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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 November 9, 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 start with new singles from GA-20, Alastair Greene, Dave Specter, Reed Turchi, Elles Bailey, Misty Blues, Robin Trower and another single from Joe Bonamassa's tribute to B.B. King. This week's featured new releases are from Miss Emily, Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues, Dave Keyes, and Wailin' Walker. The "history" part starts one hundred years ago today with a song by Bertha "Chippie" Hill and continues with Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy, Blue Lu Barker, Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, Mose Allison, John Hammond, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, Bob Walsh, The Siegel-Schwall Band, and Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd. We'll close with a song from Julie Blues Project in advance of her upcoming appearance at Bar Les Cousins - Hotel Escad/Dix30 on Saturday.

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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  Tonight's agenda     
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NEW SINGLES AVAILABLE!
GA-20  Just One More Time   Favoriting Orphans  Colemine  2025  “Just One More Time”, a cover of Ike Turner’s 1956 hit, is the 3rd single from the upcoming album Orphans, due Dec 5. The album provides versions of classic blues songs with the GA-20’s modern twist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U66iEkO_qeU  ✓    
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Alastair Greene  Temptation   Favoriting Live in Sin City  Ruf Records  2025  The first track from his forthcoming live EP, LIVE IN SIN CITY, arriving November 14, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxkneu_ltVA  ✓    
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Dave Specter  The Times They Are Deranging   Favoriting The Times They Are Deranging - single  Delmark Records  2025  Dave Specter brings social awareness to “The Times They Are Deranging (The Buck Stops Where?),” recorded live Feb 19, 2025, at SPACE in Evanston, IL. The song features Specter on vocals and guitar, Brother John Kattke on organ, E.G. McDaniel on bass, and Marty Binder on drums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC4vQeC42jA  ✓    
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Reed Turchi  Walk With Me   Favoriting World On Fire  Indie  2025  Reed Turchi’s version of the Junior Kimbrough song “Walk With Me” from the album World on Fire. Reed explains: “‘Walk With Me’ is a song seeking companionship." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SGBZNVfA4c  ✓    
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Elles Bailey  Take A Step Back   Favoriting Can’t Take My Story Away  Outlaw Music  2025  Elles Bailey has released the second track from her forthcoming album "Can’t Take My Story Away", due January 16. “Sometimes relationships can be all fire, all pleasure and all pain simultaneously and you either have to embrace it – or take a step back,” Bailey said of the new single. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPAHFo8L5j0  ✓    
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Gina Coleman  ID - Gina Coleman   Favoriting            
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Misty Blues  Battle Cry (feat. Gina Coleman, Chantell McCulloch, Candice Ivory, Carly Harvey, Alexis P. Suter, Kat Riggins)   Favoriting Battle Cry - single  Guitar One Records  2025  A cadre of six notable contemporary blues queens - Gina Coleman, Chantell McCulloch, Candice Ivory, Carly Harvey, Alexis P. Suter, Kat Riggins - share their collective voices with this Battle Cry that they say celebrates the resilience of women who keep moving onward no matter what life offers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_hhL3XA8zI  ✓    
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Joe Bonamassa  So Excited feat. Aloe Blacc   Favoriting B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100  KTBA Records  2025  From the 2nd batch of singles released from Joe Bonamassa's centennial tribute to B.B. King, Aloe Blacc gives us his R&B interpretation of "So Excited" And, according to Josh Smith, "Also, Joe is killing the guitar solos and Jeff Babko with a killing organ solo.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn0uINX8Yig  ✓    
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Robin Trower  Day of the Eagle   Favoriting One Moment In Time - Live In The USA  Artone/Provogue  2025  From Robin Trower's upcoming new live album One Moment In Time - Live In The USA due Jan 30, 2026 on Artone/Provogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNiZoyUoS3I  ✓    
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FEATURED NEW RELEASES
  Talk Time ID         Miss Emily developed her career over more than two decades of playing night after night in bars and nightclubs along the busy Canadian highway corridor between Toronto and Montreal, which will include a Feb 27 appearance at Blues At The Cove. In 2019 she won three Canadian Maple Blues awards: Female Vocalist of the year, Newcomer of the year and Video of the Year. In 2022, she was nominated for a JUNO for Blues Album of the Year and won Maple Blues Female Vocalist of the year in 2021 and 2023.     
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Miss Emily  My Freedom   Favoriting The Medicine  Gypsy Soul Records  2025  From the Press Release: A funky reflection on refusing to allow the past to define yourself and on finding redemption and celebration in what’s ahead.  ✓   ㏄  
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Miss Emily  ID - Miss Emily   Favoriting            
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Miss Emily  Remember This Song   Favoriting The Medicine  Gypsy Soul Records  2025  From the Press Release: The plaintive lead guitar of Colin Linden is a perfect compliment to Miss Emily’s soaring vocals in this searing slow blues treatise on the power of a song to lift, strengthen and heal.  ✓   ㏄  
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  Talk Time ID         With a 50-year career, Billy Branch is an Emmy Award Winning, 3x Grammy Nominee and Blues Hall of Fame inductee with a resume that’s a “Who’s Who” of Blues. This is the inaugural release for Rosa’s Lounge Records & Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues were the first act to play when the nightclub opened 41 years ago.     
