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Cha Cha Cha In Blue Favoriting : Playlist from April 27, 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.


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Favoriting April 27, 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 with new singles from Eliza Neals, Larry McCray, The Wood Brothers, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, TajMo (Taj Mahal & Keb 'Mo), Jim Kweskin, Little Georgie and The Shuffling Hungarians, and Emanuel Casablanca. This week's featured new releases are by Tad Robinson, Blind Lemon Pledge, and Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen. In the "history" set we've got Victoria Spivey, Frank Hutchison, Cow Cow Davenport, Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell, Charley Patton, Homesick James, Freddie Roulette, Hop Wilson, Otis Rush, and Chris Antonik. We'll close with a song from Midnight Miles who'll be at Bar de Courcelle on Wednesday.

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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  What's on the show tonight     
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HOT NEW SINGLES!
Eliza Neals  Speedy Beady   Favoriting Speedy Beady - single  E-H Records LLC  2025  This is the second single from Eliza Neals’ upcoming 13th studio album. She pays homage to Howlin’ Wolfby transforming “Little Red Rooster” into “Speedy Beedy”, the true story of a Detroit music legend and his pet rooster.  ✓    
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Larry McCray  Bye Bye Blues   Favoriting Heartbreak City  KTBA Records  2025  Larry McCray's new album Heartbreak City is due June 13, 2025, via KTBA Records, the label founded by Joe Bonamassa. To mark the announcement, McCray has dropped the album’s lead single, “Bye Bye Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGcsqFWy-94  ✓    
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The Wood Brothers  Witness   Favoriting Puff Of Smoke  Thirty Tigers  2025  Grammy nominated Americana trio, The Wood Brothers announce ‘Puff of Smoke’ is to be released on August 1, 2025, via Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers. It’s preceded by the album’s first single, “Witness”, a bit of beat poetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAiKrIk4V8s  ✓    
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Eli "Paperboy" Reed  You’re Gonna Make Me Cry   Favoriting Sings Walkin’ and Talkin’ and Other Smash Hits!  Yep Roc Records  2025  Two decades after its original release, "Sings Walkin’ and Talkin’ and Other Smash Hits!" — the debut by singer-songwriter/guitarist Eli Paperboy Reed — is getting a reissue, available June 6 on vinyl, CD, and digital via Yep Roc Records. This is his take on O.V. Wright’s “You’re Gonna Make Me Cry” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0kULvqhbKE  ✓    
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TajMo  My Darling, My Dear   Favoriting Room On The Porch  Concord Records  2025  Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' return with a soulful ode to love and togetherness in their new track, My Darling, My Dear, the 3rd single from their upcoming album "Room On The Porch" due May 23, 2025 on Concord Records https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcKSrzCM-QE  ✓    
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Mitch Woods  ID - Mitch Woods   Favoriting            
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Jim Kweskin & The Berlin Hall Saturday Night Revue  Mardi Gras Mambo ft. Racky Thomas   Favoriting Doing Things Right  Jalopy Records  2025  Once the leader of the boundary-breaking Jim Kweskin Jug Band—which paved the way for acts like the Grateful Dead, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Lovin’ Spoonful—Kweskin’s legacy is etched into the DNA of the folk revival and beyond. Name-checked by Bob Dylan in Rolling Thunder Revue and again in the popular Timothée Chalamet film A Complete Unknown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J3DVJNpQTw  ✓    
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Little Georgie and The Shuffling Hungarians  Down In New Orleans   Favoriting The Compendium Of Unruly Caterwauling  Queen Bee Brand World Media Group  2025  The ninth single from the upcoming "Compendium Of Unruly Caterwauling" is an unabashed love song dedicated to one of the more magical places in the United States Of America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GXxZGtJMW8  ✓    
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Emanuel Casablanca  Mud   Favoriting Hollywood Forever  Indie  2025  The first single from his new album 'Hollywood Forever' out May 9! "There should be more experimentation. That is how other roots genres, country, folk (singer-songwriter), jazz, etc have evolved." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjRXPX1q6uw  ✓    
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FEATURED NEW RELEASES
  Talk Time ID         Soul-blues singer TAD ROBINSON has collected two W.C. Handy Award nominations and eight Blues Music Award nominations. His new album is titled SOUL IN BLUE and six of these tracks were recorded in Indianapolis with his longtime road band, plus special guests. Four tracks were cut in Chicago at Delmark’s Riverside Studio with the DELMARK ALL-STARS.     
