Chuck Prophet waged war on rock and roll last night at Madison’s High Noon Saloon. He won. There were casualties. Buddy Holly took a shot for the team. Prophet magically inhabited Holly’s realm both musically and physically: wide-eyed earnestness on […]
Chuck Prophet performing at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA.
Sizing up the room, Chuck Prophet described how he uses smell and broken glass to find most of the bars he plays in. Surveying the Hamilton, he described it as something between “The White House and a PTA meeting.” Could […]
If you wanted to pick country music’s Best Album of All-Time, you could do a lot worse than to put Waylon Jennings’ Dreaming My Dreams on the short list. It’s hardly surprising, then, that someone would come along to pay […]
Like Joe Henry, onetime Green On Red stalwart Chuck Prophet has evolved since his alt-countryish beginnings into a refreshingly unlabel-able artist who, in mixing and matching genres, thrives on offbeat textures and carefully etched moods. One difference is that while […]
Even though Chuck Prophet has been recording as a solo artist for the better part of this decade, he’s probably still best known in the States as the guitarist in Green On Red. Prophet joined the psychedelic-twang outfit that also […]
Originally issued in the U.K. seven years ago on a tiny label while Prophet was on hiatus from the now-defunct Green On Red, Brother Aldo quickly disappeared despite receiving some outstanding reviews in the British press. But Velvel has wisely […]
