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Welcome to this special edition on Colorado Music Originals. This is a studio session with Whiskey Autumn. The guys came down and visited CMO to play a set of their original music including: Letterman Sweater, So Wise So young, and January. Please tweet, share, like this post, and just tell your friends. Now here is Whiskey Autumn with Letterman Sweater.

Whether you are a solo artist, a band, or a symphony, Dave Ratner of the Creative Law Network gives simple tips from copyright to setting expectations.

Within days of hurricane sandy Walker, of Brotherhood of the Grape, came up with an idea that leveraged local music to help other musicians affected by the storm. Listen to this ongoing story of recovering from a major disaster

Nick Armstrong talks about Community Funded and how they bringing businesses and communities together. They have many community based projects that could help musicians.

Sometimes good things rise up from terrible events. Nancy Farmer talks about how the flood has pushed her towards music.

Ryan Gombeski vocalist of Take To The Oars joins Colorado Music Originals. If this were a comic book, this would be the origin story of TTTO. Plus a small gig at a place called Red Rocks. Yes, Ryan, it is ok to say it again. Red Rocks. We play Answers, Why Am I Not Where You Are, and Monster Eats Pilot.

Josh Lee singer musician joins Colorado Music Originals. We laugh, we cry, well not exactly. It is more like we talk about video games and music while playing songs from Eldren. Sleepy Walker. Hug Rabbit. and NWO. Find out where they are playing and how to connect with them on this episode of CMO.

Megan Burtt is traveling the Eastern Seaboard. But for everyone in Colorado, you can see her play LIVE on a new website called Stage It. This is not the first time we have heard of Stage It and it will not be the last. Check it out now to see Megan Burtt and many other Colorado Music Originals

Quentin Young brings the blues to CMO. He muses over Hendrix, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly. As Quentin says about the blues, It is pure art. Raw art. Blood and internal organs and brain matter laid out for you. The blues is a conversation between the artist, their instrument, and their soul. We are talking (and playing) the blues on Colorado Music Originals.

Doug Gaddy from Absolute Vinyl joins CMO. We wax philosophically over records. How they are made to old memories.

Brad Smalling Recording and Mix Engineer at Evergroove Studio joins CMO. We talk about recoding music in this age of music including compact disks, mp3 downloads, and vinyl records. There are many choices for musicians today and also some creative ways bands are promoting themselves.

Vivek Tiwary continues his conversation with CMO. First we continue the idea of a second life or many lives for a project. Then we talk about Musicians on Call a non profit group that brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilites. Learn more about a group that is growing nationwide.

Steve Carlson, owner of Sun Rose Cafe in Longmont, joins CMO to talk about his perspective on booking acts. What worked. What didn't. And how that process has evolved. Steve also talk about his mother and her life long involvement in the music industry.

CMO talks with Vivek Tiwary, founder of the Tiwary Entertainment Group, about The Second life of a Song. Lately, traditional band management is no longer was effective, so Vivek has evolved the process into such projects like Green Day's American Idiot on Broadway, producing a documentary about Brian Epstein called the Fifth Beatle which Tiwary had acquired the rights to the music of the Beatles, and Punk Rock Dad a sitcom based on Jim Lindberg the singer of the punk band Pennywise.

In response to Music Genie question from Nate Cook, where is the underground music scene? Trevor O'Connor joins CMO to talk about the above ground underground Denver music scene. Also we talk about Musicians In Action a group of people putting together benefit shows to help the areas homeless.

Nate Cook of the Yawpers joins CMO for this weeks music spotlight. Nate talks about hype, being original, and poetry. How he got started in Colorado and some places you could see the Yawpers like the Walnut Room, SXSW. The Yawpers are really doing some originals thing to promote themselves. Listen up. Plus, as always, music from Nate Cook.

Devil Got Five joins CMO in studio - Tiffany, Heath, Jarrod talk about songwriting and the road that brought them together. Tiffany, the newest addition of the band, muses on screaming. We will play two of their new demo songs Unbreakable and Stockholm Syndrome.

Ask The Music Genie: How do you promote yourself this day and age? A question asked by Lindsay Meredith a few episodes ago. What are the tools available and how to use them. Promoting your band has change since the days of mailing postcards and printing flyers. We found the genie with the answers: Madalyn Sklar

We talk to the man behind In Demand Bands, Erik Dyce. We talk about his career and what InDemandBand.com is all about. Also in this segment we play a song from Mark Risius.