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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 February 2, 2025: HOT NEW SINGLES! NEW RELEASES! This Week In Blues History! Where It's At (The Live Music Roundup)!

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Tonight on Cha Cha Cha In Blue we start out with a slew of new singles from Southern Avenue, Early James, Robbert Duijf, Dion, Ringo Starr, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Ridge Banks, Oz Noy & Andrew Synowiec, and Joe Bonamassa & Sammy Hagar. There's a distinct Memphis flavour to this week's featured new releases from Ping Rose, 63 Deluxe, Melon Jelly, and Sunny Bleau And The Moons. In the "history" set we start back in 1936 with Bumble Bee Slim and continue with Willie Mabon, Guitar Slim, Floyd Dixon, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Louis Jordan, Dale Hawkins, Magic Sam, Lonnie Johnson, Curtis Salgado, and Jody Williams. We'll close with a tune from Southside Denny Snyder who's playing at Le CRAPO de Lanaudière in Saint-Félix-de-Valois on Friday.

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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!
Southern Avenue  Rum Boogie   Favoriting Family  Alligator Records  2025  A new song from GRAMMY-nominated Memphis-based roots, blues, and soul band Southern Avenue. The track tells the story of band’s early days, as they navigated Memphis’ fun and exciting club scene. “Rum Boogie is our love letter to Memphis, the city that shaped our sound and our story." The song is taken from Southern Avenue’s forthcoming Alligator Records debut album Family, slated for release on April 25, 2025.  ✓    
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Early James  Rag Doll   Favoriting Medium Raw  Easy Eye Sound  2025  From "Medium Raw," Early James's third album for Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound. “The comforts and luxury of the studio …wasn’t right for this project. I felt like we might get better results if we did it in a house,” he explains. Producer Auerbach, James and his band decamped at a 100 year old building in Nashville named Honky Chateau, brought an old tube console built by FAME Studios’ Rick Hall and captured these dozen tunes in a predominantly live, one take fashion.  ✓    
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Robbert Duijf  First Train Out   Favoriting Silver Spoon  Naked  2025  Winner of the 2024 European Blues Challenge, released “First Train Out”, an ode to his hometown. The once rich and prosperous city was empty. The coal was no longer needed and the only thing its inhabitants wanted was to leave town on the first train out. In the 80s and 90s, the city faced the scars of the closing of the mines, much like my hometown of Glace Bay. The full album “Silver Spoon” will be released Friday, March 21, 2025  ✓    
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Dion  New York Minute   Favoriting New York Minute – single  Keeping The Blues Alive Records  2025  Legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dion DiMucci has released his new single, “New York Minute,” to celebrate his new book Dion: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher. The song is an ode to Dion’s lifelong love affair with New York City and his wife, Susan, to whom he has been married for over 60 years. Here's the official music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUcrSr8ctp0  ✓    
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Ringo Starr  Rosetta feat. Billy Strings, Larkin Poe & Joe Walsh   Favoriting Look Up  Universal Music Enterprises  2025  Billy Strings joins Ringo Starr and brings the Larkin Poe sisters for backing vocals and the Eagles’ Joe Walsh on slide guitar on the bluesy “Rosetta.” It’s about an ex he never forgot (“Since you left for another coast/I’ve been haunted by your ghost”) who now reappears with Ringo sighing “It’s been a long hard road.”  ✓    
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Reverend Peyton  ID - Reverend Peyton   Favoriting            
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Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band  Honeysuckle   Favoriting Honeysuckle  Family Owned Records  2025  Honeysuckle, the new album from “the greatest front-porch blues band in the world”, is scheduled for release on Feb 21, 2025, via Family Owned Records. Reverend Peyton is accompanied by his wife, the washboard virtuoso, Washboard Breezy Peyton, and kept on time by the deep rhythms of Jacob “The Snakob” Powell.  ✓    
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Ridge Banks  Blues Catcher   Favoriting Blues Catcher - single  Indie  2025  The Wall of Sound collective holds nothing back in this all-out blues jam. The dueling harmonicas of Sean Clutterham’s and Nashville-based singer-songwriter Ridge Banks send this song to another level culminating in a memorable sing-along ending that embodies Banks' signature "Rugged Acoustic" sound.  ✓    
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Oz Noy & Andrew Synowiec  Kuffle Shuffle   Favoriting Recreational Substance  Andrew Synowiec  2025  "Recreational Substance is pure ear candy for guitar freaks." - Vintage Guitar Magazine Exactly what you'd expect from 2 guys who've both been guests on Jude Gold's "No Guitar Is Safe" podcast.  ✓    
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Joe Bonamassa & Sammy Hagar  Fortune Teller Blues (Radio Edit)   Favoriting Fortune Teller Blues (Radio Edit)  J&R Adventures  2025  A tale of fate and deception, "Fortune Teller Blues" unfolds like a smoky backroom confession. The song’s lyrics chronicle an eerie encounter with a cryptic fortune teller who refuses to reveal the whole truth, leaving the narrator to wrestle with what’s better left unknown. "Joe was in a particularly gritty mood and played the entire track on an Ovation acoustic guitar plugged into an overdriven amplifier, producing a chaotic, heavy, and almost eerie sound," says producer Kevin Shirley.  ✓    
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FEATURED NEW RELEASES
