history to some of the freshest new music emerging from the Centennial state.

CP2020 UPDATES REGULARLY. New music from Blakk Mantra, Bowregard, Jayme Stone, Keith Oxman, Monica Marie, Tejon Street Corner Thieves, Tennis, Trevor Hall.

You can also find every playlist I’ve ever made on my YouTube channel, dating back to 2012. PLS be sure to subscribe.

DULCETTERRA, AN ONLINE INTERACTIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL, CONFERENCE AND SONGWRITING CAMP. Watch live on Monday, September 21st, 2020, from 12PM until 12AM Mountain Standard Time.