The Stetson-sporting Tucson punks Green On Red suddenly clicked into country rock classicism when an unknown Prophet brought his chiseled guitar-for-hire to 1985’s Gas Food Lodging. With songwriting assistance from the poet Kurt Lipschutz, Prophet’s eleventh solo album anatomises his hometown of San Francisco.
The upbeat Stones party rock of the title track is this old hand’s least satisfying setting, but on Museum Of Broken Hearts, Who Shot John? And Emperor Norton In The Last Year Of His Life (1880), Prophet’s languid country blues grooves uncoil like sunbathing snakes. Perversely, the best track’s a bonus download, the semi-acoustic heartbreaker Never Die.
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