  Talk Time ID         Ping Rose is a singer and guitarist from Memphis. He started playing professionally after graduating from high school in 2006. He also started teaching music while attending college. Upon graduating college, he continued playing in Memphis, but also moved into Nashville with his band The Anti Heroes. He got gigs playing in the B.B. King Club room on three separate cruise ships. He cites a wide array of musical influences ranging from Jimi Hendrix, George Benson, B.B. King, Jerry Reed and Prince and from alternative rock groups like The Cure and Smashing Pumpkins. Conjure Man is his second album release.     
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Ping Rose  Conjure Man   Favoriting Conjure Man  New Sun Records  2025  A groovy jazz-influenced song that describes being the best at what you do, even if you're the only one who knows it.  ✓    
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  AD TRACK 09. BTW Vierge              
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Ping Rose  Don''t Drink Me Dry   Favoriting Conjure Man  New Sun Records  2025  The most current single is "Don't Drink Me Dry" for your airplay consideration. It's an energetic vampyric love song that showcases Ping's exceptional guitar playing and his passionate vocals.  ✓    
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  Talk Time ID         I can't explain how Memphis became a prominent thread through tonight's new releases.     
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63 Deluxe  Did You Really Think   Favoriting 63 Deluxe  Indie  2024  The debut album for this blues/funk/rock power trio from Adelaide, South Australia was released November 1, 2024. 63 Deluxe are proud to be the winners of the ARBA (Adelaide Roots & Blues Assoc.) Memphis blues challenge and the boys headed to Memphis in the US to compete in the world blues challenge in January.  ✓    
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Melon Jelly  Memphis Bound   Favoriting The Road to Memphis  Indie  2025  Melon Jelly are from Southeast Texas and their first full CD "The Road to Memphis" official release date is February 7th, but it's currently available through their website and for pre-sales on iTunes and Amazon. They competed in the International Blues Challenge held in Memphis, TN in January.  ✓    
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Sunny Bleau And The Moons  Memphis Bound (It Is Well With My Soul)   Favoriting Passion And Regrets  Endless Blues Records  2025  Sunny Bleau and The Moons joined the Endless Blues Records family and immediately began work on their 4th feature album 'Passion and Regrets.' It was recorded in Memphis, TN in October, 2024 and produced by bluesman Mick Kolassa.  ✓    
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COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
  Talk Time ID         This Week In Blues History     
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Bumble Bee Slim  Hard Rocks In My Bed   Favoriting Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925-1950  Columbia Records  1936  Recorded Feb 6, 1936     
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Willie Mabon  I'm Mad   Favoriting Chess Blues 1952-1954  Chess Records  1953  Recorded Feb 5, 1953     
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Guitar Slim  Twenty-Five Lies   Favoriting Sufferin' Mind  Specialty Records  1954  d. 1959-0207, NEW YORK CITY, NY 33 (pneumonia)     
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Floyd Dixon  Hey Bartender   Favoriting Atlantic Blues: Piano  Atlantic Records  1954  b. 1928-0208, MARSHALL, TX     
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  AD TRACK 10 Sounds and Pressure              
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Muddy Waters  Young Fashioned Ways   Favoriting The Chess Box: Willie Dixon  Chess Records  1955  Recorded Feb 3, 1955     
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Muddy Waters  Mannish Boy   Favoriting Definitive Blues Anthology  Not Now Music  1955  Recorded Feb 3, 1955     
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Sonny Boy Williamson  Fattening Frogs For Snakes   Favoriting Chess Blues 1954-1960  Chess Records  1957  Recorded Feb 8, 1957     
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Louis Jordan  Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)   Favoriting Rock 'N' Roll  Mercury Rhythm N Blues  1956  d. 1975-0204, LOS ANGELES, CA 66     
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Dale Hawkins  Susie Q   Favoriting Definitive Blues Anthology  Not Now Music  1957  Recorded Feb 2, 2957     
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Magic Sam  I Feel So Good (Boogie Chillun)   Favoriting Legacy  Delmark Records  1966  Recorded Feb 6, 1966 in Chicago     
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  AD TRACK 19. Madpoetix Studios              
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Marcus Trummer  ID - Marcus Trummer   Favoriting            
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Lonnie Johnson  I Got News For You, Baby   Favoriting Another Night To Cry  Prestige Bluesville  1962  b. 1894-0208, NEW ORLEANS, LA     
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Curtis Salgado  You Give The Blues A Bad Name   Favoriting Fine By Me  Little Village Foundation  2024  b. 1954-0204, EVERETT, WA     
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Jody Williams  You May   Favoriting Return of a Legend  Evidence Records  2001  b. 1935-0203, MOBILE, AL     
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WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
  Talk Time ID         Live blues/roots for the week starting FEB 2 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/     
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Southside Denny Snyder  Busy Bee   Favoriting Heal It  Indie  2024  FRI FEB 7, 2025 AT CRAPO de Lanaudière 10-4680, rue Principale, Saint-Félix-de-Valois, QC J0K 2M0 https://www.facebook.com/events/888006976425753/  ✓   ㏄  
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Listener chat!

  8:05pm George Akiki:

Sorry for the late comment, I listened for a third time, as usual, to fully absorb the bluesiness of the show. I enjoyed it, a little different flavour, kept finding myself tapping my foot. Three thumbs up.
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