Dying in the U.S.A.: On the Haunting Songs of Chuck Prophet

Necking his Squier

He’s had a heavy hand in the music of Alejandro Escovedo and Kelly Willis. Solomon Burke and Warren Zevon have played his songs. But he’s also his own man, that Chuck Prophet. Here’s the skinny on his new album, ¡Let Freedom Ring!, a gut punch that connects with the Boss’s Born in the U.S.A., on that monumental album’s 25th anniversary.