I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?
I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.
I'm talking to you right now, looking out at the ocean, it's a sunny day, waves are peeling off, my surfboard is in the back of my car... damn, I love it. I'm a songwriter. Pop singer. What a great job.
I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair.
One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.
The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.
They're over there in harm's way, for right or wrong, on behalf of us. We asked them to go. And I feel for them.
The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.
Chris returned to San Francisco and performed as a solo act then backed by Silvertone band. He signed with Warner Bros. Records in 1984 for his debut album Silvertone. His contract was renewed in 1988 when Warner Bros. moved him to their Reprise Records label.
Chris' astrological sign is Cancer.
Greatest Hits Album: Best of Chris Isaak Release Date: May 9, 2006 Label: Reprise Tracks: "San Francisco Days"-2:59 "Somebody's Crying"-2:47 "Wicked Game"-4:45 "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing"-2:56 "Let Me Down Easy"-4:05 "Two Hearts"-3:34 "King Without a Castle"-3:06 "Only the Lonely"-2:53 "Speak of the Devil"-3:30 "Blue Spanish Sky"-3:57 "You Owe Me Some Kind of Love"-3:47 "Can't Do a Thing (To Stop Me)"-3:37 "Let's Have a Party"-3:27 "Dancin'"-3:45 "Blue Hotel"-3:12 "Please"-3:36 "I Want You to Want Me"-3:21 "Forever Blue [Acoustic Version]"-2:38
Album: Always Got Tonight Release Date: February 12, 2002 Label: Reprise Tracks: "One Day"-4:26 "Let Me Down Easy"-4:08 "Worked It Out Wrong"-3:48 "Courthouse"-3:21 "Life Will Go On"-3:07 "Always Got Tonight"-3:50 "Cool Love"-3:45 "Notice the Ring"-3:47 "I See You Everywhere"-3:23 "American Boy"-2:51 "Somebody to Love"-2:36 "Nothing to Say"-4:41
Album: Wicked Game Release Date: June 30, 1998 Label: Reprise Tracks: "Wicked Game"-4:49 "You Owe Me Some Kind of Love"-3:53 "Blue Spanish Sky"-3:58 "Heart Shaped World"-3:28 "Heart Full of Soul"-3:20 "Funeral in the Rain"-3:22 "Blue Hotel"-3:13 "Dancin'"-3:45 "Nothing's Changed"-4:07 "Voodoo"-2:42 "Lie to Me"-4:15 "Wicked Game [Instrumental]"-4:47
Album: Forever Blue Release Date: May 23, 1995 Label: Reprise Tracks: "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing"-2:54 "Somebody's Crying"-2:48 "Graduation Day"-3:10 "Go Walking Down There"-2:50 "Don't Leave Me on My Own"-2:14 "Things Go Wrong"-3:02 "Forever Blue"-2:42 "There She Goes"-3:14 "Goin' Nowhere"-2:54 "Changed Your Mind"-3:51 "Shadows in a Mirror"-3:59 "I Believe"-3:10 "End of Everything"-3:05
Album: Heart Shaped World Release Date: June 1989 Label: Reprise Tracks: "Heart Shaped World"-3:26 "I'm Not Waiting"-3:15 "Don't Make Me Dream About You"-3:30 "Kings of the Highway"-4:44 "Wicked Game"-4:46 "Blue Spanish Sky"-3:57 "Wrong To Love You"-4:17 "Forever Young"-3:20 "Nothing's Changed"-4:05 "In The Heat Of The Jungle"-6:20 "Diddley Daddy"-4:05
Album: Silvertone Release Date: January 1985 Label: Warner Bros. Tracks: "Dancin'"-3:45 "Talk to Me"-3:08 "Livin' for Your Lover"-2:56 "Back on Your Side"-3:15 "Voodoo"-2:41 "Funeral in the Rain"-3:23 "Lonely Ones"-3:15 "Unhappiness"-3:09 "Tears"-2:47 "Gone Ridin'"-2:38 "Pretty Girls Don't Cry"-2:25 "Western Stars"-3:11 "Another Idea"-2:53
Chris attended University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
Chris has been nominated for 2 Grammy Awards in 1996.
Chris Isaak's music video "Wicked Game" was ranked #73 on Rolling Stone magazine's The 100 Top Music Videos.
Chris Isaak's two music videos "Wicked Game" was ranked #4 and "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" was ranked #28 on VH1's 50 Sexiest Video Moments.
Chris Isaak's music video "Wicked Game" was ranked #13 on VH1's 100 Greatest Videos.
He has two older brothers: Nick and Jeff.
He turned down the role of Jeffrey Beaumont in the 1986 David Lynch film Blue Velvet.
Chris was about to be dropped by his record label until David Lynch used "Wicked Game" on the soundtrack of Lynch's 1990 film Wild At Heart making the song a big hit and saving his record deal. He later acted in Lynch's 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me a prequel to the 1990-1991 cult tv series.
He was ranked #68 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.
Chris was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1990.
He graduated from Stagg High School in Stockton, California in 1974.
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