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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 Springsteen’s ode ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Two years after its release, Chuck Prophet’s “Temple Beautiful” CD, an offbeat and off-the-beaten-track history of San Francisco, ...

Chuck Prophet. The singer songwriter has performed numerous WMNF special shows. He has played multiple WMNF Tropical Heatwaves going back almost 25 years. He participated in the WMNF Tropical Heatwave ...

On the surface, Chuck Prophet's new album, Temple Beautiful, showcases his talent for writing hook-filled rock songs. Look a little deeper, and you'll see that Prophet is also a fine historian, ...

Anyone touched by the daft genius of Chuck Prophet knows his quirky, free-spirited folk songs have forever changed music. But to call him influential isn’t likely to get an agreeable response from him ...

Bay Area artist Chuck Prophet is no stranger to local audiences who’ve seen him live, listened to him on KPIG Radio, or perhaps heard his studio work with other musicians. (He’s been a guest player on ...

Chuck Prophet remembers the day he started listening to cumbia, the Latin American musical style that forms the backbone of his new album Wake the Dead. It was probably 10 years ago, and Prophet was ...

San Francisco singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet has been through a lot since he last played Penngrove’s Twin Oaks Roadhouse a year ago. In his triumphant return to that stage last Sunday night, Aug. 7, ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...