The Bob Edwards Show - Weekend

Chuck Prophet

by Chad Campbell, senior producer

Sadly, the only reason I learned of musician Chuck Prophet was because of this show’s music reviewer emeritus. Anthony DeCurtis featured the Prophet song “Would You Love Me?” on our year-end overlooked music segment of 2007. That’s when I became a fan. So when I saw that Prophet had a new CD - recorded in Mexico City at the height of the H1N1 flu hysteria, amid an earthquake, drug wars and electrical brownouts, in a studio that was state of the art during the Eisenhower administration - I was intrigued. Here’s a short video that goes behind-the-scenes of Prophet’s time south of the border.

We arranged for Chuck Prophet to drop by our performance studio, between tour stops in Raleigh and Philadelphia, to perform three songs from his latest CD titled “Let Freedom Ring!”.

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Taking over the WXPN blog

Chuck here, so listen up girl scouts:  I’ll be taking full command, hijacking NPR’s World Café web site and blogging all week long starting today Monday, December 7 - naturally, Pearl Harbor Day. Kamikaze?  Could be.  You’re not interested? Well consider this: Green on Red’s Dan Stuart is breaking radio silence. Tune in while I interview Dan about toenail clippings, MILF midget porn, Stairmasters with missing steps and other burning issues - all from a swank hotel lobby in London. Of course I’ll share career advice and explain the many benefits of plagiarism - plus deep thoughts about the lifeboat Springsteen tossed us all. And how KEITH RICHARDS TOLD ME COFFEE IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST THING YOU CAN PUT IN YOUR BODY (told by the late great Nikki Sudden, written by yours truly). Not all this stuff is brand new but it’s never too late to share Winston’s discovery of the right and wrong way to pack the van (when in doubt, consult the bass player).  From Tupelo Mississippi, our team mascot John Murry will assist me in interviewing myself, which sounds like safe sex, right? Well it’s not, but it does involve Bluetooth.  Guy Neal Williams will bludgeon unruly words back into line.  Folks: it’ll get ugly. I promise.

http://xpn.org/allaboutthemusic/tag/chuck-prophet-blog-takeover

KEXP Seattle Picks “American Man” As Its Song of the Day

Chuck Prophet’s “American Man,” from his recently released album ¡Let Freedom Ring!, is the featured 90.3 KEXP Seattle “Song of the Day” download today, Nov. 18th .

http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2009/11/18/song-of-the-day-chuck-prophet-american-man/

Great American Music Hall w/Jason Isbell, 11/08/09

CP and The Mission Express at the Great American Music Hall w/Jason Isbell, THIS SUNDAY NIGHT 11/08/09!
Chuck Prophet and Mission Express: 8-9:15pm
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit 9:45-11:15pm

Jim Dickinson (1942 - 2009) R.I.P.

Jim Dickinson (1942 - 2009) R.I.P.

I just learned that Jim died. I’m punched in the chest.

Jim’s presence here may be gone. And it was a big presence. But his music, his spirit? Well, hell, you know how this sentence ends…. I’m sad. Deeply. But the memories that swirl tonight under the ceiling fan aren’t sad at all.

I have more photo’s somewhere. Below’s a Poloroid I took of Jim and Dan Stuart at El Dorado Studios. And above one of the many mix cassettes Jim schooled me with.

Dickinson on the passing of Sam Phillips: “They say God created all men equal. I think God gave Sam just a little extra.” Same goes for you too Bubba. I miss you. Prayers go out to Luther, Cody and of course Mary Lindsey.

Read my thoughts on Jim here: http://chuckprophet.com/blog/