DOINGS AND UNDOINGS

Folks,

Welcome back. First off a couple of heads up in gigsville. We recently announced new and re-scheduled dates with the Mission Express in Portland, Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee, Evanston and Venice; as well as a solo show in Tucson on March 24th. And Over There we’ve added June 2nd at the Red Rooster Festival in the UK and June 5th at the Ribs & Blues Raalte in Holland. And a Paris date, too. We’ve been away from Over There for something like five years. Did you miss us? We missed you. God have we ever missed you. Tickets and more details here: http://chuckprophet.com/gigs

Now thanks to modern advancements in medicine, we’ve got this subscription model newsletter over on Substack for some longer form writings complete with HTML. Moving forward that will be the home for essays, musings, photo’s, ephemera and the like. We’ve been having fun. Sign up or learn more here: https://chuckprophet.substack.com

I’m still doing the Trip In The Country Show on Gimmecountry.com when I can make it. Two hours of hand-picked jams curated by yours truly. Along with special guests. Tune in to this week’s show with Elvis Costello. Don’t be scared, it’s hardly limited to Country music. We’re just hanging out listening to records here: https://www.gimmecountry.com/#/welcome

You heard right. This week’s special guest on TITC is Elvis Costello. Elvis and I talk about used record stores, Country music from The Byrds to Gram Parsons to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio. Young Elvis singing a duet with George Jones on a song Elvis left off his first LP at Nashville’s RCA Studio B no less, the original crime scene of everything from Marty Robbins, to Blonde on Blonde, the other Elvis and more. We talk about Elvis’s latest LPs and upcoming tour dates as he shares his deep knowledge of music and geography and record production from the Specials to the Pogues, to The Squeeze, from Merseyside, to the Motor City, to Miami and beyond.

Meanwhile in merchville. A couple interesting things. You can order No Other Love on vinyl for the first time from New West Records here: http://newwst.com/nootherlove

And over at Bandcamp, there’s the all new Land That Time Forgot Revisited EP. That’s right. Four unreleased tracks recorded live with a string quartet on a linoleum floor on a rainy Tuesday afternoon in an empty barroom in San Francisco’s Mission District. Three titles from The Land That Time Forgot reimagined plus a Lita Ford cover that has to be heard to be believed. For us it was a new way into the songs—and an adventure finding our way out. Here’s the Bandcamp link: https://chuckprophet.bandcamp.com/.../the-land-that-time…

Onwards,

-CP