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.
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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:
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 Old Time Radio will begin Christmas programing tonight as well. For more info please go to our OTR Blog at this link
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:
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?.
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
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?
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”
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
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.
The storms are slacking off and we are now on the air more often than not. New artists and shows have been added to all three stations. CFR Old Time Radio is doing well and CFR Durango is doing much better. CFR Rock is just getting off the ground but we are getting more listeners with time. A list of new artists will be posted soon.
After several failed attempts at using a PAL script to run the scheduled syndicated show “Ghostly Talk Paranormal Radio Talk Show” we have found a new way to run the scheduled performance by using the event schedular in our broadcast software. This week will be the first run using this technique. Ghostly Talk - Paranormal Radio Talk Show airs every Satruday Night at 9:00 pm on CFR Durango. Here is a link to thier site.
Catch thier live show on Sundays 6-9 pm EST.
CFR Old Time Radio’s playlist has grown enormously and we now have 2,627 shows on our playlist and the number is growing. I believe we can honestly boast the largest Old Time Radio Show playlist on the internet. If you like OTR we invite you to stop by and search the playlist for shows you may like, and if you don’t find them, let us know and we’ll search them out and add them.
Our newest staion CFR Rock is taking off with a bang. After receiving so much great rock music from all over the world we decided to create a venue for it. We have been looking for Independent rock on line and have found lots of great music for the station. If Rock is your thing drop by and listen to the best Indie/Hard/Alternative and more, Rock, you will find on the internet, we invite artists to send us your tunes
Hope your summer is going well and your having the fun you deserve!! More from CFR later.
We are in to our third week of being off the air due to unsettling weather in our area. The storms have been quite unpredictable and loaded with lightning, because of this reason we have had all three of our stations off line. We have acquired a very nice surge UPS system but are waiting for the funds to purchase replacement batteries for it. We apologize to our loyal fans and to the new listeners who might have been wondering where we were. We hope the rash of consistent storms will abate soon so we can get back on the air soon. We hope you understand and come back to listen when we are back up. We have tried to work around the weather forecasts but even they have not been correct and fortunately our servers are in close proximity so we could shut down before the storms became severe. Once again we apologize and hope to be on the air soon.
CFRG would like to take this time to spotlight two of our oldest friends in the Music world. Bobby Bridger and Vince Bell. Both are renowned and well known musicians from Texas with very powerful tales to tell. CFRG highly recommends you visit these two incredible artists at their websites by clicking on the pictures. You will find two compelling stories and songs that will not disappoint you. We hope you get to know them as well as we have over the years.
Bobby Bridger
Bridger
An Autobiography
By Bobby Bridger
Renowned for A Ballad of the West, his epic trilogy about the American West from the era of mountain man Jim Bridger to the closing of the frontier, Bobby Bridger has had a career in show business that spans the rockabilly-to-”Music City, USA” era in Nashville, the cosmic cowboy scene in Austin, the flowering of folk music, and even Broadway theater. His multifaceted talents have found expression in singing, acting, writing, painting, and sculpting. In this engrossing account of the personal and artistic journey that led him to create a new American art form, the epic ballad, Bridger touches on almost every major musical, entertainment, and cultural movement of the second half of the twentieth century, with a cast of characters that reads like a “Who’s Who” of American popular culture.
Bridger’s story begins in a small town in northeast Louisiana, where he first experienced the twin attractions of painting and music. He recounts his early efforts to become a successful Nashville singer-songwriter and his growing awareness that the commercial music business would never support his evolving desire to become a historical balladeer. Bridger recalls how his interest in folk music and folk ballads fired his ambition to tell the story of the American West. He movingly describes how this dream eventually became A Ballad of the West, an epic trilogy about Jim Bridger, the Lakota Sioux, and Buffalo Bill that has taken form in an acclaimed cycle of songs, a one-man show, books, full-cast stage performances, and other media.
Included in the book is a DVD that offers songs from A Ballad of the West and a sample from the forthcoming documentary Quest of an Epic Balladeer, based on Bobby Bridger’s life and work.
In addition to his masterwork A Ballad of the West, which he performs in repertory across America, Bobby Bridger is the composer of “Heal in the Wisdom,” the anthem of the internationally famous Kerrville Folk Festival, and author of Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West.
Vince Bell
Texas Songwriter Vince Bell
The University of North Texas Press has announced the publication of “One Man’s Music: The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell.” The book, a revised and greatly expanded edition of Bell’s acclaimed 1998 autobiography, is the latest in UNTP’s North Texas Lives of Musicians Series (previous volumes have been biographies of Townes Van Zandt and Blaze Foley).
In 1982, the promising singer/songwriter Vince Bell was broadsided by a drunk driver after he left the studio where he and Stevie Ray Vaughan had just recorded three of Bell’s songs. Bell spent a month in a coma and the next six years re-learning how to walk, talk, and play the guitar. Not only was his debut album waylaid for a dozen years, but his life would never be the same.
From the early Houston music scene and his first guitar, through 35 years and several recordings and tours later, the new book not only details his recovery from the accident and his roundabout climb back onstage, but shines a light in those dark corners of the music business that, for the lone musician whose success is measured not by the Top 40 but by nightly victories, usually fall outside of the spotlight. Bell’s prose is not unlike his lyrics: spare, beautiful, evocative, and often sneak-up-on-you funny. His chronicle of his own life and near death on the road reveals what it means to live for one’s art.
This is the story of a man and his instrument; of good times and bad, and the damage sustained and survived by both through decades of hard use.
—Richard Dobson
Vince Bell’s songs have been performed and recorded by such diverse talents as Little Feat, Lyle Lovett, and Nanci Griffith. In addition to releasing four critically acclaimed albums of his own, a ballet has been set to his work and his story turned into a musical. “Vince is a poet,” declared the late Townes Van Zandt.
Bell, who plays extensively in the U.S. and Europe, has appeared on such nationally broadcast television and radio programs as Austin City Limits, Mountain Stage, World Café, In the Prime, Morning Edition, and several other NPR programs.
Over the past couple of years we have received many submissions to the station from some very talented musicians. A lot of the music we get is just a little too much on the Rock side for the stations format. We like Rock, we just don’t play a lot of the harder stuff. Well that’s about to change, the station management has decided to start Colorado Free Radio Rock, a new addition to our family of stations, podcasts, blogs and vlogs. As this is being written, the server is being set up and the domain has been created for the stations site. We hope to have CFRR up and running in the next couple of months if not sooner. So this is a call to all you Indie Rock/Rock artists to send us your stuff, Rock, Blues, R&B, Metal, Hard Rock, Rock and Roll, if it’s rock we want to hear it, and put it on the air. The new site is,
http://coloradofreeradiorock.coloradofreeradio.com
Hope to see you there when we’re up and running. An announcement will be made when that time comes.
Colorado Free Radio Group Management.
http://coloradofreeradiogroup.com
Submissions
http://coloradofreeradio.com/submissions.html
When you send us your tunes let us know it’s for the new station.
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