The Blues Witness

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Hosted by Cindy McLeod, The Blues Witness is a weekly radio program at CJSW Radio 90.9FM and online at www.cjsw.com Featuring the best in blues from Canada and beyond.

06/03/2026

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
CJSW Radio 90.9FM
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist June 3, 2026
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Lurrie Bell / Blues In My Soul / Hey Hey Baby

Koko Taylor / Crown Jewels / Hey Bartender

** Wayne Nicholson & John Campbelljohn / Elmore's Blues / Rolliin' & Tumblin'

** Kenny Blues Boss Wayne / Rollin' With the Boss / Keep On Rockin'

Lady Adrena / Recipe For the Blues / Good Girl Gone Bad

Kenny Neal / Straight From the Heart / Mount Up On the Wings Of the King (f. Christone Kingfish Ingram)

** Jeff Healey / Mess Of Blues / Sugar Sweet

Pierre Lacoque's Mississippi Heat / Don't Look Back / Love (It Makes You Do Most Anything)

Joe Louis Walker / Witness To the Blues / I Got What You Need

** Secondhand Dreamcar / Answer the Call / Lay Down the Load

** Donald Ray Johnson / Bluesin' Around / You're the One For Me

** Sue Foley / The Ice Queen / Gaslight

Gaye Adegbalola / Satisfied / 3 Hour Shoes

** Harrison Kennedy / Who You Tellin'? / Keep Your Coat On

** Shakura S'Aida / Hold On To Love / Be Glad For Today

05/27/2026

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
CJSW Radio 90.9FM
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist May 27, 2026
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Bob Stroger & the Headcutters / Bob Is Back! / Let the Good Times Roll

Thornetta Davis / Honest Woman / Everything Gonna Be Alright

** Ken Whiteley / Keep Going / Pallet On Your Floor (f. Ceceal Levy v.)

** The Porch Dogs / The Porch Dogs Vol 1 / Every Time I see My Baby (f. Steve Gerard)

Sonny Gullage / Go Be Free / Things I Can't Control

Cash Box Kings / Oscars Motel / Hot Little Mess

** Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar / A Beautiful Buzz / Them Changes

** Danny Marks / Back To the Blues / Blues Party Tonight

Sugaray Rayford / Human Decency / Hanky Panky Time

Dani Wilde / Dani Wilde / Bumble Bee

** The Porch Dogs / The Porch Dogs Vol 1 / Hey Baby (f. Tim Williams)

Harrell Davenport / Young Rell / I Be Tryin'

** Debra Powers / Unapologetically Me / I Choose To Sing the Blues

Marcia Ball / Shine Bright / Pots and Pans

05/27/2026

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
CJSW Radio 90.9FM
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist May 20, 2026
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

W***y Buck & Bob Corritore / Oh Yeah / She's Alright

Candice Ivory / New Southern Vintage / Blue Blood

** Kinjo & Young / Gone Too Long / Down I'll Go

** David Gogo / Yeah! / Give'er At the River

Janiva Magness / Back For Me / Holes (f. Sue Foley)

Chris Cain / Good Intentions Gone Bad / TGIF

** Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whitely / Forever Blues / Hoodoo Man Blues

** Shawn Kellerman / Kell's Kitchen / We Are Blues Men (f. Bobby Rush)

DK Harrell / Talkin Heavy / Grown Now

Vaneese Thomas /Stories In Blue / End Of the Road

** Colin James / Open Road / Change It

** Lily Sazz / What Just Happened / Gaslight

John Primer / Grown In Mississippi / Nothin' But A Chicken Wing

** Mich & the Blues Bastards / Mich & the Blues Bastards / Bottomless Pint

** Bluerock Junction / Thrift Store Queen / Junction Blues

05/27/2026

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
CJSW Radio 90.9FM
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist May 13, 2026
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Matt Guitar Murphy / True Blues Brother / Way Down South

