CKUT: Cha Cha Cha In Blue: Playlist from March 2, 2025

Cha Cha Cha In Blue : Playlist from March 2, 2025

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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.

Listeners can expect to hear the likes of Paul Deslauriers, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Pop Staples, Downchild, Steve Rowe, MonkeyJunk, and Charlie Musselwhite, as well as live performances and interviews.

Every Sunday 9 - 11pm (EDT)

March 2, 2025: EVERYONE OLD IS NEW AGAIN! 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 it dawned on me that my opening set was crowded with new releases from octogenarians and a septuagenarian - Buddy Guy (88) & Switchfoot, Irma Thomas (83) & Galactic, Charlie Musselwhite (81), and Santana (77). Add Jon Cleary (62) plus a couple of artists whose ages are unknown but truth be told, they're not on any "Thirty Under Thirty" lists: Pat Smillie, Misty Blues, and Little Georgie and The Shuffling Hungarians. This isn't meant as a criticism because these songs are all killers. This week's featured new releases are from Bob Corritore And Friends, Will Wilde, and The Bob Lanza Blues Band. In the "history" set we go back to 1935 for a song recorded by Lucille Bogan and continue with Tampa Red, Ike Turner, Tiny Grimes, Bo Diddley, J.B. Lenoir, “Shakey” Jake Harris, Peter Wolf, King Ernest, Jeff Healey, David Lindley, and The Sugar Darlings. We'll close with a song from Dawn Tyler Watson who will be at the Taverne Lady Davidson on Thursday.

(✓ = new, ㏄ = CanCon)

