Frank Prophet
Frank Prophet is an individual and collective effort to make contemporary music using primitive roots as the starting point. Songs have three basic areas: 1. Love; 2. God; 3. Murder. We try to keep it that way.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
This is the latest incarnation. The songs aren't finished yet.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Occasionally.
Your musical influences
Roscoe Holcomb, Dock Boggs, Charlie Poole, Blind Willie Johnson, Fred McDowell, Son House, Los Tigres del Norte, Hobart Smith, Talking Heads, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Shane MacGowan & The Pogues, Sleepy John Estes, Dink Roberts, Clarence Tross, Doc Watson.
What equipment do you use?
An old Master Tone, a Deering, classical & resonator guitars, Marine Band harmonicas, various percussion.
