CKUT: Cha Cha Cha In Blue: Playlist from February 15, 2026

Cha Cha Cha In Blue : Playlist from February 15, 2026

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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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February 15, 2026: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! HOT NEW SINGLES! This Week In Blues History! Where It's At (The Live Music Roundup)!

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Happy Valentine's Day from Cha Cha Cha In Blue! Let's start with uplifting paeans to love from Joe Bonamassa, Shemekia Copeland (with Joe Bonamassa, Slash and Myles Kennedy), Chambers Deslauriers, Mike Zito, Leonard Cohen, The Stephen Barry Band, Mavis Staples, and Asie Payton. The Mighty Duck Blues Band with guest Cheryl Lescom represents the anti-Valentine position. This week's featured new releases are the latest singles from PD Martin, Wreckless Strangers, Luke Winslow-King, Robben Ford, and Samantha Fish. The "history" part of the show starts in 1921 with Mamie Smith and continues with Bessie Smith (no relation), Scrapper Blackwell, Little Walter, Lightnin' Hopkins, Ray Charles, Dutch Mason, Lou Ann Barton, Mike Bloomfield, Bobby Charles, and Irma Thomas. We'll close with a song from Vancouverites Honeybear, The Band who have chosen February to visit our fair city and favour us with a show at L'Escogriffe Bar Spectacle on Thursday. Mr. Pinstripes opens.

