CKUT: Cha Cha Cha In Blue: Playlist from April 6, 2025

Cha Cha Cha In Blue : Playlist from April 6, 2025

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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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April 6, 2025: 2025 JUNOS! 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 celebrate the 2025 JUNOS and congratulate winner Big Dave McLean as well as nominees Blue Moon Marquee, Samantha King & The Midnight Outfit, Sue Foley, and David Gogo. We follow that with new singles by Little Feat, Ally Venable, Steven Troch Band, Robin Trower, and Robert Jon & The Wreck. This week's featured new releases are from Crystal Shawanda and Stud Ford & Will Coppage. In the "history" set we've got Bessie Smith, Peg Leg Howell, Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings, The Two Charlies, John Brim, Morris Pejoe, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy “Fast Fingers” Dawkins, Michael Jerome Browne, Ben Levin with Lil' Ed, Shemekia Copeland, and Asie Payton. We'll close with a song from Barb Diab who will be one of many artists appearing at the Montreal Blues Society 25th Anniversary Party on Saturday.

(✓ = 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 agenda
CELEBRATE THE 2025 JUNOS!
Big Dave McLean	Young Fashioned Ways	This Old Life	Cordova Bay Records	2024	THIS YEAR'S WINNER!		㏄
Blue Moon Marquee	Let's Get Drunk Again	New Orleans Sessions	Indie	2024			㏄
Samantha King & The Midnight Outfit	My Baby's Got a Baby	Samantha King & The Midnight Outfit	2013023 Records DK	2024			㏄
Sue Foley	Nothing In Rambling	One Guitar Woman	Stony Plain Records	2024			㏄
David Gogo	Ballad Of Bad Boy Billy	YEAH!	Cordova Bay Records	2024			㏄
SWIPE RIGHT ON THESE HOT SINGLES!
	Talk Time ID				A little background on the upcoming songs
Little Feat	Midnight Flight	Strike Up The Band	Hot Tomato	2025	From their forthcoming new album, Strike Up The Band, set for release May 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gGpZWH17E	✓
Ally Venable	Unbreakable feat. Shemekia Copeland	Money & Power	Ruf Records	2025	From the forthcoming album "Money & Power" due out on April 18 via Ruf Records. “This is a powerful duet, and defiant anthem that celebrates the indomitable spirit of women who have weathered life's storms,” says Ally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmRo-exjJ0	✓
Steven Troch Band	God Pulls the Strings	The Dawning	Naked	2025	The song asks the question whether our fate is predetermined. The narrator of this song narrows his scope, to concisely find an answer. This single announces Steven Troch Band's fourth studio album. ‘The Dawning’ will be released on April 25, 2025 on CD, vinyl and digital services worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dVT0Xjxbuw	✓
	AD TRACK 55 Teal 2 Heal Fundraiser
Mike Goudreau	ID - Mike Goudreau						㏄
Robin Trower	One Go Round	Come And Find Me	Provogue	2025	From his new album "Come And Find Me", due May 16. "The lyrical meaning is pretty obvious. You only get one go round, so try and make the most of it,” Trower explains. https://youtu.be/PoJhwRWa-xY	✓
Robert Jon & The Wreck	Highway	Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes	Journeyman Records	2025	Southern California rockers Robert Jon & The Wreck have officially announced the release of their ninth studio album, Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes, due out August 22. “‘Highway’ is a favourite of ours on Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes—a song that started as a loose melodic concept on an acoustic guitar in Henry’s apartment". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iosHlTdDJM	✓
FEATURED NEW RELEASES
	Talk Time ID				JUNO Award-winner Crystal Shawanda will release her latest studio album, Sing Pretty Blues, on Friday April 11 via her own New Sun Records.
