Entertainment Weekly
MR. CLEAN
Chuck Prophet soaks up the Stonesy vibe on his excellent new CD
Though the guitarist’s narco-blasted days in indie-rock band Green on Red are long behind him, there’s still something elegantly and acerbically wasted about Chuck Prophet. This collection of roots rock is Stonesy loose, which is also to say that it’s Stonesy tight. The lumbering A Woman’s Voice aside, Soap and Water’s tracks impress ‹ from the sex-drenched Freckle Song to Let’s Do Something Wrong, where his Tom Petty-ish vocals are puckishly augmented by a kids’ choir on the lyrics “Let’s do something wrong/Let’s do something stupid.” A-
