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Cha Cha Cha In Blue Favoriting : Playlist from November 17, 2024

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Blues from every era. Interview with artists, concert listings, blues related events, information and trivia, gearhead heaven…just what kind of harmonica was that?

On Cha Cha Cha In Blue, the longest-running blues show in Montreal, host John Detcheverry devotes equal time to the classics, new releases and Canadian artists. On the air since 1990.

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Favoriting November 17, 2024: HOT NEW SINGLES IN YOUR AREA! NEW RELEASES! This Week In Blues History! Where It's At!

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Tonight on Cha Cha Cha In Blue we start with the latest singles from Orianthi, Will Wilde with Walter Trout, Eddie 9V, KC Is Lazy, Ally Venable, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Tony Holiday, Liz Jones & Broken Windows, and The Harpoonist (AKA Shawn Hall). This week's featured new releases are by Secondhand Dreamcar, Prakash Slim, and the Shyfrin Alliance. In the "history" part of the show we start in the 1920s and go to this year with music from Robert Johnson, Sippie Wallace, B.B. King, Dr. John, R.L. Burnside, Chris Cain, and Joe Walsh. We'll close with a song from Blue Moon Marquee who will play a showcase set at Le Ministère on Thursday. There are multiple bands and the show starts at 3PM.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images
 
