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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.

09/17/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist Sept 17, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues / Blues Is My Biography / Hole In Your Soul f. Bobby Rush

Thornetta Davis / Honest Woman / I Believe (Everything Gonna Be Alright)

** Rodger Stanley / Friday Night Baby / You Got Everything

** Chambers DesLauriers / Our Time To Ride / Temperature of One-O-Nine

Johnnie Johnson And Friends / I'm Just Johnnie / Three Handed Woman

Selwyn Birchwood / Exorcist / Hopeless Romantic

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

** Kenny Blues Boss Wayne / Ooh YEAH! / That Crazy Monkey!

Alexis P Suter Band / Just Stay High / 4 Wheels Beats 2 Heels

Rashad the Blues Kid 2 / Live In Clarksdale / Hey Yall

** Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whitely / Forever Blues / Prettiest Train

** Mike Goudreau / Sweet Blues / Time For Messin Around

Candice Ivory / New Southern Vintage / Strong Black Mattie

** Brother Ray Lemelin / Stirring the Pot / Two Ways

09/05/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist Sept 3, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Benny Turner / BT / The Walk

Trudy Lynn / Golden Girl / Tell Me

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

** Glenn Marais & the Mojo Trail / Red, Hot and Blue / Pink Lemonade

Sugaray Rayford / Human Decency / Stuck Between

Lisa Mann / Great Women In Blues / I Sing the Blues

** Blue Moon Marquee / New Orleans Sessions / Red Dust Rising

** Johnny Max Band / It's A Long Road / Waiting On You

Toronzo Cannon / Shut Up And Play / Something To Do Man

Frank Bey / Peace / Blues Comes Knockin'

** Harpoonist & Axe Murderer / Checkered Past / Can't Judge A Book

** Suzie Vinnick / Fall Back Home / Secret

Larry McCray / Heartbreak City / Everything Falls On Me

** David Vest & Terry Robb / CrissCross / Electra Jane

08/28/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist Aug 27, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Kenny Neal / Straight From the Heart / It Don't Cost Nothing

Alexis P Suter Band / Just Stay High / Big Girl Panties

** Steve Marriner / Hear My Heart / Shootin' Off

** Angelique Francis / Not Defeated / We're Over

John Primer / Grown In Mississippi / Ain't Kickin' Up No Dust

Diunna Greenleaf / I Ain't Playin' / Answer to the Hard Working Woman

** Honeybear, the Band / I Was Wrong / Everyone's Invited

** Brandon Isaak / Walkin With the Blues / Livin In the City

Kirk Fletcher / Keep On Pushing / Every Dog Has Its Day

Janiva Magness / Back For Me / The Same Love that Made Me Laugh

** Brother Ray Lemelin / Stirring the Pot / Etta Jean

** Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar / The Reckless One / Meet Me In the Morning

** Tribz / *single / Long Black Cadillac

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

** Amos Garrett, Doug Saum, Gene Taylor / The Return Of the Formerly Brothers / Smack Dab In the Middle

08/20/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist Aug 20, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Shemekia Copeland / Blame It On Eve / Cadillac Blue

Jimi Prime Time Smith / It's My Time / Don't Let the Devil Ride

** David Rotundo Band / So Much Trouble / She's Dynamite

** Samantha King & Midnight Outfit / *single / Devil In Me

Zac Harmon / *single / I Still Got the Blues (form Jacktown USA)

Keesha Pratt / Believe / Easily Replaced

** Dutch Mason Blues Band / Gimme A Break / Trying To Find My Baby

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

Billy Branch & the Sons Of Blues / *single / Begging For Change f. Shemekia Copeland

Southern Avenue / Family / Rum Boogie

** Sue Foley / Live In Austin / Queen Bee

DK Harrell / Talkin' Heavy / Liquor Stores and Legs

** Durham County Poets / Out Of the Woods / Working On It

08/13/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist Aug 13, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Monster Mike Welch / Keep Living Til I Die / Love Me Baby

Koko Taylor / Crown Jewels / Voodoo Woman

** Kenny Blues Boss Wayne / Ooh Yeah! / Blacklist

** Chambers DesLauriers / Our Time To Ride / Temperature Of One-O-Nine

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

Maria Muldaur / One Hour Mama - The Blues Of Victoria Spivey / Gotta Have What It Takes

** Paul Pigat / Cousin Harley Plays the Blues / You Upset Me Baby

** Angelique Francis / Not Defeated / Do That Work

Kirk Fletcher / Keep On Pushing / Every Dog Has Its Day

Alexis P Suter Band / Just Stay High / Love Always Wins

** Brother Ray Lemelin / Stirring the Pot / The Monkey

** Jimmy Z / It Is What It Is / Back to Mississippi

Sonny Gullage / Go Be Free / Blues All Over You

** Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley / Forever Blues / Trouble No More

08/06/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist Aug 6, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Bob Stroger & the Headcutters / Bob Is Back! / Don't You Lie to Me

Vanessa Collier / Heart On the Line / Superbad

** Tony D / Electric Delta / Josephine

** Big Dave McLean / This Old Life / Young Fashioned Ways

Billy Branch / *single / Begging For Change

John Primer / Grown In Mississippi / Down In the Bottom

** Michael Kaeshammer / No Strings Attached / Boogie Woogie Stomp

** Blue Moon Marquee / New Orleans / Trickster Coyote

Kat Riggins / Progeny / Woahman

Terry Hanck / Grease To Gravy / Overall Junction

** Brandon Isaak / Walkin With the Blues / I'll Be Right Here

** Judy Brown / Say It / Mama Told Me

** Garret T Willie / Same Pain / Black Shiny Shoes

07/16/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist July 16, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Zac Harmon / Floreada's Boy / Never Have A Better Night

