Chuck Prophet Braves Swine Flu, Earthquakes, Brownouts to Record ¡LET FREEDOM RING! In Mexico City - Out 10/27
August 19, 2009, 12:00 am

Chuck Prophet got more than he bargained for. He and his band ventured to Mexico City to record the follow-up to 2007's "boundaryless" (New Yorker) album Soap & Water and encountered a swine flu pandemic, an earthquake, electric brownouts, and crashing hard drives. They emerged with the hard-hitting, broad-ranging album ¡Let Freedom Ring!, which will be released October 27.

"I just wanted the energy of this place," Prophet says of Mexico City. "I'm looking at a studio that is totally state of the art...for 1957. I stood in the middle of that room, I clapped my hands and I knew we could make a great record."

Chuck Prophet has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman (CBS) and Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC). He has collaborated with Warren Zevon, Dan Penn and Alejandro Escovedo among many others, and his songs have been recorded by everyone from Solomon Burke to Heart. In 2006, Prophet launched his own record label, (((belle sound))) releasing an album by Sonny Smith and archival recordings by his seminal 1980s band Green on Red ("by far one of the best bands in the United States for almost an entire decade," according to the New York Times).

Check out a YouTube video on the making of the album and hear clips of music HERE.

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