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Chuck Prophet tour dates 2024 - 2025

Chuck Prophet is currently touring across 8 countries and has 28 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at Unknown venue in Puerto PeNasco, after that they'll be at Knuckleheads in Kansas City.

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Festival Circus Mexicus

Knuckleheads

Off Broadway

The Sessions at McPike Park

Acorn Music Festival

Natalie's Grandview

Leach Amphitheater

Mocassin Creek Festival

FITZGERALDS NIGHTCLUB

Chuck Prophet's Summertime Thing

HopMonk Tavern - Novato

Zentrum Altenberg

Nochtspeicher

Rätschenmühle

Metropool Hengelo

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Hotel Congress Plaza

Sweetwater Music Hall

Hipnic Festival

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Chuck Prophet at Outpost in the Burbs last night was so fun! My husband and I are both wondering why he isn't a superstar yet?! He's definitely got the writing skills, the voice and the musical chops to be a huge star. Had a great nights. Hope the rest of his tour is just as much fun.

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He really is incredibly talented and a nice guy with a cool wife who plays with him! They were both great talking with fans after the show. His new album, particularly Bad Day for Rock and Roll is great live.

Really enjoyed an absolute fabulous concert and the great intimate atmosphere at La Boule Noire- this is how a rock concert is supposed to be when it's best ! Come back soon to Paris Chuck !

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Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express

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Millennium Stage (In-Person and Livestream) Chuck Prophet with Stephanie Finch

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Since his neo-psychedelic Green On Red days, Chuck Prophet has been turning out country, folk, blues, and Brill Building classicism. Stephanie Finch is an accomplished singer-songwriter and keyboardist in her own right, having carved a niche in the music world with her soulful performances and versatile talents.

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Since his neo-psychedelic Green On Red days, Chuck Prophet has been turning out country, folk, blues, and Brill Building classicism.

His 15th studio record, The Land That Time Forgot , came out in 2020 and was called “swoony and romantic, with gorgeous backing vocals from Stephanie Finch” ( No Depression ) and “populated by characters, tall tales and true stories sung in that plain-dealing half-spoken voice that can bring to mind Tom Petty” ( Mojo ).

His next collection of songs, influenced by his love of cumbia music, is slated to come out in 2024.

Stephanie Finch is an accomplished singer-songwriter and keyboardist in her own right, having carved a niche in the music world with her soulful performances and versatile talents. As a solo artist, her rich vocals and compelling compositions, as showcased in her album Cry Tomorrow , reflect a seamless blend of folk, rock, and Americana influences.

Ken Tucker (NPR’s Fresh Air ) once wrote, “Stephanie Finch sings in a high, plaintive register that can sound both pleading and firm, sarcastic and wry. It’s a voice of knowingness, from which innocence has been stripped away to reveal a performer who knows what she wants from herself and from other people.”

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Chuck Prophet w/ Parker Gispert – 8pm $25/30 (Artist Requested COVID Protocols in Place)

January 13, 2022 @ 8:00 pm.

A very IMPORTANT update to the upcoming Chuck Prophet show – please read on… (a requirement for Chuck’s tour specifically):

To ensure the safety of all patrons and staff as well as the band members, a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours is required for entry to this show. Proof of full vaccination may be substitued in lieu of a negative COVID-19 test. Attendees and venue staff are encouraged to wear a mask when not eating or drinking. This is not a venue policy, but a tour policy. This policy is not in effect for all shows at Skipper’s Smokehouse.

We can’t wait to enjoy an evening with Chuck under the oaks and hope to see you at the show.

Chuck Prophet  

If the best parts of your classic British Invasion, 50s country, 60s pop, and pure rock ’n’ roll records could be transformed into a person, they might look and sound a lot like  Chuck Prophet . For almost 30 years, this Bay Area songwriter has reliably delivered albums so pleasingly familiar that, had he started a few decades earlier, it’d be easy to imagine him outshining the likes of Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. Prophet has the charisma of an arena star, and thanks to his catchy guitar riffs, powerful choruses, and seductively casual vocal style, which could trick you into thinking he’s talking straight into your ear, his live shows always sound larger than the clubs where he plays. Other artists often cover Prophet’s songs, and many of them, including Alejandro Escovedo and Kim Richey, have turned to him as a writing partner on their albums. Prophet’s own work has only improved over the years, as evidenced by his recent run of records, from 2012’s  Temple Beautiful , a tribute to the vanishing underbelly of San Francisco, till last year’s  The Land That Time Forgot , which contains sharp wordplay and lovely sad songs about dead presidents and sensitive metal heads. 

THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT

Since his neo-psychedelic Green On Red days, Chuck Prophet has been turning out country, folk, blues, and Brill Building classicism. THE LAND THAT TIME FORGET is something different, a weather vane picking up signals from outer space – or maybe it’s the Heartland.

Priced out of his beloved hometown, San Francisco, Prophet found himself re-energized in Upstate NY just a few miles from the Vermont border – and made a record that is much a 21st century exorcism as it is America.

The songs inhabit a world where a Fast Kid might be on the run from the truant officer or a handsy boss…or the Immigration Service. These are love songs that turn political on a dime (Love Doesn’t Come from the Barrel of a Gun), and melodic hallucinations about kicking back in the Oval Office after hours “talking to my baby, saying baby, let’s not fight.”

Where else besides a Chuck Prophet LP are songs going to come at you from both the Tenderloin and an English roundabout, with stopovers in Nixonland and a love-struck mirror on a Saturday night while a workingman tries his Best Shirt On? With special appearances by the ghost of Johnny Thunders and Willie Wonka and John the Baptist and the train that brought Abraham Lincoln home one last time.

In Waving Goodbye, a young girl leaves small town attitudes behind to conquer the world one gig at a time. Then there’s a dance Marathon, lost in time and reborn as a reality show. According to Womankind, men had their run, but it’s over. (The good news is he can still try to sing his way into her heart.)

And it all leads up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue where a singer has his say, in two and a half loping verses and a middle eight.

Here’s Chuck:

“Have any of you been to a 24-hour Walmart on the outskirts of Pittsburgh after midnight lately? It was just me and a couple tweakers roaming the auto parts aisles. We got along just fine. Long story short, I fixed that guitar by my lonesome and am playing it right now. I’m kind of proud of that.”

“I will say this, though, about Ohio. Some of my truest hard earned fans are in Ohio. Go on and call it a fly-over-state, but not while Chrissie Hynde is in earshot, unless you want a vegan boot up your ass. All I’m saying is that a state is a lot more than which candidate won by how many votes. I mean you gotta feel sorry for the conservatives. The only songs they can play at their rallies without getting hit with a cease and desist order are by Ted Nugent and Charlie Daniels. And those two sure aren’t shy about expressing   their   opinions.”

THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT got off the ground in the Money Belt, only to find its legs in the Borscht Belt. Musically it has deep roots, from the Southern Delta to the discos of Munich. There’s a kind of folkish inevitability to it, lots of acoustic instruments, on top of each other and side by side. But as much as folk music is the soil all music grows from, it never hurts to have a boiler room. So, there’s always a rhythm section shuffling under your feet here.

Written mostly with longtime co-conspirator klipschutz, this LP steps out of Chuck Prophet’s comfort zone (“two guitars, bass, and drums”). After nailing three tracks in S.F. with Grammy-winning alchemist Matt Winegar, Prophet confesses, “We hit a wall. Schedules. Money. Towed vehicles: a thousand large to get one van out of lockup.”

So he went out on tour, a solo tour. Driving through the Catskills he dropped into Kenny Siegal’s Old Soul Studios, in a “5-bedroom Greek Revival listed on the National Registry,” Chuck and Kenny immediately began to argue. Over   anything . Whether it was too hot or too cold (according to WHOM?). At the end of the day – “a very long day, three weeks of them – let’s just say Kenny’s the man. At Old Soul, musicians drop in, sometimes complete blind dates. We did everything live. The drummer gigs with Kevin Morby. The bass player, out of some jazz scene. Piano player, an honorary Bad Seed. A mish mash of personalities and styles. Turns out you can make a lot of noise with acoustic instruments, if there are enough of them.”

