Temple Beautiful

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Temple Beautiful
Temple Beautiful.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 7, 2012
RecordedDecibelle
Genre Rock
Length42:38
Label Yep Roc Records [1]
Burger Records
Producer Brad Jones, Chuck Prophet
Chuck Prophet chronology
Let Freedom Ring
(2009)
Temple Beautiful
(2012)
Night Surfer
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
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Paste 9/10 [5]

Temple Beautiful is the twelfth full-length album by American singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet. [6] It was released in the U.S. on February 7, 2012, through Yep Roc Records. [7] Burger Records released a limited run of 150 cassette tapes.

Contents

Temple Beautiful is named after a long-closed rock and roll club that was between Bill Graham's iconic Fillmore and the storefront church founded by the Reverend Jim Jones. [8] [9] According to Prophet: "These songs off my new record. It’s a very SF-centric record. I’ve been tapping into the history, the weirdness, the energy and spontaneity that brought me here in the first place.”

Cultural references

The album references a number of characters and locations from San Francisco's history, including:

Critical reception

Exclaim! called the album "the sound of a mature rock'n'roller continuing to reach for new heights." [1] PopMatters called it "a fun, tuneful rock 'n' roll record that's both straight from the gut and as wonderfully curved as the city which inspired it." [10]

Track listing

All songs written by Chuck Prophet and klipschutz

  1. "Play That Song Again"
  2. "Castro Halloween"
  3. "Temple Beautiful"
  4. "Museum of Broken Hearts"
  5. "Willie Mays is Up at Bat"
  6. "The Left Hand and the Right Hand"
  7. "I Felt Like Jesus"
  8. "Who Shot John"
  9. "He Came From So Far Away (Red Man Speaks)"
  10. "Little Girl, Little Boy"
  11. "White Night, Big City"
  12. "Emperor Norton in the Last Year of His Life (1880)"

Personnel

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  11. Liner Notes

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