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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 August 3, 2025: HOT NEW SINGLES! 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 start with the latest singles from Tyler Bryant, Eric Gales, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Jon Batiste & Randy Newman, Mitch Laddie, Parker Barrow, and Kris Barras’ Hollow Souls. This week's featured new releases are from Buddy Guy, Kip London, Christina Crofts, Brad "Guitar" Wilson, Rusty Ends & Hillbilly Hoodoo, and Big Shoes. In the "history" set we start in 1930 with Lonnie Johnson and continue with Will Batts, Casey Bill Weldon, Albert King, Little Milton, Detroit Junior, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Robert Randolph, Chambers Deslauriers, and Jim Zeller. We'll close with a song from Izzo Blues Coalition who'll be performing at Italfest in Petite Italie un Saturday.

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(✓ = new, ㏄ = CanCon)

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  Tonight's show     
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HOT NEW SINGLES IN YOUR AREA!
Tyler Bryant  Falling Up   Favoriting Falling Up - single  Crosstie Recordings  2025  Tyler Bryant, the two-time GRAMMY award winning producer, engineer, and songwriter for “Best Contemporary Blues Album” two years in a row with Larkin Poe’s Blood Harmony and Ruthie Foster’s Mileage albums now steps out on his own with "Falling Up" a pun based on Freddie King's "Going Down". He says it's what happens in his life - he "falls up" Didn't set out to win Grammys but he did. Didn't set out to have a signature strat but he did. Didn't expect to share experiences with some of his musical heros but he has. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUAPlaSkJs  ✓    
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Eric Gales  Don’t Wanna Go Home feat Joe Bonamassa   Favoriting A Tribute To LJK  Provogue  2025  “Don’t Wanna Go Home” is the latest single taken from Eric Gales' new album, ‘A Tribute To LJK’, an homage to his late brother Manuel Gales, who went by the name Little Jimmy King. The album will be released digitally on August 29 and physically on October 24 via Provogue and features appearances by Buddy Guy, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Joe Bonamassa, Roosevelt Collier and Josh Smith. This song is from LJK's 1997 album Soldier For The Blues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6UR-_4HDF4  ✓    
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Tedeschi Trucks Band  Feelin’ Alright   Favoriting Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live At Lockin’)  Fantasy Records  2025  Tedeschi Trucks Band has released the latest single “Feelin’ Alright from their upcoming album Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (LIVE AT LOCKN’) with Leon Russell, featuring a guest appearances from Dave Mason, who penned the hit, on lead vocals and Anders Osborne on guitar. The album will be released on September 12 via Fantasy Records, marking the first time the iconic tribute performance will be available on global streaming platforms, CD, and vinyl since its occurrence 10 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFFi56h_4ew  ✓    
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Jon Batiste  Lonely Avenue feat. Randy Newman   Favoriting Big Money  Verve-Interscope  2025  “Lonely Avenue,” is the second single from his forthcoming album Big Money by Academy Award® and multi-Grammy® winner Jon Batiste, out August 22 via Verve/Interscope. A cover of the Doc Pomus classic made famous by Ray Charles, “Lonely Avenue” is the album’s only reinterpretation – a stripped-down, one-take performance recorded live in Randy Newman’s living room. “Ray is my patron saint,” Batiste says. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50W_ePTb5rY  ✓    
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Mitch Laddie  50 Shades of Blue   Favoriting Faith and Other Bad Habits  Test Dream Productions  2025  A playful tune going through the catalogue of Pentel shades of blue from the latest album by UK-based guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, Mitch Laddie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulgGYSyNqts  ✓    
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Parker Barrow  Novocaine   Favoriting Novocaine - single  Indie  2025  “Novocaine” is the follow-up to “Make It,” and both songs will appear on Parker Barrow’s upcoming sophomore album. They are also special guests on the Winter 2025 UK Tour of MONTREAL's The Damn Truth’s which runs from November 12-23. The Damn Truth will be the headliner closing the VIP en Blues series of shows at Ile-Perrot's Parc des Générations on September 13th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIf6aRqaNSo  ✓    
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Hollow Souls  Bad Things feat Chris Tapp   Favoriting Bad Things - single  Indie  2025  “Bad Things” is the third single from Kris Barras’ Hollow Souls eponymous debut EP due Friday October 10th. The new single features Chris Tapp of The Cold Stares on lead vocals, and Hollow Soul’s lead singer Phoebe Jane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ZfWuJDaw4  ✓    
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FEATURED NEW RELEASES
  Talk Time ID         Buddy Guy celebrated his 89th birthday Wednesday by releasing his latest disc Ain't Done With The Blues. He says, “This album is about where I’ve been, it’s about where I’m going, and the people I learned everything from. ...Muddy, Wolf, Walter, Sonny Boy, B.B., 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.     
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Buddy Guy  Blues On Top   Favoriting Ain't Done With The Blues  Silvertone Records  2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AijqwlcSCeY  ✓    
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Buddy Guy  Where U At? feat. Christone "Kingfish" Ingram & Tal Wilkenfeld)   Favoriting Ain't Done With The Blues  Silvertone Records  2025  A tribute to NOLA namechecks several landmarks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpvaoq7KOuM  ✓    
