CKUT: Cha Cha Cha In Blue: Playlist from June 22, 2025

Cha Cha Cha In Blue : Playlist from June 22, 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)

June 22, 2025: BONNE ST-JEAN!! HOT NEW SINGLES! 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 La Fête Nationale with classic & recent Quebecois blues & rock from Izzo Blues Coalition, Bernard Adamus, Jim Zeller, Bob Walsh, Michel Pagliaro, Mike Goudreau, Offenbach, Mike DeWay, and Angel Forrest. This week's new releases are the latest singles from JP LeBlanc, Chambers DesLauriers, Buddy Guy, and Los Lobos. In the "history" set we go back more than a hundred years for another 1923 recording by Bessie Smith followed by Elizabeth Johnson, Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Pee Wee Crayton, Albert King, Tad Robinson, and Georgie Fame. Jazz Fest starts this week so we'll close with a song from Grace Bowers whos' doing a free show on the TD Stage on Saturday evening.

(✓ = 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	Indie	1957	Tonight's agenda
BONNE ST-JEAN, MES AMI(E)S!
Izzo Blues Coalition	Sarbacane	Cabrel En Blues	Indie	2025	"Cabrel en Blues" has the Izzo Blues Coalition reinterpreting the songs of Francis Cabrel through a gritty blues filter. This could be their breakout album. Available everywhere online June 27, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFqQgZHjj7s	✓	㏄
Bernard Adamus	Noir sur blanc	Montréal, Texas	Indie	2019	About as close to Mississippi hill country as you'll find locally.		㏄
Jim Zeller	Yessir	Fire to the Wire	AIR M.S. Records	1995	A classic Quebec boogie en joual featuring Rick D'Opera on guitar		㏄
Bob Walsh	Mes Blues Passent Pu Dans Porte	Bob Walsh Live. A Canadian Blues Rendez-Vous	Diffusion YFB	2004	Bob reinterprets an Offenbach classic from 1972. Breen LeBoeuf & Martin Deschamps add their voices.		㏄
Michel Pagliaro	J'Entends Frapper	J'Entends Frapper -single	RCA Victor	1972	"PAG" wrote THE Quebecois Blues-rock anthem and was the first Canadian artist to earn gold records in both official languages. The discography site lists him as the uncredited guitarist. I think if there's a Quebecois Mississippi Queen this is it.		㏄
Mike Goudreau	Je Reste Accroché	Je Reste Accroché	Les Éditions Goudreau	2015	Mike's been at this long enough to have earned a documentary about him & his Boppin' Blues Band, "Ain’t No Guitar Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoFD4I09v4A (And yes, that's me)		㏄
Offenbach	Caline De Blues	L'Ultime · Offenbach	Disques Helena	1972	In The Rustic Inn in Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts on a Friday afternoon in December of 1971 Offenbach was rehearsing for that night’s performance and waiting for Pierre Harel to arrive. They started playing around a “walking boogie” lead by Michel Lamothe. When Harel arrived, Gerry Boulet was singing “That’s why, that’s why I’m singing the blues”. Harel then composed French lyrics on a paper place-mat that became the lyric “L’aut’soir, l’aut’soir, j’ai chanté du blues." Another one in the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame		㏄
Mike DeWay	Je Suis Cool!	Turbulence	Production Bluesenville	2011	Mike Deway's cover of a classic from the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame. After being challenged by his record company to write a hit, Gilles Valiquette set about creating Je Suis Cool! At a time when recording artists were often limited to performing covers of French or American hits, Gilles Valiquette also wanted to prove he had the know-how to compose a truly authentic hit.		㏄
	Masters at Work
	AD TRACK 26 Suoni
Angel Forrest	ID - Angel Forrest						㏄
Angel Forrest	Mother Tongue Blues	Mother Tongue Blues	Distribution Select	2013	Angel nicely lays out the dichotomy of the Quebecois(e) artist. Mother Tongue Blues won the Lys Blues Album of the Year in Quebec and was nominated for the Recording of the Year at the 2014 Maple Blues Awards where she also won Songwriter of the year.		㏄
HOT NEW SINGLES IN YOUR AREA!
	Talk Time ID				Just recapping what we heard and an intro to the new singles.
