Songs about Colorado (or the mountains therein)

by **RoryKuykendall** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:41 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhp7ArGqy0c[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiRVVd-rMkE[/youtube]

by **RoryKuykendall** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:57 am

This is fun...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbODSEP9m_A[/youtube]

by **Bubba Suess** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:44 pm

Thanks for the suggestions. Of course, more are always welcome. I think these are still my favorites:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPpnvNlywP8[/youtube]
I do like the live version much better though.

Poco's A Good Feelin' To Know is a close second.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpbbKXNs5qQ[/youtube]

by **Kiefer** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:49 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2jZQRzKuI0[/youtube]

Heard about this on NPR a few weeks ago.
Not about Colorado per say but it's pointed at Aspen.

by **desainme** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:44 am

a quaint ballad
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKYuJneq_sE[/youtube]

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by **jdzaharia** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:44 pm

What?! Nobody has mentioned C.W. McCall, yet?

Wolf Creek Pass
Black Bear Road
The Silverton Train

There's nothing like driving up US 550 with a good ol' C.W. McCall casette in the deck.

by **erial** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:59 pm

40 miles from denver - - - yonder mtn string band

colorado - - - railroad earth

by **Gareth** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:48 pm

"Colorado" by Derrell Scott

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93vAL30Fjjs[/youtube]

"The Wild Places" by Dan Fogelberg

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=salUmiMy9RA[/youtube]

"Colder Weather" by Zac Brown Band

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFZt2AcQ2Ew[/youtube]

"I Know You Rider" by the Grateful Dead

"I wish I was a headlight on a north-bound train
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebWm_76riIc[/youtube]

by **Jabberwocky** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:40 pm

...another poignant Judy Collins' song with a Colorado flavour: Born To The Breed

"Home through the streets
 With you in my arms
 Cold winter mornings
 In a Colorado town…"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE2QU3jS_Fo[/youtube]

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by **GeoSamaras** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 2:08 am

Here is a song two friends of mine wrote several years ago. The is about the Arkansas River which runs through several communities in So. Colorado. This song, first established by Pueblo City Council on Feb. 1, 1977, after 40 years, has been re-recorded is now the County and City Theme Song. All involved acknowledge it is A Tribute to Friendship and a Contribution to enhance this community's Self Esteem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDNVULHgfIQ

http://www.chieftain.com/news/pueblo/pu ... d2f28.html

by **stoaX** » Tue Sep 19, 2017 12:15 am

Check out "Colorado" by a band named Paper Bird.

by **Scott** » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:14 am

This song reminds me of Colorado:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg[/youtube]

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by **lcarreau** » Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:18 pm

Excuse me ... doesn't Denver have a "Bavarian Blond Beer District" where the girls pick ripe red apples from a tree ???

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUO9SNCBL6U[/youtube]

by **Bill Reed** » Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:56 am

In a sense, I moved to Colorado because of a song. My wife and I walked into a bar in Wildwood NJ, in the summer of 1973,on a Sunday afternoon. A band named Sequoia was auditioning and they were playing the Flying Burrito Brothers "Colorado".
We loved the song, the band, and they got the gig. And the rest is history.

by **McCannster** » Wed Sep 20, 2017 6:37 am

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned C.W. McCall yet. (edit, someone did) He was once the mayor of Ouray a while back. Most of his songs mention Colorado and the mountains in it; check out the songs Four Wheel Drive, Black Bear Road, Wolf Creek Pass, The Silverton Train, and Comin' back For More (About Alfred Packer).

The bluegrass band Yonder Mountain String Band (from Nederland) have many Colorado themed songs, check out Half Moon Rising, and 40 Miles From Denver.

Surfin Colorado by Robert Burkhardt is another good one.

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