Name	Chris Isaak
Type	studio
Artist	Chris Isaak
Cover	Chris Isaak (1986 album).jpg
Released	December 1986
Genre	Rockabilly, Roots rock, Rock'n'roll
Length	36:05
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Erik Jacobsen
Last album	Silvertone (1985)
This album	Chris Isaak (1986)
Next album	Heart Shaped World (1989)

Chris Isaak is the eponymous second album by Chris Isaak, released in 1986.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Chris Isaak; except where indicated

# "You Owe Me Some Kind of Love" – 3:51 # "Heart Full of Soul" (Graham Gouldman) – 3:20 # "Blue Hotel" – 3:10 # "Lie to Me" – 4:12 # "Fade Away" – 4:15 # "Wild Love" – 2:57 # "This Love Will Last" – 2:45 # "You Took My Heart" – 2:31 # "Cryin'" – 2:30 # "Lovers Game" – 2:55 # "Waiting for the Rain to Fall" – 3:39

Personnel

Chris Isaak - Guitar, Vocals

James Calvin Wilsey - Guitar

Chris Solberg - Bass

Prairie Prince - Drums

Rowland Salley - Bass

Kenney Dale Johnson - Drums, Vocals

Dave Carlson - Engineer

Kim Champagne - Art Direction, Design

Pat Craig - Musician

Pamela Gentile - Photography

Aaron Gregory - Crew

Jeri Heiden - Art Direction, Design

Lee Herschberg - Mixing

Erik Jacobsen - Producer, Management

Tom Mallon - Engineer

Prairie Prince - Drums

John "J.R." Robinson

Tim Ryan - Crew Tour Manager

Bruce Weber - Photography, Cover Photo

Mike Zagaris - Photography

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Name	Chris Isaak
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Christopher Joseph Isaak
Born	June 26, 1956Stockton, California
Instrument	Vocals, guitar
Genre	Rock n' roll, roots rock, rockabilly, surf rock
Occupation	Singer-songwriter, musician, actor, talk show host
Years active	1984–present
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Url	www.chrisisaak.com

Christopher Joseph "Chris" Isaak (born June 26, 1956) the son of Dorothy (née Vignolo), a potato chip factory worker, and Joe Isaak, a forklift driver. Isaak's mother is Italian American, originating from Genoa. The tracks "Gone Ridin'" and "Livin' for Your Lover", from this album, were featured in David Lynch's cult classic Blue Velvet. Isaak's second self-titled album Chris Isaak was photographed by fashion photographer Bruce Weber. Isaak's contract was renewed in 1988 when Warner Bros. moved him to their Reprise Records label. , California - 1986]] His best-known song is "Wicked Game". Though released on the 1989 album Heart Shaped World, an instrumental version of the song was later featured in the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart. Lee Chesnut, an Atlanta radio station music director who was obsessed with Lynch films, began playing the vocal version and it quickly became the station's most-requested song. Chesnut spread the word to other radio stations around the country and the single became a national Top 10 hit in February 1991. The music video for the song was directed by Herb Ritts and was a big MTV and VH1 hit; shot in black and white, it starred Isaak and Danish supermodel Helena Christensen rolling on the beach, embracing and whispering in each other's ears. Another less-seen version of the "Wicked Game" is directed by David Lynch and comprises scenes from the film Wild at Heart. "Wicked Game" also featured as the backing music in the 2001 TV advert for the Jaguar X-Type range of cars in the UK. In 1995 Isaak split with long time guitarist James Calvin Wilsey, and that year's Forever Blue and the accompanying tour featured Hershel Yatovitz on guitar.

In 1999, Isaak's "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing" was featured in Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The song is on his 1995 album Forever Blue. The music video for the song is directed by Herb Ritts, it was shot in color, it starred Isaak and French supermodel Laetitia Casta in a motel room. This was Isaak's second collaboration with Ritts.

