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Listen: Chuck Prophet Has the Mountain Stage Song of the Week
San Francisco rock and roller Chuck Prophet performing on Mountain Stage in 2010. Brian Blauser/ Mountain Stage
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This week we’re looking back to a 2010 episode we recorded at the Clay Center as voted on by our listeners.
Mountain Stage this week looks back to a 2010 episode that we recorded at The Clay Center in Charleston, W.Va. with Ani DiFranco, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Andy McKee, Erin McKeown and Chuck Prophet.
San Francisco band leader and journeyman rocker Chuck Prophet performed songs from his album ¡Let Freedom Ring!, recorded, coincidentally, during the early onset of the H1N1 virus, in Mexico City, Mexico in 2009. Prophet and his band wore their masks to the studio, all the while enduring the regular power-outages common in the area resulting in multiple lost takes.
Our Song of the Week, “Hot Talk.” is a breezy and cryptic jaunt that captures the immediacy and the chaos of the album.
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Trombone Shorty, Erin McKeown and Ani DiFranco join for the finale song in February, 2010.
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