When asked about his life, Prophet is candid and evasive all at once: “What do you want to know. Death, health issues, financial hijinks, I’ve had them all the past few years. We lost my dad and we lost Stephie’s dad too. The basement flooded. My shoulder went out. I got hives over 80% of my body; was quarantined. The only break I caught was when the ear, eye, nose, and throat doctors were all in the same building. Oh, and I almost got killed about seven times in rented cars in snowstorms, lost on the way to gigs. Hey, maybe we should talk about songs instead.” http://www.chuckprophet.com

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Parker Gispert Sunlight Tonight 

Parker Gispert was still in college when he helped form the Whigs in the early 2000s. But after five critically-acclaimed albums, hundreds of tour dates all over the world with the likes of Kings of Leon, Drive-By Truckers, the Black Keys and many others, and television appearances everywhere from the Late Show with David Letterman to Jimmy Kimmel Live! , the Athens, Georgia-bred rockers decided to pull back on activity in 2017.

Which left Gispert, who had spent the majority of his adult life either in the studio or on the road with the band, at a crossroads.

“It occurred to me that if I wanted to record and tour that I was going to need to do it solo,” the singer, songwriter and guitarist says. “I’d always thought about it in the back of my mind as something that I wanted to do one day, but ‘one day’ had never really come.”

Now, ‘one day’ is here in the form of Sunlight Tonight , Gispert’s debut solo album (produced and mixed by Emery Dobyns). The eight-song effort finds Gispert, known for leading the Whigs through raw and jangly southern-garage rave-ups, taking a decidedly different musical approach—biting electric guitar riffs are cast out in favor of gentle acoustic picking and strumming, and his band mates’ raucous rhythms are traded in for minimal accompaniment that includes light bass and drums, orchestral strings and even trumpet. Gispert’s lyrics, meanwhile, are his most introspective and personal to date (albeit with a bit of humor thrown in here and there) and they’re delivered in a vocal style that finds him pushing out on his range. “I didn’t need to project over a band, so I was able to sing in registers I hadn’t really used before, like a lot of high falsetto,” he explains.

The end result showcases a different side of the artist, to be sure. But it’s one that Gispert felt compelled to explore. “A lot of guys from rock bands that go solo, they just hire another bassist and drummer and go make another album,” he says. “I didn’t want to go that route.”

Ultimately, his change in musical direction was helped along by a change in geography. A longtime resident of Nashville (by way of Atlanta, and then Athens), Gispert last year accepted an invitation from a friend to visit his 100-acre hemp farm, located roughly an hour outside Music City. “It was like out of a total time warp,” Gispert recalls of the property. “No heat or AC. No animals. No active crops. Water from a well. It was just, like, a house and a plot of land. I ended up staying there for a year.”

That plot of land was where Sunlight Tonight came into being. “I would wake up early and get my guitar and walk outside and come up with all these songs,” Gispert says. “And without a band to turn to as the deciding factor on, say, a melody or a lyric, I ended up turning to the scenery and the landscape I was dealing with instead. The farm was like my collaborator—it kind

of answered everything for me, as weird as that sounds. And the songs started coming pretty quickly.”

The first one that came is also the one that opens Sunlight Tonight —a psychedelia-laced meditation titled “Through the Canvas.” Built on a bed of acoustic guitar and cello, the song finds Gispert laying out what is essentially a statement of purpose: “Suddenly I got up / Suddenly I could move / shook off all the bullshit that was weighing down my shoes.”

Explains Gispert, “With the Whigs, I had been in that band since I was a teenager. So when that slowed, I found myself in a place where I was almost paralyzed, like, What do I do next ? It was just confusing. But that song sums up what happened when I got to the farm. It was like, suddenly I got up, grabbed a guitar, walked down to this big field and…”

Shook off all the bullshit?

Gispert laughs. “Yeah. And bullshit was exactly the word to describe it. It was all the worries. All the fear. All the drama. All the stuff you can’t even articulate. After I put all of that behind me I was able to set out on this journey of making a solo record.”

That journey ended up being very unlike any Gispert had embarked upon previously. For starters, he says, “I wrote all of the songs for the record while outside, and that’s something I’d never done before. Usually I’d be in a cramped apartment or a studio space—not, like, walking around outside in a big open field at 1:00 AM, just singing and playing.”