Crystal Shawanda	Stop Funkin Me Around	Sing Pretty Blues	New Sun Records	2025	The album is the follow-up to 2022’s Midnight Blues, which earned Crystal a JUNO Award nomination in the Blues Album of the Year category, the 8th of her career. She became the first Indigenous woman to appear in the Top 10 of the American Billboard Blues chart upon the album’s release when it debuted at #8.	✓	㏄
	PSA - Community Matters by CKUT
Reverend Freakchild	ID - Reverend Freakchild
Crystal Shawanda	Changes	Sing Pretty Blues	New Sun Records	2025	Recorded this Black Sabbath song in tribute to a late fan and devoted friend. “She grew up just down the road, back home on the Rez,” says Crystal. “She had a beautiful heart and just wanted to be loved, and people took advantage of that. Addiction is killing our communities, and her death triggered a lot of emotions about old friends who have passed and loved ones currently in active addiction. I needed to sing this song, to mourn, to grieve, because she mattered, and she was loved.”	✓	㏄
	Talk Time ID				Stud Ford, the grandson of the legendary T-Model Ford, and Will Coppage, a seasoned artist and songwriter, have officially unleashed their highly anticipated debut EP, Ain’t No Love, now available on all major streaming platforms.
Stud Ford and Will Coppage	Ain't No Love	Ain't No Love	Taledragger Records	2025		✓
Stud Ford and Will Coppage	Shake	Ain't No Love	Taledragger Records	2025		✓
COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
	Talk Time ID				This Week In Blues History
Bessie Smith	Boweavil Blues	The Complete Recordings Volume 1	Columbia Records	1924	Recorded Apr 7, 1924 with Robert Robbins on viola, and Irving Johns on piano, in New York City
Peg Leg Howell And His Gang	New Jelly Roll Blues	Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony Vol 1 1926 – 1928	Document Records	1927	Recorded Apr 8, 1927 in Atlanta, Ga plus "Beaver Slide Rag"
Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings	Mountain City Blues	Whoop It Up - The Columbia Recordings, Vol 2	Frog Records	1929	Recorded Apr 6, 1929 in NYC
The Two Charlies	Tired Feelin' Blues	Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925-1950	Columbia Records	1936	Recorded Apr 10, 1936 in NYC. Jordan and Charlie Manson,. Charlie Jordan was a bootlegger from Helena, AR and who walked with a limp caused by a bullet in his ankle. For a while he was also the partner of Peetie Wheatstraw. Nothing is known about THIS Charlie Manson.
	AD TRACK 13. Zamalek_Freestyle
Guy Davis	ID - Guy Davis
John Brim	Moonlight Blues	Chicago Blues Of The 1950's	Paula Records	1952	b. 1922-0410, HOPKINSVILLE, KY John Brim, voc, g; Ernest Cotton. ts; Sunnyland Slim, p; Pete Franklin, g; Ernest 'Big Boy' Crawford, b; Alfred Wallace, dr
Morris Pejoe	Screaming and Crying	Chicago Blues Of The 1950's	Paula Records	1956	b. 1924-0411, PALMETTO, LA
Howlin' Wolf	Commit A Crime	The Chess Box	Chess Records	1966	Recorded Apr 11, 1966 plus "New Crawlin' Kingsnake" and “My Mind Is Ramblin'”
Jimmy “Fast Fingers” Dawkins	I'm Good For Nothing	Fast Fingers	Delmark Records	1968	d. 2013-0410, CHICAGO, IL 76
	AD TRACK 55 Teal 2 Heal Fundraiser
	AD TRACK 97 Black Education Trailer
Dawn Tyler Watson	ID - Dawn Tyler Watson						㏄
Michael Jerome Browne	Six Weeks Old Blues feat. Harrison Kennedy	Gettin' Together	Borealis Records	2023	b. 1960-0409, SOUTH BEND, IN		㏄
Ben Levin	New Low feat. Lil' Ed Williams	New Low - single	Vizztone Label Group	2025	Lil' Ed Williams b. 1955-0408, CHICAGO, IL	✓
Shemekia Copeland	Cadillac Blue	Blame It On Eve	Alligator Records	2024	b. 1979-0410, HARLEM, NY	✓
Asie Payton	I Love You	Worried	Fat Possum Records	1999	b. 1937-0412, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MS
WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
	Talk Time ID				Live blues/roots for the week starting April 6 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/
Barbara Diab & The Smoked Meat Band	I Wanna Cook In Your Kitchen	Mojo Woman	SMB Productions	2019	SAT APR 12 @ Montreal Blues Society 25th Anniversary Party https://www.facebook.com/events/9072883746140052/		㏄

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