JP LeBlanc	Louisiana Checkbook	All In My Blood	Acadian Connection	2025	JP LeBlanc’s new album “All In My Blood” was produced by Grammy-winning Colin Linden and will be released nationally this summer. “Louisiana Checkbook” is a swampy, gritty blues track in the spirit of CCR and Tony Joe White and features a special guest appearance by Cajun music icon Steve Riley of the Mamou Playboys on accordion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbm9Q6v_Bys	✓	㏄
Chambers DesLauriers	Written In The Stars	Our Time To Ride	Forty Below Records	2025	The 3rd single from their forthcoming album Our Time To Ride, to be released Aug 22. Our Time to Ride was recorded at Studio Mixart Montreal, Forty Below Studios in LA, and Sound Arts Studio in Houston. Catch them live at the Jazz Fest Fri July 4 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm Rogers Stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPt9kMWmvyE	✓	㏄
Buddy Guy	How Blues Is That feat. Joe Walsh	Ain’t Done With The Blues	Silvertone Records	2025	His brand new album is set to release on July 30, his 89th birthday. “This album is about where I’ve been, it’s about where I’m going, and the people I learned everything from,” shares Buddy on the LP. “…Muddy, Wolf, Walter, Sonny Boy, BB, I could go on and on. Before they passed, they used to say, “Man, if you outlive me, just keep the Blues alive,” and I’m trying to keep that promise.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QYdXospOQk	✓
Marshall Lawrence	Ain't Nobody's Business	Ain't Nobody's Business -single	Indie	2025	Maple Blues Award winner Marshall Lawrence’s new single “Ain’t Nobody’s Business” (2025) pays homage to the great veterans of the blues that helped shape the music he loves. This track is one in a series of singles honouring the music and honouring those legends.	✓	㏄
	AD TRACK 34 DULF
Harrell “Young Rell” Davenport	ID - Harrell “Young Rell” Davenport
Los Lobos	Three Hundred Pounds of Joy	Antone’s: 50 Years Of The Blues	New West Records	2025	HUGE boxset documenting the legendary ANTONE'S Texas blues club is set for release August 22, 2025, with 4 tracks available now. Los Lobos credits Clifford Antone with saving the band in their early days when they were stranded in Texas with no way back to L.A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdibW0VNcI	✓
COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
	Talk Time ID				This Week In Blues History
Bessie Smith	Nobody In Town Can Bake A Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine	The Complete Recordings Volume 1 (1923-1924)	Columbia Records	1923	Recorded June 22, 1923
Elizabeth Johnson	Empty Bed Blues, Part 1	Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925-1950	Columbia Records	1928	Recorded June 26, 1928
Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon	The Mortgage Blues - Part 1	Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon Vol. 2 1929-1937	Document Records	1933	Recorded June 23, 1933
	AD TRACK 27 Initial Shock
	AD TRACK 04 (11) Zamalek_No Matter
Hitman Blues Band	ID - Hitman Blues Band
Bobby "Blue" Bland	It's My Life	Definitive Blues Anthology	Not Now Music	1955	d. 2013-0623, GERMANTOWN, TN 83
Howlin' Wolf	Who's Been Talking?	The Chess Box	Chess Records	1957	Recorded June 24, 1957
Muddy Waters	Making Friends	The Chess Box	Chess Records	1966	Recorded June 22, 1966
Pee Wee Crayton	Red Rose Boogie	Early Hour Blues	Blind Pig Records	1999	d. 1985-0625, LOS ANGELES, CA 70 This album was released in 1999 but was probably from a 1984 session produced by Rod Piazza
Albert King	Breaking Up Somebody's Home	The Ultimate Collection	Rhino Records	1972	Recorded June 24, 1972
	AD TRACK 35 Monsoon Fest
	AD TRACK 36 Westcan Gala
Marcus Trummer	ID - Marcus Trummer
Tad Robinson	It's Private Tonight	Soul In Blue	Delmark Records	2025	b. 1956-0624, NEW YORK CITY, NY	✓
Georgie Fame	It Should Have Been Me	Cool Cat Blues	Bluemoon Recordings	1991	b. 1943-0626, LEIGH, UK Boz Scaggs & Robben Ford are featured in this song.
WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
	Talk Time ID				Live blues/roots for the week starting June 22 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/
Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge	Wine On Venus	Wine On Venus	Indie	2024	FREE SHOW @ JAZZ FEST SAT JUNE 28 7:30 PM, TD Stage https://montrealjazzfest.com/en/program/grace-bowers-the-hodge-podge-e005307

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