Chris Isaak knows what you want to hear
The songwriter known for Wicked Game, and working with filmmaker David Lynch, performs at BeachLife Ranch this Sunday, September 24 by Ryan McDonald Long enough ago to predate cell phones, Chris Isaak got a 4 a.m. call from a woman who said she was coming over. Isaak agreed, but regretted it almost as soon as he hung up, and turned to music to try to capture what he was feeling. Before the woman arrived, he had the basics of “Wicked Game,” the smash hit that would define his career. Years later, Issac would say in an interview that the song is about “what happens when you have strong attraction to people that aren’t necessarily good for you. And I think it hit a nerve because I think a lot of us have strong attractions to people that aren’t necessarily good for us.” It’s telling that “Wicked Game” is still often presumed to be about pining for someone who doesn’t love you back. Isaak is a singer who you can listen to closely and yet easily lose track of the words he is saying, lost as you are in lush feeling and the plunges of evoked memory. His work has the rare quality of being both dreamy and cinematic, enabling the listener to feel like they know all about a place they’ve…
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