WMSE Presents Chuck Prophet / Shank Hall’s 25th Anniversary
When:
November 6, 2014 @ 8:00 pm – 11:45 pm
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Where:
Shank Hall
1434 North Farwell Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202
USA
1434 North Farwell Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202
USA
Cost:
$15
Contact:
Chuck Prophet shapes his restless career with inimitable subtle flair: a vivid parade of razor-edged one-liners camouflaged in a slack-jawed drawl, songs about heartbreak and everyman heroism, drenched intwisted lines of rude Telecaster. When the early stages of a financial melt-down coincided with a rare San Francisco heat wave in the summer of 2008, with the window open wide and Dwight Twilley, Iggy, Thin Lizzy and the Knack blaring out the hi-fi, Prophet wrote a collection of political songs for non-political people. Later, in April 2009, he journeyed to Mexico City, where, in the clutches of a Swine Flu panic and earthquakes, he recorded ¡Let Freedom Ring!, his most incendiary record, every bit as urgent as the title demands.