The Colorado Sound

The Colorado Sound Presents Luna Fox Theater Tuesday, April 10, 201 Password: LUNASOUND

Passion Pit Ogden Theatre Monday, January 22, 2018 Password: passionpit18

Dark Star Orchestra with Keller Williams Red Rocks Amphitheatre Sunday, July 8, 2018 Password: truckin

Record Of The Year: “Redbone” — Childish Gambino

Album Of The Year: “Awaken, My Love!” — Childish Gambino Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: “Feel It Still” — Portugal. The Man

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Triplicate — Bob Dylan

Best Pop Vocal Album: Kaleidoscope EP — Coldplay

Best Dance Recording: “Tonite” — LCD Soundsystem

Best Dance/Electronic Album: 3-D The Catalogue — Kraftwerk What Now — Sylvan Esso

Best Rock Performance: “No Good” — Kaleo

Best Rock Album: Villains — Queens Of The Stone Age A Deeper Understanding — The War On Drugs

Best Alternative Music Album: Everything Now — Arcade Fire Humanz — Gorillaz American Dream — LCD Soundsystem Pure Comedy — Father John Misty Sleep Well Beast — The National

Best R&B Song: “Redbone” — Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino)

Best Country Solo Performance: “Losing You”  — Alison Krauss “Either Way” — Chris Stapleton

Best Country Duo/Group Performance: “It Ain’t My Fault” — Brothers Osborne “My Old Man” — Zac Brown Band “You Look Good” — Lady Antebellum “Better Man” — Little Big Town “Drinkin’ Problem” — Midland

Best Country Song: “Broken Halos” — Mike Henderson & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Chris Stapleton)

Best Country Album: From A Room: Volume 1 — Chris Stapleton

Best New Age Album: Reflection — Brian Eno

Best American Roots Performance: Arkansas Farmboy — Glen Campbell Steer Your Way — Leonard Cohen I Never Cared For You — Alison Krauss

Best American Roots Song: “Cumberland Gap” — David Rawlings “I Wish You Well” — The Mavericks “If We Were Vampires” — Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit “It Ain’t Over Yet” — Rodney Crowell Featuring Rosanne Cash & John Paul White “My Only True Friend” –Gregg Allman

Best Americana Album: Southern Blood — Gregg Allman Beast Epic — Iron & Wine The Nashville Sound — Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Brand New Day — The Mavericks

Best Bluegrass Album: Laws Of Gravity — The Infamous Stringdusters

Best Traditional Blues Album: Blue & Lonesome — The Rolling Stones

Best Contemporary Blues Album: Live From The Fox Oakland — Tedeschi Trucks Band

Best Folk Album: Mental Illness — Aimee Mann Semper Femina — Laura Marling The Queen Of Hearts — Offa Rex You Don’t Own Me Anymore — The Secret Sisters

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling): Born To Run — Bruce Springsteen

Best Recording Package: Pure Comedy (Deluxe Edition) — Sasha Barr, Ed Steed & Josh Tillman, art directors (Father John Misty) Sleep Well Beast — Elyanna Blaser-Gould, Luke Hayman & Andrea Trabucco-Campos, art directors (The National)

Best Album Notes: Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings — Lynell George, album notes writer (Otis Redding)

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Is This The Life We Really Want? — Nigel Godrich, Sam Petts-Davies & Darrell Thorp, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Roger Waters) 

In her storied career, Sharon Jones was not one to back down. Backed by the Dap-Kings, arguably one of the greatest funk bands in American history, Jones had that rare voice to sing high above the rafters, while calling for justice with stunning social acuity.

Take a listen to her cover of “This Land is Your Land,” from her 2005 release, Naturally. You’d be hard pressed to find a more meaningful, funky remake of anything recorded during the Dust Bowl era.

Jones, whose influence can be felt across modern radio, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2013. She continued to record with the Dap-Kings, releasing 2014′s Give The People What They Want, a holiday album, and a documentary, Miss Sharon Jones, as she confronted her illness. 

Soul Of A Woman is a supremely inspirational collection. On “Matter of Time,” the words take on resonance. Unity is coming, she urges. On the stunning “Call On God,” Jones reimagines a song left over from 2007. The video says it all. What a voice. What an album. What an inspiration.