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments
INTRO
Harry Manx	ID - Harry Manx
Junior Wells/Talk	Cha Cha Cha In Blue	Messin' With The Kid	Charly Records	1957	Tonight's show!
EVERYONE OLD IS NEW AGAIN
Buddy Guy & Switchfoot	Last Man Standing	Last Man Standing - single	lowercase people records	2025	GRAMMY Award-winning rock band Switchfoot has joined forces with 88-year-old blues legend Buddy Guy. “Buddy Guy was the blues legend that taught me how to play the guitar,” shares Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman.	✓
Galactic and Irma Thomas	Where I Belong	Audience With The Queen	Tchoup-zilla Records	2025	“Where I Belong” " ... is a fun song where Irma sits back and reflects on the life she’s lived and the things that make her content with how she’s lived it,” says Galactic’s Robert Mercurio. Audience With The Queen comes out April 11	✓
Jon Cleary	So Damn Good	The Bywater Sessions	Well Kept Secret	2025	“We set out to capture that sound in the old-fashioned way: everybody in the room, playing together,” Cleary explains. The result is The Bywater Sessions, set to release on April 25th via Well Kept Secret.	✓
Little Georgie and The Shuffling Hungarians	ID – Little Georgie
Little Georgie and The Shuffling Hungarians	Addictions	The Compendium Of Unruly Caterwauling	Queen Bee Brand World Media Group	2025	ADDICTIONS release is the eighth shot across the international digital bow, and more are planned to be unleashed throughout 2025: culminating with the release of the entire long-playing folio of audio and video recordings entitled, aptly enough, "THE COMPENDIUM OF UNRULY CATERWAULING"	✓
Pat Smillie	Lovers & The Leavers	Lovers & The Leavers - single	Fat Bank Music	2025	“Lovers & the Leavers”, appropriately released Feb 14, is the first in a series of singles Detroit-born and raised singer-songwriter Pat Smillie is releasing through Fat Bank Music	✓
Misty Blues	Carry On This Way	Carry On This Way - single	Guitar One Records	2025	"Carry On This Way" marks the first single from their 17th album, "Other Side Of Blue," which will be released in 2025. Misty Blues and lead singer, Gina Coleman, celebrate 25 years of composing and performing original blues with hints of jazz, funk, soul and tent revival gospel.	✓
Santana	Please Don’t Take Your Love	Sentient	Candid Records	2025	Multi-Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 77 year old guitarist Carlos Santana has announced that his new retrospective album, Sentient, will be released via Candid Records on March 28. Sentient is composed of 11 remastered tracks – three of them previously unreleased. The album’s first single offers listeners a new view of ‘Please Don’t Take Your Love’, the original version of which was on Smokey Robinson’s 2009 album, ‘Time Flies When You’re Having Fun’, The alternate take on “Sentient” boasts a never-before-heard guitar performance. “I went to the studio and did my own thing. I said, ‘Let’s just roll it.’ I did another take with Smokey sort of guiding me. Smokey loved them both, so he wound up combining the two. What’s on “Sentient” is the first version.”	✓
Charlie Musselwhite	Lookout Highway	Lookout Highway	Forty Below Records	2025	Blues Hall of Fame member Charlie Musselwhite has released the title track from his forthcoming album “Lookout Highway” set to release May 16th, 2025 on Forty Below Records. In his 81 years Charlie Musselwhite has garnered 13 Grammy nominations, 13 Blues Music Award wins and won a Grammy for ‘Get Up’, his collaboration with Ben Harper.	✓
FEATURED NEW RELEASES
	Talk Time ID				Doin’ The Shout is a 12 song collection of all newly recorded songs culled from 9 sessions between 2023 and 2024. Special guests include Bobby Rush, Thornetta Davis, Bob Stroger, Francine Reed, John Primer, Nora Jean, Oscar Wilson, Tia Carroll, Bob Margolin, Jimi Primetime Smith, Carla Denise, Johnny Burgin, Kid Ramos, Johnny Main, Johnny Rapp, Anthony Geraci, Ben Levin, Lewis Nash, Steve Ferrone, Chester Thompson, Mark Earley and more! Doin’ The Shout also occupies the career milestone of Bob Corritore’s 30th album release!
Bob Corritore And Friends	Say Baby Say	Doin' The Shout	VizzTone Label Group	2025	Thornetta Davis - vocal; Bob Corritore - harmonica; Johnny Burgin - lead guitar; Jimi Primetime Smith - guitar; Dave Keyes - piano; Bob Stroger - bass; Wes Starr - drums; James Anderson - percussion	✓
	AD TRACK 22 Syli d'Or
Mike Goudreau	Mike Goudreau						㏄
Bob Corritore And Friends	Just A Dream	Doin' The Shout	VizzTone Label Group	2025	Oscar Wilson (Cash Box Kings) - vocal; Bob Corritore - harmonica; Jimi Primetime Smith - lead guitar; Bob Margolin - guitar; Anthony Geraci - Piano; Bob Stroger - bass; Wes Starr - drums	✓
	Talk Time ID				Will Wilde picked up his first harmonica at a house party when he was sixteen. “I basically nicked it,” he says. “It was a cheap plastic Guinness harmonica just lying around amongst the drink bottles and cigarette butts, I was drawn to it.” From then on playing became an obsession. Will gained popularity on Youtube with his harmonica covers of classic rock guitar solos, such as Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird, which racked up over 3.5 million views, and helped him gain his 93K+ subscribers.
Will Wilde	Wild Man	Blues Is Still Alive	VizzTone Label Group	2025	"Wild Man" is a fun, tongue-in-cheek celebration of self-assurance, evoking the boldness of blues legends like Muddy Waters and Elmore James. "This one is for the hardcore blues fans," says Wilde. "It’s a bit of fun and doesn’t take itself too seriously.	✓
	AD TRACK 50 CKUT is Hiring
Popa Chubby	ID - Popa Chubby
Will Wilde	Broken Dream Blues	Blues Is Still Alive	VizzTone Label Group	2025	Will has released four studio albums, one live album, and was nominated "Instrumentalist of the Year" in the UK Blues Awards 2024. His sister is award-winning singer-songwriter-guitarist Dani Wilde, who is also a contributor to Will's latest album.	✓
	Talk Time ID				FROM: Jersey Shore Jazz and Blues Foundation: Bob Lanza has been a fixture on the Jersey blues scene for as many years as he has been delivering Arnold bread. Last year he retired after more than four decades on the bread route, and now “his business is the blues, and business is good.”
The Bob Lanza Blues Band	Johnny Jihngo	Breadmans Blues	MoMojo Records	2025	With three Billboard-charting albums under his belt, New Jersey Blues Hall of Fame member, Bob Lanza, and his critically-acclaimed band from the wilds of North Jersey return with their sixth album, Breadman's Blues.	✓
COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
	Talk Time ID				This Week In Blues History
Lucille Bogan	Skin Game Blues	Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925-1950	Columbia Records	1935	Recorded Mar 8, 1935
Tampa Red	Love Her With a Feeling	It Hurts Me Too	Overjazz Records	1950	Recorded Mar 7, 1950 with Johnny Jones, Ransom Knowling and Odie Payne, a line-up which was later to become synonymous with Elmore James.
Ike Turner	Heartbroken and Worried	Classics 1951-1954	Classics	1951	Recorded Mar 3, 1951 in Memphis' Sun Studios with His Kings Of Rhythm (Jackie Brenston, Raymond Hill, Willie Kizart and Willie Sims).
Tiny Grimes	Blues Round Up	Classics 1951-1954	Classics		d. 1989-0304, NEW YORK CITY, NY 72
	AD TRACK 13. Zamalek_Freestyle
	AD TRACK 33 House Justice Convergence
Mitch Woods	ID - Mitch Woods
Bo Diddley	I'm a Man	The No.1 Blues Collection	Stardust Entertainment	1955	Recorded Mar 2, 1955 with Billy Boy Arnold, Otis Spann, Willie Dixon, Clifton James and Jerome Green
J.B. Lenoir	Don't Touch My Head	Definitive Blues Anthology	Not Now Music	1956	b. 1929-0305, MONTICELLO, MS
“Shakey” Jake Harris	Hold That Bus Conductor	Chicago Blues Masters Vol. 3	Capitol Records	1968	d. 1990-0302, PINE BLUFF, AR 68 uncle of MAGIC SAM
	AD TRACK 51 SLAM
Rob Lutes	ID - Rob Lutes						㏄
Peter Wolf	Too Close Together	Sleepless	Sheridan Square Records	2002	b. 1946-0307, BRONX, NY Magic Dick, harp; Keith Richards, guitar, vocals
King Ernest	Black Bag Blues	King Of Hearts	Evidence Music	1997	d. 2000-0305, SANTA MARIA, CA 60 Zac Zunis, guitar; Lester Butler, harmonica
The Jeff Healey Band	Confidence Man	The Very Best Of Jeff Healey	Sony Music Canada	1985			㏄
David Lindley	Mercury Blues	El Rayo-X	Elektra Records	1981	d. 2023-0303 CLAREMONT, CA 78
The Sugar Darlings	Love Is All I Need	Thirsty For Your Love	Indie	2023	MICHE LOVE b. 1981-0308 MONTREAL, QC		㏄
WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
	Talk Time ID				Live blues/roots for the week starting MAR 2 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/
Dawn Tyler Watson	This And That	Mad Love	Indie	2019	THURSDAY MARCH 6 @ Taverne Lady Davidson 3400 Ontario est Montreal, QC https://www.facebook.com/events/997052989115085/		㏄

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