Well the summer thunderstorms have started and both CFRD and CFROTR are off the air periodically. We apologize to our listeners but because of lightning and the fact that we have lost three modems over the last 4 years, we shut down our servers during the storms. We still try to be on the air when we can but due to the sporadic nature of the storms we will be off and on. We appreciate your patience and this only happens during the months of July/August.
On another note (no pun intended) we have added more music to the play list and will be adding more soon. Here is a list of the most recent additions to our family of musicians.
Casper Loma Da Wa - The Sounds of Reality, Casper is a Hopi Musician who has made his mark in the Reggae world and has become quite a legend in his own right. With a strong commitment to preserving his culture and creating a new sound called Hopi Land Reggae, Casper has produced this group of songs presenting many Native musicians and other artists, on his label Third Mesa Music.
Jake Ziah - A band from Oslo Norway is an eclectic alternative mix of sounds that will take you to many places. Well known in Europe they have toured the continent and England. If we had to label them you could call the music Folk/Rock/Alternative/Country/Vocals and so on and so on…. You judge for yourself
Mad Tea Party - From Asheville North Carolina in their own words “Mad Tea Party brews up roots music, retro-pop and rock ‘n’ roll to create a fresh and intoxicating sound. Ami Worthen and Jason Krekel serve up an exciting live show to music lovers thirsty for upbeat, original refreshment. Rich harmonies glide over electrified ukulele, juke-joint guitar, scratchy fiddle and pulsing foot percussion. Songs about love, life, death and dancing are steeped in raw rockabilly with shreds of doo wop and devilish blues. Mad Tea Party concocts a musical recipe that is familiar yet unusual.”
Andy Pond & CX-1 - Fans of Bela Fleck will find Andy and CX-1 right up their alley. An incredibly talented progressive Blue Grass Band and excellent songwriters makes this group unstoppable. Also from Asheville North Carolina they are one of the best examples of modern fusion music.
Babette’s Feast - A very strange and eclectic band and we love the music but, we couldn’t find any information on this band except that thier cd is available in sundry places but no info is offered about them. If anyone knows about this band drop us a line.
Hayden Desser - is a Toronto based musician. He began recording on a 4 - Track in the early 1990’s. After a few singles and cassettes, his first full length record was released in 1995. Everything I Long For marked the beginning of a 13 year cycle of recording, touring and lots of time off.
Well that’s it for now if there is an artist you want to hear on our station let us know, drop us a line or if you are a musician who wants us to play your tunes send us a disk or go to the artists submission link on our main site at Colorado Free Radio for more information.
This is s special two hour episode featuring the comedy and raucous wisdom of the late great George Carlin. Your host Free D People features some of George Carlin’s finest, funniest and foulest moments. If you are easily offended WARNING EXPLICIT LANGUAGE!!! You can play the pod directly from this blog.
We feel that the loss of George Carlin was the loss of one of America’s greatest free thinkers and outspoken individuals in the history of our country. May we learn from his bravery.
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“George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937–June 22, 2008)[19][20] was an American stand-up comedian, actor and author who won four Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
Carlin was noted for his political insights, his black humor and his observations on language, psychology, religion and on many taboo subjects. Carlin and his “Seven Dirty Words” comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5–4 decision by the justices affirmed the government’s right to regulate “indecent” material on the public airwaves.
In the 2000s, Carlin’s stand-up routines focused on the flaws in modern-day America. He often took on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture.
He placed second on the Comedy Central cable television network list of the 10 greatest stand-up comedians, ahead of Lenny Bruce and behind Richard Pryor.[21] He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era, and was also the first person to host Saturday Night Live.”
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ‘n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton.
Diddley appreciated the honors he received, “but it didn’t put no figures in my checkbook.”
“If you ain’t got no money, ain’t nobody calls you honey,” he quipped.
The name Bo Diddley came from other youngsters when he was growing up in Chicago, he said in a 1999 interview.
“I don’t know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name,” he said, adding that he liked it so it became his stage name. Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow.
His first single, “Bo Diddley,” introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as “shave and a haircut, two bits.” The B side, “I’m a Man,” with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
The company that issued his early songs was Chess-Checkers records, the storied Chicago-based labels that also recorded Chuck Berry and other stars.