INTRO
Harry Manx  ID - Harry Manx   Favoriting           ㏄  
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Junior Wells/Talk  Cha Cha Cha In Blue   Favoriting Messin' With The Kid  Charly Records  1957  Tonight's agenda     
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HOT NEW SINGLES IN YOUR AREA!
Orianthi  Some Kinda Feeling   Favoriting Some Kinda Feeling  Woodward Avenue Records  2024  The title track single taken from the album of the same name, set for release in 2025  ✓    
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Will Wilde  Blues Is Still Alive feat. Walter Trout   Favoriting Blues Is Still Alive  VizzTone Label Group  2024  Upcoming album set for release on February 28, 2025  ✓    
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Eddie 9V  The Road To Nowhere   Favoriting The Road To Nowhere - single  Ruf Records  2024  Taken from the forthcoming album Saratoga to be released on Friday 22nd November 2024  ✓    
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KC Is Lazy  Fire   Favoriting Fire - single  Indie  2024  German born artist KC Is Lazy lived for a decade in the UK as K.C. McKanzie and formed indie artrock band Leisure Tank before moving to Canada. 'Fire' is a meditation on the ones left behind in the universal and seemingly ever repeating process of war.  ✓    
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Ally Venable  Do You Cry   Favoriting Do You Cry - single  Ruf Records  2024  "I wrote 'Do You Cry' about the bittersweet reality of lost love. I hope this song can connect with listeners on a deeply personal level.” Ally Venable will be part of the highly anticipated Experience Hendrix Tour in 2025, where she will share the stage with musical heavyweights like Samantha Fish, Devon Allman, Eric Johnson, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, and many more.  ✓    
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Joanne Shaw Taylor  Who's Gonna Love Me Now?   Favoriting Who's Gonna Love Me Now?  Journeyman Records  2024  This song is taken from her forthcoming album out next year. “This song was a way for me to process some of the emotions I’ve been feeling,” Joanne explains. “At the start of this year, I lost another family member, which brought me back to those early, raw days of grief after losing my mom. Writing ‘Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?’ has been part of my journey in working through that pain and moving forward.”  ✓    
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Reverend Freakchild  ID - Reverend Freakchild   Favoriting            
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Tony Holiday  Twist My Fate feat. Kevin Burt   Favoriting Twist My Fate - single  Forty Below Records  2024  “This song is about those pivotal moments in life when one decision can change everything,” Tony shares. “Singing it with Kevin was such a blast. His voice brings so much depth to the track.”  ✓    
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Liz Jones & Broken Windows  Johnny Knows The Roads   Favoriting Double Measures  Indie  2024  The accompanying video to “Johnny Knows The Roads” is a roller coaster ride through Edinburgh (Auld Reekie), inspired by the erratic driving of legendary guitarist John Bruce.  ✓    
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The Harpoonist (AKA Shawn Hall)  Show Me The Green   Favoriting Did We Come Here to Dance  Tonic Records  2024  Hall’s first release following a 17-year partnership with Matt Rogers, the other half of the duo The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer. It was produced by Big Sugar’s Gordie Johnson and recorded over 10 days at his ranch overlooking Dripping Springs, Texas  ✓   ㏄  
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FEATURED NEW RELEASES
  Talk Time ID         Secondhand Dreamcar is fronted by Canadian Folk Music Award-nominee Dana Wylie and also features notable producer Harry Gregg on bass, Jamie Cooper (Up and Over Trio, Obsessions Octet) on drums, Kyle Mosiuk (The Hello Darlins) and Chad Murphy (Dallas Smith) on guitar, Rooster Davis on organ, and a horn section led by Dave Babcock.     
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Secondhand Dreamcar  Answer The Call   Favoriting Answer The Call  7161160 Records DK2  2024  AI Overview: Answer The Call is the debut album by the Edmonton-based soul band Secondhand Dreamcar. The album has a roots and soul aesthetic, and the band's influences include Tedeschi Trucks Band and Lake Street Dive.  ✓   ㏄  
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Secondhand Dreamcar  If You Ain't Got a Story   Favoriting Answer The Call  7161160 Records DK2  2024  “Lyrically, our songs deal with the nitty-gritty of the work of life, from a spiritual perspective. Because I believe that if there is a reason we are all here living a life, it is because there is something we are supposed to learn,” says lyricist Dana Wylie. “Musically, we work to engender joy in collaboration, collectivity, collegiality. We love writing and playing music together, and our songs are an embodiment of that.”  ✓   ㏄  
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  Talk Time ID         Prakash Slim was born in a field during Nepal’s monsoon season in the small village of Lamatar located in Lalitpur district. The village saw its first electric bulb in 1983 and its first motor car in 1995. To give context, Prakash was born in 1980.     
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Prakash Slim  8000 Miles to the Crossroads   Favoriting 8000 Miles to the Crossroads  Blue Point Records  2024  As producer Michael Freeman writes in the liner notes, “When I found out that Prakash was going to be in Clarksdale for the Juke Joint Festival and so close to Memphis, I got in touch with him and offered to record an album for him at Sam Phillips Recording before he returned to the west coast.” Prakash Slim recorded with Grammy-nominated sound engineer Scott Bomar and Grammy-winning producer/engineer Michael Freeman at Sam Phillips Recording studio.  ✓    
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Johnny Burgin  ID - Johnny Burgin   Favoriting            
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Prakash Slim  Kokomo Blues   Favoriting 8000 Miles to the Crossroads  Blue Point Records  2024  Rockin’ Johnny Burgin had been playing gigs with Prakash before he came into the studio, bringing his traditional blues touch, tone, and technique to “Kokomo Blues.”  ✓    
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  Talk Time ID         Shyfrin Alliance is Eduard Shyfrin + The Alliance - a six-piece ensemble featuring some of the EU's best musicians.     
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Shyfrin Alliance  Upside Down Blues   Favoriting Upside Down Blues  Indie  2024  The purpose of this project is to send a message to the world, of love and of anti-war." Brownie McGee once said ‘Blues is truth,’ Kabbalah is (in some ways) a quest for truth, Upside Down Blues is where they meet in harmony.  ✓    
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Shyfrin Alliance  Bridges Of Paris   Favoriting Upside Down Blues  Indie  2024  "I'd consumed almost all the blues Spotify had to offer during lockdown, and absorbing that must have sunk into my subconscious and I started writing songs. Blues songs. As far as lyrics, English is not my first language but it is the mother tongue of the blues so the songs had to be written in English," Eduard Shyfrin  ✓    
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COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
  Talk Time ID         This Week In Blues History     
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Robert Johnson  Phonograph Blues (Take 1)   Favoriting The Complete Recordings  Columbia Records  1936  Recorded Nov 23, 1936 plus Kind Hearted Woman Blues, (I Believe I'll) Dust My Broom, Sweet Home Chicago, Rambling On My Mind, When You Got A Good Friend, Come On In My Kitchen, and Terraplane Blues     
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Robert Johnson  Phonograph Blues (Take 2)   Favoriting The Complete Recordings  Columbia Records  1936  Recorded Nov 23, 1936 Compare & contrast with Take 1. Brunswick Records had set up room 414 at the Gunter Hotel as a temporary studio and Ernie Oertle produced the sessions     
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Sippie Wallace  I'm a Mighty Tight Woman   Favoriting The Ultimate Dirty Blues Collection  Grammercy Europe  1926  Recorded Nov 20, 1926 The band probably had a young Louis Armstrong on cornet and the flip side of the single that was released in February 1927 was “Bedroom Blues”.     
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Reverend Peyton  ID - Reverend Peyton   Favoriting            
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B.B. King  Every Day I Have The Blues   Favoriting King Of The Blues  MCA Records  1964  Recorded Nov 21, 1964     
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Dr. John  Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya   Favoriting Gris Gris  ATCO Records  1968  b. 1940-1121, NEW ORLEANS, LA     
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R.L. Burnside  See What My Buddy Done   Favoriting Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down  Fat Possum Records  2000  b. 1926-1123, HARMAN TOWN, MS     
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  AD TRACK 97 Black Education Trailer              
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  AD TRACK 16 Bhum Bhum Tyme Event              
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Mitch Woods  ID - Mitch Woods   Favoriting            
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Chris Cain  Bad Dream   Favoriting Good Intentions Gone Bad  Alligator Records  2024  b. 1955-1119, SAN JOSE, CA  ✓    
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Joe Walsh  Rocky Mountain Way   Favoriting Joe Walsh's Greatest Hits: Little Did He Know  MCA Records  1973  b. 1947-1120, WICHITA, KS     
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WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
  Talk Time ID         Live blues/roots for the week starting NOV 17 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/     
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Blue Moon Marquee  Saint James Infirmary   Favoriting New Orleans Sessions  Indie  2024  THURS NOV 21 @ Le Ministère 4521, boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal QC https://www.facebook.com/events/1720792188666991/  ✓   ㏄  
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Listener chat!

  7:03pm George Akiki:

The first time I listen to the show while following the playlist, it’s a whole new and enjoyable experience.
After BB King and Chris Cain, Will Wild was very good with Walter Trout.
All in all a very, very good show.
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