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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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Favoriting November 1, 2026: HOT NEW SINGLES! 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 advance singles from future discs by Ollee Owens, Kelli Baker, The Parchman Band, and The Commoners plus stand-alone singles from Curtis Salgado, Misty Blues, and The Blue Mules. We have a pair of tickets for a lucky listener to see The Bones of J.R. Jones at the Ritz on Nov 21. And all you have to do is go to my playlist at https://2cm.es/uBS2 and follow the instructions in the comments for that song. This week's featured new releases are from Brandon Isaak, Ivan Neville & CC Adcock, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, and Swamp Dogg. The history part of the show starts with Tommy Johnson in 1928 and continues with the Black Ace, Robert Nighthawk, Ike Turner, Sippie Wallace, Muddy Waters, Magic Sam, Finis Tasby, William Clarke, Delbert McClinton, and Eddie Harris. Let's close with the Chicago blues sound of the Otis Ali Blues Group who will be at Upstairs Jazz on Thursday.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images
 
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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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HOT NEW SINGLES!
Ollee Owens  Common Ground   Favoriting From Now On  Ollee Owens Music  2026  Ollee Owens announced that her third album, "From Now On", will be out February 26, 2027 feat. Buddy Miller and the McCrary Sisters and produced by Colin Linden. The first single Common Ground” is available on all streaming services. At a moment when ideological, political, racial and religious divisions are tearing through families, communities and nations, “Common Ground” speaks directly into the distance between us. She seems to carry a similar message as Brandon Isaak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEekqBSQXTM  ✓   ㏄  
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Curtis Salgado  I Played Pool with Otis Rush feat Ronnie Baker Brooks   Favoriting I Played Pool with Otis Rush - single  NOLA Blue Records  2026  Salgado was in a band called The Nighthawks, which was backing Otis Rush at the EMU Ballroom at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Mike Bloomfield and Nick Gravenites were also on the show. A few days later, he went to Portland, this time to play with the Robert Cray Band, backing Rush at The Euphoria Tavern. It was there that Salgado played a game of pool with Rush, who won. "If memory serves me well, Robert Cray and Richard Cousins joined in too, and we all played pool. Otis Rush kicked all our asses," recalls Salgado. Now, that memory is immortalized in song. On October 23, 2026, Salgado will release "I Played Pool with Otis Rush," featuring special guest guitarist Ronnie Baker Brooks, a tribute both to Rush and a love letter to the city of Chicago where his sound was born.  ✓    
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The Blue Mules  Get Up!   Favoriting Get Up! - single  Indie  2026  One of two new singles from western Canadians The Blue Mules  ✓   ㏄  
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Kelli Baker  Rats   Favoriting Mother  Gulf Coast Records  2026  Kelli Baker released the single “Rats”, taking aim at exploitation, greed and those who thrive at the expense of others, from her debut full-length album MOTHER, due Nov 13, 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FZvkZBo5Q0  ✓    
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Gina Coleman  ID - Gina Coleman   Favoriting            
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Misty Blues  Misty Blue   Favoriting Misty Blue - single  Guitar One Records  2026  Gina Coleman & Misty Blues shared the new single "Misty Blue" - a cover of Dorothy Moore's 1976 hit! The song is now considered both a country music and blues standard. This is a digital only release.... No CDs will be available of it.  ✓    
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The Parchman Band  Streets of Memphis   Favoriting The Parchman Band  Music Maker Foundation  2026  Nonprofit organization Music Maker Foundation has announced a historic new collaboration with The Parchman Prison Band. The newly-revived blues band, consisting of inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, will release their self-titled debut album on February 26, 2027 along with a book and a short documentary film directed by Ethan Payne. The album’s lead single “Streets of Memphis” was released last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_HPrxk-XM  ✓    
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The Commoners  Lost In The Highlights   Favoriting Lost in the Highlights - single  Gypsy Soul Records  2026  This is The Commoners’ third single taken from their forthcoming third studio album to be released in 2027. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdnpVWhkvo  ✓   ㏄  
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FEATURED NEW RELEASES
  Talk Time ID         Brandon Isaak, the Whitehorse-born bluesman, is back with his eighth solo album, 'Lookin' Out My Window,' out now on Modern Primitive Records. The album follows his 2025 release 'Walkin' With the Blues,' which won three of its five Canadian Blues Music Award nominations: Electric Blues Album of the Year, Blues Song of the Year and Blues Guitar Player of the Year. "I came home from Toronto incredibly grateful," Isaak says, "and then I did what I always do. I went back to work."     