That Boulder blue/slam/jam grass pioneers are masters of their craft. They're one of the most unique live bands in the country, and their impact on the Colorado music scene has been profound. What makes them special is their deep reach into the American (and British) songbook, and never being afraid to try a new one out for the crowd. These are some of their more well-known covers. A deep-south countrified Dead Flowers, a rare Neil Young gem, a jammy and adventurous Sweet Child, a fun Petty cover, two blues standards, and a Hendrix ballad round out some covers we love. 

Dead Flowers, by The Rolling Stones

Are You Ready For The Country, by Neil Young

Sweet Child Of Mine, by Guns N Roses

You Don’t Know How It Feels, by Tom Petty 

When The Levee Breaks, by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie and made famous by Led Zeppelin 

Nobody’s Fault But Mine, by Bling Willie Johnson  

Ryan Adams Prisoner  - The 2017 breakup record is being released on cassette for BFRSD. How vintage is that?

Benjamin Booker Live for No One - Exclusive for BFRSD, this 10″ has live versions of  "Right On You," "Witness," "Believe," "Slow Drag Under," and "Overtime."

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Baby It's Cold Outside - This 7″ features  the Colorado band doing “Baby It’s Cold Outside/Santa Baby.” Does it get much better than that?

Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales Side Trips, Volume 1 - A live spacey, jazz/rock performance from San Francisco in 1970. 

Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson The Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own Words: With Vin Scelsa - Live from a 1994 get together from the two famed songwriters, featuring the stories and versions of their classics.

John Lee Hooker Black Night is Falling - Raw and live from the legend himself, from Montreal, in 1977.

Son Volt Ballymena EP - A 10″ with three unreleased songs from last year’s Note of Blue, plus a gritty version of Son Volt’s “Sultana.”

Our favorites from From 2017

Margo Price recently visited Fresh Air. 

Beck stopped by World Cafe. 

Jason Isbell also stopped by the World Cafe this year.  Choices from the way-back machine

Tom Petty, from 2006.

The immensely quotable Keith Richards.

Typhoon, “Rorschach”, from their upcoming album Offerings 

Kyle Craft, “Heartbreak Junky”, from his upcoming album Full Circle Nightmare

Goat Girl, “Cracker Drool”, a new single from the South London band

Drive By Truckers, “The Perilous Night”, a recently released single from the rock outfit

Blitzen Trapper Washington's

March 1, 2018

Brandi Carlile with Shovels & Rope Red Rocks Amphitheatre

August 12, 2018

 I’m With Her, featuring Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O'Donovan L2 Church, Denver

The Red Rooster (aka Cary Wolfson) is an award-winning radio producer, photographer and writer who has lived in Boulder since 1973. His radio career began in 1978 on then-fledgling community station KGNU in Boulder, where he DJ’d diverse musical shows, served as Music Director, and did the station’s first blues show before helping develop Blues Legacy, KGNU's long-running Friday night blues slot. He is best known as the host of the weekly radio show Blues From the Red Rooster Lounge, which aired on KBCO from 1985 until this spring, as well as a syndicated version of the show currently on four stations scattered across the US and on Radio Free Amsterdam. He has twice received W.C. Handy Keeping the Blues Alive awards from the Blues Foundation in Memphis: for Blues from the Red Rooster Lounge in 1987; and again in 1991 for BLUES ACCESS Magazine, which he was the editor and publisher of from 1990-2002. For the past 21 summers Cary has taught a survey class on the blues at Common Ground on the Hill, a music and arts camp in Maryland.

The Rooster has emceed countless blues shows and gotten to meet a great number of his blues heroes, including Johnny “Clyde” Copeland, Charlie Musselwhite and Bobby Rush, some of the nicest people in the music business. He hosted a memorable blues show at Boulder’s Chautauqua Auditorium highlighting the music of Robert Johnson, with Johnson’s stepson, Robert Jr. Lockwood, John Hammond and Rory Block, which was followed by an onstage symposium featuring John, Rory and Mary Flower. The first blues show he ever attended was Albert King at the Cellar Door in Washington, DC, in 1969, and since then he has been fortunate to see so many other departed greats while they were still alive: Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Junior Wells, Bo Diddley, Luther Allison, William Clarke, among many more. He has interviewed Musselwhite, Copeland, Lonnie Brooks and many more.