Temple Beautiful

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

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. 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:
 * Willie Mays
 * The Mitchell Brothers
 * Jim Jones
 * Laughing Sal
 * Red Man
 * Dan White
 * Castro District
 * Emperor Norton
 * Mission District
 * Harvey Milk
 * Carol Doda
 * White Night riots

Critical reception
Exclaim! called the album "the sound of a mature rock'n'roller continuing to reach for new heights." 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."

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

 * Produced by Brad Jones and Chuck Prophet
 * Recorded in San Francisco at Decibelle
 * Engineered by Brad Jones and Drew Zajicek
 * Mixed by Brad Jones at Alex The Great
 * Mastered by Richard Dodd
 * Chuck Prophet – guitars, vocals
 * James DePrato – guitars
 * Rusty Miller – bass, vocals
 * Prairie Prince – drums, percussion
 * with:
 * Stephanie Finch – vocals
 * Roy Loney – vocal on "Temple Beautiful”
 * Chris Carmichael – cello, violin
 * Jim Hoke – woodwinds, flute
 * Brad Jones – piano