Isaak also composed a theme song for U.S. late-night television variety/talk show, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. In 2001, Isaak starred in his own television show, The Chris Isaak Show. It aired from March 2001 to March 2004 in the United States on the cable television network Showtime. This adult comedy show featured Chris Isaak and his band playing themselves and the episode plots were based on fictional accounts of the backstage world of Chris Isaak—the rock star next door. In 2004, his track "Life Will Go On" was featured on Chasing Liberty's soundtrack, which starred Mandy Moore and Matthew Goode. His track "Two Hearts" was featured in the closing credits of the 1993 film True Romance, directed by Tony Scott, written by Quentin Tarantino, and starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette.

Isaak's longtime producer, Erik Jacobsen, was instrumental in his sound for 15 years. Jacobsen is known for his production work with The Lovin' Spoonful, and solo albums from Spoonful's John Sebastian and Jerry Yester. Isaak ceased working with Jacobsen on his 2002 album, Always Got Tonight. In 2007 Isaak opened for Stevie Nicks on her Crystal Visions Tour during the first leg of the tour.

Isaak was ranked #68 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.

Isaak collaborated with John Shanks for his 2009 album Mr. Lucky.

Guitars

show in Washington, D.C.]] Isaak revealed in a 2002 interview with Acoustic Guitar that he uses a one-of-a-kind Gibson: }} Isaak also plays a Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar, which he uses for songwriting.

Acting and other work

Isaak has also appeared in numerous films, mostly playing minor cameo roles, though he starred with Keanu Reeves and Bridget Fonda in the 1993 Bernardo Bertolucci-directed Little Buddha, and also played a major role in David Lynch's (1992). Other motion pictures include Married to the Mob (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), That Thing You Do! (1996), and A Dirty Shame (2004).

Isaak starred in The Chris Isaak Show (2001–2004) playing himself and featuring actual members of his band along with numerous celebrity guests. He also guest-starred on the "The One After the Superbowl, Part One", the Super Bowl XXX edition of the television sitcom Friends; and on the HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon, as astronaut Ed White, the first American astronaut to leave the confines of his spacecraft who later died in the Apollo 1 fire.

The Biography Channel aired The Chris Isaak Hour, a one-hour music interview and performance show in 2009. The series premiere will feature Trisha Yearwood, and will include the first ever performance of "Breaking Apart", a duet from Isaak's new album, Mr. Lucky. Additional guests include Stevie Nicks, Smashing Pumpkins, Chicago, Glen Campbell, Michael Bublé, Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), and Jewel.

On April 22, 2010, Isaak was the special guest during Conan O'Brien's The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour performance at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco, California.

Discography

Silvertone (1985)

Chris Isaak (1987)

Heart Shaped World (1989)

Wicked Game (1991)

San Francisco Days (1993)

Forever Blue (1995)

Baja Sessions (1996)

Speak of the Devil (1998)

Always Got Tonight (2002)

Christmas (2004)

Best of Chris Isaak (2006)

Live in Australia (2008)

Mr. Lucky (2009)

Live at the Fillmore (2010)

Filmography

Married to the Mob...The Clown (1988)

The Silence of the Lambs...SWAT Commander (1991)

...Special Agent Chester Desmond (1992)

Little Buddha...Dean Conrad (1993)

Grace of My Heart...Matthew Lewis (1996)

That Thing You Do!...Uncle Bob (1996)

Blue Ridge Fall...Emerson Cotswold (1999)

A Dirty Shame...Vaughn Stickles (2004)

The Informers...Les Price (2009)

Television

Wiseguy...Berated lounge singer (Season ?, Episode ?, 1987)

Friends...Rob Donnen (Season 2, Episode 12, 1996) The One After the Superbowl

From the Earth to the Moon...Astronaut Edward White II (1998)

The Greatest...Himself (50 Sexiest Video Moments, 2003)

Ed...Jamie Decker (Season 3, Episode 20, 2003)

The Greatest...Himself/Host (100 Greatest Videos, 2003)

The Chris Isaak Show...Himself (2001–2004)

American Dreams...Roy Orbison (Season 2, Episode 14, 2004)

The Footy Show (rugby league)...Himself (Grand Final, 2004)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson...Michael Caine in Space (Season 2, Episode 177, 2006)

Great Performances Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing Live...Himself (2007)

Australian Idol...Himself (Season 6, 9–10 November 2008)

The Chris Isaak Hour...Himself/Host (2009–Present)

References

External links

Chris Isaak.com, official site of Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak at Recordnet.com: Page with stories, multimedia and more about Chris Isaak from The Record in Stockon, CA, Isaak's hometown.