He laughs. “And the good thing is, I was on this secluded property, so nobody could see me—it didn’t matter if I looked like a total goofball just wandering around in my jean shorts strumming an acoustic guitar.”

The material that Gispert came up at the farm with was primarily acoustic-based, but at the same time still incredibly diverse, from the dark folk of “Magnolia Sunrise” to the ambient tones of “Life in the Goldilocks Zone”; the T. Rex-y groove-glam of “Volcano,” to the lo-fi garage-fuzz of “Is It Nine”; the exuberant mariachi-horn-rock of “Too Dumb to Love Anyone” (the one composition Gispert says was originally written with the Whigs in mind) to the oddball genre exercise “Do Some Country.”

That last one also features some witty wordplay (“I am a rock artist,” Gispert sings, before adding, “I paint pictures on limestone”), as well as a unique origin story regarding its title. “I was at a Nikki Lane show,” Gispert recalls, “and in between songs this woman in the audience kept yelling ( in a heavy southern accent ) “C’monNikki! Do some country !”And my friend and I were just like, ‘Man…that would be such a sweet song title!’ ”

There are other lighthearted moments on Sunlight Tonight , such as the nursery-rhyme-like “Is It Nine,” on which Gispert attempts to determine which number would fit best into the alphabet. The genesis of that riddle? “It was just a ridiculous question I asked myself, and I had never heard a song about that particular question before,” he explains. “So I thought for my first solo album it would be a good idea to have one track that was uniquely ‘Parker.’ Because there are so many love songs or political songs or whatever out there already.”

Which is not to say that Gispert shies away from those topics on Sunlight Tonight . “Too Dumb to Love Anyone,” for one, addresses his present station in life as an unwedded man. “I’m 36, and most of my friends are at that point where they’re getting married and having kids,” he says. “And my friends’ wives will say things to me like, ‘Parker, when are you gonna meet

somebody and join the club?’ So I always say, the only thing standing in between me and a great relationship is that the idea has never occurred to me.”

Then there’s “Magnolia Sunrise,” which unfolds somewhat uneventfully, with Gispert grabbing breakfast at a local diner (“Coffee, Tennessee / grits made to order”) before an anxious waitress shatters his mundane tranquility: “There’s still a lot that could go wrong,” she tells him. As the guitar accompaniment builds and the orchestral strings turn frantic, Gispert intones, ominously, “One Saturday morning / there will be no warning.”

The narrative, Gispert says, “is based on a real interaction I had, at a diner right down the road that I’d go to all the time in the mornings. I ended up talking to this waitress who was having irrational fears of, like, a hurricane coming, or a nuclear threat. It brings up this idea of, you could be chilling out, enjoying your day, and when you least expect it, that’s when something happens—tragedy could be right around the corner.”

Clearly, Gispert’s environment and experiences at the farm factored heavily into the words and music he wrote for Sunlight Tonight . But when it came time to record the material, he left his rural surroundings behind and headed back into Nashville, cutting tracks at Blackbird Studios and Hacienda Studios, with producer Emery Dobyns (Patti Smith, Antony and the Johnsons) at the helm. Dobyns also added various instrumentation to the tracks, alongside contributions from Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, former Sparklehorse vocalist Sol Seppy and Adele bassist Samuel Dixon, among other musicians. “It was like there was one phase of the record, which was me alone writing everything,” Gispert says. “And then there was the second phase, the studio phase, which was very much a team effort, with Emery shaping the record sonically and production-wise.”

When it comes to playing this material live, however, Gispert has been going it alone—an atypical arrangement for him onstage, but one that he’s been finding incredibly satisfying. “I love it a lot,” he says about being out on his own. “I feel really comfortable up there by myself, and in some respects I’m able to connect with the crowd in a way that I never was able to do with a band.”

That said, Gispert still gets plenty of opportunities to play with his band, as the Whigs continue to reconvene for sporadic live shows, including a recent spate of dates celebrating the tenth anniversary of their 2008 record, Mission Control . But far from his solo endeavors having a negative impact on the group, he’s found the opposite to be true. “I’d always been afraid of doing something solo because I thought it might mess up the band vibe, but now I’m able to see that it actually helps,” Gispert says. “When we do get back together to play, it’s fun and it’s fresh and it has new life.”

