But songwriting remains Prophet’s bread and butter, and collaboration is the specialty. With Southern-soul legend Dan Penn, he’s co-written songs for Willis and Solomon Burke, and he’s ...

Chuck Prophet’s ¡Let Freedom Ring! is a Born in the U.S.A. for our time. Not that the Californian troubadour and self-described “hustler” behind this 25th-anniversary update of Bruce ...

Singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet has released a steady stream of critically acclaimed albums in the past 17 years, notably as guitarist with the band Green on Red. He performs songs from his new ...

Over the course of his long career, Alejandro Escovedo has collaborated compositionally, but for Real Animal, he co-wrote all its songs with guitarist and roots savant in his own right Chuck ...

Chuck Prophet recalls the first time he met Alex Chilton, the enigmatic singer and guitarist formerly of the Box Tops and Big Star. It was 1986, and Chilton was sharing a bill with Prophet’s ...

The highlight of my July 4 weekend was seeing Chuck Prophet and his Mission Express band kick off the 28th annual American Music Festival at FitzGerald’s roadhouse in Berwyn, Ill. Based in San ...

There isn't much that journeyman musician Chuck Prophet hasn't covered in his 40-plus years in the rock and roll biz. In 1984, he was a member of the Paisley Underground music scene in Los Angeles ...