CHUCK PROPHET ‘DREAMING WAYLON’S DREAMS’ ON DECOR. RELEASE DATE 3 MAY 2010

Décor Records (Richmond Fontaine, Mark Eitzel) is proud to release Chuck Prophet’s ninth album ‘Dreaming Waylon’s Dreams’ this May 3rd as a limited edition digipack ahead of his May UK tour.

‘Dreaming Waylon’s Dreams’ covers the entire Waylon Jennings album ‘Dreaming My Dreams’ (a US number one album for Waylon in 1975) front to back. Country musos may scoff at the liberties Chuck takes with his versions but their fathers also scoffed at Waylon in the early 70s which almost forced him to give up music before he turned outlaw. Love it or loath it, just don’t sit on the fence picking your nose with it. It’s also mentally a tribute to Alex Chilton’s ‘Like Flies On Sherbet’; an album that was panned by most critics at the time for being a throwaway, only for many of them to revisit it years later declaring it a masterstroke of that period in Chilton’s career….one can hope.

‘Dreaming…’ was originally Waylon’s tribute album to his heroes containing mostly covers alongside a few originals about Hank Williams and Bob Wills; Chuck is continuing the tradition, “I dig Waylon. The voice. The drama. The sound. He was an instant hero to me. That ‘Dreaming My Dreams’ record had a mighty influence on me. Especially my first record ‘Brother Aldo.’ The sepia tone cover of Aldo was a homage to ‘Dreaming’ as well. He was an ‘auteur’ as the French say.”

From the Duane Eddy-esque ‘High Time’ to the plaintive ballad of ‘I Recall a Gypsy Woman’ Chuck puts his stamp on everything. He drags the corpse of ‘The Door Is Always Open’ across the floor changing it into a mad spoken-word electronic bloody mess but brings it back home in the beautiful ‘She’s Looking Good’. Stephanie takes the lead on ‘Lets All Help the Cowboys (Sing The Blues)’ and sings it from the female point of view, giving the original an ironic twist. And Chuck teaches Richard Hawley how it should be done on the reverb laden title track.

The album features Tim Mooney of American Music Club on drums, murder balladeer John Murry on guitar, Stephanie Finch on vocals and a host of other Bay area musicians. Chuck says “I was bragging how I could recite Waylon Jennings’ ‘Dreaming My Dreams’ record by memory. So we started with one song, and by the end of the weekend we recorded the whole album. My friend, who was on tour with a bunch of new country acts, told me he bought it and put it on the tour bus and a fight broke out.”

Chuck will be backing this new album up with a tour across Europe in addition to pushing his last masterpiece ‘Let Freedom Ring!’ (Cooking Vinyl). Chuck has toured Europe initially with the godfathers of Americana, Green on Red, and for the last 15 years fronting his own band the Mission Express. Chuck is the master of the telecaster.

April tour dates for Chuck Prophet (all shows 7:30/8:00):

Friday 9 Nottingham The Maze (solo acoustic show) £12 0115 947 5650
Saturday 10 Bedford The Civic (solo acoustic show) £13 01234 269519

May tour dates for Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express (all shows 7:30/8:00):

Wednesday 5 Winchester The Railway £16 08700 600 100
Thursday 6 Exeter The Phoenix £13 01392 667 080
Friday 7 Bury The Met £13 0161 761 2216
Saturday 8 Bristol The Tunnels £14 0870 4444 400
Sunday 9 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach £12 01633 256 26
Monday 10 Leeds Brudenell Social Club £13 0113 275 2411
Tuesday 11 Nottingham The Maze £13 0115 947 5650
Wednesday 12 Glasgow King Tut’s £14 0870 1690100
Thursday 13 Gateshead Town Hall £14 0191 433 6965
Friday 14 London Borderline £15 08448 472 465
Saturday 15 Tingewick (Bucks.) Village Hall £16 01296 748 268

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