As for what the future holds, Gispert is open to any and all possibilities that might follow in the wake of Sunlight Tonight . “Because I didn’t even see any of this happening, you know?” he says. “So I can’t really say what comes next. But it’s almost like a weight off my shoulders to not really know where I’m going from here.”

One thing he can say for sure: the farm that served as both inspiration and companion to Gispert throughout the writing process for Sunlight Tonight is now a thing of the past.

“I’ve moved away,” he reports. “I’m living over by a lake now.” Gispert laughs. “I’m trying to switch it up.”

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Chuck Prophet's Summertime Thing

• June 29, 2024 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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"Yessir, I’m curating a Music Festival in Guerneville, CA on Saturday, June 29. OK, now this may not be the biggest festival out there. But if you like Chuck Prophet music, it just might be the best. (Who knows, you might want to show up in your best shirt.) Seriously, how long could I resist getting in on the Festival fun? We have some surprises in store for you. There’ll be legends. And pioneers. Next Generation weirdos, too. Plus a couple acts you’ve never heard of, I’m sure. But this is for realzzzz. So think about joining us among the towering redwoods, at the the Rio Nido Roadhouse in Guerneville, CA. You can sit inside or out. There will be two stages. Gonna be a cool hang. That much I know."

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Sat, Jun 29, 2024 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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June presents a steady month of concerts. Here are some of the best that you can find at smaller Chicago venues.

Photos courtesy of (starting top left, clockwise) Galaxy Francis; George Walker IV/Invision/AP; Matthew Gilson; Casey Mitchell

June stages shine with roots, rap, blues and soul. Here are 10 concerts to see.

These shows are the antithesis of sweaty festivals. they’re more intimate and feature performers at the top of their craft..

This weekend’s Chicago Blues Festival downtown is just a kickoff for a steady month of concerts. Here are the best of smaller venues and clubs.

Shannon & the Clams with Tropa Magica

7 p.m. on June 11 at Lincoln Hall

No, it isn’t a summer seafood joint — Shannon & the Clams is a lean, mean, psychedelic-tinged rockabilly band from Southern California that, for 15 years, has incorporated surf rock, garage, and classic R&B. This spring the band released The Moon is in the Wrong Place, its seventh album produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and released on his boutique label, Easy Eye Sound. 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., tickets from $30.

Chicago-based Galaxy Francis will perform at Schubas on June 11.

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Galaxy Francis with J Bambii, Kayo, and Rhome

7:30 p.m. on June 11 at Schubas

This is a release show for Galaxy Francis, the Chicago-based rapper, singer, and producer formerly known as L.A. VanGogh. Born Lamont Anderson, Galaxy prepped the release of Metal Gear, his debut album, by steadily releasing a twin set of EPs over the last two years. The prolific run of music originated from Studio Shapes in Albany Park, where he works as a studio president. His latest music is a mix of EDM, classic hip-hop and old school soul music. 3159 N. Southport Ave., tickets from $10.

S.G. Goodman with Secular Pets

7:30 p.m. on June 12 at SPACE

Kentucky-born S.G. Goodman is among a new vanguard of country singer-songwriters (Tyler Childers, Kelsey Waldon) who have embraced the Appalachian musical roots of their home state. Over two albums, her first in 2020, Goodman has made a splash combining country twang, folk storytelling, and the ever-present squall of indie rock guitars. 1245 Chicago Ave. in Evanston, tickets from $30.

Country musician Roberta Lea will perform at FitzGeralds on June 12.

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Roberta Lea

8:30 p.m. on June 12 at FitzGeralds

This is the year of Black women in country music, but the conversation isn’t just about Beyoncé. In recent years, Roberta Lea has been making music as a member of the Black Opry, an artist collective for Black roots musicians. Last year, the Virginia native released her debut, Too Much of a Woman, which garnered comparisons as diverse as Shania Twain and Tracy Chapman for its rich storytelling detail and country pop hooks. 6615 W. Roosevelt Rd. in Berwyn, tickets from $15.

The Bethany Pickens Quartet will appear at the Jazz Showcase this month.