Howard Kramer, assistant curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, said in 2006 that Diddley’s Chess recordings “stand among the best singular recordings of the 20th century.”
Diddley’s other major songs included, “Say Man,” ”You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover,” ”Shave and a Haircut,” ”Uncle John,” ”Who Do You Love?” and “The Mule.”
Diddley’s influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Buddy Holly borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song “Not Fade Away.”
The Rolling Stones’ bluesy remake of that Holly song gave them their first chart single in the United States, in 1964. The following year, another British band, the Yardbirds, had a Top 20 hit in the U.S. with their version of “I’m a Man.”
Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects. He even rigged some of his guitars himself.
“He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic,” E. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., said in 2006.
Many other artists, including the Who, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello copied aspects of Diddley’s style.
Growing up, Diddley said he had no musical idols, and he wasn’t entirely pleased that others drew on his innovations.
“I don’t like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it,” he said. “I don’t have any idols I copied after.”
“They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there,” he said.
Despite his success, Diddley claimed he only received a small portion of the money he made during his career. Partly as a result, he continued to tour and record music until his stroke. Between tours, he made his home near Gainesville in north Florida.
“Seventy ain’t nothing but a damn number,” he told The Associated Press in 1999. “I’m writing and creating new stuff and putting together new different things. Trying to stay out there and roll with the punches. I ain’t quit yet.”
Diddley, like other artists of his generations, was paid a flat fee for his recordings and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.
“I am owed. I’ve never got paid,” he said. “A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun.”
In the early 1950s, Diddley said, disc jockeys called his type of music, “Jungle Music.” It was Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who is credited with inventing the term “rock ‘n’ roll.”Diddley said Freed was talking about him, when he introduced him, saying, “Here is a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat.”
Diddley won attention from a new generation in 1989 when he took part in the “Bo Knows” ad campaign for Nike, built around football and baseball star Bo Jackson. Commenting on Jackson’s guitar skills, Diddley turned to the camera and said, “He don’t know Diddley.”
“I never could figure out what it had to do with shoes, but it worked,” Diddley said. “I got into a lot of new front rooms on the tube.”
Born as Ellas Bates on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss., Diddley was later adopted by his mother’s cousin and took on the name Ellis McDaniel, which his wife always called him.
When he was 5, his family moved to Chicago, where he learned the violin at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He learned guitar at 10 and entertained passers-by on street corners.
By his early teens, Diddley was playing Chicago’s Maxwell Street.
“I came out of school and made something out of myself. I am known all over the globe, all over the world. There are guys who have done a lot of things that don’t have the same impact that I had,” he said.
Finally we have posted a new music podcast! Your Host Johnny G Note brings a great mix from our playlist to this podcast featuring outstanding independent artists. Happy Spring!
Ana Lovelis - No Brain (Just A Girl)
Chris Holcombe - Dirty Blood
de Capulet - The Paradigm
dbClifford - Simple Things
Holly Figueroa-O Reilly - Dream In Red
JEBO - Sinking Without You
Icewagon Flu - Norm
Emily Baker - 33’s & 45’s
Jason Karaban - Gone
Ben Harper - Everything
Bob Gatewood - Blades on the Water
Coles Whalen - Pretty Kids
Faultline (MO) - Bridge
Lloys Cole - Antidepressant
Well here it is not only can you hear your favorite musicians on CFRD, now you can watch their videos. We’ve created a YouTube page and are in the process of tracking down every video by artists featured on CFRD, so now you can see all of them in one place. Of course it will take time to track them all down but if they are on YouTube we’ll post them. Here is the link.
