High Praise For A Musician's Musician

He picked up a guitar as a child and started out in punk as a teenager in Southern California. There were about eight years in Green on Red, the country/rock/Americana band of the 1980s that inspired acclaim from critics and fans in the know. Then he went solo and created eight albums including his most recent, Soap and Water.

Nothing? No bells going off?

How about Lucinda Williams, heard of her? He toured with her. Kelly Willis? He produced her last album, Translated From Love, and has collaborated with her, writing songs and performing on her albums.

He's worked with Warren Zevon, Jonathan Richman and Alejandro Escovedo and the band Cake.

In other words, Chuck Prophet's a man with the kind of insider résumé that has earned him praise from musicians and listeners ? the ones who are listening, that is. read more