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Brandon Isaak  World's Got The Blues   Favoriting Lookin' Out My Window  Modern Primitive Records  2026  "World's Got the Blues" takes stock of hard times, from rising prices to the shouting matches on the nightly news, and answers them with a warm, irresistible invitation to come together. Echoing Ollee Owens message I guess there's some optimism in western Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Rf5ZDzSb0  ✓   ㏄  
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Brandon Isaak  Good News   Favoriting Lookin' Out My Window  Modern Primitive Records  2026  The good news is ... LOVE  ✓   ㏄  
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  Talk Time ID         Jonathon Linaberry - better known as The Bones Of J.R. Jones - was born and raised in central New York, he got his start playing in hardcore and punk bands before becoming enamored with the field recordings of Alan Lomax, who documented rural American blues, folk, and gospel musicians throughout the 1930s and ’40s. Inspired by the unvarnished honesty of those vintage performances, Linaberry launched The Bones of J.R. Jones in 2012 and, operating as a one-man-band, playing guitar or banjo while simultaneously stomping a modified drum kit.     
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The Bones of J.R. Jones  Trouble (Live From LPR)   Favoriting Radio Waves Deluxe  Tone Tree Music  2025  His latest release is Radio Waves Deluxe which is Radio Waves plus live takes, B sides, and alternates. The Bones of J.R. Jones will be at the Ritz on Nov 21st along with special guest Chris Kasper and we have a pair of tickets to give away. Be the first person to email music@ckut.ca with the subject line "Tix for The Bones of J.R. Jones". We'll be in touch.     
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  CKUT Promo - Other Worlds on Earth              
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  CKUT Promo - Modular Systems              
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Cécile Doo-Kingué  ID - Cécile Doo-Kingué   Favoriting           ㏄  
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Ivan Neville & CC Adcock with Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood, feat. Jimmie Vaughan  One Step At A Time   Favoriting Antone's 50th Presents Chicago Bound  Blues Till 2 Recording Co.  2026  “One Step at a Time” is the first single from ANTONE’S 50th PRESENTS CHICAGO BOUND to be released on 7” Vinyl. The 45 is limited to 500 copies (available for pre-order now) and all proceeds benefit the Clifton Chenier Memorial Scholarship Fund. Led by CC Adcock and Ivan Neville on vocals (and guitar and organ, respectively), with Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood on guitars, this track also features an unexpected appearance by Jimmie Vaughan (on harmonica!), a skill he’s always kept well undercover.  ✓    
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  Talk Time ID         “There’s plenty of music out there about falling in love,” says Eli Paperboy Reed. “I wanted to write about staying in love. I wanted to get to the heart of what it takes to go the distance, of what it means for two people to walk side by side, through good times and bad, and still choose each other every single day.” Those romantic meditations form the bedrock of Reed’s new album, Getting There, produced by legendary R&B iconoclast Swamp Dogg.     
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Eli Paperboy Reed  One Man’s Trash (Is Another Man’s Treasure) (feat. Swamp Dogg)   Favoriting Getting There  Yep Roc Records  2026  “One Man’s Trash (Is Another Man’s Treasure),” finds Swamp Dogg dueting with Reed on a sly, tongue-in-cheek tale of fresh starts and second chances. "When I wrote this song, the idea that I would be singing it as a duet with Swamp Dogg would have blown my mind. This is the kind of song I would have written FOR Swamp Dogg. When I first played him the demo, the smile that came across his face showed me that I nailed the funny, irreverent nature of his writing."  ✓    
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Eli Paperboy Reed  Sore Loser   Favoriting Getting There  Yep Roc Records  2026  "I’ve had this song in my back pocket for a while and could never find a place where it fit. When he heard the demo, though, Swamp would not rest until I committed to putting it on the album."     
