November 2023

Congratulations to five-time GRAMMY winners and Gospel Music Hall of Famers The Blind Boys of Alabama on their 2024 Grammy nominations for Best American Roots Performance (“Heaven Help Us All,”) Best Americana Performance (“Friendship”) and Best Roots Gospel Album (Echoes of the South). With today’s nominations, which are the most-ever in a single year for the group, The Blind Boys of Alabama are now 16-time Grammy nominees.

Bluegrass supergroup Mighty Poplar has clinched the nomination for Best Bluegrass Album from the 2023 GRAMMY Awards! Featuring Andrew Marlin of Watchhouse, Chris "Critter" Eldridge and Noam Pikelny of Punch Brothers, Greg Garrison of Leftover Salmon, and Alex Hargreaves of Billy Strings' band, this powerhouse of pickers wowed audience with a boldly innovative and passionately curious debut album.

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Congratulations to Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens on her Grammy nominations for Best Americana Album for her album You’re The One (Nonesuch) and Best American Roots Performance for her song “You Louisiana Man” from You’re The One. Giddens is a 2-time GRAMMY Award winner and with today’s nominations, now a 10-time nominee. Her previous album, 2021's They're Calling Me Home, won the GRAMMY award for Best Folk Album.

Today, North Carolina-based alternative rock sextet Big Something unveils their newest single, "Clouds Unplugged” featuring Justin Osborne of SUSTO. The haunting new track heralds the upcoming release of the band’s seventh full-length studio album, Headspace, arriving November 17th via Truth Serum Records.

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Jim Mitchell, the enduring figure of outlaw country, is poised to unveil his latest musical narrative, "Repeat Offender," on November 17th through Mother West. This is his fourth studio journey, and it's a profound distillation of a life lived at the edges - a mosaic of triumphs and trials, both within the industry and beyond. Rejecting the gloss of contemporary country-pop, Mitchell's new album stands as a testament to raw, unvarnished storytelling.

97.3 KBCO will release 18 new gifts for the holiday season exclusively performed live on the air in the station’s performance studio, KBCO Studio C. KBCO Studio C Volume 35 will go on sale starting at 7am, December 2nd at five select Front Range Colorado Whole Foods Market locations.