CKUT: Cha Cha Cha In Blue: Playlist from September 14, 2025

Cha Cha Cha In Blue : Playlist from September 14, 2025

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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.

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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September 14, 2025: HOT 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 the latest singles by the west coast's Bros. Landreth, Montreal's Bob Scienza & The Wigs, legends Walter Trout and Warren Haynes, ex-Montrealer Bobby Dove, award-winner Erin Harpe, and the Tedeschi Trucks Band. This week's featured new releases are from Candice Ivory, All Things Swamp, The Name Droppers, New Zealand's BB And The Bullets, and another former Quebecois Brother Ray Lemelin. In the "history" set we start in 1927 with Blind Willie Johnson and continue with Billie Holiday, Nappy Brown, Muddy Waters, Little Willie John, Silas Hogan, Billy Boy Arnold, B.B. King, Nick Gravenites, JD Souther, and Jimmy Witherspoon & Robben Ford. We'll close with a song from Dawn Tyler Watson who is at Le Balcon on Friday.

(✓ = 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.
HOT NEW SINGLES
The Bros. Landreth	I'll Drive	Dog Ear	Birthday Cake Records	2025	The lead single from The Bros. Landreth's forthcoming album, Dog Ear, which is scheduled for release on November 14, 2025, via their own Birthday Cake Records and will feature guest artists Bonnie Raitt and Begonia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13CTgvcyNs	✓	㏄
Bob Scienza & The Wigs	Chinatown	Chinatown - single	Indie	2025	These Montrealers are putting in the work & the new single is available on streaming platforms this week.	✓	㏄
Walter Trout	I Remember	Sign Of The Times	Provogue	2025	“I Remember” is the latest single from the new album Sign Of The Times and is also a moment of respite from the album’s stormier subject matter. “That song is a longing for when life was simpler,” he explains. “Like, when I was 20 and starting out. Or when Marie and I had just got together, and we had no money and were pawning guitars, but we were madly in love, and the future was ahead of us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVhUyciHa8w	✓
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Bobby Dove	ID - Bobby Dove						㏄
Bobby Dove	Not Much Of An Outlaw	Fortune Teller	Indie	2025	"Not Much of an Outlaw" is the first single off the new album "Fortune Teller" due in early 2026 by Bobby Dove, ex-Montrealer currently based in rural Manitoba. Featured as part of this anticipated release, is an official music video created by Little Jack Films, at Old George's Hidden Village of Treasures in Whitewood, SK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm0Qy0QODYE	✓	㏄
Erin Harpe feat. Jim Countryman	Candy Man	Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt	VizzTone Label Group	2025	Award-winning singer/guitarist Erin Harpe’s 5th VizzTone release honors one of her greatest influences with Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt, out Friday, October 24th. "Candy Man" is the first single & of course there's a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ItxjzYZ70	✓
Warren Haynes	Melissa feat Derek Trucks	The Whisper Sessions	Fantasy Records	2025	GRAMMY® Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, guitar legend, producer, and Gov’t Mule front man Warren Haynes has released his new album, The Whisper Sessions, via Fantasy Records. The 9-track digital-only collection features stripped-down versions of select songs off his recent solo output, Million Voices Whisper including a cover of the Allman Brothers Band classic “Melissa” with Haynes’ longtime ABB bandmate Derek Trucks. To celebrate the album release, the duo has released the official performance video for “Melissa” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWSegvan81Q	✓
Tedeschi Trucks Band	With A Little Help From My Friends	Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live At Lockin’)	Fantasy Records	2025	Tedeschi Trucks Band (TTB) has released their new album, Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (LIVE AT LOCKN’), with Leon Russell via Fantasy Records, a decade after the actual concert. To celebrate the release, TTB has also released the official music video for “With A Little Help From My Friends” featuring Tedeschi on vocals along with special guests Chris Robinson (The Black Crowes), Dave Mason, and Doyle Bramhall II. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcvoSoUT7EE	✓
FEATURED NEW RELEASES
