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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 May 18, 2025: HOT NEW SINGLES! R.I.P. JOE LOUIS WALKER! 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 remind you that although the funding drive is over it's never too late to give! You know what to do. Now let's start the show. Here are the hottest new blues(y) singles from Robert Jon & The Wreck, the U.K.'s Chris Rand and the Heavy Echo, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Bywater Call, Kenny Neal, Australia's Gwyn Ashton, Larry McCray, Marcus King Band, and the Texas Headhunters. We'll also pay tribute to the iconic Joe Louis Walker who passed recently at 75. In the "history" set we've got Alberta Hunter, Big Joe Turner, Lafayette Thomas, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Albert King, James Harman, Dave Specter, and Bob Dylan. We'll close with a song from Kim Adams & The House Cats who'll be at Mariposa on Saturday.

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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 IN YOUR AREA!
Robert Jon & The Wreck  Better Of Me   Favoriting Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes  Journeyman Records  2025  Robert Jon & The Wreck have released their new single “Better Of Me” taken from their upcoming studio album Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes to be released by Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records on Friday August 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIJVPdsAl9w&list=OLAK5uy_nf2taO-MwT-5rfSsmPEe8JBIVWZk3FPMU  ✓    
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Chris Rand and the Heavy Echo  Two Rogues   Favoriting Two Rogues - single  Lunaria Records  2025  Debut single from Chris Rand and the Heavy Echo. ‘Two Rogues’ is due for release on Friday 23rd May, 2025. Chris Rand has been a sax and keys player with some of the UK's most established blues and soul artists for nearly 20 years. Video Teaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidxzU5MZJ0  ✓    
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Joanne Shaw Taylor  Summer Love   Favoriting Black & Gold  Journeyman Records  2025  Joanne Shaw Taylor's “Summer Love” tells the story of a fleeting romance that burned bright and ended sweet. It's the latest in a series of singles leading up to Black & Gold, Joanne’s new album due June 6th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6EvBMUMui0  ✓    
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Bywater Call  ID - Bywater Call   Favoriting           ㏄  
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Bywater Call  Sunshine   Favoriting Sunshine - single  Indie  2025  Bywater Call's “Sunshine” was recorded live on tour in 2024 at Arlington Arts in Newbury, UK The song is their first official live track, and title track from their brand-new live album, set to be released later this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZzDyTz46zQ  ✓   ㏄  
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Kenny Neal  Let Life Flow feat Quiana Lynell and Lee Oskar   Favoriting Let Life Flow - single  Verdict Music  2025  Kenny Neal has just released a new version of his 2008 track “Let Life Flow,” bringing together his Louisiana blues roots with the soulful vocals of Quiana Lynell and the harmonica stylings of Lee Oskar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKIqavfvDWg  ✓    
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Gwyn Ashton  Mississippi Moonshine Mama   Favoriting Mississippi Moonshine Mama - single  Fab Tone Records  2025  Welsh-Australian Gwyn Ashton's "Mississippi Moonshine Mama" tells the story of a factory worker who doesn’t care for the mainstream radio that’s always blasting out the oldies hit songs at work and one day he gets in his car to go home and accidentally tunes his radio in to Australian blues radio host Irene Barrett’s show. Mississippi Moonshine Mama is not only a song for Irene, it’s also a song with a strong message that community radio presenters are appreciated. And we thank him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n34G3HcjQQ  ✓    
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Larry McCray  Bright Side   Favoriting Heartbreak City  KTBA Records  2025  Guitarist Larry McCray returns with “Bright Side,” the second single from his upcoming album Heartbreak City, due out June 13 via KTBA Records. Written by Josh Smith, Michael "Harvey" Price, and Steve Shepherd, it was originally penned for the late, great Bobby “Blue” Bland, but sat unreleased for decades until producer Josh Smith brought it to McCray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZrn0oVORI  ✓    
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Anthony Paule  ID - Anthony Paule   Favoriting            
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Marcus King Band  Honky Tonk Hell   Favoriting Honky Tonk Hell - single  American Records  2025  The Marcus King Band have have released a new track ‘Honky Tonk Hell’ out now via American Records/Republic Records. “‘Honky Tonk Hell’ is an anthem for anyone out there like myself who have struggled with the permanence of sobriety – those who fear the thought they will never again howl at the moon,” King says. Marcus has been touring with artists like Chris Stapleton & it sounds like some honky tonk has rubbed off on him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOBKUFdBemI  ✓    
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Texas Headhunters  Maggie Went Back to Mineola   Favoriting Texas Headhunters  Blue Élan Records  2025  Texas Headhunters - the new band uniting Lone Star guitar heroes Ian Moore, Jesse Dayton, and Johnny Moeller - released their debut single “Maggie Went Back to Mineola”, with their eponymously titled album to follow on August 22 via Blue Élan Records. “A girl from Mineola goes to Dallas and becomes a stripper,” Dayton says. “She gets into all this stuff, then comes home to work at the Dollar General and try to go to church. That’s Ian on lead.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEzDJXPmVpk  ✓    
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R.I.P. JOE LOUIS WALKER (December 25, 1949 – April 30, 2025)