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Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues  Return of the Roaches   Favoriting The Blues Is My Biography  Rosa's Lounge Records  2025  Funky instrumental. In addition to recording 15 albums with the Sons of Blues, Branch contributed harmonica playing on over 300 albums  ✓    
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Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues  The Harmonica Man   Favoriting The Blues Is My Biography  Rosa's Lounge Records  2025  "Every song on this album has special meaning to me in terms of my journey,” says Billy, “this is the most important work I've ever done, and it's the best work I've ever done as well."  ✓    
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Dave Keyes  Blues Ain't Lookin For You   Favoriting Two Trains  MoMoJo Records  2025  Keyboardist Dave Keyes has released his 8th album and has previously worked with Popa Chubby, Ronnie Spector, Odetta, David Johansen, Bo Diddley, Sleepy LaBeef, Marie Knight, Eddy Clearwater, Big Jay McNeely, Tracy Nelson, Gladys Knight, Pam Tillis, Darlene Love, and the late great Ruth Brown, Lou Rawls and Levon Helm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5AyECdSO6g  ✓    
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Wailin' Walker  Three O'Clock Blues   Favoriting Blues Lightnin'  JitterBug Records  2025  Wailin' Al Walker's cover of Lowell Fulson's 1948 hit that was also an early success for B.B. King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtQXfULdtI  ✓   ㏄  
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COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
  Talk Time ID         This Week In Blues History     
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill  Low Land Blues   Favoriting Bertha "Chippie" Hill 1925-1929  Document Records  1925  Recorded 100 years ago today - Nov 9, 1925 accompanied by a young Louis Armstrong on cornet     
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Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy  Froggy Bottom   Favoriting Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy Selected Hits Vol. 3  Charly Records  1929  Recorded Nov 11, 1929     
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Blu Lu Barker  Where's Joe   Favoriting Don't You Feel My Leg  Delmark Records    b. 1913-1113, NEW ORLEANS, LA     
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Big Bill Broonzy & His Big Little Orchestra  Leavin' Day   Favoriting The Chronological Big Bill Broonzy 1951  Classics  1951  Recorded Nov 9, 1951 plus Southbound Train, Tomorrow, You Changed     
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Rob Lutes  ID - Rob Lutes   Favoriting            
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Robert Nighthawk  My Sweet Lovin' Woman   Favoriting Chess Blues 1947-1952  Chess Records  1948  Recorded Nov 10, 1948 Ernest Lane, piano, & Willie Dixon, bass.     
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Hank Ballard & The Midnighters  Teardrops On Your Letters   Favoriting Work with Me, Annie: The Very Best of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters  Format Music  1958  Recorded Nov 11, 1958 in Cincinnatti OH as the A-side with The Twist on B.     
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Mose Allison  Your Mind Is On Vacation   Favoriting The Best of Mose Allison  Classics Records  1962  b. 1927-1111, TIPPO, MS     
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John Hammond  Shake For Me   Favoriting Atlantic Blues: Guitar  Atlantic Records  1970  b. 1942-1113, NEW YORK CITY, NY (Duane Allman on slide)     
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Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne  ID - Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne   Favoriting           ㏄  
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Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne  Whatcha Gonna Do Now?   Favoriting Ooh Yeah!  Stony Plain Records  2024  b. 1944-1113, SPOKANE, WA    ㏄  
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Bob Walsh  Mes Blues Passent Pu Dans Porte   Favoriting Bob Walsh Live: A Canadian Blues Rendez-Vous  Diffusion YFB  2004  d. 2016-1115, MONTREAL, QC 68 (With Breen LeBoeuf, Martin Deschamps)    ㏄  
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The Siegel-Schwall Band  Twisted   Favoriting Flash Forward  Alligator Records  2005  JIM SCHWALL b. 1942-1112, EVANSTON, IL     
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Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd  Who Was That   Favoriting Young Fashioned Ways  Deep Rush Records  2025  BOBBY RUSH b. 1931-1110, HOUMA, LA  ✓    
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WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
  Talk Time ID         Live blues/roots for the week starting NOV 9 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/     
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Julie Blues Project  Clock Hand (feat. Pat Loiselle)   Favoriting Clock Hand  STG Music  2025  SAT NOV 15 @ BAR LES COUSINS - HOTEL ESCAD/DIX30 1020 rue du Lux Brossard, QC, Canada, Quebec J4Y 0E3 https://www.facebook.com/events/1152229316488608/  ✓   ㏄  
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  4:19pm George Akiki:

I was feeling down, low and out of it.
By the end of the show I was down, low and full of blues! 😊
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