Folken word great Chris Chandler offers his entire Prime Records catalogue available in specially priced 3cd set for the first time.

Folk and spoken-word firebrand Chris Chandler brings together his complete Prime Records era for the first time with Prime Cuts, a career-defining 3-disc anthology that captures the wit, heart, and political bite of one of America's most original troubadours. A pioneer of the 'folk'n'word' movement, Chandler fuses poetic storytelling, music, and satire into a style all his own -- part beat poet, part protest singer, and entirely fearless.

The set includes his acclaimed Collaborations project, pairing Chandler with Martin Sexton, Dar Williams, Catie Curtis, Trout Fishing in America, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, Ellis Paul, and the Austin Lounge Lizards. The result is a dynamic blend of spoken word and song that's both deeply personal and universally resonant. As AllMusic once noted, Chandler is 'what Phil Ochs might have been if he'd come of age in the 1990s, influenced by Jello Biafra and Linton Kwesi Johnson instead of Elvis and Dylan.'

Since his start working as a teenage roadie for the Georgia Satellites, Chandler has lived and breathed the road -- performing thousands of shows across the U.S. and Canada at venues ranging from dive bars to the Kerrville Folk Festival, Lollapalooza, Ottawa, Vancouver, and the National Poetry Slam. His words, steeped in empathy and outrage, find their power in performance -- sharp, funny, and heartfelt. The Washington Post described him bluntly: 'This man is dangerous.' NPR's Andrei Codrescu praised his 'acidly ironic still-rising utopianism.' Sing Out called him 'a remarkably fertile and inventive mind,' while the legendary Utah Phillips declared, 'Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.'

Prime Cuts chronicles decades of Chandler's evolution -- from blistering social critiques to reflective storytelling and absurdist humor -- distilled into a rich body of work that continues to challenge, provoke, and inspire. For longtime fans and new listeners alike, this set offers the definitive portrait of an artist who turns truth-telling into an art form.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• No One I Could Talk About This With
• No Hiding Plkace Down Here/Vinegar
• Come Heres And The Been Heres/Border Line Insanity
• Hannibal/Would You Die For a Necktie
• Lionel Say/Breakfast Serial Killers
• This Town/That Town
• Who Are These People?/This Person
• Never Lived At All/G Chord
• Hard Times/9th Ward New Orleans
• Somebody's Gotta Pay/Injustice
• To Be More Beautiful/ Sofas & #2 Pencils
• Isn't That So/Too Much Of Nothing/Whoop
• I Wanna Be Like You/The Ballad Of Theodore

Disc 2:

• Breakfast Serial Killers
• Blood To Wine
• Thrift Store Diva (The Moon)
• Sex/Lets Do It
• Last Thoughts On Elvis Presley
• Carnivals
• You're So Mundane
• Sofas and #2 Pencils
• Innocence
• Wild Mountain Thyme/Song
• Angry Young Man
• Breakfast Serial Killers (radio edit)

Disc 3:

• Credit History
• Theodore/I Wanna Be Like You
• The Grasshopper
• Time/As Time Goes By
• G Chord/Vibrations
• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Abyss/Candyman
• Galaxy Song/Dental History
• No Hiding Place/Vinegar
• Unbound/Miss Your Kiss
• Don't Turn Me On Like A Radio/Classic Rock
• Borderline Insanity/France Ain't Nothing Like Texas
• My Grandmother/Never Grow Old

Additional Details

Label: Silverwolf Records

Genre: Folk

Language: English

Run Time: 178:13 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/03/26

UPC: 787991805028