The Hurting Business
- Rise
- The Hurting Business
- Apology
- Diamond Jim
- It Won't Be Long
- Lucky
- God's Arms
- I Couldn't Be Happier
- Shore Patrol
- Dyin' All Young
- Statehouse (Burning in the Rain)
- La Paloma
Press Release: Release Info: Hurting business
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Press Release: A movie that never was
Press Release: The Hurting Business
Scott Mathews - vocals, drums
Stephanie Finch - vocals
Max Butler - guitar, slide guitar, pedal steel guitar
Ralph Carney - bass flute, baritone saxophone
Jason Borger - Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer piano, Farfisa, Hammond b-3 organ, Mellotron, synthesizer
Andy Stoller, Roly Salley - bass guitar
Paul Revelli - drums, snare drum, electronic drums, cymbals, sleigh bell
Chuck, Jacquire, The Airjordans, Stephanie Finch - backing vocals
Andrew Borger - drums, maracas, percussion
Joe Goldring, Tim Mooney - drums
Mark "Ill Media" Reitman, DJ Rise - turntables
Produced by Chuck Prophet, Scott Mathews and Jacquire King
Engineered by Jacquire King
(Hightone Records, 2000)
The latest and greatest & the best place to start. Cut at Pigshead in San Francisco.. 12 slices of swampadelica. Features some of the usual suspects as well as new blind dates: DJ Rise, Ill Media and Tim Mooney (of SF sad-core legends American Music Club). A love and sex comedy. A lethal combination of introspective musings and hip-hop inspired 60´s boogaloos. Served up country fried and more than little greasy this time around. Prophet made an intriguing departure with The Hurting Business, a loose-knit concept album inspired by Danish director Lars Von Trier’s “Dogma 95” film movement, one rooted in naturalism and realism. Von Trier’s films, most notably Breaking the Waves, are free of effects and incorporate natural lighting and hand-held cameras to reveal the vagaries of contemporary life. In order to achieve the same feeling on record, Prophet enlisted the help of Jacquire King, who also engineered Tom Waits’ acclaimed Mule Variations. Although firmly rooted in traditional rock, The Hurting Business transported Prophet’s sound into a world of samples, loops, and turntables. (MusicianGuide)