Artist.......: Chris Isaak
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2012-03-12
Str.date.....: 2012-02-12
Quality......: 221kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.chrisisaak.com/
track title time
1. Live de la Semaine 26:55
* Live It Up
* Can't Help Falling In Love
* Oh, Pretty Woman
* It's Now Or Never
* Miss Pearl
* Great Ball Of Fire
* Wicked Game
* Dixie Fried
* Ring Of Fire
Runtime 26:55
Size 42.68
Release Notes:
Songwriter Chris Isaak clearly loves the reverb-laden rockabilly and country of
Sun Studios. In particular, he transfers the sweeping melancholy of Roy
Orbison's classic Monument singles ("Crying," "Oh, Pretty Woman," "In Dreams")
to the more stripped-down, rootsy sound of Sun, resulting in a stylized take on
'50s and '60s rock & roll that made him into a star in the early '90s, propelled
to a great degree by the hit single "Wicked Game."
Isaak began performing after he graduated from college, forming the rockabilly
band Silvertone. The group, which featured guitarist James Calvin Wilsey,
bassist Rowland Salley, and drummer Kenney Dale Johnson, would become the
singer/guitarist's permanent supporting band. Isaak released his first album,
Silvertone, on Warner Bros. in 1985. It was critically well received yet failed
to sell well. Two years later, he released the self-titled Chris Isaak, which
managed to scrape into the Top 200 album charts. After its release, the singer
began an acting career with a bit part in Jonathan Demme's 1988 film Married to
the Mob; he would later have parts in Wild at Heart, The Silence of the Lambs,
and A Dirty Shame, as well as starring in his own situation comedy series for
the Showtime cable network.
Released in 1989, Heart Shaped World initially sold more than Chris Isaak, yet
it didn't manage to break big until late 1990, when the single "Wicked Game" was
featured in David Lynch's Wild at Heart. Soon, the single became a Top Ten hit;
the album also made it into the Top Ten and sold over a million copies. Both
1993's San Francisco Days and 1995's Forever Blue mined essentially the same
vein as Heart Shaped World, yet both went gold and spawned a handful of hits. In
1996, Isaak released The Baja Sessions; Speak of the Devil followed two years
later. Isaak's busy touring schedule and growing visibility as an actor kept him
out of the recording studio until 2002, when he released Always Got Tonight,
though in 2004 he did find time to cut his first seasonal album, Chris Isaak
Christmas, which featured five new Yuletide tunes along with a batch of holiday
favorites. The musician once again flexed his TV muscles in 2009 with The Chris
Isaak Hour, whose debut on The Biography Channel was promoted in part by Mr.
Lucky, his first album of original material in seven years. A year later he
released the concert album Live at the Fillmore. In 2011, Isaak paid tribute to
the classic '50s rockabilly and country music produced by the legendary Sam
Phillips at Memphis' Sun Records with his album Beyond the Sun. Recorded at Sun
Studios, Isaak delivered cuts originally recorded by such artists as Elvis
Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and others.