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CHUCK PROPHET & HIS CUMBIA SHOES

THE BULLINGDON Feb 2025

 We (fans) here missed out on Chuck at the Bullingdon (no, NO, not the club, the rocking local PUB!) but did we know this . . . he had been there before!? 

For the Sealyman and Diamond Dave in particular! We should have gone boys we really should have gone . . . says he who rarely leaves the house these days, grumpy ole curmudgeon that I am! 😎😉

The Bullingdon wrote

COMING UP ON THE 19TH: Chuck Prophet Official is coming to Oxford, courtesy of our friends at Empty Room Promotions

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For twelve long days, Chuck Prophet waited. A stage four lymphoma diagnosis had knocked the wind out of him, dragged him off the road and into surgery, and now here he was, a perpetual motion machine forced to sit still, confronting his mortality for the first time as he wondered if he’d live long enough to see the end of the year, let alone get back on tour.⁠

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“I was going through a tunnel,” he recalls. “It was dark. But I had music: music to play, music to listen to, music to get me out of my head. Music was my saviour.”⁠

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That much is plain to hear on Wake The Dead, Prophet’s extraordinary—and unlikely—new album. Recorded with ¿Qiensave?, a band of brothers from the Central Coast farming community of Salinas, California, the collection dives headfirst into the world of Cumbia music, which consumed and comforted Prophet during his illness and subsequent recovery...⁠

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Chuck will be touring the UK with members of his own band and @qiensave, playing his classics along with tracks from the new album.⁠  

Sally Was a Cop (thanks to harry kemp)

Chuck Prophet and his Cumbia Shoes, perform “ Sally Was A Cop” co written with Alejandro Escevado, live at the Bullingdon Oxford on Wednesday 19th February 2025

Wish I’d been but Harry’s vid is most welcome and the sound better than I expected - thanks Harry!