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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 September 7, 2025: NEW SINGLES! NEW ALBUMS! 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 offer a bumper crop of new singles by Eric Gales, Mud Morganfield, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Dion, Lonnie Mack, Larkin Poe, Son Lewis, GA-20, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Kris Barras‘ Hollow Souls. This week's featured new release is by Tom Hambridge plus more from the latest by Angelique Francis and Kirk Fletcher. In the "history" set we start in 1930 with Barbecue Bob and continue with T-Bone Walker, Robert Nighthawk, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Pee Wee Crayton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Buddy Guy, Maria Muldaur, and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. We'll close with songs from Fuel Junkie who are at UPSTAIRS on Thursday and Steve Rowe who is at the 1st Edition of the St-Lazare Ribfest on Friday.

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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  What's on the show tonight     
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SINGLE SERVINGS OF BLUES
Eric Gales  You Shouldn’t Have Left Me   Favoriting A Tribute To LJK  Provogue  2025  “This record has been a long time coming. I wanted it to be the ultimate tribute to my late brother, Little Jimmy King, to keep his memory alive and make sure people remember who he was and still is. All of these songs, except one, are his originals. I wanted to deliver his tunes to the world through my eyes. And I wanted it to be badass – and that’s exactly how it turned out.” The release of the new single “You Shouldn’t Have Left Me” coincides with the digital release of the album. The physical album won't be available until Oct 24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Ht45Mxze8  ✓    
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Mud Morganfield  She’s Getting Her Groove On   Favoriting Deep Mud  NOLA Blue Records  2025  Mud Morganfield is the eldest son of blues legend McKinley Morganfield AKA Muddy Waters. We heard “She’s Getting Her Groove On” from his upcoming album ‘Deep Mud’ out September 26 via Nola Blue Records. The video debuted last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvI3f1UPgMo  ✓    
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Christone "Kingfish" Ingram  Nothin’ But Your Love   Favoriting Hard Road  Red Zero Records  2025  “Nothin’ But Your Love” is the 3rd Single from Christone “Kingfish” Ingram's upcoming album Hard Road, due via his own Red Zero Records on Friday, September 26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5DZVY-Yoi0  ✓    
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Dion  I'm Your Gangster Of Love   Favoriting I'm Your Gangster Of Love  KTBA Records  2025  Dion has set the release date of OCT 24 for his new album The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher, a companion to his book of the same title, co-authored with Adam Jablin. The new album is preceded by the release through all streaming services of “I’m Your Gangster of Love,” a brand-new recording and one of six songs on the album written by Dion and Mike Aquilina. A video for the song recalls the gangland-themed movies of the ‘30s and ‘40s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7YQvRfqMOo  ✓    
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Lonnie Mack  Oreo Cookie Blues   Favoriting Live In Louisville 1992  Last Music Co  2025  On July 23, 1992, Mack performed as a last-minute replacement in the summer concert series at Louisville’s Kentucky Center for the Arts; the show, also broadcast live, was recorded. That recently discovered and restored tape forms the basis of Lonnie Mack: Live in Louisville 1992. To be released Oct. 24, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzaJM5WwC2w  ✓    
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Larkin Poe  Mockingbird (Unplugged)   Favoriting Bloom Deluxe - An Acoustic Companion Volume II  Tricki-Woo Records  2025  Joanne Shaw Taylor did it. Warren Haynes is doing it. And this is VOL 2 from Larkin Poe, the GRAMMY® Award-winning duo of Georgia-bred, Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell. The acoustic interpretations of key songs from their recent album BLOOM will be available Oct 10 in a variety of formats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY1iy2-Xegg  ✓    
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Son Lewis  Gospel Train   Favoriting A Little Rain  Silk City Records  2025  Recorded in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains in his "Little Pink" studio, it is Son Lewis' homage to his departed friends Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson of "The Band" and their "Big Pink" studio.  ✓    
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  AD TRACK 10 CKUT - Sleep Alone Tonight ID Request              
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  AD TRACK 07 Variety Show For Palestine              
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GA-20  ID - GA-20   Favoriting            
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GA-20  Hold On, I'm Coming   Favoriting Hold On, I'm Coming - EP  Colemine  2025  Blues stalwarts GA-20 come out swinging with their vibed-out instrumental version of the Sam & Dave classic Hold On, I'm Coming. Cody Nilsen rocks his lap steel in this cover of Earl Hooker's 1967 rocker, and brings some friends into the mix: Nate Edgar on bass and Brooks Milgate on the Hammond organ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtzMHfOg_Zw  ✓    
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Tedeschi Trucks Band  She Came In Through The Bathroom Window feat. Warren Haynes and Anders Osborne   Favoriting Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live At Lockin’)  Fantasy Records  2025  Tedeschi Trucks Band, the GRAMMY Award-winning band led by Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, released “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window,” offering one more tease from their album Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (LIVE AT LOCKN’) with Leon Russell, out September 12th via Fantasy Records, almost a decade after the concert took place. The new single features guest appearances from Warren Haynes on lead vocals and guitar and Anders Osborne on guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4zcIJwW1d8  ✓    
