Chuck Prophet – Castro Halloween // Song Of The Day #354

Today we welcome back Chuck Prophet: a genuine hero of the Americana world – a genre of music that’s oft overlooked by the average Joe as an excuse for over forties to throw on some double denim and wax lyrical about the hidden meanings of Dylan’s back catalogue – Prophet is a force to be reckoned with. On record, a chameleon whose recording techniques over the past few years have seen him dabble with pretty much every musical style under the sun (albeit sometimes unsuccesfully) and, on the live stage, a guitarist of such incredible precision and feel whose undeniable ability to simultaneously melt faces and break hearts with a single riff is nothing short of breathtaking.

Prophet returns today with his first single from the forthcoming longplayer Temple Beautiful (due out via Yep Roc in February). ‘Castro Halloween’ is an ode to a pretty disastrous night out in Prophet’s home town of San Francisco where, in Castro (San Fran’s long-serving gay neighbourhood) a shooting took place during a halloween party. A topic as bleak as this could possibly lead to morbid musical matter, but ‘Castro Halloween’ is a fully blown tour-de-force of soaring choruses and rousing guitar lines of epic proportion. A welcome return to an artist that has seen over-the-top production hinder his last few releases, we’re proud to be able to offer it as an exclusive as today’s Song Of The Day.

Chuck Prophet – Castro Halloween