Colorado Has a Story to Tell

Colorado Music Experience, a non-profit cultural and educational organization, serves as a repository for informational and archival resources of Colorado music—podcasts, mini-documentaries, interview-based profiles and photo galleries.  The On Record series is an encyclopedic look at the evolution of music from 1978 to 1998; each volume presents nearly 200 rare archival images and 100 interviews with an array of performers, from the late Jerry Garcia and Dave Matthews to Bono and Carlos Santana.

Colorado Music Experience founding director and author G. Brown has navigated the Rocky Mountain musical landscape for decades, both as a journalist and as a radio personality, He covered popular music at The Denver Post for 26 years, interviewing well over 3,200 musicians, including Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger and Kurt Cobain. Published in numerous magazines including Rolling Stone and National Lampoon, Brown also covered music news and hosted and programmed for a myriad of Denver-based radio stations. He is the author of five books, including the award-winning Red Rocks: The Concert Years, Colorado’s Rock Chronicles and Telluride Bluegrass Festival: The First Forty Years.