Chris Isaak Concert History

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Name	Kristina Train
Background	solo_singer
Born	January 17, 1982 New York City, USA
Origin	Savannah, Georgia, USA
Instrument	singing, violin, guitar
Genre	pop, soul, jazz
Years active	2001-present
Label	Blue Note Records
Url	http://www.bluenote.com/kristinatrain/

Kristina Train (née Beaty While growing up, she sang in church and school choirs, and volunteered at the Savannah Music Festival. She was also influenced by listening to 1960s-70s classic rock, including the work of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones.

Train began singing and playing violin professionally in 1999 with The Looters, a band also known for backing European musicians Rosa King and Saskia Laroo on tours of the US. She also performed with "Rosa King and The Looters" for several showcases in Georgia before King's death in 2000.

In 2001 Train played a showcase in New York City for Blue Note Records. Executives Bruce Lundvall and Arif Mardin subsequently signed Train to Blue Note, Eventually, however, Train left school to pursue music full time, moving to New York and signing with Blue Note again. Before recording her debut album, she also lived for a few months in Atlanta and New Jersey, and worked part-time in a Savannah clothing boutique and cafe. but Train selected Jimmy Hogarth to produce the album. Train co-wrote eight songs on the album, collaborating with Hogarth, Eg White, and Ed Harcourt. Train also arranged and overdubbed strings on three tracks on Spilt Milk. The extended version of the release contains the Carolyn Franklin & Jimmy Radcliffe song "If You Want Me".

Other projects

Train often plays with the band Scrapomatic and contributed vocals, violin, and songwriting on their 2006 album Alligator Love Cry.

Train opened for Chris Isaak in August 2009, for Susan Tedeschi in October 2009, and for Keb' Mo' from October through November 2009. She also performed at the T.J Martell Foundation 34th Annual Awards Gala alongside Willie Nelson, Dianne Reeves, and Wynton Marsalis on October 28, 2009.

Train contributed vocals to Marc Cohn's 2010 album Listening Booth, and contributed vocals and fiddle on Collin Rocker's 2010 debut album Milkbox Love, Jukebox Blood, & Other American Favorites.

Train is touring with Herbie Hancock from June 15, 2010 until September 1, 2010.

Train co-wrote the closing track "Salvation" on Robert Randolph & the Family Band's album "We Walk this Road" which was produced by T-Bone Burnett

On 11th of December 2010 Kristina Train performed together with Herbie Hancock ,India.Arie and Greg Phillinganes at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo , Norway.

References

External links

http://www.bluenote.com/kristinatrain/

http://www.kristinatrain.com

http://www.myspace.com/kristinatrain

http://www.pollstar.com/resultsArtist.aspx?ID=162415&SortBy;=Date&SearchBy;=kristina%20train

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Name	David Lynch
Imagesize	200px
Caption	Lynch in Washington D.C., January 23, 2007
Birth place	Missoula, Montana, U.S.
Birth name	David Keith Lynch January 20, 1946
Years active	Since 1966
Spouse	Peggy Lynch (1967–1974)Mary Fisk (1977–1987)Mary Sweeney (2006) Emily Stofle (2009-present)
Partner	Isabella Rossellini (1986–1991)

David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, television director and visual artist. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. Indeed, the surreal and in many cases violent elements to his films have gained them the reputation that they "disturb, offend or mystify" their audiences. and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, whose grandfather's parents had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the nineteenth century. Lynch was raised a Presbyterian. Lynch found this transitory early life relatively easy to adjust to, noting that he found it fairly easy to meet new friends whenever he started attending a new school. and was later described as one of the most important midnight movies of the seventies along with El Topo, Pink Flamingos, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Harder They Come and Night of the Living Dead. In December 2006, the New York Times reported that he continued to have that goal.