Well the fences are up and the goats, sheep and yak are now contained in the pasture. It was a long hard winter with lots of snow and power outages but we made it through another one. Time has come for more blogging and station managing and one of the things we’ve been doing alot is adding new music to the playlist. Here is a list of Musicians and Bands we’ve added:
The Porchlights: out of Dolores Colorado the Porchlights are a great duo and friends of the CFR management. The Porchlights on the Web
Mark Hobbs: is a singer-songwriter with a passion for real music about real life, finding inspiration in the everyday and inviting listeners to see the beauty and interconnectedness in the otherwise seemingly ordinary. Mark Hobbs on the Web
Moses Guest: is a Texas-based, Southern Rock band that has just enough Pop, Jazz, Funk, and Country in its veins to appeal to audiences of all ages Moses Guest on Myspace
Iain Matthews: Member of Fairport Convention, Matthews Southern Comfort, and Plainsong, among others. Musical pioneer, songwriter, guitarist. In his unforgettable solo work, a restless innovator and a tireless perfectionist. And most of all, a voice: clear, high, emotional, and strong. Iain Matthews official home page
Snapdragon: now defunct Augusta Georgia band, an excellent group of musicians. Snapdragon info on Myspace
Saint Low featuring Mary Lorson: In Madder Rose, Lorson sang lead vocals, but guitar player Billy Coté wrote the majority of songs on each album, leaving Lorson with a backlog of her own songs. After Madder Rose released its last album, Hello June Fool, in 1999, Lorson formed Saint Low to release that material. The band’s second and third albums have been released under the moniker “Mary Lorson & Saint Low” Mary Lorson on Myspace
The Tannahill Weavers: their diverse repertoire reflects the duality of Scotland’s musical heritage. It embraces both the mystical quality of the Highlander’s Celtic music, and the rollicking, sometimes even brawling qualities of the Lowlander’s Anglo-Scots tunes. Tannahill Weavers Official Site
Project Kate: was a short-lived, New York-based project that centered around Kate Reddy, one-time guitarist for Hare Krishna-inspired hardcore band 108, that included many East Coast hardcore scene notables.
Chris Lizotte: Christian blues artist was born and raised in Orange County, California. Influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Cocker and Ray Charles, Lizotte recorded Free in 1991 and Chris Lizotte & Soul Motion in 1992 for New Breed. He was then signed by the Metro One label; his first release was Long Time Comin’ in 1994. Chris Lizotteon Myspace
Michelle Peixinho:(pronounced: pay-shee-no), petite woman wearing a black shirt with a white outline of a butterfly, is holding her baby Malaya (Freedom) in her arms. It is the evening of March 2 — her CD release party at the Pusod Center for Culture, Ecology and Bayan in Berkeley. A small crowd has gathered anticipating Michelle’s performance. Without much ado, Michelle takes center stage, cradles her guitar and everyone is invited to hush and listen. Sitting on the banig (mats) on the floor, it is easy to be captured by Michelle’s presence. She has a real intimacy with her audience. Speaking in a friendly conversational tone, she regales with stories about cultural awakenings.
B.W. Stevenson: (5 October 1949 - 28 April 1988), born Lewis Charles Stevenson, was an American country folk pop artist. “B.W.” stood for “Buckwheat.”
Stevenson was born in Dallas, Texas. He is most famous for co-writing, along with Daniel Moore, the 1973 pop hit “My Maria”, which was covered by country duo Brooks & Dunn, for whom it was a three-week 1 country hit in mid 1996. Stevenson had several other successful chart singles, including “A Little Bit of Understanding” and the original version of “Shambala”, which reached 3 in a cover version by Three Dog Night. In his book The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, author Jan Reid devotes a chapter to Stevenson, where he dubs him The Voice. We present his little known but best songs. BW Stevenson on Myspace
Well there you have it, our list of the newest additions to our playlist and as always we work at bringing the best and most diverse music we can find. More to come, as well as our new Youtube channel, not only can you hear your favorite artist on CFRD but soon we’ll gather them up on Youtube in one place. If there’s a video of them we’ll find it. Until next time keep on keepin on!
We’ve recently added several new artists to the playlist one group in particular caught our attention and we wanted to present them to you here, they are a band from Nagaland India called Abiogenesis. With a very eclectic sound, mixing ancient sounds with a modern feel, they are quite memerizing. You can find them at AbioGenesis Rather than go on about them here’s a video of one of their songs called “Saramati Tears”
You can check out their CD by clicking on the image below.
