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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 August 10, 2025: LATEST HOT CANADIAN BLUES! 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 some of the top new blues from Canada by JP LeBlanc, Ginger St. James, Steve Marriner, Bywater Call, Crystal Shawanda, Brandon Isaak, and the Renovation Blues Band. This week's featured new releases are from John Christopher Morgan, Bill Blue, Candice Ivory, Mississippi MacDonald, Yates McKendree, and a reissue from Gerald McClendon. In the "history" set we start 125 years ago on this, the 10th of August, 1920 with Mamie Smith and continue with Lonnie Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Percy Mayfield, Sonny Boy Williamson II, King Curtis, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Buchanan and even a pair of songs from T-Bone Walker. We'll close with a song from Craig Morrison who'll be performing with his band The Momentz at Smoke Meat Pete on Friday and with The Montreal Hillbilly Night All Stars at Ribfest in Pierrefonds on Sunday. Expect a heartfelt tribute to Jeannie Arsenault.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images
 
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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  Here's what we're up to tonight.     
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THE LATEST CANADIAN BLUES!
JP LeBlanc  Louisiana Checkbook   Favoriting All In My Blood - Je L'Ai Dans L'Sang  Acadian Connection  2025    ✓   ㏄  
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Ginger St. James  Soul Shack   Favoriting Told Ya  Busted Flat Records  2025    ✓   ㏄  
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Steve Marriner  Through The Night   Favoriting Hear My Heart  Cordova Bay Records  2025    ✓   ㏄  
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Bywater Call  ID - Bywater Call   Favoriting           ㏄  
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Bywater Call  Sunshine   Favoriting Sunshine - single  Indie  2025    ✓   ㏄  
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Crystal Shawanda  Stop Funkin Me Around   Favoriting Sing Pretty Blues  New Sun Records  2025    ✓   ㏄  
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Brandon Isaak  Good And Blue   Favoriting Walkin' With The Blues  Indie  2025    ✓   ㏄  
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Renovation Blues Band  Back From San Antone   Favoriting Nail It!  Indie  2025    ✓   ㏄  
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FEATURED NEW RELEASES
  Talk Time ID         Drummer and vocalist John Christopher Morgan has recorded with Robert Lucas, was on King Ernest’s King of Hearts CD and Lester Butler’s (of the Red Devils Fame) CD “13”. Among the guests on his new album is the legendary guitarist Albert Lee along with Franck Goldwasser (Mannish Boys), Zach Zunis (Janiva Magness), and blues harp master RJ Mischo     
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John Christopher Morgan  Done Got Over It   Favoriting Right On Time  Indie  2025  A reimagined Guitar Slim classic  ✓    
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John Christopher Morgan  The Jeweler's Daughter   Favoriting Right On Time  Indie  2025  Guitar by Zach Zunis, sarcastic remarks by Jamie Wood  ✓    
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  Talk Time ID         Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the album’s release and honoring McClendon’s recognition by the Jus’ Blues Music Foundation, Gerald is being honored this year with the Bobby Blue Bland Award for "Outstanding Blues Vocal Stylist and performer in the blues arena." It's also the 25th anniversary of Jus' Blues, an organization dedicated to "preserving and promoting the legacy of the Blues."     
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Mother Blues With Gerald Mcclendon  Leaves Tremble On The Tree   Favoriting Sleeping While The River Runs  Sleeping Dog Records  2025  "Leaves Tremble on the Tree" turns a harp driven swamp riff, and a bad dream, into an R&B ode to deliverance from hardship on the road.  ✓    
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Mother Blues With Gerald Mcclendon  Chalk Line   Favoriting Sleeping While The River Runs  Sleeping Dog Records  2025  As seen on "Law & Order".  ✓    
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  Talk Time ID         Here's a handful of new releases.     
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Bill Blue  I Got The Gris Gris   Favoriting I Got The Gris Gris - single  Conchtown Records  2025  Bill Blue, veteran of the Arthur (Big Boy) Crudup band and beloved resident of Key West for more than 35 years, died in 2022 after a battle with cancer. Now his friend and producer Ian Shaw is releasing some of Blue’s unreleased music, beginning with the single “I Got The Gris Gris.”  ✓    
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Candice Ivory  Catfish Blues’ (Feat. Jimmy Duck Holmes)   Favoriting New Southern Vintage  NOLA Blue Records  2025  Grammy nominated blues-soul singer Candice Ivory has just released a video “Catfish Blues” feat. Jimmy Duck Holmes from her forthcoming album ‘New Southern Vintage,’ out September 12th on NOLA Blue Records. The video features original art by Candice Ivory, a style she defines as “Southern Surrealism”, with a nod to artist John Cage. The song features Jimmy "Duck" Holmes - vocals, guitar, Ben Levin - piano, & Damion "Yella P" Pearson - harmonica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zVu5AYGxo  ✓    
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Reverend Freakchild  ID - Reverend Freakchild   Favoriting            
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Mississippi MacDonald  Goin’ Down Slow   Favoriting Slim Pickin’  APM Records  2025  Oliver Mississippi MacDonald (Oli Mac) Winner of two Acoustic Artist of the Year UK Blues Awards, 2024 & 2025, Oli Mac now brings us a second helping of his alter ego’s acoustic oeuvre following 2024’s Call Me Mississippi album. The new album "Slim Pickin’" is 10 songs, half originals & half covers  ✓    
