CKUT: Cha Cha Cha In Blue: Playlist from July 20, 2025

Cha Cha Cha In Blue : Playlist from July 20, 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)

July 20, 2025: SHAPES OF THINGS TO COME! HOT 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 open with some shapes of things to come - new singles from some upcoming albums by Kirk Fletcher, Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues, The Texas Headhunters, Walter Trout, Chambers Deslauriers, One Dime Band, Sugaray Rayford, and Ana Popovic. This week's featured new release is from Brandon Isaak plus new singles from the latest albums by Will Wilde, Long Tall Deb & Colin John, Joe Bonamassa, and The Boneshakers. In the "history" set we've got Joe Williams, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow, Ray Charles, Long John Baldry, Dave Specter & Floyd McDaniel, John Lee Hooker & Carlos Santana, Chuck E. Weiss, and Mighty Mo Rodgers. We'll close with a song from Kim Adams & The House Cats who'll be performing at the Legion in Morin Heights 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	What's on the show tonight.
SHAPES OF THINGS TO COME New Singles From Upcoming New Releases
Kirk Fletcher	Croke	Keep On Pushing	Vizztone Label Group	2025	Kirk Fletcher is set to release his new album ‘Keep On Pushing’ August 15 via Vizztone Label Group . On Friday he shared his first single “Croke”, an instrumental, “Croke.” Kirk explains, “Croke is a melody I’ve carried with me for many years. It’s in the style of your classic West Coast jump Blues popularized by some of my mentors and heroes like Junior Watson and Hollywood Fats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6-9j6NPFuk	✓
Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues	Begging For Change feat Shemekia Copeland & Ronnie Baker Brooks	Begging For Change - single	Rosa’s Lounge Records	2025	The song is a reflection of the struggles and social realities at the heart of blues music while serving as a personal and artistic milestone for Branch. Begging for Change is also the debut track from Rosa’s Lounge Records, the new label extension of the iconic Chicago venue where The Sons of Blues first took the stage in 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Fai6zShSM	✓
Texas Headhunters	Gimme Some Love	Texas Headhunters	Blue Élan Records	2025	Fabulous Thunderbirds Johnny Moeller stepping out front. Think Ray Wylie Hubbard swagger meets Delbert McClinton soul, with a little Billy Gibbons grit for good measure. Moeller: “I’m playing rhythm and singing while Jesse Dayton and Ian Moore laid down the ‘ancient art of guitar weaving,’ Texas style, all in one live take. The song’s about looking at this crazy world and realizing we all just need a little more love. I was stuck on the third verse, and my wife said, ‘write something about your dog.’ So, ‘my little sweet Talullah’ made the cut.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmjYmZjVE3w	✓
Walter Trout	Sign Of The Times	Sign Of The Times	Provogue	2025	Sign Of The Times, is a primal scream and pressure valve for all of us. “I wanted to reflect upon what’s going on in the world,” explains the 74-year-old. “For me, writing these songs is therapy. They’re not just about what’s happening out there, but how it affects you in your head. Sign Of The Times just became the obvious title…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMXqQvgfxMc	✓
	AD TRACK 37 Rise Reggae Fest Ad
Bywater Call	ID - Bywater Call						㏄
Chambers Deslauriers	Sing	Our Time To Ride	Forty Below Records	2025	Some songs are more than music.“Sing” is for anyone who’s ever felt unseen, unheard, or alone.We hope it reminds you… you’re not forgotten. The full album is due Aug 22, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43fqzGG0Fyk	✓
One Dime Band	Here To You feat Toni Lynn Washington	Here To You - Single	Indie	2025	Winners of the 2022 Boston Blues Society Blues Challenge solo/duo category and the 2023 Granite State Blues Society Challenge. The Duo returned to Memphis and made it to the Semi-Finals at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in January 2024. Plus Toni Lynn Washington, Boston’s Queen of Soul and Blues	✓
Sugaray Rayford	How The Other Half Lives	How The Other Half Lives - single	Forty Below Records	2025	His newest single, “How The Other Half Lives,” is an upbeat funk-infused brand of Texas soul-blues about walking in another’s shoes and rolling with the punches to get through turbulent times. and how hard times are the great equalizer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ6kCVIwhOs	✓
Ana Popovic	Worked Up	Dance To The Rhythm	Electric Heel Records	2025	Backed by a an eleven-piece band called Funtastafunk, "Worked Up" is the first single from Ana's upcoming release "Dance To The Rhythm" set for September 26th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0haBO0V3BmY	✓
FEATURED NEW RELEASES
