more UK media:
Chris Isaak: all the way from Memphis
The Telegraph By Bernadette McNulty7:20AM GMT 19 Jan 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/9023549/Chris-Isaak-all-the-way-from-Memphis.html#.Txi_nVKpEUs.email

excerpts:
Chris Isaak tells Bernadette McNulty what led him to trade his gentle croon for a cover album of Sun Records rock and roll classics.
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Now, with all of them - with the exception of Lewis - dead, Isaak has stepped up as the guardian and curator of the Sun sound. "It was finally the right time. I thought that I had put out enough work by now that I would finally not be defined by it. I could put out a Hawaiian album [now] and people wouldn't go, 'Chris Isaak, Hawaiian artist'

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When I ask him why a new generation of musicians, from Lana del Rey to British Mercury winners the xx are tapping back into his haunting Wicked Games sound, he is reluctant to get into self-examination.
"Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising. It is funny for me, the dichotomy between what I sing and who I am. The heartbreak is real but sometimes I think I am just a very average, redneck guy. When I was growing up and doing boxing, people were surprised I sang these songs that most guys don't sing."
For all his tender lyrics and model good looks he has never married, repeating to me the well-worn story of his regret over a lost teenage love. However, he admits the all-consuming relationship in his life has probably been with his music, and later on at a gig in New Jersey, it shows. Isaak and his band put on the kind of gig that not only rolls back the years, but would put the stagecraft of most younger bands to shame. Isaak switches back and forth between hilarious stand-up comic and heartbreaking singer, with women literally clambering to get close to him.

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"I've had the same band for 26 years," he says. "I can sing a thousand songs with them. When you come to the end, do you think, did I make money, did I get a big house, did I get famous? None of that counts. All that counts is did you have fun at your work, were you any good at it and did you have good friends?"

'Beyond the Sun' is released January 23 on Warners

Thanks for all the super duper links!

The following isn't a new interview as it relates to the Mr Lucky cd so sorry if you've seen it before. However, I got a chance to watch it on Monday and enjoyed it aside from the cringe making faux pas the interviewer makes in reference to Herb Ritts;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6yh_1cB7cs

Hope you enjoy too!

I also noticed Chris was a guest at Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday bash, check out the pics;
http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Chris+Isaak

gaby wrote:
This is a really nice interview from The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/mar/01/30-minutes-with-chris-isaak?newsfeed=true

gaby wrote:
Some more stuff from Germany - guess he did not just stop over for the Harald Schmidt Show:

This radio interview will be aired Thursday 8th March, 20:00 CET - they have a livestream and there is already a little video on that site
http://www.hr-online.de/website/radio/h:r1/index.jsp?rubrik=58919&key=standard_document_44187556

The radio livestream was GREAT! Thanks. You can tell from the photos he looks pretty ripped up, and it seemed selfish to enjoy the radio show so much! But what a treat to listen while I'm working - - listening to Chris is always like eating candy! Thanks again.

Don't you have to have a license to do plumbing on someone's house besides your own in CA?

http://www.cslb.ca.gov: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project for which the contract price is $500 or more, including labor and materials.

Contractor Personnel Search Results

Name Personnel Name City
NAME ISAAK, DAVID C FREEDOM
NAME ISAAK, EVELYN M PETALUMA
NAME ISAAK, JIM LEON VALLEJO
NAME ISAAK, MARCELO DUNLAP
NAME ISAAK, MICHAEL JOHN BONITA
NAME ISAAK, MIRIAM VAN NUYS
NAME ISAAK, NICKOLAS JERALD LIVERMORE
NAME ISAAK, PAUL LEON VALLEJO
NAME ISAAK, RASHELL RUTH BONITA
NAME ISAAK, WILLIAM GEORG PETALUMA

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License Number
268468
Extract Date 4/3/2012
Business Information
STOCKTON PLUMBING
P O BOX 7361
STOCKTON, CA 95267

Business Phone Number:(209) 405-1711
Entity Partnership
Issue Date 04/01/1971
Expire Date 04/30/2012
License Status
ACTIVE
This license is current and active. All information below should be reviewed.
Classifications
CLASS DESCRIPTION
C36

PLUMBING

Bonding
CONTRACTOR'S BOND
This license filed Contractor's Bond number SC1015352 in the amount of $12,500 with the bonding company
AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY.

Effective Date: 03/02/2009
Contractor's Bonding History

Workers' Compensation
This license is exempt from having workers compensation insurance; they certified that they have no employees at this time.


Contractor's License Personnel Detail

Contractor License #: 268468
Contractor Name: STOCKTON PLUMBING


Name: JOSEPH ROLAND BOVA


Title and Class History
TITLE CLASS ASSOCIATION DATE DISASSOCIATION DATE
QUALIFY PARTNER C36 PLUMBING 04/01/1971
QUALIFY PARTNER C44 SOLAR (SUPPLEMENTAL) 06/25/1981 05/28/1982
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Well...that was easy! Now all Mrs. Isaak needs is an appointment!

thanks Gaby! Hope all is well there and yeah my favourite is that Guardian one too.

Fyi here's blast from the past - 1999. I hope Mr Isaak doesn't try and sit on that blow up doll on stage if this is any indication: http://youtu.be/qxaONaMiJEw and then, when you think the interview couldn't get weirder, it does..... heh heh