Chuck Prophet's track record of critically acclaimed albums dates back to the mid-1980s, when he was a member of Green on Red. In 2000, it looked as though his fifth solo album, The Hurting Business, might do for him what Lucinda Williams' fifth, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, did for her. But while it wasn't a big commercial breakthrough, it was an artistic one, setting a standard that Prophet's last album and this new one have more than lived up to. Like Williams, Prophet is a roots musician with a rock'n'roller barely below the surface - one with an eclectic record collection too, judging by how he mixes Philly soul, Dylanesque blues, pop, rock, electronica, even rap, sometimes all in the same song. As the Beatlesque title track, swamp-rocker Automatic Blues and stand-out country-soul ballad You've Got Me Where You Want Me attest, it works.