We just upgraded our server to a newer computer with a larger hard drive and more ram and things are running smother than before. We have added new music to the play list and hope more musicians send us their tunes. We look forward to hearing new music all the time. CFR Old Time Radio Presents has just posted two new Podcasts one is a western show with the first two episodes of The Six Shooter starring James Stewart, and the other is the Mercury Theatre’s presentation of The Count of Monte Cristo starring Orson Welles. We’ve added new shows to CFR Old Time Radio, the 1940 season of Fibber McGee and Molly has been added and the entire episodic log, 52 episodes to be exact, of George Edward’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1932, you may recall the Australian born George Edwards from the Frankenstein series. We also have added 32 new shows of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. You can find our OTR podcasts at
Spring is moving in quickly and with it will come the ligtining storms, we have acquired a UPS unit and hopefully it will help with fewer outages. Unfortunately lighting is a killer of modems and computers and we still will have to pull the plug on occasion to protect our servers. We hope you understand when we go off the air but we always try to get back on as soon as possible. That’s it for now, as always we appreciate you tuning in to our stations and podcasts.
Just last week CFRDOTR acquired at least 10 new series and increased our Fibber McGee and Molly by 4 seasons. Most of the new shows are still in zip file mode but we intend to unzip em soon, idv3 tag em and post on the station. Included in the new shows are at least 3 new Detective Mystery Shows (TBA) and some new additions to "Our Miss Brookes" and "Buck Rogers" and a much more complete Superman playlist. We’ve also added the most complete Green Hornet Playlist we could find.
CFRD just received 4 new CD’s from artists and we are in the process of screening and posting new music. We hope you keep sending us your songs, If you think your good and if we think your good we’ll most certainly add you to our playlist. Unfortunately not everyone gets on as we have a certain type of music we want on the station, but, don’t let that discourage you.
CFROTR Podcast is a big success, we’ve had quite a few downloads and thanks to our host Johnny Night for presenting some great material for our Pod. A new show is in the making and we should have it up and running in the next couple of days. Let us know if you have a request for a Podcast show and Johnny Night will try to oblige. We appreciate your great response to our OTR Podcast and hope you’ll keep subscribing.
CFRD Music Podcast has been slow to start but a new show is on the way and we should be moving faster with our Music Podcast as the winter comes to an end. Host Johnny G Note is working on a mew music show as we write this update.
Free D People is itching to get a new CFR Talk Podcast out and in his usual abrupt way, he has a lot of things he wants to talk about in the next show. As usual Free will be in rare form and anyone who get’s in his way is fair game. He will comment on President Bush’s final State of the Union address and the failing economy as well as many current events and the recent NIU shooting.
As usual our playlist’s are interactive and you can request any thing on the list at both stations, just go to the links on the sidebar here at the blog and once you get to our station sites you go to the Request/Playlist link and make your requests.
That’s it for now from CFR, we appreciate your listening , drop us a line and let us know what you think and what you want to hear.
Well despite the last big snow storm (2 feet), our servers stayed on line, considering we lost power for four days after the storm before this one, this is good news. Our four day outage was caused by a very heavy wet snow that took out power lines across the county. Fortunately this storm although deeper was not as heavy. CFR tries very hard to keep our servers in operating condition but since we have a limited budget UPS power is a dream for the future. The only time we take our servers off line on purpose is during the early spring/summer due to increased thunderstorms and lightning and this occurs periodically. So if there’s ever a time you don’t hear us on the air that’s usually why.
We’re happy to announce our play list is increasing due to some excellent artist submissions in the last few months and our staffs diligent perusal of the Internet for fresh talent. We here at CFR work hard at finding quality music by artists that you may not hear elsewhere.
Soon we’ll have a new Podcast from Free D People on our talk show pod. The show will tackle the Presidents finale State of the Union Address, this should be a good one and as usual Free D People will be in rare form.
We recently took some photos of the inner sanctum of the Studio and we’d like to share them with you here you go
This the server for CFR Durango, the older of our systems and soon to be upgraded, she’s old but hangs in there
This server powers our Old Time Radio station CFROTR, this system was built from scratch a solid home built and runs like a bear.
Last but not least this is our multitrack Podcast studio a newer store bought system that’s made to handle the rigors of audio work. Notice our mascot above the work area, she helps to keep us in line.
Well this is a rare look in to the inner sanctum. We hope you enjoyed it. Soon it will be spring and things will be warming up, until then keep the home fires burning.
This is s special two hour episode featuring the comedy and raucous wisdom of the late great George Carlin. Your host Free D People features some of George Carlin’s finest, funniest and foulest moments. If you are easily offended WARNING EXPLICIT LANGUAGE!!! You can play the pod directly from this blog.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ‘n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