	Talk Time ID				Grammy-nominated blues/soul singer Candice Ivory, dubbed “The Queen of Avant Soul,” released her latest album, New Southern Vintage on Nola Blue Records on Sep12th. New Southern Vintage pays homage to the blues as an iconic Southern folk form as well as the heroines and heroes who created it, including her greatest inspirations: blueswoman Memphis Minnie ("World of Trouble," "Shout the Boogie") and her great-uncle Will Roy Sanders ("I'm in Trouble"), who fronted the Fieldstones, one of the best Memphis blues band of the 1970s and 1980s.
Candice Ivory	Blue Blood	New Southern Vintage	NOLA Blue Records	2025	Candice Ivory: vocals; Jan Hartmann: harmonica; The Blue Bloods	✓
Candice Ivory	Let Your Love Shine On	New Southern Vintage	NOLA Blue Records	2025	Candice Ivory: vocals; featuring Antonio Vergara: lap steel guitar, wah, electric guitar, and background vocals; Chris Stephenson: Wurlitzer organ; The Blue Bloods	✓
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All Things Swamp	How Much Fun	Dressed	Little Village Foundation	2025	All Things Swamp is distinctively not swampy, as it is comprised of West Coast stars, half Socal and half Norcal. "How Much Fun", a Robert Palmer composition that was on Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley where Little Feat was his band, is the only non-instrumental on the album. Vocal by Dillon O’Brian	✓
The Name Droppers	Think Yiddish	Cool Blue Shoes	Horizon Music Group	2025	The Name Droppers got their name because of the list of names of the artists they've been mentored by and worked with over the years. Cool Blue Shoes is their fifth album and "Think Yiddish" provides an opportunity for a bit of whimsical wordplay: "Well I went to the doctor, the doctor said / Too much pizza and American bread / Too many Budweisers give you a sleepy head / Think Yiddish, dress British that’s what he said."	✓
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Mike Goudreau	ID - Mike Goudreau						㏄
BB And The Bullets	I Want You (She's So Heavy)	High Tide	Dixie Frog Records	2025	In international news New Zealand band BB & The Bullets signed with French record label Dixie Frog Records and released High Tide on vinyl, CD and digital on Sep 12, 2025. The album consists of seven original tunes and five classic covers.	✓
Brother Ray Lemelin and the Matinee Kings	The Monkey	Stirring the Pot	Indie	2025	Ray Lemelin was born and raised in Quebec and now lives in Calgary, Alberta where he and his band The Matinee Kings host a weekly Sunday night Jam at The Blues Can. Ray’s most recent album, Stirring The Pot, is now available on all streaming services. THE MONKEY is a classic from Dave Bartholomew	✓	㏄
COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
	Talk Time ID				This Week In Blues History
Blind Willie Johnson	Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed (AKA In My Time Of Dying)	The No.1 Blues Collection	Stardust Entertainment	1927	d. 1945-0918, BEAUMONT, TX 48
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra	The Very Thought Of You	Lady Day: The Master Takes And Singles	Columbia Records	1938	Recorded Sep 15, 1938 in NYC
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Reverend Freakchild	ID - Reverend Freakchild
Nappy Brown	Is It True	Don't Be Angry!	Savoy Jazz	1954	CULP, NAPOLEON (NAPPY) BROWN (v) d. 2008-0920 CHARLOTTE, NC 78
Muddy Waters	Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone	Chess Blues 1952-1954	Chess Records	1952	Recorded Sep 17, 1952
Little Willie John	Need Your Love So Bad	Definitive Blues Anthology	Not Now Music	1955	Recorded Sep 20, 1955 in NYC
Silas Hogan	Everybody Needs Somebody	Sound Of The Swamp: The Best Of Excello Records, Vol 1	Rhino Records	1964	b. 1911-0915, WESTOVER, LA
Billy Boy Arnold	I Wish You Would	Definitive Blues Anthology	Not Now Music	1955	b. 1935-0916, CHICAGO, IL
B.B. King	Paying The Cost To Be The Boss	King Of The Blues	MCA Records	1967	Recorded Sep 14, 1967
B.B. King	Sweet Sixteen	In France - Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival	Elemental Music Records	2024	b. 1925-0916, ITTA BENA, MS
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Popa Chubby	ID - Popa Chubby
Nick Gravenites	Blues Singers	Rogue Blues	M.C. Records	2024	d. 2024-0917 85
JD Souther	Girls All Over The World	Home By Dawn	Omnivore Recordings	1984	d. 2024-0917 SANDIA PARK, NM 78
Jimmy Witherspoon & Robben Ford	Kansas City	Live	LAX Records	1976	Jimmy Witherspoon d. 1997-0918, LOS ANGELES, CA 75
WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
	Talk Time ID				Live blues/roots for the week starting Sep 14 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/
Dawn Tyler Watson	I Look Good	Mad Love	Indie	2019	FRIDAY SEP 19 AT Le Balcon 1425 Rue St-Alexandre, Montréal, QC H3A 2G3 https://www.facebook.com/events/2230799324037667/		㏄

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