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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 17, 2025: HOT NEW SINGLES! 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 reap a new crop of singles where Doyle Bramhall II covers a blues classic, Roomful Of Blues, GeminiiDRAGON and The Zac Schulze Gang preview their new albums, Pat Smillie drops a new single, Marc Broussard covers a Ray Charles classic and Glenn Alexander backs his daughter Oria's reinterpretation of a Janis Joplin hit. This week's featured new releases are from Cape Breton's Angelo Spinazzola, guitar icon Kirk Fletcher, and both new albums from the Burnsides, Garry & Kent. In the "history" set we start in 1931 with Lonnie Johnson and continue with Blind Willie McTell, The Four Blazes, Robert Anderson, T-Bone Walker, Lazy Lester, John Lee Hooker, Etta James, and birthday boys Bruce Katz, Colin James, & John Campbelljohn. We'll close with a song from Colin Perry & Peter Mika who'll be providing the music for this week's "Mercredi Swing" at Café La ligne Verte on Wednesday. Arrive early for the free swing dance lesson.

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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  Here's what's on tonight's show.     
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HOT NEW SINGLES IN YOUR DOWNLOAD AREA!
Doyle Bramhall II  Bad Boy   Favoriting Antone’s: 50 Years Of The Blues  New West Records  2025  The boxset documenting the legendary Antone's Texas blues club will drop on Friday. Several tracks, incl. this cover of the Eddie Taylor classic are already available.  ✓    
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Roomful Of Blues  You Were Wrong   Favoriting Steppin’ Out!  Alligator Records  2025  On Friday, October 10, Rhode Island-based blues, jump, swing and soul band Roomful of Blues will release their new Alligator Records album, Steppin’ Out!. With this record (the band’s 20th), new lead singer D.D. Bastos makes her debut as the first female vocalist to record with Roomful of Blues in its history-making six decades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdQM4tRz58  ✓    
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GeminiiDRAGON  Blues Is So Good feat Linwood Taylor   Favoriting Moonlight Movin' & Groovin'  Nepotism Recordings  2025  NEW ALBUM.. MOONLIGHT MOVIN' & GROOVIN' Featuring LINWOOD TAYLOR due this SEPTEMBER 26TH 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPJfbvsyoLk  ✓    
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Vaneese Thomas  ID - Vaneese Thomas   Favoriting            
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Pat Smillie  Hurt My Feelings   Favoriting Hurt My Feelings - single  Indie  2025  A Detroit garage-soul rocker that draws inspiration, in part, from the 60’s British invasion group, The Animals. On “Hurt My Feelings”, Smillie confronts his lover for staying out late & running around town, while he nurses a bruised ego and a broken heart at home.  ✓    
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Marc Broussard  Hallelujah, I Love Her So   Favoriting S.O.S 5: Songs of the ’50s  KTBA Records  2025  Louisiana singer-songwriter Marc Broussard released his take on this Ray Charles classic from 1956, the new single and first offering from his forthcoming album, S.O.S 5: Songs of the ’50s, the fifth volume in his ongoing philanthropic S.O.S (Save Our Soul) album series, set for release this fall. A portion of all proceeds will be donated to Love of People, a nonprofit organization based in Lafayette, Louisiana, Broussard’s hometown.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC9H76ffcDs  ✓    
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Glenn Alexander  Mercedes Benz feat Oria Aspen   Favoriting Mercedes Benz - single  Indie  2025  Glenn Alexander, longtime guitarist for Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, has again teamed up with his daughter Oria Aspen for a new rendition of the Janis Joplin classic “Mercedes Benz,” accompanied by a video. Featuring Bill Champlin on B3 organ and Gary Dates on drums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RMh1j3sbBw  ✓    
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The Zac Schulze Gang  High Roller   Favoriting Straight To It  Ruf Records  2025  From Gillingham, England, The Zac Schulze Gang is excited to announce the upcoming release of Straight to It on September 26, 2025, via Ruf Records. and Share New Single “High Roller”, the 3rd single of their first full studio album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpf8hzPKRI  ✓    
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FEATURED NEW RELEASES
  Talk Time ID         ECMA Award winner Angelo Spinazzola has been performing in studio and live now for over 35 years and has performed with Garrett Mason, Dutch Mason, Matt Minglewood, Jessica Raye, Dave Gunning, J.P Cormier, Guy Davis & The Allman Brothers back up band. His new album Harp-Centric was recorded at his Cape Breton home.     
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Angelo Spinazzola  Lightning In a Bottle   Favoriting Harp-Centric  Seahorse Records  2025  IMHO one of the bluesier songs on this outing. Angelo Spinazzola played All instruments excluding guitar on track 5 which is the late Carlo Spinazzola.  ✓   ㏄  
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Teresa James  ID - Teresa James   Favoriting            
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Angelo Spinazzola  Twisted Orange Clown   Favoriting Harp-Centric  Seahorse Records  2025  I wonder who this might be about ...  ✓   ㏄  
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  Talk Time ID         In July 2023, Kirk Fletcher had a stroke onstage at East Tennessee, prompting pals Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith to launch a fundraising auction to support him with medical bills. In early November Kirk Fletcher made his return to the stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma alongside them, and a video posted by Bonamassa to Instagram showed him back to his best.     
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Kirk Fletcher  It's Love Baby   Favoriting Keep On Pushing  Vizztone Label Group  2025  Working with co-producer JD Simo and a dream team of Nashville players, Fletcher says, “My new record is called KEEP ON PUSHING, which I feel is a positive message in these uncertain times. And for me a personal message to myself suffering a stroke just a couple years ago. I’m grateful to share this album with you.”  ✓    
