Chuck Prophet -Let Freedom Ring -YEP ROC CD Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

1.1 Sonny Liston's Blues

1.2 What Can a Mother Do

1.3 Where the Hell Is Henry?

1.4 Let Freedom Ring!

1.5 You and Me Baby (Holding on)

1.6 American Man

1.7 Barely Exist

1.8 Hot Talk

1.9 Love Won't Keep Us Apart

1.10 Good Time Crowd

1.11 Leave the Window Open

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The studio was state-of-the-art...for 1957. Surgical masks were as common as sunglasses. Earthquakes shook the streets. This was Mexico City, 2009, the city that was the muse for Chuck Prophet's new album Â¡Let Freedom Ring! Needing a vantage point outside his home country to make what he calls, "a political album for non-political people," Chuck and his band found themselves at the epicenter of the biggest pandemic scare of the new century. Swine flu was in the air literally and figuratively yet underneath the paranoia of H1N1 lay something more, something even larger. A cultural sea change was stirring. Brought on by the democratizing power of the internet, traditionally poverty stricken youth all over Mexico City were being exposed rapid-fire to music and art that had always been hidden from them. Inspired by this renaissance Â¡Let Freedom Ring! billows with primal color and sound, evidenced by Prophet's return to the direct "two guitars, bass and drums" rock music of his past. On one hand a song cycle about breaking up but keeping it together, and on the other a political mission statement of hope, Â¡Let Freedom Ring! doesn't incorporate the music of Mexico but instead imbibes its spirit and swims in its soul. Purposeful and rippling with rock sinew, this is Chuck Prophet 3.0. -

2009 release from the veteran Alt-Roots artist and former member of Green on Red. Chuck reached out to some musicians and talked them into going down to Mexico City, where they recorded at Estudio 19, with Greg Leisz co-producing. Over the course of the next eight days, the band set about recording Let Freedom Ring. Chuck played his Fender Squire, Kelly Stoltz on backing vocals, Rusty Miller [Jason Lyte's band] played bass while drummer Ernest 'Boom' Carter turned his sticks into kindling. The results can be heard from the Clash inspired opener to the power pop of 'Let Freedom Ring' and the Eddie Cochran infused 'Good Time Crowd'.

Producer:

Chuck Prophet, Greg Leisz

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Manufacturer No.:

CDYEP2201

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