Lynch's book, Catching the Big Fish (Tarcher/Penguin 2006), discusses the impact of the Transcendental Meditation technique on his creative process. He is donating all author's royalties to the David Lynch Foundation.

Lynch attended the funeral of the Maharishi in India in 2008. He told a reporter, "In life, he revolutionised the lives of millions of people. ... In 20, 50, 500 years there will be millions of people who will know and understand what the Maharishi has done." In 2009, he went to India to film interviews with people who knew the Maharishi as part of a biographical documentary.

David Wants to Fly, released in May 2010, is a documentary by German filmmaker David Sieveking "that follows the path of his professional idol, David Lynch, into the world of Transcendental Meditation (TM)."

An independent project starring Lynch is called Beyond The Noise: My Transcendental Meditation Journey. It is directed by young film student Dana Farley, who has severe Dyslexia and Attention deficit disorder. Farley started Transcendental Meditation when she was sixteen and it enabled her to overcome the stresses of getting through the her last years of high school and into college. Filmmaker Kevin Sean Michaels is one of the producers and the film will be at film festivals in 2011.

Website

Lynch designed his personal website, a site exclusive to paying members, where he posts short videos and his absurdist series Dumbland, plus interviews and other items. The site also featured a daily weather report, where Lynch gives a brief description of the weather in Los Angeles, where he resides. Until June 2010, this weather report (usually no longer than 30 seconds) was also being broadcast, on his personal YouTube-channel David Lynch – Daily Weather Report. An absurd ringtone ("I like to kill deer") from the website was a common sound bite on The Howard Stern Show in early 2006.

Lynch is an avid coffee drinker and even has his own line of special organic blends available for purchase on his website. Called "David Lynch Signature Cup", the coffee has been advertised via flyers included with several recent Lynch-related DVD releases, including Inland Empire and the Gold Box edition of Twin Peaks. The possibly self-mocking tag-line for the brand is "It's all in the beans ... and I'm just full of beans." This is also a quote of a line said by Justin Theroux's character in Inland Empire.

Filmography

Features

Short films

Television series

{| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Series !Episodes |- |1990–1991 |Twin Peaks |30 |- |1992 |On the Air |7 |- |1993 |Hotel Room |3 |}

ceremony.]]

Online series

{| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Series !Episodes !Available on DVD |- |2002 |Rabbits | |The Lime Green Set DVD |- |2002 |Dumbland |8 |The Lime Green Set DVD |- | |Out Yonder | |The Lime Green Set DVD |- |2009 |Interview Project | | |}

Music videos

{| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Song !Musician |- |1982 |"I Predict" |Sparks |- |1990 |"Wicked Game" (film version) |Chris Isaak |- |1992 |"Dangerous" |Michael Jackson |- |1995 |"Longing" |Yoshiki |- |2009 |"Shot in the Back of the Head" |Moby |}

Other

In October, 2008, at the OMMA Video Conference, Jen Gregono, chief content officer at On Networks, announced that her company signed Lynch to a webisode series based on his book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity.

In June 2009, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse released an album called (named after a Slate.com article of the same name, "Dark Night of the Soul; David Lynch's Inland Empire"), with a 100+ page booklet with visuals by Lynch. The album contained complete packaging and a blank CD because of a dispute with the record label. The artists involved implied that consumers can get the music online and just burn the blank CD provided.