Susan Tedeschi / *single / Voodoo Woman

** Michael Kaeshammer / No Strings Attached / On A Saturday Night

** The Johnny Max Band / Johnny Max & His So-Called Friends / You Can Do Better Than Him

Robbin Kapsalis / The Blues Is In the House / Up The Line

Sean McDonald / Have Mercy! / Fakin' It

** Blackburn / SoulFunk'nBLUES / Little Sister

** Dione Taylor / Spirits In the Water / How Many Times

Zac Harmon / Zac Harmon & the Drive Live / Hump In Your Back

Selwyn Birchwood / Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues / Talkin' Heads

** Annika Chambers & Paul DesLauriers / Good Trouble / Walk A Mile In My Shoes

** Al Lerman / Country-Fried Blues / Too Bad For You (Too Bad For Me)

Shemekia Copeland / Uncivil War / Give God the Blues

04/29/2026

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
CJSW Radio 90.9FM
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist April 29, 2026
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Buddy Guy / Ain't Done With the Blues / Trick Bag

Candice Ivory / New Southern Vintage / Lookin' For My Baby

** Mich and the Blues Bastards / Mich and the Blues Bastards / What Can I Do

** Secondhand Dreamcar / Answer the Call / Lay Down the Load

Zac Harmon / Zac Harmon & The Drive Live / Boogie Down

Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials / Slideways / You Can't Strike Gold From A Silver Mine

** Ollee Owens / Nowhere To Hide / Love Hung Around

** Raoul & The Big Time / Hollywood Blvd / High Roller

Amani Burnham / Roots & Wings / Waiting By the Window

Gina Coleman / Uncrowned - A Tribute to Ida Cox / Worried Mama Blues

** Guy Belanger / Voyages / Duck Soup

** Honeybear, The Band / Honeybear, The Band / Everyone's Invited

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats / The Hits Keep Coming / The Circus Is Still In Town

Susie Vinnick / Fall Back Home / Lift You Up

04/22/2026

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
CJSW Radio 90.9FM
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist April 22, 2026
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Eddie Cotton / Jacktown USA / Delivered By the Blues

Candice Ivory / New Southern Vintage / Shout the Boogie

** Mud Bay / Best Laid Plans / Best Laid Plans

** Sue Foley / Live In Austin Vol 1 / Hooked On Love

Rick Vito / Slidemaster / The Big Beat

Vaneese Thomas / Stories In Blue / Do Y'all

** Roly Platt / Inside Out / Rippin' It Up

** Brandon Isaak / Walkin' With the Blues / Black Coffee

Bob Corritore / Ernestine / Pretty Girls Everywhere (f. Bob Stroger)

Duwayne Burnside / Red Rooster / Crazy About You

** Samantha King & the Midnight Outfit / Samantha King & the Midnight Outfit / Mad Wind

** Tony D / Speak No Evil / Amigo's Fandango

Sean McDonald / Have Mercy! / Angel Baby

** Debra Power / Unapologetically Me / Ya Gotta Like That

04/15/2026

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
CJSW Radio 90.9FM
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist April 15, 2026
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials / Slideways / Cold Side Of the Bed

Robbin Kapsalis / The Blues Is In the House / Up the Line (Giles Robson)

** Big Dave McLean / This Old Life / Sometimer's Blues

** Shakura S'Aida / Hold On To Love / (Taste Like) Honey

Buddy Guy / Ain't Done With the Blues / Jesus Loves A Sinner (f. Blind Boys Of Alabama)

Vanessa Collier / Do It My Way / Rosetta

** Chambers DesLauriers / Our Time To Ride / In the Heart Of the Night

** Rooster Davis (David Aide) / *single / Bring It On Back

Curtis Salgado / Legacy Rewind / Money Must Think I'm Dead

Pierre Lacocque's Mississippi Heat / Don't Look Back / The Sock Hop

** Blue Moon Marquee & Northern Cree / Get Your Feathers Ready / Soul Of A Man

** Larry Kurtz & the Lawbreakers / Take A Ride / She's So Fine

Barbara Blue / From the Shoals / Slide Man

** Nigel Mack / Back In Style / Travellin' Heavy

04/08/2026

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
CJSW Radio 90.9FM
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist April 8, 2026
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Benny Turner / Journey / I Wanna Give It To You Baby