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Yates McKendree  Need To Know You Better   Favoriting Need To Know  Qualified Records  2025  Born in Nashville and raised in his dad Kevin's recording studio, multi-instrumentalist Yates McKendree grew up hearing and playing with some of Music City’s greatest musicians. During Yates’s teenage years, he played on and engineered dozens of recordings in The Rock House; most notably for Delbert McClinton and John Hiatt, winning a Grammy for Delbert's “Tall Dark & Handsome”. His 2023 debut LP, “Buchanan Lane” was nominated for two Blues Music Awards. In between touring and his Monday night residency at Nashville's world-famous Bluebird Cafe, Yates managed to find time to write and record another album of original songs, “Need To Know”.  ✓    
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COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
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Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds  Crazy Blues   Favoriting Mamie Smith Vol. 1 (1920-1921)  Document Records  1920  Recorded Aug 10, 1920 in New York City for OKeh (#4169) Although there were many recordings made of songs with blues in the title during the previous decade, this recording is considered a landmark as the first significant hit recording in the blues genre ever issued. Another claim is that it was the first recording with a blues title by a black artist. The record made Smith the first African American female popular singer to lead a commercial recording. The success of "Crazy Blues" opened up the race record market, for the first time major record companies started producing records with an African American buyer in mind. "Crazy Blues" was entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1994.     
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Lonnie Johnson  I'm Nuts About That Gal   Favoriting Essential Blues Masters  Goldenlane Records  1932  Recorded Aug 12, 1932 Very progressive guitar work for this era.     
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  AD TRACK 11 Zamalek_No Matter              
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  AD TRACK Save Your Skin_NCRA PSA_ENG              
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Rob Lutes  ID - Rob Lutes   Favoriting           ㏄  
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Jimmy Rogers  Luedella   Favoriting Chess Blues 1947-1952  Chess Records  1950  Recorded Aug 15, 1950 with Little Walter and Big Crawford     
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Percy Mayfield  Please Send Me Someone to Love   Favoriting Got the Blues  Ap Music  1950  Recorded Aug 16, 1950 b. 1920-0812, MINDEN, LA d. 1984-0811, LOS ANGELES, CA 63     
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T-Bone Walker  Alimony Blues   Favoriting The Imperial Blues Years  Not Now Music  1951  Recorded Aug 15, 1951 in L.A. plus “Life Is Too Short”, “You Don’t Understand” and “Welcome Blues”     
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T-Bone Walker  Life Is Too Short   Favoriting The Imperial Blues Years  Not Now Music  1951  Recorded Aug 15, 1951 in L.A. plus "Alimony Blues", “You Don’t Understand” and “Welcome Blues”     
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Sonny Boy Williamson II  Don't Start Me To Talkin'   Favoriting Chess Blues 1954-1960  Chess Records  1955  Recorded Aug 12, 1955 with Otis Spann, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Willy Dixon, and Fred Below     
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Popa Chubby  ID - Popa Chubby   Favoriting       GOOD LUCK, POPA! KEEP FIGHTIN' THE GOOD FIGHT!     
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King Curtis  Soul Groove Part 1   Favoriting Didn't He Play!  Red Lightnin' Records  1959  d. 1971-0813, NEW YORK CITY, NY 37 Curtis was killed when he was stabbed during an argument with a pair of drug dealers he discovered on the steps outside his Manhattan apartment. (N.B. That's probably Cornell Dupree on guitar.)     
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Buddy Guy  When My Left Eye Jumps   Favoriting The Complete Chess Studio Recordings  Chess Records  962  Recorded Aug 12, 1962     
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Howlin' Wolf  Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy   Favoriting The Chess Box  Chess Records  1963  Recorded Aug 14, 1963 plus "Built For Comfort" and "Hidden Charms"     
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Roy Buchanan  John's Blues   Favoriting Roy Buchanan  Polydor  1972  d. 1988-0814, FAIRFAX, VA 48 According to his agent and others, Buchanan was doing well, having gained control of his drinking habit and playing again, when he was arrested for public intoxication after a domestic dispute. He was found hanged from his own shirt in a jail cell on August 14, 1988, in the Fairfax County, Virginia, Jail. According to Thomas Hartman, who was in a cell near Buchanan's, the deputy sheriff opened the door early in the morning and found Buchanan with the shirt around his neck. His cause of death was officially recorded as suicide, a finding disputed by Buchanan's friends and family. One of his friends, Marc Fisher, reported seeing Buchanan's body with bruises on the head.     
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WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
  Talk Time ID         Live blues/roots for the week starting Aug 10 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/     
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Craig Morrison & The Momentz  I’m Tired   Favoriting Roots, Rockin’, Rollin’ – Live In Montreal 1988-2011  Indie  2012  APPEARING LIVE FRIDAY AUG 15 AT SMOKE MEAT PETE https://www.facebook.com/Smoke-Meat-Pete-227070167344264/ & SUNDAY AUG 17 AT RIBFEST https://www.facebook.com/MontrealRibFest    ㏄  
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Listener chat!

  1:57pm George Akiki:

I had a wonderful time listening to a variety and multitudes of different style of blues.
Great show, as usual.
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