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I love all his stuff, but especially Forever Blue and San Francisco Days. Totally classy, great songs and playing. He did OK for himself, but I was just thinking yesterday about a different timeline where he covered "Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon" and it was used in "Pulp Fiction." Isaak's "Solitary Man" is super:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBV3topsAVg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
three years pass...
Love that guy’s music and the fact that he played both bass and guitar at such a high level. Apparently he had the classic super-addicted musician personality so I believe there will be a lot of S, D and R&R leading to agonizing inevitable slow and steady decay and organ failure.
seven months pass...
Isaak thoughts for the day:
San Francisco Days is the shit. I considered getting the red vinyl from RSD last year but apparently it's *not* the shit. The CD sounds pretty incredible anyway.
I haven't heard anything of his since The Baja Sessions, but everything up to and including that is pretty terrific.
He was always a musician following his own path, and he'd exclusively be a cult figure if "Wicked Game" didn't happen. As it is, he's both a minor legend and a cult figure. I think the LDR comparison is pretty apt, and he's also a bit like Richard Hawley. They're all retro-styled artists who manage to carve out a singular voice in a style which doesn't hide its influences and in fact displays them proudly, and never at all feels like a crummy watered-down version of the supposed real deal imo.
"can't do a thing to stop me" is the one that gets in my head the most, when "Wicked Game" doesn't.
― omar little, Friday, 21 April 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link