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Tad Robinson  Keep Your Heart Open For Love   Favoriting Soul In Blue  Delmark Records  2025  With special guest Dave Specter on guitar  ✓    
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Tad Robinson  Out Of Sight Out Of Mind   Favoriting Soul In Blue  Delmark Records  2025    ✓    
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  Talk Time ID         Lemon Live! documents the Blind Lemon Pledge Band over two performances in Pacifica, CA.     
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Blind Lemon Pledge  Black Eyed Susie   Favoriting Lemon Live!  OFEH Records  2025  A slide guitar ode to Son House  ✓    
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Blind Lemon Pledge  ID - Blind Lemon Pledge   Favoriting            
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Blind Lemon Pledge  I Feel Like Goin' Home   Favoriting Lemon Live!  OFEH Records  2025  Cover of a classic Muddy Waters song  ✓    
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  Talk Time ID         Kim Field began his musical career in New York City, where he worked with the Sting Rays, a group managed by Grammy winner Phil Schaap.     
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Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen  Don't Need But One   Favoriting Don't Need But One  Blues Dream Records  2025  Field‘s songs have appeared in the soundtracks of two feature films. Field is also the author of "Harmonicas, Harps and Heavy Breathers" and the co-author of "The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold"  ✓    
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Giles Robson  ID - Giles Robson   Favoriting            
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Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen  The Man That Got Away   Favoriting Don't Need But One  Blues Dream Records  2025  jazzy instrumental ballad on chromatic  ✓    
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COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
  Talk Time ID         This Week In Blues History     
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Victoria Spivey  Number 12 Let Me Roam   Favoriting Complete Recorded Works 1926 – 1937 Vol 1 (1926-1927)  Document Records  1927  Recorded Apr 27, 1927 with Idle Hour Blues, Jelly, Look What You Done, The Alligator Pond Went Dry, Steady Grind, TB Blues. Lonnie Johnson, gtr     
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Frank Hutchison  The Last Scene Of The Titanic   Favoriting Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925-1950  Columbia Records  1927  Recorded Apr 29, 1927     
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Cow Cow Davenport  Back In The Alley   Favoriting Complete Recorded Works 1925 – 1945 Vol 1 (1925-1929)  Document Records  1929  Recorded May 1, 1929     
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Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell  Papa Wants a Cookie   Favoriting The Ultimate Dirty Blues Collection  Grammercy Europe  1931  Leroy Carr d. 1935-0429, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 30 (Nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys))     
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Charley Patton  Revenue Man Blues   Favoriting Legends Of The Blues: Volume 1  Columbia Records  1934  d. 1934-0428, INDIANOLA, MS 43 His death certificate says that he died of a mitral valve disorder (one of the four heart valves).     
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Homesick James  Homesick's Shuffle   Favoriting Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics  Rhino Records  1963  b. 1914-0503, SOMERVILLE, TN     
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Freddie Roulette  Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven   Favoriting Back In Chicago: Jammin' with Willie Kent and the Gents  Hi Horse Records  1997  b. 1939-0503, EVANSTON, IL     
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Hop Wilson & His Chickens  Chicken Stuff   Favoriting Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics  Rhino Records  1969  b. 1921-0427, GRAPELAND, TX     
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Otis Rush  Reap What You Sow   Favoriting Atlantic Blues: Chicago  Atlantic Records  1969  b. 1934-0429, NESHOBA, MS     
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Chris Antonik  We Are Not Alone (feat. Paul Deslauriers)   Favoriting Morningstar  Second Half Records  2022  b.19XX-0502    ㏄  
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WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
  Talk Time ID         Live blues/roots for the week starting APR 27 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/     
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Midnight Miles  Comin' On   Favoriting Midnight Miles  Indie  2023  WED APR 30 @ BAR DE COURCELLE 4685 Notre-Dame Ouest Montreal, QC H4C 1S7 https://www.facebook.com/groups/187304811387820/    ㏄  
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Listener chat!

  8:59am George Akiki:

I enjoyed the show quite a bit specially the discovery of Eli Reed, what a wonderful surprise.
Keep up the excellent work!👍🏼
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