Well it’s that time again where we have to keep our eyes out for impending thunderstorms. This time each year we have periodic shut downs due to lightning strike and spring/early summer thunderstorms. We try to warn our listeners a head of time but sometimes we just have to pull the plug. For those of you who have noticed a recent sudden shut down, that’s the reason!! We appreciate your patience and understanding and want you to know CFRD will always come back on the air after the storms.
The winter broought us many new artists for our playlist. we’ll post them and links to their sites in our next bulletin. Stop by and give us your suggestions or just to say hi here at our blog
(for off site feeds)
CFRD Blog
Or stop by the station site to request music at
CFRD
After a run for several days we can safely say all problems are fixed and CFRD is back on the air. We’ve seen several lsiteners come and go and the server is updating both itself and the weblink to our station site. Thanks for your patience, this gave us the opportunity to upgrade our broadcast software to it’s most recent version so all was not a loss. We appreciate your ears!
We would like to announce that Colorado Free Radio Old Time Radio is busting out and doing well, it was noted last night we had the highest number of listeners at the same time we’ve ever had. Thanks to all the fans of Old Time Radio, you have made all our work worthwhile. We still have more shows to add to the playlist. The new shows will be posted soon, we appreciate your patronage.
After getting back on the air and the repairs were made, we recently noticed that the que on the software wasn’t updating. Needless to say the softwre has to be reinstalled and more tests run before CFRD can go back on the air. All of this should take place this evening. Another update will be posted when things are back up and running. We apologize to our listeneres.
Our other stations are still on the air!
Latest update on the CFRD server crash. A motherboard was found in our spare parts and installed in the server, it was fired up last night and looks good. All we need to do now is reconnect all the drives and periperals and run some tests. If all goes well the station should be up and running by tonight. We’ll keep our listeners updated as the progress continues.
We regret to inform our listeners Cololrado Free Radio Durango will be off the air for a while. On a routine check of our servers we found that the CPU fan on CFRD’s server had stopped working and the CPU was over heated. Needless to say we will have to replace our server and this will take some time. Rebuilding of the station server will begin tonight and should be completed in the next few days. Our other two staions are fine and still Broadcasting and you can still hear our podcasts at
Colorado Free Radio Talk
Colorado Free Radio Durango
You can also see some of our fetaured artists at our YouTube station here:
Colorado Free Radio YouTube
As soon as the server is up we will post another update for our listeners.
Starting tonight, CFRD will be playing Christmas music by independent artists. There will be renditions of traditional pieces as well as not so orthodox Christmas music. Shortly after CFR Rock will be playing Christmas music as well. We are in the process of building our Christmas Rock playlist. If you are an artist with Christmas music please feel free to send it to us. You can do so by going to this link.
CFR Submissions
CFR Old Time Radio will begin Christmas programing tonight as well. For more info please go to our OTR Blog at this link
CFR Old Time Radio Blog
Well winter is upon us and with cooler temps the thundershowers are over for the season. That means that all of our stations will be broadcasting full time, unless we have some type of power outage (knock on wood). We’ve been recieveing many new submissions to the station and some have been added to both CFRD and CFRR.. We hope to have a list of our newest artists to the playlist soon.
We hope you had a safe and excellent Halloween, with that said we recieved an email from Ghostly Talk - Paranomal Radio Talk Show, informing us that they will be going on hyatis for some time but will be coming back in the future. In the mean time all affiliates are encouraged to play shows from the archives and we will be doing so each Saturday Night at 9:00 pm.
Well that’s all for now, keep on listening, and now we can safely say we’ll be on the air for some time with out interuption, except for possible server maintenance, it’s smooth sailing from here on out!
Well sad to say that CFR stations are off the air due to a series of very intense storms each day caused by Hurrican Jimena, although the rain is much needed, it will keep us off the air for a while. Winter is always a better time for us since snow does not affect our systems status and rarely is there ever lighting with snow. On the positive side we are getting more music submissions from some very talented artists and when we do get back on the air there will be lots of new music to listen to. Keep sending us your songs we love to here from musicians.
Colorado Free Radio OTR’s playlist is growing larger and still boasts the largest playlist of Old Time Radio Shows on the internet, or anywhere for that matter. Thanks to the Internet Archives among other sources for making this possible.
Colorado Free radio Rock is growing as well and we encourage rock bands of all types to send us your music.
Ghostly Talk - Paranormal Talk Radio Show is still on the air at CFRD each Saturday night and youcan catch their show live at their website on Sundays, for more info go:
Here
That’s all for now, we hope to see you on the air soon!
Well here as promised is a list of the most recent artists added to CFRD’s playlist
John Eddie - On the roller coaster of his career so far, John Eddie has had enough big breaks, hard luck, new beginnings, false starts, serious adventure and big fun to inspire a boxed set’s worth of country songs. He’s had the sort of life - often hard-scrabble, occasionally charmed — that other artists only imagine, or have someone else write about for them. John has managed to document a lot of this on Who The Hell Is John Eddie?, his debut disc for Lost Highway, along with details of assorted dreams, wishes, romances, and regrets. He really has spent endless days and nights on the road, playing the “shit-hole bars” he so hilariously and accurately recalls. And he’s endured the heckling of alcohol-fueled patrons wanting to hear Skynyrd and Petty and demanding to know, Who The Hell Is John Eddie?.
Homesite
Myspace page
Kat Parsons - The one-woman indie musical dynamo known as Kat Parsons has been in non-stop motion, her blossoming career in full-scale overdrive, since releasing her recording No Will Power, on March 29. The CD is distributed nationally by Cleopatra/Navarre. A wonderful singer and excellent songwriter
Homesite
Myspace page
Walt Cronin, The Gousters - An engaging collection of folk rock tunes, Walt Cronin’s The Gousters is a homespun and charming effort. Warm, earthy sounds envelope the listener as Cronin delivers work that is solidly written with a compelling sincerity. Many of these songs are about war, often sounding like the contemporary answer to the folk protest songs of 1960s artists like Pete Seeger. With increasing frequency the term “alt-country” has now become a definition for those country artists not embraced by the hit driven, glossy pin-up version of country that Nashville currently sells with so much success. Really, the “alt” now means: where does it belong?
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Myspace Page
Sideroads - Sideroads is a contemporary mix of American roots music. An original band of singer songwriters who have been influenced by the great artists of rock, folk, country, and blues, and who continue to play, write, sing and record their own songs. Like most of their songs, they’ve got the dust of America embedded in their shoes. From their origins in Alabama, New York, Massachusetts and California, they have taken the side roads, built careers and families, but never stopped the music. They formed in 2007, and in Spring 2009 have released their first CD “Destinations”
Homesite
Band Marino - Band Marino is a 5-piece rock band. They enjoy playing music and eating pizza. Now defunct, supposedly, they are an excellent addition to our playlist. Maybe they will get it back together, if not you can still hear them on CFRD
Homesite
MySpace Page
Blue Turtle Seduction - When Blue Turtle Seduction played their first show in 2001 it was… well… rough around the edges, sloppy, chaotic, and … one hell of a great time. From the beginning there was a raw and original sound, a clear and intense vibe, and the energy was through the roof.
Homesite
MySpace Page
