CKUT: Cha Cha Cha In Blue: Playlist from March 8, 2026

Cha Cha Cha In Blue : Playlist from March 8, 2026

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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.

Every Sunday 9 - 11pm (EDT)

March 8, 2026: R.I.P. JOHN HAMMOND! SINGLES NGHT! This Week In Blues History! Where It's At (The Live Music Roundup)!

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It's SINGLES NIGHT on Cha Cha Cha In Blue! We start with new singles from Bernard Allison, Gwyn Ashton, Tyler Bryant, Steve Louw, Bywater Call, JP Soars & Anne Harris, Joanne Shaw Taylor & Orianthi, Sam Morrow, and Philip Sayce - mostly they're from upcoming album releases. We remember the late John Hammond with a few of my favourites from his extensive catalog. The "history" part of the show starts in 1935 with a song from Lucille Bogan and continues with Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Lightnin' Slim, Arbee Stidham, T-Bone Walker, King Biscuit Boy, Alain Bashung, Dave Specter with Ronnie Earl, John Nemeth, The Sugar Darlings, and Selwyn Birchwood. We'll close with a song from the Ben Racine Band in advance of their Thursday appearance at Upstairs.

(✓ = 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
SINGLES NGHT!
Bernard Allison	Left Me With My Guitar	Left Me With My Guitar - single	Ruf Records	2026	Bernard Allison's brand-new single, “Left Me With My Guitar,” dropping March 6 - just in time to set the tone for his upcoming European tour, kicking off days later in France. “Left Me With My Guitar” is a powerful reminder that when everything else is gone, the music remains.	✓
Gwyn Ashton	Self-Isolation Blues	Grease Bucket	Fab Tone Records	2026	Award-winning Welsh-Australian singer/guitarist/songwriter/producer Gwyn Ashton returns to his power trio roots with SELF-ISOLATION BLUES, the fifth single from his latest album Grease Bucket	✓
Tyler Bryant	Screwed & Tattooed	Screwed & Tattooed - single	Crosstie Recordings	2026	Tyler says “At the tail end of making Rodney Crowell’s latest album, ‘Airline Highway,’ we found ourselves sitting in my studio with a couple of acoustic guitars. We both have a deep appreciation for low down dirty blues and when my right thumb started riding the A string of my old Kalamazoo acoustic, Rodney started spitting out lines. We laughed this song into existence. Tyler continues.”My friends came over the next afternoon to jam and I pulled out this idea. It was recorded less than an hour later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnXaadnf8n8	✓
Steve Louw	Time To Move	Traces of the Flood	Indie	2026	“Time To Move” from South African guitarist and singer songwriter Steve Louw is the first single taken from his fourth solo album Traces of The Flood, due to be released Friday May 15th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkei_ylNwc	✓
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Bywater Call	ID - Bywater Call						㏄
Bywater Call	How Long	How Long - single	Indie	2026	On Wednesday, March 4th Bywater Call released their second studio single of 2026, “How Long”, from their upcoming fourth studio album, due July 2026 with more details to come soon. “How Long is a raw and introspective song that wrestles with guilt, fragility, and the fear of becoming the very thing you never wanted to be,” says lead singer Meghan Parnell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJUXwPwRhPU	✓	㏄
JP Soars & Anne Harris	Viper	Gypsy Blue Revue	Forty Below Records	2026	JP Soars & violinist Anne Harris will release their collaborative album, Gypsy Blue Revue, on May 29, 2026, via Forty Below Records. The first single, “Viper,” is available now, with additional singles “Jessie Mae” and “Goin’ Down to South Carolina” to follow. The partnership began in 2019 after the two artists crossed paths on the festival circuit and joined forces at the Big Blues Bender in Las Vegas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtR7RzdFhZA	✓
R.I.P. JOHN PAUL HAMMOND (Nov 13, 1942 - Feb 28, 2026 (aged 83))
	Talk Time ID				John Hammond, the Grammy‑winning blues singer and guitarist whose prolific career honored the Delta blues across six decades, died on Feb 28 at age 83. His death was confirmed by musician and longtime collaborator Paul James, who shared that Hammond’s wife, Marla, notified him of the news. Billboard Canada reported that Hammond died of cardiac arrest.
John Hammond	Slick Crown Vic	Ready For Love	Virgin Music	2003	My personal theme song back when, as a cabbie, I drove my own slick Crown Vic
John Hammond	Heartattack & Vine	Wicked Grin	Virgin Music	2001	John Hammond & Tom Waits were good friends for many years but it was their wives who suggested they do this album. Waits coproduced and added guitar.
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Mitch Woods	ID - Mitch Woods
Mitch Woods	Mother-In-Law Blues feat. John Hammond	Friends Along The Way	Club 88 Records	2023	One of his most recent recordings. From Bill Forman's Wiki-cited article "Tangled Up In Blues": "Were he not so talented and accomplished in his own right, it would be easy to dismiss John Hammond as the music world's version of Woody Allen's Leonard Zelig. After all, it was Hammond who introduced the Band to Bob Dylan, had Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton sit in with him - at the same time - and was frequently confused with his father, John H. Hammond, the legendary producer who signed Dylan and discovered Billie Holiday. https://web.archive.org/web/20130317002347/http://www.csindy.com/colorado/tangled-up-in-blues/Content?oid=1591758