Vaneese Thomas / Stories In Blue / Do Y'All

** Garret T Willie / Bill's Cafe / Small Town People

** Angelique Francis / Not Defeated / Hit Dog

Toronzo Cannon / The Chicago Way / Mrs From Mississippi

Lady Adrena / Recipe For the Blues / Jump Back

** Aaron Penton / Beautiful Disaster / Warning Shot

** The Johnny Max Band / Johnny Max & His So-Called Friends / I've Never Met A Bridge

Selwyn Birchwood / Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues / Should've Never Gotten Out Of Bed

Duke Robillard / Blast Off! / Play Boy Hop

** Debra Power / Unapologetically Me / Unapologetically Me

** Shawn Kellerman / Kell's Kitchen / We Are Blues Men

Sugaray Rayford / Human Decency / Ain't That A Man

** Secondhand Dreamcar / Answer the Call / Get Down On the Ground

04/01/2026

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
CJSW Radio 90.9FM
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist April 1, 2026
Artist / Album / Song (ALL CANADIAN)

This show features the music of those who captured Canadian Blues Music Awards on Monday, March 30 at the Phoenix in Toronto. The inaugural awards celebrate excellence in Canadian Blues. The songlist also includes a song from the JUNO Award winner of Blues Recording of the Year, Steve Marriner. It was an incredible weekend for Blues in Canada.

Kenny Blues Boss Wayne / Ooh Yeah! / Ooh Yeah! (Keyboard Player of the Year)

Crystal Shawanda / Sing Pretty Blues / Sing Pretty Blues (Female Vocalist Of the Year)

Steve Marriner / Hear My Heart / Straight Line (Producer of the Year, Harmonica Player of the Year / tied)

Sue Foley / One Guitar Woman / Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie (Acoustic Recording of the Year)

Brandon Isaak / Walkin With the Blues / Walkin With the Blues (Guitar Player of the Year, Song Of the Year, Electric Album of the Year)

Marcus Trummer / From the Start / Holdin Out For You (Male Vocalist of the Year)

Wailin' Walker / Blues Lightnin' / Have A Good Time (Jerry Cook - Horn Player of the Year)

Chambers DesLauriers / Our Time To Ride / Temperature Of One-O-Nine (Sly Coulombe - Drummer of the Year / tied)

Davis Hall & the Green Lanterns / Canboro Canborough / Silverdale (Jim Casson - Drummer of the Year / tied)

Blue Moon Marquee / New Orleans Sessions / Red Dust Rising (Jasmine Colette - Bass Player of the Year, Fan Favourite)

Steve Marriner / Hear My Heart / Shootin' Off (JUNO Award - Blues Recording of the Year)

Ollee Owens / Nowhere To Hide / Solid Ground (Emerging Artist Of the Year)

Guy Belanger / Voyages / Duck Soup (Harmonica Player of the Year / tied)

Tim Williams / Songster / Musicianer / Music Physicianer / It's Enough To Be Remembered (Lifetime Achievement Award)

03/25/2026

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
CJSW Radio 90.9FM
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist Mar 25, 2026
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Lurrie Bell / Kiss Of Sweet Blues / Blues And Black Coffee

Koko Taylor / Crown Jewels / Voodoo Woman

** Aaron Penton / Beautiful Disaster / The Room

** Rooster Davis (David Aide) / *single / Bring It On Back

Southern Avenue / Family / Sisters

Sonny Gullage / Go Be Free / Things I Can't Control

** Garret T Willie / Bill's Cafe / I'm Late

** Ethan Askey & The Elevators / *single / Zamboni Girl

Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials / Slideways / Crazy Love Affair

Curtis Salgado / Damage Control / I Don't Do That No More

** Garnetta Cromwell / Time To Shine / I Ain't That Woman

** The Christopher James Watson Band / *single / Diddy Diddy Boom Boom A Canadian Love Song

** Ndidi O / It's About Time / Old Crone

** Ken Whiteley / Keep Going / I Dreamed Last Night

Sean McDonald / Have Mercy! / Fakin' It

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