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Kip London  Hurricane   Favoriting The Last Dance  MoMojo Records  2025  Posthumous album from Western Pennsylvania musician Kip London. The record emerges from a series of great recording sessions with Norman Nardini at his East Side Sound Studio just prior to London's untimely passing in 2022. The Last Dance album release was celebrated at the 2025 Pittsburgh Blues and Roots Festival (held July 25 through 27), an annual event benefitting Band Together Pittsburgh, an organization using music to inspire and enrich the lives of those on the autism spectrum.  ✓    
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Christina Crofts  See You Stumble   Favoriting Best Of Bottleneck  Foghorn Records  2025  Christina Crofts: singer, songwriter, guitarist, slide guitarist and her band were the winners of the 2022 Sydney Blues Society Blues Challenge. She has released 4 albums/EP’s with the most recent two releases charting in the Top 10 of the Australian Blues & Roots Charts. Earlier this year Christina started compiling a collection of fan favourites from her previous releases and live shows under the title of ‘Best Of Bottleneck’ highlighting her love on slide guitar.  ✓    
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Brad "Guitar" Wilson  ID - Brad "Guitar" Wilson   Favoriting            
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Brad "Guitar" Wilson  Groaning The Blues   Favoriting The Californian  Cali Bee Music  2025  Wilson has toured frequently with Chicago, and has opened for the likes of Buddy Guy, Cheap Trick, .38 Special, Marshall Tucker Band and Tommy Castro. He's also taken his songwriting talents to the big screen, scoring the song “Teaser” for John Carpenter’s film, “Vampires”, music for the movie “Ghosts of Mars,” and TV shows “The Young & the Restless” and “Passions.” Here's his version of Willie Dixon's “Groaning The Blues,” an Otis Rush classic from 1957.  ✓    
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Rusty Ends & Hillbilly Hoodoo  When A Geezer Plays The Blues   Favoriting Roadhouses, Juke Joints And Honkytonks  Earwig Music  2025  “It’s a combination of our Kentucky roots and the hoodoo beat of New Orleans,” explains Rusty, “and the greasy kind of swamp stuff." The autobiographical “When A Geezer Plays The Blues,” should certainly be a hit among the boomers who are still living out their musical ambitions in their twilight years.  ✓    
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Big Shoes  Too Many Bees   Favoriting King Size  Qualified Records  2025  Big Shoes was born over a decade ago in Nashville, when they formed as a tribute band to Little Feat. The seven members of the band are all seasoned pros, having spent many years in the studio and on tour with numerous A-list artists.  ✓    
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COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
  Talk Time ID         This Week In Blues History     
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Lonnie Johnson  I Have To Do My Time   Favoriting Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925-1950  Columbia Records  1930  Recorded Aug 5, 1930 for OKeh, in New York City. Lonnie Johnson, piano     
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Will Batts  Highway #61 Blues   Favoriting Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925-1950  Columbia Records  1933  Recorded Aug 3, 1933 in NYC for Vocalion     
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Casey Bill Weldon  Guitar Swing   Favoriting Guitar Swing  Copyright Group  1933  Recorded Aug 5, 1933 in Chicago - Vocalion     
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Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne  ID - Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne   Favoriting           ㏄  
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Albert King  Oh, Pretty Woman   Favoriting King Of The Blues Guitar  Atlantic Records  1966  Recorded Aug 3, 1966 for Stax in Memphis     
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Little Milton  I Can't Quit You Baby   Favoriting The Chess Box: Willie Dixon  Chess Records  1969  Little Milton Campbell d. 2005-0804, MEMPHIS, TN 70     
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Detroit Junior  Call My Job   Favoriting Chicago Blues Of The 1960's  Paula Records  1965  DETROIT JUNIOR (EMERY H. WILLIAMS JR.)(p) d. 2005-0809, CHICAGO, IL 73     
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Mike Goudreau  ID - Mike Goudreau   Favoriting           ㏄  
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk  The Entertainer (Done In The Style Of The Blues)   Favoriting The Case Of The 3 Sided Dream In Audio Color  Atlantic Jazz  1975  b. 1936-0807, COLUMBUS, OH Great guitar work from Cornell Dupree, Keith Loving & Hugh McCracken     
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Robert Randolph  Big Women   Favoriting Preacher Kids  Sun Records  2025  b. 1977-0808, MAPLEWOOD, NJ  ✓    
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Chambers Deslauriers  Our Time To Ride   Favoriting Our Time To Ride  Forty Below Records  2025  Annika Chambers-Deslauriers b. 1985-0807, HOUSTON, TX  ✓    
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Jim Zeller  Psychobilly Baby   Favoriting Blues from Another Planet  Miss Bean Musique  2019  b. 1954-0807 STE-AGATHE-DES-MONTS, QC    ㏄  
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WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
  Talk Time ID         Live blues/roots for the week starting Aug 3 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/     
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Izzo Blues Coalition  Sarbacane   Favoriting Cabrel En Blues  Indie  2025  SAT AUG 9, 2025 AT 7 PM AT ITALFEST - Petite Italie 7144 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2S 3E2 https://www.facebook.com/events/1263166665398068/  ✓   ㏄  
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Listener chat!

  10:53pm George Akiki:

I listened on Sunday night.
I re-listened on Tuesday night.
I commented on Thursday night.
I act every other day 😂.
I adored the start with a powerful song, Falling Up, followed by others like Christina Crofts and the legend Buddy Guy.
Great show 👍🏼
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