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Swamp Dogg  Please Don't Bury Me   Favoriting Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife  S-Curve Records  2026  With 83 years of age, Jerry Williams Jr. made his debut record for S-Curve in Brooklyn, along with a collective of the live band and the production team whose other customers are a third of his age. Swamp Dogg is a multifaceted person who has written about war, financial struggles, and all the women who wronged him in his life, typically, with a punchline attached. The humor at the gallows is obtained from John Prine’s “Please Don’t Bury Me,” written in 1973. A man wakes up, puts on his slippers, ambles into the kitchen, and dies, then he spends the rest of the song doing an auction from heaven, in which he is giving away his stomach to Milwaukee, in case the beer runs out and his arms to the Venus de Milo, before he sends his mouth south to kiss the world goodbye.  ✓    
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COMMEMORATING THIS WEEK IN BLUES HISTORY
  Talk Time ID         This Week In Blues History     
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Tommy Johnson  Big Road Blues   Favoriting Memphis Blues 30's  Pubblico Dominio  1928  d. 1956-1101, CRYSTAL SPRINGS, MS 60     
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Black Ace  I Am The Black Ace   Favoriting Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics  Rhino Records  1960  BABE TURNER AKA BLACK ACE d. 1972-1107, FORT WORTH, TX 66     
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Robert Nighthawk  Seventy Four   Favoriting The United Records Story  Delmark Records  1952  Recorded Oct 25, 1952 Robert Nighthawk d. 1967-1105, HELENA, AR 57     
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Ike Turner  Looking for My Baby   Favoriting The Chronological Ike Turner 1951-1954  Classics  1952  b. 1931-1105, CLARKSDALE, MS This song was by Ike & Bonnie Turner,     
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Sippie Wallace  Suitcase Blues feat Bonnie Raitt   Favoriting Atlantic Blues: Vocalists  Atlantic Records  1982  b. 1898-1101, HOUSTON, TX d. 1986-1101, DETROIT, MI 88     
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  AD TRACK 37 Mauril_Jobs              
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  AD TRACK 40 Amandala Event              
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Rob Lutes  ID - Rob Lutes   Favoriting           ㏄  
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Muddy Waters  Sugar Sweet   Favoriting The Chess Box  Chess Records  1955  Recorded Nov 3, 1955 plus "I Got to Find My Baby", "Trouble No More", and "Clouds In My Heart"     
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Magic Sam  Blues For Odie Payne   Favoriting Legacy  Delmark Records  1968  Recorded Nov 6, 1968 plus "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" and "Keep On Lovin' Me Baby"     
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Finis Tasby  I Missed You Bad   Favoriting Jump Children  Evidence Music  1998  d. 2014-1102, ORANGE CO., CA 75     
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  AD TRACK 18 Apathy is Boring              
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  AD TRACK 45 JAM Prostate Fundraiser              
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Dawn Tyler Watson  ID - Dawn Tyler Watson   Favoriting           ㏄  
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William Clarke  Blowin' The Family Jewels   Favoriting Deluxe Edition  Alligator Records  1994  d. 1996-1104, FRESNO, CA 45     
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Delbert McClinton  Gotta Get It Worked On   Favoriting Nothing Personal  New West Records  2001  b. 1940-1104, LUBBOCK, TX     
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Eddie Harris  It's All Right Now   Favoriting Breaks & Beats: A Stateside Selection  Warner Music Group  1976  d. 1996-1105, LOS ANGELES, CA 62     
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WHERE IT'S AT: LIVE BLUES & ROOTS MUSIC IN & AROUND MONTREAL
  Talk Time ID         Live blues/roots for the week starting November 1 (and beyond). The full list is on the blog https://ckut.ca/music/     
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Otis Ali Blues Group  Ready For Tonight   Favoriting Otis Ali Blues Group - Facebook  Indie  2025  THURS NOV 5 AT UPSTAIRS JAZZ 1254 Rue Mackay, Montréal, QC H3G 2H4 http://upstairsjazz.com/  ✓    
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  9:49pm George Akiki:

Beautiful Blues from start to finish. A very good show with soft, slow and somewhat seductive Blues.
Excellent selections, thank you sir John for a very good show.
Very glad to have you back.
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