Artist: Chuck Prophet
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Chuck Prophet – Dreaming Waylon’s Dreams
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 tribute to that masterpiece. What is surprising is that the “someone” has turned out to [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Chuck Prophet – Age of Miracles
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 Art has been whispering a little too loudly in Henry’s ear of late, Prophet has [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Chuck Prophet – The beating heart
On Chuck Prophet’s gripping 2000 album The Hurting Business, one track stood out from the rest. On “Dyin’ All Young”, amidst a soulful but depressed groove, Prophet sang of a mother’s anguish upon discovering her son’s fatal drug overdose. “Something pulled him like the tide/Up on the banks of Methadonia,” Prophet sings, at once weary [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Peter Case / Chuck Prophet – Schubas Tavern (Chicago, IL)
On paper, the pairing was a perfect package: Two troubadours who’ve followed equally vagabond muses down similar sidetracks. But Peter Case and Chuck Prophet weren’t touring together; this double bill was a one-night-only result of right-place/right-time good fortune. Prophet took the stage first. Like Case, whose seven solo albums since the dissolution of the Plimsouls [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #25 Jan-Feb 2000
Chuck Prophet – The Hurting Business
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 featured Dan Stuart and Chris Cacavas on 1985′s Gas Food Lodging, and his crackling six-string [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #13 Jan-Feb 1998
Chuck Prophet – Brother Aldo
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 picked up the rights and issued it for the first time domestically, making it a [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Chuck Prophet – Bringing It All Back Home
Every musician has a silly Euro-journo story. If Melody Maker’s “Pepe LePunk” parody is to be believed, these anecdotes require two simple elements: a particularly annoying, irrelevant, stupid or wrongheaded question, plus a bemusedly haughty French, German or Danish accent. The Eurotrash writer is also required to address the subject by his full name. The [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #3 Spring 1996
Chuck Prophet – Feast of Hearts
It’s rather remarkable to ponder, in retrospect, the amount of talent that was gathered in Green On Red, considering the present offshoots of its various alumni. There’s Dan Stuart, whose solo debut of last fall, Canowarms, showed continued songwriting excellence as well as artistic growth. There’s Chris Cacavas, who has put out a string of [...]
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