  Talk Time ID         A six-time Blues Music Award winner Joe Louis Walker has about three dozen albums to his credit. Over the course of his long career, Walker opened for legends including Muddy Waters and Thelonious Monk; and counted among his friends and contemporaries the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, and Mississippi Fred McDowell. He was also a close friend and former roommate of guitar virtuoso Mike Bloomfield. I've been fortunate to have seen him a number of times - Mont Tremblant, l'Astral, & even at the old G-Sharp from whence I have an unconfirmed report that he got into a physical altercation with Gary Sharp.     
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Lonnie Shields  Our Fight For Freedom feat. Joe Louis Walker   Favoriting Our Fight For Freedom - single  MoMojo Records  2025  “Our Fight For Freedom” was inspired by the many civil and social injustices that have permeated the news for many years. This performance features Lonnie Shields with special guest Joe Louis Walker, with the accompaniment provided by the Lonnie Shields Band.     
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Mitch Woods  Nasty Boogie feat. Joe Louis Walker   Favoriting Friends Along The Way (Deluxe Edition)  Club 88 Records  2023  Nasty Boogie: One of the standout songs from Mitch Woods' Friends Along The Way. JLW also delivers Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “Worried Life Blues” very convincingly, playing acoustic guitar alongside Mitch’s piano and sharing the vocals on the familiar tune which makes an ideal end to the expanded album.     
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Joe Louis Walker  Mile High Club   Favoriting Great Guitars  Verve Records  1997  Guitar, Vocals – Joe Louis Walker [Intro & Outro Solos]; 1st Solo – Scotty Moore; 2nd Solo – Little Charlie Baty; 3rd Solo – Steve Cropper; 4th Solo – Clarence Gatemouth Brown; Other greats on this disc are Bonnie Raitt, Ike Turner, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Otis Grand, Taj Mahal, Robert Lockwood Jr. and Matt 'Guitar' Murphy     
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  AD TRACK 18 OFFTA_EN              
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Hitman Blues Band  ID - Hitman Blues Band   Favoriting            
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Joe Louis Walker  Heart of Stone   Favoriting Paint It Blue: Songs of The Rolling Stones  House Of Blues  1997  One of the highlights of this great compilation. Recorded June 27, 1997 at Russian Hill Recording, San Francisco     
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Joe Louis Walker  You Got Me Whipped   Favoriting Weight of the World  Forty Below Records  2023  The jazzy closer to his latest album Weight of the World, “You Got Me Whipped,” announces he's finally ready to accede to all of his lady’s demands to remain at her side.     
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COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
  Talk Time ID         This Week In Blues History     
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Alberta Hunter  Beale Street Blues feat. Fats Waller   Favoriting Complete Recorded Works 1921 – c. 1946 Vol 4  Document Records  1927  Recorded May 20, 1927 in an old church in Camden, New Jersey, for the Victor label. Fats Waller b. 1904-0521, NEW YORK CITY, NY     
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Big Joe Turner  The Chicken and the Hawk (Up, Up And Away)   Favoriting 75 R&B Classics  La Bambolina s.a.s.  1955  b. 1911-0518, KANSAS CITY, MO     
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Lafayette Thomas  The Thing   Favoriting Juke Joint Blues Black Cat Rag  JSP Records  1955  d. 1977-0520, BRISBANE, CA 48 heart attack     
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  AD TRACK 08 Oh Jazz!              
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Johnny Burgin  ID - Johnny Burgin   Favoriting            
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Little Walter  Got To Find My Baby (Alternate)   Favoriting Chess Blues 1952-1954  Chess Records  1954  Recorded May 22, 1954 with Otis Spann, Louis Meyers, Robert Lockwood, and Willie Dixon     
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Muddy Waters  Mannish Boy   Favoriting The Chess Box  Chess Records  1955  Recorded May 24, 1955 as a sort of answer song to Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man" recorded two months earlier.     
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Albert King  You Threw Your Love On Me Too Strong   Favoriting The Ultimate Collection  Rhino Records  1964  Recorded May 21, 1964     
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  AD TRACK 20 MFPM              
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  Post-Drive_Never Too Late To Donate              
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Dawn Tyler Watson  ID - Dawn Tyler Watson   Favoriting            
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James Harman  Old Man Eyes   Favoriting Takin' Chances  Cannonball Records  1998  d. 2021-0523 CA 74 heart attack     
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Dave Specter  West Side Stroll   Favoriting Six String Soul: 30 Years On Delmark  Delmark Records  2021  b. 1963-0521, CHICAGO, IL Originally on the 1995 album "Dave Specter & The Bluebirds – Live In Europe (w/ Tad Robinson)"     
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Bob Dylan  Everything Is Broken   Favoriting Oh Mercy  Columbia Records  1989  b. 1941-0524, DULUTH, MN     
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WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
  Talk Time ID         Live blues/roots for the week starting May 18 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/     
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Kim Adams & The House Cats  Everybody Wants To Be A Cat   Favoriting Cover Stories  Indie  2016  SAT MAY 24 @ MARIPOSA...le CAFÉ 5562 Chem. Upper Lachine Montréal, QC H4A 2A7 https://www.facebook.com/events/654980160494744/    ㏄  
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Listener chat!

  11:03pm George Akiki:

I had to write immediately after listening to Lonnie Shields’s song (our fight for freedom), I couldn’t hear no other song.
I will re-listen a couple of times because of that song. Good show. 👍🏼
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