What’s remarkable about Chuck Prophet’s 2014 full-length, Night Surfer, is its complexity of tone — the former Green on Red guitarist and singer combines garage-rock stomp, soul music and instrumental passages that sound lifted from David Bowie’s Hunky Dory and Brian Eno’s Here Come the Warm Jets. Prophet’s work over the past decade has been impressive, with his 2007 Alex Chilton-esque Soap and Water and his 2012 San Francisco-specific Temple Beautiful especially accomplished. I also like Prophet’s 2008 Dreaming Waylon’s Dreams, which found him slyly reworking Waylon Jennings’ classic country-rock collection Dreaming My Dreams. With its bent approach to British Invasion-derived rock and leisurely pace, Night Surfer updates the basics, and Prophet’s voice is rueful but game. On Tuesday night he will be accompanied by a string quartet — his well-wrought songs should come through loud and clear. EDD HURT
Chuck Prophet w/Joseph Arthur