	Talk Time ID				Brandon Isaak, the Whitehorse-born bluesman known for his gravelly voice and deep respect for tradition, returns with Walkin’ With the Blues — his most authentic and electrified blues album to date. Recorded live off the floor with minimal mics, vintage gear and a soul soaked in the genre’s deepest roots, the record is a love letter to classic blues — gritty, emotional and defiantly old-school.
Brandon Isaak	Walkin' With The Blues	Walkin' With The Blues	Indie	2025	“This is the most straight-up blues record I’ve ever made, and I could not be more pleased with how it turned out,” Brandon shares. “I wanted to make a record with strong lyrics, soulful playing, and zero tolerance for wanking — and I think I’ve achieved this.” “I’ve always dreamed of making an electric blues album that captures the feel of the records I grew up on,” he says. “This one’s for the guitarists I worshipped as a kid.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8P1p4NqfQ	✓	㏄
Brandon Isaak	Good And Blue	Walkin' With The Blues	Indie	2025	The album marks Brandon’s first time producing and engineering on his own, a feat he describes as both a challenge and a dream realized.	✓	㏄
	Talk Time ID				Providing an intro to the latest singles from new albums
Will Wilde	Girl's Got Soul	Blues Is Still Alive	Vizztone Label Group	2025	The new video just dropped. “This song is for all the women who get up and dance at our gigs. We see you -keep dancing!” says Wilde. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pxIktJGQw8	✓
Long Tall Deb & Colin John	Light It Up	Light It Up	Vizztone Label Group	2025	As the title track so clearly professes, Long Tall Deb and Colin John are ready, willing and able to “start a new kind of fire.” They strike a match on the song and let it burn. The song calls out the familiar culprits: misinformation, institutional greed, and the long shadow of putting profit over people. Before the "Gordon Gecko Greed Is Good" philosophy of the 80s we used to think corporations had social responsibilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSJ1iW-QgAw	✓
Joe Bonamassa	Broken Record	Breakthrough	J&R Adventures	2025	Blues-rock powerhouse Joe Bonamassa has officially released his brand-new studio album Breakthrough on Friday. To coincide with the album launch, he has also released the record’s latest single, “Broken Record” – a meditation on resilience, reflection, and the emotional weight of long roads travelled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdnbRNUisYA	✓
	Masters at Work_CKUT Ad
The Boneshakers	ID - The Boneshakers
The Boneshakers	They Say I'm Different	Live To Be This	Gulf Coast Records	2025	The new album dropped on Friday and the first single, They Say I’m Different” is a song originally written and sung in 1974 by Betty Davis, the godmother of funk and one-time wife of Miles Davis. In 2017 a documentary called Betty: They Say I'm Different was released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHqnvNNXtqc Here's the BETTE DAVIS original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok7r0s48B5U	✓
COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
	Talk Time ID
Joe Williams	Baby, Please Don't Go	Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925-1950	Columbia Records	1947	Recorded July 22, 1947
Lightnin' Hopkins	Blues In The Bottle	Blues In My Bottle	Prestige Bluesville	1961	Recorded July 26, 1961
Jessie Mae Hemphill	Shame On You	Deep Blues (Music From The Original Soundtrack)	Anxious Records	1992	d. 2006-0722, MEMPHIS, TN 82
	AD TRACK 11 Zamalek_No Matter
	AD TRACK Save Your Skin_NCRA PSA_ENG
Reverend Peyton	ID - Reverend Peyton
Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow	I'm Hurt	Louisiana Swamp Blues	Capitol Records	1953	Recorded July 24, 1953
Ray Charles	Busted	True Genius	Tangerine Records	2021	Recorded July 24, 1963
Long John Baldry	Insane Asylum feat. Kathi McDonald	On Stage Tonight - Baldry's Out	Stony Plain Records	1993	d. 2005-0721, VANCOUVER, BC 64		㏄
	AD TRACK 03 Black Education Trailer
Popa Chubby	ID - Popa Chubby
Dave Specter, Floyd McDaniel	St Louis Blues	Six String Soul: 30 Years On Delmark	Delmark Records	2021	Floyd McDaniel b. 1915-0721, ATHENS, AL; d. 1995-0723, CHICAGO, IL 80 Originally from the album West Side Baby from 1998
John Lee Hooker & Carlos Santana	Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)	The Best Of Friends	Pointblank	1998	Carlos Santana b. 1947-0720, AUTLAN DE NAVARRO, MEXICO
Chuck E. Weiss	Extremely Cool	Extremely Cool	Slow River Records	1999	d. 2021-0720 LOS ANGELES, CA 76 And, yes, it's “CHUCK E.'S IN LOVE”
Mighty Mo Rodgers	The Boy Who Stole the Blues	Red, White & Blues	Indie	2002	b. 1942-0724, EAST CHICAGO, IN
WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
	Talk Time ID				Live blues/roots for the week starting July 20 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/
Kim Adams & The House Cats	Tiger Rag	Cover Stories	Indie	2016	SAT JULY 26 AT Royal Canadian Legion Branch 171, 127 Chemin Watchorn, Morin-Heights, QC J0R 1H0 https://www.facebook.com/events/2477918319246966/		㏄

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