John Hammond	Shake For Me	Atlantic Blues: Guitar	Atlantic Records	1970	Hammond came down from New York City to cut a record with Marlin Green, a producer who had worked with Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett. He didn’t know what to expect walking into the studio, but he felt an immediate chill from the musicians he had come to play with. He had expected the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section to be black, and they expected the same of him. When Duane Allman heard John Hammond was scheduled to record an album at Muscle Shoals Sound in November of 1969, he headed down to meet him because he liked an album by him. When they heard Duane wanted to meet John, they looked at him differently and the whole mood of the session changed. https://powerpop.blog/2022/06/09/john-hammond-shake-for-me/
SINGLES NGHT CONTINUES!
	Talk Time ID				Intros for the next songs
Joanne Shaw Taylor	What Good Is My Love? feat. Orianthi	What Good Is My Love? feat. Orianthi	Journeyman Records	2026	Joanne Shaw Taylor has released the second single from her new studio album due later this year. “What Good Is My Love? Feat. Orianthi, culminating in guitar exchanges between two of modern blues rock’s most formidable guitarists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpw-zcNvmdY	✓
Sam Morrow	Cruisin'	Cruisin' - single	Indie	2026	“This song is about independence,” says Morrow. “It’s about times when you and your partner don’t see eye to eye and you just continue cruisin’ along anyways. The best thing you can do sometimes is roll down the road with the windows down.”	✓
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	Full Circle Show Promo
Mike Goudreau	ID - Mike Goudreau						㏄
Philip Sayce	Morning Star (Live)	Scorched Earth: Volume 2 Live in LA / London	Atomic Gemini Records	2026	To mark the news of his new live album Philip Sayce released the second single “Morning Star (Live)”. "Scorched Earth: Volume 2 Live in LA / London" was recorded during sold-out performances at the legendary venue The Baked Potato in Los Angeles and a packed, over-capacity show at The Garage in London	✓	㏄
COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
	Talk Time ID				This Week In Blues History
Lucille Bogan	Skin Game Blues	Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925-1950	Columbia Records	1935	Recorded Mar 8, 1935 in New York City under the name Bessie Jackson. Walter Roland played piano on this, her final recording.
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup	Shout, Sister, Shout	Complete Recorded Works 1941 – 1954 Vol 2 (1946 – 1949)	Document Records	1949	Recorded March 10, 1949 in a Chicago recording studio with Ransom Knowling on bass and Judge Riley on drums. They also recorded Tired Of Worry, Dust My Broom, and Hand Me Down My Walking Cane. They went back the next day and recorded Come Back, Baby and You Know That I Love You.
Lightnin' Slim	Bugger Bugger Boy	Rock Me Mama	Blue Label	1954	OTIS V. HICKS b. 1913-0313, ST. LOUIS, MO
	QPIRG fundraiser PSA
	Other Worlds on Earth_CKUT Show Promo
Rob Lutes	ID - Rob Lutes
Arbee Stidham	Mr. Commissioner	Chess Blues 1947-1952	Chess Records	1952	Recorded Mar 12, 1952
T-Bone Walker	Lollie Lou	The Imperial Blues Years	Not Now Music	1952	Recorded Mar 10 1952 with Party Girl, Love Is Just A Gamble, High Society
T-Bone Walker	Party Girl	The Imperial Blues Years	Not Now Music	1952	Recorded Mar 10 1952 with Love Is Just A Gamble, High Society, and Lollie Lou
King Biscuit Boy	You Done Tore Your Play House Down	Badly Bent - The Best Of King Biscuit Boy	Daffodil Records	1971	RICHARD NEWELL b. 1944-0309, HAMILTON, ON		㏄
Alain Bashung	Les Grands Voyageurs	Osez Joséphine	Polygram	1991	d. 2009-0314, PARIS, FRANCE 61 French edition of Rolling Stone magazine gave this album the top spot of their list of the greatest French rock albums (out of 100).
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Dawn Tyler Watson	ID - Dawn Tyler Watson				SAT 14 MAR @ UPSTAIRS JAZZ 1254 Rue Mackay, Montréal, QC
Dave Specter, Ronnie Earl	Wind Chill	Six String Soul: 30 Years On Delmark	Delmark Records	1991	Ronnie Earl b. 1953-0310, NEW YORK CITY, NY
John Németh	Shake Your Hips	May Be The Last Time	NOLA Blue Records	2022	b. 1975-0310, BOISE, ID
The Sugar Darlings	Thirsty For Your Love	Thirsty For Your Love	Indie	2023	MICHE LOVE b. 1981-0308 MONTREAL, QC		㏄
Selwyn Birchwood	All Hail The Algorithm	Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues	Alligator Records	2026	b. 1985-0309, ORLANDO, FL	✓
WHERE IT'S AT (MONTREAL EDITION)
	Talk Time ID				Live blues/roots for the week starting March 8 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/
Ben Racine Band	The Puck Drops Here	A Grand New Brew	Indie	2015	THURSDAY MARCH 12 AT UPSTAIRS JAZZ 1254 Rue Mackay, Montréal, QC H3G 2H4 http://upstairsjazz.com/		㏄

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