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Hollow Souls  Burn It To The Ground feat Elles Bailey   Favoriting Burn It To The Ground - single  Indie  2025  British blues-rock guitarist, former pro MMA fighter and hard rock frontman Kris Barras‘ other project is Hollow Souls & "Burn It To The Ground‘ is the fourth and final single to drop prior to Hollow Souls’ upcoming eponymously titled debut EP which will be released on October 10 on limited edition 10” vinyl, CD and digital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWg3S0nwu44  ✓    
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FEATURED NEW RELEASES
  Talk Time ID         This is just the start of his bio: "When you have a musical career as a singer and drummer that includes writing 1000 songs, producing 100 albums, and working with everyone from Bo Diddley to Buddy Guy - two things come to mind. You must be exceptionally talented. You must be Tom Hambridge."     
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Tom Hambridge  Willie Dixon's Gone   Favoriting Down The Hatch  Quarto Valley Records  2025  “Willie Dixon’s Gone” is a nod to the legendary Chess Recording Artist. This tune was originally cowritten with George Thorogood for his album of Chess songs that Tom produced and played drums on.  ✓    
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Tom Hambridge  Every Time I Sing The Blues   Favoriting Down The Hatch  Quarto Valley Records  2025  One of Tom's favorites on the new album is “Every Time I Sing The Blues,” originally recorded by Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy. Tom felt strongly about including his version of this ‘traditional blues-sounding’ song as he believes it’s the closest to how it feels when you have the blues".  ✓    
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Angelique Francis  Not Defeated   Favoriting Not Defeated  Indie  2025    ✓   ㏄  
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Kirk Fletcher  Here In The Dark   Favoriting Keep On Pushing  Vizztone Label Group  2025    ✓    
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COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
  Talk Time ID         This Week In Blues History     
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Barbecue Bob  Spider And The Fly   Favoriting Presenting Barbecue Bob  Columbia Phonograph Company  1930  BARBECUE BOB (ROBERT HICKS) (g) b. 1902-0911, WALNUT GROVE, GA     
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T-Bone Walker  Call It Stormy Monday   Favoriting Jazz Noire: Darktown Sleaze from the Mean Streets of 1940s L.A.  Fantastic Voyage  1947  Recorded Sep 13, 1947     
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Robert Nighthawk  Sweet Black Angel   Favoriting Chess Blues 1947-1952  Chess Records  1949  Recorded Sep 12, 1949     
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  AD TRACK 11 Zamalek_No Matter              
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  AD TRACK 03 Black Education Trailer (PSA)              
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Reverend Peyton  ID - Reverend Peyton   Favoriting            
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins  I Put A Spell On You   Favoriting The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957  Epic  1956  Recorded Sep 12, 1956 in NYC     
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Pee Wee Crayton  A Frosty Night   Favoriting Screaming and Crying  Fantastic Voyage  1956  On Sep 7, 1956, Pee Wee Crayton made his debut recordings for VeeJay Records in Chicago, IL. The four sides were "Tie It Down", "Fiddle De Dee", "A Frosty Night", and "The Telephone Is Ringing"     
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Sonny Boy Williamson  Nine Below Zero   Favoriting Chess Blues 1960-1967  Chess Records  1961  Recorded Sep 8, 1961 with Otis Spann on piano, Robert Lockwood Jr. on guitar, Willie Dixon on bass, and Fred Below on Drums.     
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Buddy Guy  The Treasure Untold   Favoriting The Complete Chess Studio Recordings  MCA Records  1962  Recorded Sep 9, 1962     
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  AD TRACK Save Your Skin_NCRA PSA_ENG              
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  AD TRACK 10 CKUT - Sleep Alone Tonight ID Request              
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Rob Lutes  ID - Rob Lutes   Favoriting            
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Maria Muldaur  Organ Grinder Blues feat. Tuba Skinny   Favoriting One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey  NOLA Blue Records  2025  b. 1943-0912, NEW YORK CITY, NY  ✓    
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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown  Ventilator Blues   Favoriting Paint It Blue: Songs of The Rolling Stones  House Of Blues  1997  d. 2005-0910, ORANGE, TX 81 Derek Trucks & Sonny Landreth on Slides!     
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WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
  Talk Time ID         Live blues/roots for the week starting Sep 7 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/     
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Fuel Junkie  Get Out On The Road   Favoriting All Out  Indie  2019  THURS SEP 11 AT UPSTAIRS’ 1254 MacKay Montreal Qc http://upstairsjazz.com/    ㏄  
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Steve Rowe  Can't Forgive, Won't Forget   Favoriting The Urban Bluesman  Howlin' Blue Productions  2015  FRI SEP 12 AT St-Lazare Ribfest https://www.facebook.com/events/2726089367601847/    ㏄  
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Listener chat!

  12:54pm George Akiki:

I don’t know if I’m repeating myself, but it was an amazing and awesome show!
You started with 123 knockout punch songs and kept going throughout the show. Excellent work.👍🏼
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