Awards and nominations

'''Academy Awards:

1981: Best Director (The Elephant Man, nominated)

1981: Best Adapted Screenplay (The Elephant Man, nominated)

1987: Best Director (Blue Velvet, nominated)

2002: Best Director (Mulholland Dr., nominated)

'''BAFTA Awards:

1981: Best Direction (The Elephant Man, nominated)

1981: Best Screenplay (The Elephant Man, nominated)

'''Cannes Film Festival:

1990: Golden Palm (Wild at Heart, won)

1992: Golden Palm (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, nominated)

1999: Golden Palm (The Straight Story, nominated)

2001: Best Director (Mulholland Dr., won Tied with Joel Coen for ''The Man Who Wasn't There)

2001: Golden Palm (Mulholland Dr., nominated)

'''DGA Award:

1981: Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (The Elephant Man, nominated)

'''Emmy Awards:

1990: Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Theme Music (Twin Peaks, nominated)

1990: Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics (Twin Peaks for the song "Into the Night", nominated)

1990: Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Twin Peaks for the pilot episode, nominated)

1990: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series (Twin Peaks for the pilot episode, nominated)

1990: Outstanding Drama Series (Twin Peaks)

'''Golden Globes:

1981: Best Director (The Elephant Man, nominated)

1987: Best Screenplay (Blue Velvet, nominated)

2002: Best Director (Mulholland Dr., nominated)

2002: Best Screenplay (Mulholland Dr., nominated)

'''Independent Spirit Awards:

1987: Best Director (Blue Velvet, nominated)

1987: Best Screenplay (Blue Velvet, nominated)

2000: Best Director (The Straight Story, nominated)

2007: Special Distinction Award (Shared with Laura Dern for their collaborative work, won)

'''Saturn Awards:

1993: Best Writing (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, nominated)

1993: Life Career Award (won)

2002: Best Director (Mulholland Dr., nominated)

'''Venice Film Festival:

2006: Future Film Festival Digital Award (Inland Empire won)

2006: Career Golden Lion (won)

'''WGA Award:

1981: Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium (The Elephant Man, nominated)

1987: Best Original Screenplay (Blue Velvet, nominated)

References

;Notes

;Footnotes

;Bibliography }}

David Lynch: Interviews, a collection of interviews with Lynch from 1977 to 2008, edited by Richard A. Barney for the series Conversations with Filmmakers (University Press of Mississippi, 2009, ISBN 1604732377 [paperback], ISBN 1604732369 [hardback]). This volume covers topics that include Lynch's filmmaking, furniture design, painting, and music career.

Lynch on Lynch, a book of interviews with Lynch, conducted, edited, and introduced by filmmaker Chris Rodley (Faber & Faber Ltd., 1997, ISBN 0-571-19548-2; revised edition published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005, ISBN 0-571-22018-5).

The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood by Martha Nochimson (University of Texas Press, 1997, ISBN 0-292-75565-1).

The Complete Lynch by David Hughes (Virgin Virgin, 2002, ISBN 0-7535-0598-3).

Weirdsville U.S.A.: The Obsessive Universe of David Lynch by Paul A. Woods (Plexus Publishing. UK, Reprint edition, 2000, ISBN 0-85965-291-2).

David Lynch (Twayne's Filmmakers Series) by Kenneth C. Kaleta (Twayne Publishers, 1992, ISBN 0-8057-9323-2).

Pervert in the Pulpit: Morality in the Works of David Lynch by Jeff Johnson (McFarland & Company, 2004, ISBN 0-7864-1753-6).

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch (Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2006, ISBN 1585425400 / 978-1585425402).

Snowmen by David Lynch (Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-467-6).

David Lynch: Beautiful Dark by Greg Olson (Scarecrow Press, 2008, ISBN 0-8108-5917-3).

The Film Paintings of David Lynch: Challenging Film Theory by Allister Mactaggart (Intellect, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84150-332-5).

David Lynch - Un cinéma du maléfique, by Enrique Seknadje, Editions Camion Noir, 2010. ISBN : 978-2-35779-086-5

David Lynch in Theory, a collection of essays edited by Francois-Xavier Gleyzon (Charles University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-80-7308-317-5.

External links

(currently offline)

David Lynch Foundation : Education : Transcendental Meditation

David Lynch at Allmovie

David Lynch at Moviefone

David Lynch at Rotten Tomatoes

Site about the Artwork of Lynch

Bibliography of books and articles about Lynch via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center

Interviews

*Film Threat interview

*Wired interview

*Guardian interview

*Interviews for Cinefantastique

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