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Kirk Fletcher  Lost Love   Favoriting Keep On Pushing  Vizztone Label Group  2025  A Percy Mayfield classic filtered through B.B. King sensibilities  ✓    
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  Talk Time ID         Imagine that. TWO Burnsides issuing new albums on the same label on the same day. Great day for Mississippi hill country blues and descendants of R.L. Burnside     
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Garry Burnside  Hanging In There   Favoriting It’s My Time Now  Strolling Bones Records  2025  Garry Burnside, youngest son of legendary Hill Country bluesman, R.L. Burnside, cut his teeth playing with his famous father and older siblings while growing up, beginning his professional career at the tender age of eleven. Garry spent his teens and twenties as the protégé, longtime bass player and occasional guitarist for neighboring Mississippi Blues legend, Junior Kimbrough. Following Kimbrough’s death in 1998 he began playing and recording regularly with the North Mississippi Allstars.  ✓    
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Kent Burnside  Hill Country Blood   Favoriting Hill Country Blood  Strolling Bones Records  2025  Grandson of Hill Country Blues legend, RL Burnside, Kent Burnside was encouraged by his grandfather to develop a playing and performing style of his own, rather than copy his famous grandfather. And so, he did, developing an enduring and satisfying style that mixes his native Mississippi Hill Country Blues with Delta and Chicago Blues styles, as well as blues rock and even funk.  ✓    
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Stefan Hillesheim  ID - Stefan Hillesheim   Favoriting            
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Kent Burnside  Crawling King Snake   Favoriting Hill Country Blood  Strolling Bones Records  2025    ✓    
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Garry Burnside  Bad Luck City   Favoriting It’s My Time Now  Strolling Bones Records  2025  An unexpected instrumental cover of a R.L. Burnside fave.  ✓    
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COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
  Talk Time ID         This Week In Blues History     
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Lonnie Johnson  Best Jockey In Town   Favoriting Lonnie Johnson Vol. 7 (1931 - 1932)  Document Records  1931  Recorded Aug 21, 1931 in NYC     
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Blind Willie McTell  Broke Down Engine   Favoriting Atlantic Blues: Guitar  Atlantic Records  1949  d. 1959-0819, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA 61     
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Reverend Peyton  ID - Reverend Peyton   Favoriting            
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The Four Blazes  Raggedy Ride   Favoriting The United Records Story  Delmark Records  1953  Recorded Aug 17, 1953 Wheels beat heels - always     
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Robert Anderson  Come In the Room   Favoriting The United Records Story  Delmark Records  1952  Recorded Aug 18, 1952     
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T-Bone Walker  Tell Me What's the Reason   Favoriting The Imperial Blues Years  Not Now Music  1951  Recorded Aug 20, 1951 plus "I Get So Weary", “You Just Wanted To Use Me”, and “I’m About To Lose My Mind” in Los Angeles, for Imperial.     
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T-Bone Walker  I Get So Weary   Favoriting The Imperial Blues Years  Not Now Music  1951  Recorded Aug 20, 1951 plus “You Just Wanted To Use Me”, “Tell Me What’s The Reason”, and “I’m About To Lose My Mind” in Los Angeles, for Imperial.     
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  AD TRACK 03 Black Education Trailer              
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Mitch Woods  ID - Mitch Woods   Favoriting            
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Lazy Lester  I'm A Lover Not A Fighter   Favoriting Louisiana Swamp Blues  Flyright Records  1958  d. 2018-0822, PARADISE, CA 85     
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John Lee Hooker  One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer   Favoriting The Best Of John Lee Hooker: 1965 To 1974  MCA Records  1966  b. 1917-0822, VANCE, MS     
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Etta James  I'd Rather Go Blind   Favoriting Chess Blues 1960-1967  Chess Records  1967  Recorded Aug 23, 1967     
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Stephen Barry  ID - Stephen Barry   Favoriting           ㏄  
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Bruce Katz Band  Nighttime Stroll   Favoriting Connections  Dancing Rooster Records  2023  b. 1952-0819, BROOKLYN, NY Happy Birthday!     
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Colin James  Crystal Ball   Favoriting Chasing The Sun  Stony Plain Records  2024  b. 1964-0817, REGINA, SK Happy Birthday!    ㏄  
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John Campbelljohn  Sydney Steel   Favoriting Weight Of The World  ZYX Music  2008  b. 1955-0818, SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA Happy Birthday!    ㏄  
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WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
  Talk Time ID         Live blues/roots for the week starting Aug 17 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/     
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Colin Perry, Peter Mika, Costa Zafiropoulos  Shake Your Can   Favoriting No Moon At All  Indie  2024  WED AUG 20 AT LES MERCREDIS SWING! Café La ligne Verte 2531 rue ontario est Montreal, QC H2K 1W5 https://www.facebook.com/events/1377337344399284/    ㏄  
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Listener chat!

  12:05pm George Akiki:

I knew it, John is fallible. You listed JL Hooker before E James but played her before him! 🤣
Otherwise the show was very good and soothing with a sparkle of hard blues. 👍🏼
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