Southern Avenue / Family / Upside

** Donald Ray Johnson / These Blues / Slow Down Baby

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

Buddy Guy / *single / How Blues Is That (f. Joe Walsh)

Gaye Adegbalola / Satisfied / Big Ovaries, Baby

** Chris Antonik / Waves Of Stone / We're Not Alone (f. Paul DesLauriers)

** Angelique Francis / *single / Train Coming w. Eric Gales

Billy Branch & the Sons Of Blues / *single / Beggin' For Change (f. Shemekia Copeland)

Jimi Prime Time Smith / It's My Time / Don't Let the Devil Ride

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

** Andre Bisson / Latchford / Tail Wags The Dog

** Sugar Brown / Toronto Bound / Sixteen Shots

07/09/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist July 9, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Mud Morganfield / Portrait / Catfishing

Janiva Magness / Back For Me / Do I Need You

** Tony D / Electric Delta / New Attention

** Honeybear, The Band / I Was Wrong / Everyone's Invited

Lurrie Bell / The Devil Ain't Got No Music / I'll Get To Heaven On My Own

Shemekia Copeland / Done Come Too Far / Nobody But You

** Brandon Isaak / Walkin With the Blues / Livin In the City

** Tribz / *single / Long Black Cadillac

Charlie Musselwhite / Look Out Highway / Hip Shakin' Mama

Kirk Fletcher / Heartache By the Pound / Shine A Light On Love

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

Terry Hanck / Grease to Gravy / Going Down Slow

** Crystal Shawanda / Sing Pretty Blues / Sing Pretty Blues

07/02/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist July 2, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Ronnie Baker Brooks / Blues In My DNA / Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

Robbin Kapsalis and Vintage 18 / Soul Shaker / The Cannonball

** Blackburn / Brothers In This World / Good Woman

** Big Dave McLean / This Old Life / Young Fashioned Ways

Maria Muldaur / One Hour Mama - The Blues Of Victoria Spivey / Any Kind A Man

DK Harrell / Talkin Heavy / Liquor Stores And Legs

Bob Stroger & the Headcutters / Bob Is Back! / Loan Me Train Fare

** Garret T Willie / Same Pain / Rolled

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

** Chambers DesLauriers / Our Time To Ride / People Gonna Talk

** Hogtown Allstars / Hog Wild / She's Got the Stuff

Jovin Webb / Drifter / Blues For A Reason

** Russell Jackson / Have Mercy / Brand New Life

** The Sugar Darlings / Thirsty For Your Love / South Shore Rock

06/25/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist June 25, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

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

Janiva Magness / Back For Me / Masterpiece (f. Joe Bonamassa)

** Billy Joe Green / *single / Endangered Man

** Ndidi O / Simple Songs For Complicated Times / Working Girl

Larry McCray / Heartbreak City / Crazy World

Terry Hanck / Grease To Gravy / If A Politician Was a Doctor

** Ray Lemelin / Thangs / The Monkey

** Ollee Owens / Nowhere To Hide / My Man

Buddy Guy / *single / How Blues Is That (f. Joe Walsh)

Southern Avenue / Family / Upside

** Steve Marriner / Hear My Heart / Through the Night

** Murray Porter / Stand Up! / Same Canoe

Alexis P Suter Band / Just Stay High / Piece Of Clay

06/18/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist Jun 18, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

This show is in honour of Juneteenth, an annual holiday celebrated June 19th in the US, that celebrates the end of slavery. The artists featured on this show are pioneers of and those that helped shape the blues that we hear today. I humbly and respectfully thank them for the gifts that they shared and for leading the way.

Muddy Waters / Fathers & Sons / Walking Thru the Park

Bobby Rush / Chicken Heads 50th Anniversary / Chicken Heads feat. Buddy Guy

Bessie Smith / *single / On Revival Day

** Harrison Kennedy / Who You Tellin' / Mountain Stomp

Bob Stroger & the Headcutters / Bob is Back!

Billy Boy Arnold / Consolidated Mojo / I'm A Man

Jessie Mae Hemphill / Jessie Mae Hemphill / Shake Your Bo**ie

Hubert Sumlin / Hubert Sumlin's Blues Party / Living the Blues

Pinetop Perkins & Jimmy Rogers / Genuine Blues Legends / Big Boss Man

Sister Rosetta Tharpe / Sister Rosetta Tharpe / The Gospel Train

** Bobby Dean Blackburn / Don't Ask, Don't Tell / I Got A Right

Son House / The Delta Blues Of Son House / Death Letter Blues

Ma Rainey / Ma Rainey / Blame It On the Blues

BB King / Why I Sing the Blues / The Thrill Is Gone

06/11/2025

The Blues Witness 6-7PM MST
Hosted by Cindy McLeod
Playlist Jun 11, 2025
Artist / Album / Song (** Canadian)

Benny Turner & Maria Muldaur / *single / Baby You've Got What It Takes

Southern Avenue / Family / Found A Friend In You

** David Gogo / Yeah! / Hurricane

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

Brandon Santini / Which Way Do We Go / Mile After Mile

DK Harrell / Talkin' Heavy / Praise These Blues

** Guy Belanger / Voyages / Duck Soup

** Mark Dillon / Ghost Train / Modern Voodoo

Duke Robillard / Roll With Me / Built For Comfort

Kat Riggins / Revival / Lucky

** Bobby Dean Blackburn / Don't Ask, Don't Tell / Everyday I Have the Blues

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

Guy Davis / The Legend Of Sugarbelly / Kokomo Alley

** Sugar Brown / Toronto Bound / Bad Health, No Wealth

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