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Bethany Pickens Quartet

8 p.m. on June 13-16 at the Jazz Showcase

Chicago pianist and composer Bethany Pickens is steeped in jazz tradition due to her father, the acclaimed jazz pianist Willie Pickens. Along the way she has worked with a long list of greats including trumpeter Clark Terry, drummer Louis Bellson, Chicago tenor saxophone pioneer Von Freeman and vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater. Some of her greatest strides have been in the classroom: Pickens has taught music in Chicago Public Schools for more than two decades, most recently at Kenwood Academy High School. This residency is an opportunity for this hometown notable to showcase her latest work. 806 S. Plymouth Court, tickets from $25.

Steve Dawson will perform in Evanston on June 16.

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Steve Dawson

7 p.m. on June 16 at SPACE

One of the lynchpins of Chicago’s flourishing songwriter scene is Steve Dawson, a songwriter, vocalist, and educator who elevates everything he touches. At first, Dawson helped front Dolly Varden, the critically praised Americana quintet.. But from there, Dawson stretched out and, through successive solo albums with various collaborators, has woven together his own unique brand of poetic lyricism and blue-eyed soul, much like “Astral Weeks”-era Van Morrison. Dawson is also active as a producer, having helmed multiple projects in recent years for songwriters from around town, including those from the Old Town School of Folk Music, where he teaches. This is an album release show for Ghosts, his latest record on Chicago’s Pravda Records. 1245 Chicago Ave., in Evanston, tickets from $15.

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Quasi with Marnie Stern

8 p.m. on June 19 at Lincoln Hall

Guitarist-keyboardist Sam Coomes and drummer Janet Weiss emerged from the Pacific Northwest in the mid-1990s with a heavy sound that draw from a long list of impressive former bands: Weiss as the previous, full-time drummer for Sleater-Kinney and Coomes with Elliott Smith, Built to Spill and the Shins. Now back together as a band, the duo is enjoying icon status. This show will feature a complete performance of the band’s beloved third album Featuring ‘Birds.’ 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., tickets from $25.

The Young Fresh Fellows with Aunt Kelly

8:30 p.m. on June 22 at the Hideout

This show reunites the Young Fresh Fellows, an indie-pop group from Seattle that pre-dated grunge by a decade. Over the years, singer/songwriter/guitarist Scott McCaughey became largely known for his many other bands, as well as a 17-year run as the “fifth member” of R.E.M, both onstage and in the studio. This tour promotes a new deluxe edition of Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest, the first Young Fresh Fellows record, and a new line-up that features Chicago drummer John Perrin. 1354 W. Wabansia St., tickets from $15.

Ivan Gomez Singh Band will bring a West Side guitar sound to Rosa’s at the end of June.

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Ivan Gomez Singh Band

9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. on June 22 at Rosa’s

This Argentinian-born guitarist is now an active member of Chicago’s blues scene. He combines the rhythms of his native country with a fiery West Side guitar sound, which he honed for years by sharing the stage with long-standing standard bearers such as Lurrie Bell, John Primer and Jimmy Burns. 3420 W. Armitage Ave., tickets from $15.

Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express

8:30 p.m. on June 22 at FitzGeralds

If Bay Area rocker Chuck Prophet had started his career in the mid-1970s, he might have given Tom Petty a run for his money. Instead, Prophet has been tearing up club and festival stages over the last two-plus decades thanks to his songs, all riddled with anthem-sized hooks and lyrics wrought with wry humor. Years ago, he also wrote “Summertime Thing,” a perfect song for the season, which will likely be a highlight of this show. 6615 W. Roosevelt Rd. in Berwyn, tickets from $29.

Mark Guarino is a journalist based in Chicago and the author of Country & Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival.

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Chuck prophet and the mission express return on their first uk tour since 2017.

Chuck Prophet – singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer. Chuck started his wild ride back in 1984 when Green on Red plucked him out of Berkeley, CA and put him in the van for an eight-year ride, recording over six albums with them. Green on Red were seminal purveyors of American Roots Rock aka Alt-country and broke up in 1992 just before an entire movement followed in their wake. Since then Chuck has recorded fourteen amazing solo albums and toured and recorded with Lucinda Williams, Aimee Mann, Cake, Alejandro Escovedo and Jonathan Richman. In addition to that, Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams, Solomon Burke and Heart have covered his songs. Chuck’s live shows are second to known and have sold out gigs across the UK featuring slots on festivals like Summertyne, Kilkenny, Glastonbury, Roskilde, etc.

