Strings in the Temple: Live with Orchestra at the Great American Music Hall

by Chuck Prophet

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Stuart Laing These songs with the orchestra is brilliant. Favorite track: Willie Mays Is Up at Bat.

devantalu Hello, following you since “Soap & Water”.
Yesterday, a big fan of your music push me to go and listen and see this concert on Youtube.
I thought, it is so good that a guy advising your music must be a good person! No other way. Thanks to him and his post "https://canutbrains.blogspot.com/2020/03"

podglaze Chuck's music is always big fun, and this live set with strings is even more fun than usual. A simply magnificent set of music!

ffurney You're the best. Paid a little extra. I'm expecting you to share your paper towels at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in the Fall if this madness ends.

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1.	Play That Song Again 03:07	buy track
2.	Castro Halloween 03:23	buy track
3.	Temple Beautiful 03:48	buy track
4.	Museum of Broken Hearts 03:58	buy track
5.	Willie Mays Is Up at Bat 05:22	buy track
6.	The Left Hand and the Right Hand 03:55	buy track
7.	I Felt Like Jesus 03:01	buy track
8.	Who Shot John 04:18	buy track
9.	He Came from So Far Away (Red Man Speaks) 03:51	buy track
10.	Little Girl, Little Boy 02:13	buy track
11.	White Night, Big City 03:59	buy track
12.	Emperor Norton in the Last Year of His Life (1880) 04:26	buy track
13.	Shake Some Action 05:11	buy track
14.	No Other Love 04:22	buy track

about

If you’re to believe what you read, today's San Francisco is under siege by predatory tech nerds and drones, plutocrats, wiz kids and opportunistic real estate developers. People have reacted in different ways to this onslaught. The Occupy Movement for one. You may have heard of people laying down in front of google buses in protest or smashing google glasses on the sidewalk.

There’s also the path of art... In 2012, I released Temple Beautiful - an open love letter to San Francisco and its history and characters. After two years of performing the songs across the U.S and the globe, in late 2013, my band and I delivered the 12 song cycle Temple Beautiful with a string octet (scored and conducted by Brad Jones) in our hometown of San Francisco.

We had one chance to get it right. And this film is a document of the twists and turns in the road that brought us to that one-night-only sold-out performance at the Great American Music Hall (Itself a former bordello and a deco SF institution).

The songs performed that night include characters like Willie Mays, martyred supervisor Harvey Milk, Cain & Abel porn kings Jim & Artie Mitchell, mythic oddball "Red Man," preacher/Svengali Jim Jones, politician-turned assassin Dan White, and Emperor Norton, with cameos by Laffing Sal, Carol Doda, Bill Graham, and Fatty Arbuckle. Locations also play a key role, including the Castro and Mission Districts. One song is devoted to the White Night Riots, sparked by the light sentence received by the assassination of Milk and Mayor Moscone.

Some will have you believe that technology is the new culture. Then again, how can technology equate culture? Can Rock and Roll build community? Can songs connect people to the world? These are the questions explored in Strings In The Temple.

- Chuck Prophet

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released March 20, 2020

2014, (((belle sound))) under exclusive license to Yep Roc Records.

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Chuck Prophet San Francisco, California

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

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May 25

Sweetwater Music Hall

Mill Valley, CA
Jun 7

Hotel Congress Plaza

Tucson, AZ
Jun 12

Knuckleheads

Kansas City, MO
Jun 15

Shank Hall

Milwaukee, WI
Jun 20

Leach Amphitheater

Oshkosh, WI
Jun 22

FITZGERALDS NIGHTCLUB

Berwyn, IL
Jun 23

Turf Club

St. Paul, MN
Jun 29

Chuck Prophet's Summertime Thing

Rio Nido, CA
Sep 28

HopMonk Tavern - Novato

Novato, CA
Nov 14

Dům kultury

Sumperk, Czech Republic

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