CKUT: Cha Cha Cha In Blue: Playlist from November 2, 2025

Cha Cha Cha In Blue : Playlist from November 2, 2025

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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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November 2, 2025: 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 new singles from Harrell "Young Rell" Davenport, Kaliopi & The Blues Messengers, Ndidi O, and Bywater Call plus selections from the latest releases by Robbin Kapsalis, Hudspeth & Taylor, Alex Beraldo, and Al Basile. This week's featured new releases are from Father 'N' Son (contest winners for "Quebec To Memphis"!), The Lucky Losers, and GeminiiDRAGON. The "history" part starts in 1924 with Alberta Hunter and continues with Big Bill Broonzy, Black Ace, Ike Turner, Muddy Waters, Magic Sam, Eddie Harris, Alex Schultz, Rory Block, William Clarke, Finis Tasby, and Delbert McClinton. You'll have two opportunities to catch one of Montreal's finest deep dish Chicago style blues bands this week when the Otis Ali Blues Group takes the stage Thursday at Upstairs and Saturday at Café Komma Rosta in Verdun so we'll close with a song that they've only ever released on Facebook.

(✓ = 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	Tonight's lineup.
HAVE YOU HEARD THE LATEST ... BLUES?
Robbin Kapsalis	The Blues Is In the House	The Blues Is In the House	Blues House Productions	2025	Recorded in France & produced by Harp Master Giles Robson, Chicago's Robbin Kapsalis brought in the late Joe Louis Walker to help out on the title track to her new album The Blues Is In The House	✓
Hudspeth & Taylor	Bright Lights Big City	Kimuziki - Live In Des Moines	Hudtone Records	2025	"Kimuziki - Live In Des Moines" is the first live album for Jaisson Taylor & Brandon Hudspeth (Hudspeth & Taylor) They recorded their cover of Jimmy Reed's "Bright Lights Big City" at Central Iowa Blues Society’s Winter Blues Festival last Feb.	✓
Harrell "Young Rell" Davenport	Fatherless Child	Fatherless Child - single	RellTone Records	2025	“Fatherless Child” is a new song from Harrell “Young Rell” Davenport that speaks to the pain of growing up without a father. It will be released November 14th	✓
Kaliopi & The Blues Messengers	How The Caged Bird Sings	How The Caged Bird Sings - single	Indie	2025	The first single off the 3rd album from Australia's Kaliopi & The Blues Messengers, due in 2026. Inspired by Dr. Maya Angelou’s novel and poem “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” this song echoes the message of resilience and freedom from oppression. It will be available to stream from Nov 14.	✓
Alex Beraldo	Moving On Talking Blues	Moving On	Indie	2025	"Moving On Talking Blues" is the first of 2 tracks in this set that focus on aging. Alex Beraldo is the former front man of Toronto’s blues rock outfit The Breaks and "Moving On" is his sixth independent solo release.	✓	㏄
Ndidi O	Old Crone	It’s About Time	Cordova Bay Records	2025	Ndidi Onukwulu known as Ndidi O is a two-time JUNO nominated and WCMA Blues Artist of the Year who has released six albums under her own name and multiple singles as part of her trip hop duo BOGA. She's just released “Old Crone”, the first single from her upcoming seventh recording It’s About Time due March 6, 2026 via Cordova Bay Records. She says, "I wrote this song in response to being middle-aged in a culture and an industry that has always favoured the young."	✓	㏄
Al Basile	Leave It All Behind You	Blues in Hand	Sweetspot Records	2025	Al Basile is a rarity - A BLUES CORNETIST! so we gave you a chance to hear him stretch out on the blues "Leave It All Behind You " from his new disc "Blues in Hand", his 21st release on Sweetspot Records since 1998.	✓
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Bywater Call	ID - Bywater Call						㏄
Bywater Call	Ain't No Friend Of Mine	Ain't No Friend Of Mine - single	Indie	2025	Bywater Call have released a their new single “Ain’t No Friend of Mine”, a brand-new song that will appear on their forthcoming studio album to be released next year. It's is a blues rock anthem about betrayal and broken friendship. The Toronto band's been twice nominated for the UK Blues Awards for “International Act of the Year” so it's not surprising that this release dovetails nicely with their UK Tour that starts in mid-November. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dBbSFb40iE	✓	㏄
FEATURED NEW RELEASES
	Talk Time ID				Father 'N' Son has just released their sophomore album Night Time For Sinners, the follow-up to 2023's Dancing With The Devil (which had actually been released Father's Day weekend), recently won the Montreal Blues Society's "Quebec To Memphis" contest and will represent Quebec at the next International Blues Challenge in Memphis. FULL DISCLOSURE: YES, I WAS A JUDGE AT THAT CONTEST.