(✓ = 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 agenda
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
Joe Bonamassa	I Want To Shout About It	Blues Deluxe Vol. 2	J&R Adventures	2023	One of the most gleeful love songs ever written features solos from Reese Wynans on organ and Paulie Cerra on sax, as well as vocals from Dannielle DeAndrea and Charles Jones as the track winds to a close. Dannielle is also featured on Joe's tribute to B.B. King on "When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer". Reese has retired and Joe announced that festival favourite Lachy Doley will be replacing him on tour.
Shemekia Copeland	Valentine's Day	Gator Bites	Alligator Records	1998
Joe Bonamassa	When Love Comes To Town feat Slash, Shemekia Copeland, & Myles Kennedy	B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100	KTBA Records	2026	“When Love Comes to Town” is the U2 song originally recorded by B.B. King with Bono. Josh Smith said the song stood out early in the process. “We knew early on we wanted to include this U2 song in an effort to span the breadth of B.B.’s entire career,” he explained. The arrangement came together once Shemekia Copeland was chosen to take on King’s vocal role. “She absolutely crushed it,” Smith said. The track also features Myles Kennedy singing Bono’s parts and Slash on guitar, an idea Smith said came from Bonamassa. “It turned into such a standout,” Smith added, offering a “shoutout to Alan Hertz for the amazing mix.”	✓
Chambers Deslauriers	Love You Just The Same	Our Time To Ride	Forty Below Records	2025	“Love You Just the Same’ is our truth — a love letter wrapped in blues, rock, and soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmfXV--1xks		㏄
Mike Zito	Forever My Love	Life Is Hard	Gulf Coast Records	2024	"I wanted to write at least one meaningful song that encapsulated my emotions (about the tragedy of my wife Laura having cancer). Every morning I would sit at the table and sing it loud and she would listen. She would tell me how much she loved the song, she was really proud. We had hoped she would live long enough to hear the finished version, but that didn't happen. But, she heard me sing this song 100 times to her at our house last year, and she knew you were going to love it." -- Mike Zito
Leonard Cohen	If I Didn't Have Your Love	You Want It Darker	Columbia Records	2016	"The tone is initially one of hypothetical despair, but it ultimately resolves into a firm declaration of love's life-giving power. "If I Didn't Have Your Love" is a powerful testament to the transformative and life-sustaining nature of love." https://www.poetryverse.com/		㏄
	Masters at Work_CKUT Ad
	AD TRACK 04 Sly And Family Tribute
Stephen Barry	ID - Stephen Barry						㏄
The Stephen Barry Band	That's How Strong My Love Is	Only a Dream - 50 ans de blues	Productions Bros	2024	Gordie Adamson on vocals. This classic was first recorded in 1964 by deep soul singer O. V. Wright and covered many times, most notably in 1965 by Otis Redding.		㏄
The Mighty Duck Blues Band	Don't Send Me No Valentine feat. Cheryl Lescom	Duck Soup	Indie	2017	For the anti-Valentiners out there. BTW Cheryl Lescom has recently released her new disc "Last Call" on Busted Flat Records.		㏄
Mavis Staples	Everybody Needs Love	Sad And Beautiful World	ANTI- Records	2025	With “Everybody Needs Love,” Mavis finishes ["Sad And Beautiful World"] with the joy she insists on spreading, reminding us that she’s here, that we cannot go it alone, and that we don’t have to. "Sad And Beautiful World" shows that love is a choice and a force all its own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWqIxfh2Uw	✓
Asie Payton	I Love You	Worried	Fat Possum Records	1999	No simpler way to say it. But with a booty-shaking remix.
HOT NEW SINGLES!
	Talk Time ID				Intro to these new releases
PD Martin	Overqualified	Overqualified - single	Fandango Music Belgium	2026	PD Martin released "Overqualified", their first single in the run-up to the release of their second album. Overqualified is a playful take on the highs and lows of being a musician. PD Martin won the Belgian Blues Challenge in 2024. In 2025, the band participated in the European Blues Challenge in Croatia, winning PD the opportunity to perform as a one man band (aka Peddlin' Pete) in Memphis, Tennessee in January 2026. He would have been competing with our entry in the IBC - Father 'N' Son.	✓
Wreckless Strangers	Dirty Soul	Dirty Soul EP	Indie	2026	San Francisco-based sextet Wreckless Strangers released "Dirty Soul", the title song from the band’s upcoming EP set for digital release on March 27, 2026. Their second EP single, “The Runaround,” will be released on February 27. “‘Dirty Soul’ is about patience, acceptance, and loving fiercely without losing yourself,” shares lead vocalist Amber Morris. “The video allowed us to explore those themes visually and sit with the messiness of that kind of love in a very honest way.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wKpWn5rVE0	✓
Luke Winslow-King	Shoot From The Hip	Coast of Light	Bloodshot Records	2026	“Shoot From The Hip” is the second single from Luke Winslow-King’s upcoming album, Coast of Light, set for release on March 26. “Shoot From The Hip” offers a commentary on a world where people increasingly feel compelled to take matters into their own hands, capturing both the danger and the allure of that mindset. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Kejhgf3vg	✓
	AD TRACK 46 MRG #1
	AD TRACK 03 Heal Black Girl Heal Promo
Mike Goudreau	ID - Mike Goudreau						㏄
Robben Ford	Perfect Illusion	Two Shades Of Blue	Provogue/Artone	2026	This is the second single to be taken from his upcoming new album, Two Shades of Blue, which will be released on 27 March via Provogue/Artone. “That was written back in 1999 on my own during a period of writing with Michael McDonald, I went out to get some air and on the gravel driveway, I saw what looked like a jewel. I look closer and it’s a drop of water, reflecting the light. And I thought: ‘Hah, perfect illusion’.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUeWryBYgY0	✓
Samantha Fish	Kick Out The Jams	Kick Out The Jams – single	Rounder Records	2026	Samantha Fish has released her cover of Detroit punk pioneers MC5’s classic anthem “Kick Out the Jams,” recorded at the historic Bijou Theatre. The video comes from Fish’s upcoming live album, which is currently slated for release in 2026. https://youtu.be/1BtWd8CCECg
COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
	Talk Time ID				This Week In Blues History
Mamie Smith And Her Jazz Hounds	What Have I Done?	Complete Recorded Works 1921-1942 Vol 1 (1920-1921)	Document Records	1921	Recorded Feb 21, 1921 in New York City for Okeh
Bessie Smith	Down Hearted Blues	The Complete Recordings Volume 1 (1923-1924)	Columbia Records	1923	Recorded Feb 16, 1923 for Columbia Records in New York City.
Scrapper Blackwell	Non-Skid Tread	Complete Recorded Works - 1928 - 1958 - Vol 1 (1928-1932)	Document Records	1929	Recorded Feb 15, 1929 for Vocalion in Chicago, with Bertha "Chippie" Hill on shared vocals, Leroy Carr on piano and an unknown on kazoo
	Other Worlds on Earth_CKUT Show Promo
Reverend Peyton	ID - Reverend Peyton
Little Walter	Who	Definitive Blues Anthology	Not Now Music	1956	d. 1968-0215, CHICAGO, IL 37 A few months after returning from his second European tour, he was involved in a fight while taking a break from a performance at a nightclub on the South Side of Chicago. The relatively minor injuries sustained in this altercation aggravated and compounded damage he had suffered in previous violent encounters, and he died in his sleep at the apartment of a girlfriend at 209 E. 54th St. in Chicago early the following morning. The official cause of death indicated on his death certificate was "coronary thrombosis" (a blood clot in the heart); evidence of external injuries was so insignificant that police reported that his death was of "unknown or natural causes", and there were no external injuries noted on the death certificate. His body was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in Evergreen Park, IL on February 22, 1968 (Wiki)
Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins	Happy Blues for John Glenn	Prestige Profiles: Lightnin' Hopkins	Prestige	1962	Recorded Feb 20, 1962
Ray Charles	What'd I Say, Parts 1, 2	75 R&B Classics	La Bambolina s.a.s.	1959	Recorded Feb 18, 1959
Dutch Mason	Folsom Prison Blues	You Can't Have Everything	Stony Plain Records	1992	b. 1938-0219, LUNENBURG, NS		㏄
Lou Ann Barton	You Can Have My Husband	SRV's Solos, Sessions & Encores	Sony BMG Music	1978	b. 1954-0217, FORT WORTH, TX
	AD TRACK Small Little Foot Soldiers Promo
	AD TRACK 06 MONNAIE
Rob Lutes	ID - Rob Lutes						㏄
Mike Bloomfield	Stop	Don't Say That I Ain't Your Man! Essential Blues 1964-1969	Columbia Records	1968	Mike Bloomfield died in San Francisco on February 15, 1981. He was found seated behind the wheel of his car, with all four doors locked. According to police, an empty Valium bottle was found on the car seat, but no suicide note was found. The medical examiner who performed the autopsy ruled the death accidental overdose, due to cocaine and methamphetamine poisoning. Bloomfield's last album, Cruisin' for a Bruisin', was released the day his death was announced. His remains are interred in a crypt at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, in Culver City, near Los Angeles. (Wiki)
Bobby Charles	Spent All My Money Loving You feat. Sonny Landreth	Last Train To Memphis	The Last Music Company	2025	b. 1938-0221, ABBEVILLE, LA
Galactic and Irma Thomas	Love's Gonna Find A Way Again	Audience With The Queen	Tchoup-zilla Records	2025	Irma Thomas b. 1941-0218, PONCHATOULA, LA
WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
	Talk Time ID				Live blues/roots for the week starting Feb 15 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/
Honeybear, The Band	If You Were Mine	I Was Wrong	Playmor	2025	THURS FEB 19 AT l'Escogriffe Bar Spectacle 4461 Saint-Denis Montreal, QC H2J 2L2 https://www.facebook.com/honeybeartheband/		㏄

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