Since his neo-psychedelic Green On Red 80s days, Chuck Prophet has been turning out country, folk, blues, and Brill Building classicism. His last visit to European and UK shores with the Mission Express was way back in 2017, before the pandemic and before Chuck getting and finally beating cancer that floored him for much of this year. Chuck is back and better than ever with his Mission Express for his first European shows in six years.

The cult Californian musician finally returns to promote ‘The Land That Time Forgot’ , his latest album out via Yep Roc Records which saw his best reviews to date with a UNCUT Album of the Month in addition he will have an exclusive tour album available at all shows. Priced out of recording in his beloved hometown, San Francisco, Prophet found himself re-energised in Upstate NY, just a few miles from the Vermont border, and made a record that he describes as “just as much a 21st-century exorcism as it is Americana.” The songs inhabit a world where the protagonists might be on the run from the truant officer, a handsy boss or the Immigration Service. These are love songs that turn political on a dime, infused with personal connections. Especially some of the more social material grows out of Chuck’s evolution after an upbringing in a Republican Party household. In his singular way, the album charts the slow-collapse of the party: from ‘Honest Abe Lincoln’s’ funeral train, through a childhood in Richard Nixon’s hometown, all the way to the playful mockery of the disc’s closer.

Written mostly with long-time co-conspirator klipschutz, this LP steps out of Chuck’s comfort zone (“two guitars, bass, and drums”). After nailing three tracks in S.F. with Grammy-winning alchemist Matt Winegar, Prophet confesses, “We hit a wall. Schedules. Money. Towed vehicles: a thousand large to get one van out of lockup.” So, he went out on tour, a solo tour, to raise some much-needed funds. Driving through the Catskills he ended up dropping into Kenny Siegal’s Old Soul Studios to finish the record, with some great company too: “At Old Soul, musicians drop in, sometimes complete blind dates. We did everything live. The drummer gigs with Kevin Morby. The bass player, out of some jazz scene. Piano player, an honorary Bad Seed. A mish-mash of personalities and styles. Turns out you can make a lot of noise with acoustic instruments, if there are enough of them.”

‘The Land That Time Forgot’ has deep roots, from the Southern Delta to the discos of Munich. There’s a kind of folkish inevitability to it – “there’s lots of acoustic instruments, on top of each other and side by side” – but as much as folk music is the soil all music grows from, it never hurts to have a boiler room. As such, there’s always a rhythm section shuffling under your feet. Take ‘Marathon’ , for example: “It’s all Krautrock bass and Everly Brothers acoustics. I threw all my rockabilly, space-age, Roxy Music tricks in there.” Throughout, Chuck finds himself on his finest-form. Not just in terms of the multifaceted songwriting – with more surprising reference points than you count on two hands – but also his exemplary, typically out-there storytelling, too. And a not-inconsiderable presence on vocals by the inimitable Stephanie Finch.

‘Fast Kid’ is another case in point, with “as much 80s Judds in it as delta blues, Hill Country, blues, swamp or rockabilly. It’s a hopped-up T-Rex-induced Appalachian ballad about a girl growing up too fast.” In the breezy ’Best Shirt On’ – replete with Beach Boys-esque chord changes and ‘High As Johnny Thunders ’ is an ode to two of Prophet’s heroes – not just the New York Dolls guitarist in the title, but Dion DiMucci too.

‘The Land That Time Forgot’ also comprises some of Prophet’s first politically-themed songs too. ‘Paying My Respects to the Train’ tells the story of Lincoln’s funeral train, retracing his route from Springfield to Washington in 1861; and the rootsy doo-wop of ‘Love Doesn’t Come from the Barrel of a Gun’ is “for all the people that would rather read a biography of The Coasters than ‘Guns and Ammo’.” Then there’s ‘Nixonland’ , which recalls Prophet’s childhood growing up in the former president’s hometown, La Habra. And, then, wrapping up the album is ‘Get Off the Stage’ , Prophet’s open letter to the previous inhabitant of the Oval office.

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Tickets on-sale 9am Friday 18 November

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