Father 'N' Son	Please Excuse Me	Night Time For Sinners	Indie	2025	Father 'N' Son is the duo of Eric Derkzen van Angeren on Harmonica et voice (FATHER) and Olivier Derkzen van Angeren on Guitare et percussions (SON). The new disc contains 10 songs, including 9 originals and one cover: "You got to move" from Mississippi Fred McDowell. Of course they put their own style into it.	✓	㏄
Father 'N' Son	Night Time For Sinners	Night Time For Sinners	Indie	2025	Since their first disc they've participated in the 10th edition of the Toronto Blues Summit and they've played at just about every festival in Quebec. I'm sure they'll be organizing a fundraiser gig for their trip to Memphis & I'll keep you informed about it.	✓	㏄
	Talk Time ID				Dallas-raised vocalist Cathy Lemons and New Jersey harmonicist Phil Berkowitz, AKA The Lucky Losers are San Francisco’s premier six-piece blues-soul band and are the winners of six Independent Blues Awards, including Artist of the Year and Song of the Year.
Lucky Losers	S-C-A-M	Arrival	MoMoJo Records	2025	On Nov 7 they will release Arrival, their sixth studio album and as with their previous work, the album is produced by West Coast producer Kid Andersen. Andersen and acclaimed guitarist Danny Caron play on the album along with a few of the Greaseland regulars. And happy birthday, Danny Caron (b. 1955-1102, BOSTON, MA)	✓
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Lucky Losers	ID - Lucky Losers
Lucky Losers	Dont Let It Slip Away	Arrival	MoMoJo Records	2025	"Arrival" heralds The Lucky Losers debut on the MoMojo label and Cathy Lemons considers it their breakthrough album.	✓
	Talk Time ID				Louisiana vocalist GeminiiDRAGON has just released her 4th album MOONLIGHT, MOVIN' & GROOVIN' featuring Washington DC Blues Guitarist LINWOOD TAYLOR
GeminiiDRAGON	Blues Is So Good	Moonlight Movin' & Groovin' feat. Linwood Taylor	Nepotism Recordings	2025	After the more experimental turns of her previous albums “3” and The Gold DINAR project, this record is a return to the blues that first put the New Orleans-based band on the map.	✓
GeminiiDRAGON	Rainy Wednesday	Moonlight Movin' & Groovin' feat. Linwood Taylor	Nepotism Recordings	2025	Linwood Taylor is one of the artists that Living Blues profiled in their "40 Under 40" feature article in 1995. Santiago Ortega is also featured on this track on guitar.	✓
COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
	Talk Time ID				This Week In Blues History
Alberta Hunter	Texas Moaner Blues	Alberta Hunter Vol. 3 (1924-1927)	Document Records	1924	Recorded Nov 8, 1924 as Josephine Beatty in NYC. Accompanying Hunter were the Red Onion Jazz Babies featuring Louis Armstrong on cornet.
Big Bill Broonzy	Get Back	The Chronological Big Bill Broonzy 1951	Classics	1951	Recorded Nov 8, 1951 plus Walkin' That Lonesome Road", Plough & Blues, Hey Hey, Stump Blues, Willie Mae, Mopper's Blues, I Know She Will, Hollerin' The Blues.
Black Ace	I Am The Black Ace	Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics	Rhino Records	1960	d. 1972-1107, FORT WORTH, TX 66
Ike Turner	You're Driving Me Insane	1951-1954	Classics	1952	b. 1931-1105, CLARKSDALE, MS
Muddy Waters	Trouble No More	The Chess Box	Chess Records	1955	Recorded Nov 3, 1955 plus "I Got to Find My Baby", "Sugar Sweet", and "Clouds In My Heart"
Magic Sam	Keep On Lovin' Me Baby	Legacy	Delmark Records	1968	Recorded Nov 6, 1968 plus "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'", and "Blues For Odie Payne" in Chicago's Sound Studio with Mighty Joe Young, guitar, Eddie Shaw, tenor sax, Lafayette Leake, piano, Mac Thompson, bass, & Odie Payne, Jr., drums
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Chambers Deslauriers	ID - Chambers Deslauriers
Eddie Harris	It's All Right Now	Breaks & Beats: A Stateside Selection	Warner Music Group	1976	d. 1996-1105, LOS ANGELES, CA 62
Alex Schultz W/The Mighty Flyers	Nook-N-Kranny	Blues Guitar Spotlight	Black Top Records	1992	b. 1954-1102, MANHATTAN, NY
Rory Block	Walking The Back Streets feat. Ronnie Earl	Heavy On The Blues	M.C. Records	2025	b. 1949-1106, NEW YORK CITY, NY	✓
William Clarke	Evil	Deluxe Edition	Alligator Records	1996	d. 1996-1104, FRESNO, CA 45
Finis Tasby	I Missed You Bad	Jump Children	Evidence Music;	1998	d. 2014-1102, ORANGE CO., CA 75 Lester Butler & Kid Ramos on harp & gtr
Delbert McClinton	If I Hock My Guitar	Tall, Dark, and Handsome	Hot Shot Records	2019	b. 1940-1104, LUBBOCK, TX
WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
	Talk Time ID				Live blues/roots for the week starting NOV 2 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/
Otis Ali Blues Group	Ready For Tonight	Posted on Facebook	Indie	2025	THURS NOV 6 @ UPSTAIRS JAZZ 1254 Rue Mackay, Montréal, QC H3G 2H4 AND SAT NOV 8 @ CAFÉ KOMMA ROSTA 5300 rue Wellington Montreal, QC H4H 1N2 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1268989381925148&set=a.556161949874565 https://www.upstairsjazz.com/		㏄

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