EXCLUSIVE NEWS:
CHRIS ISAAK BAND PREVIEWS NEW ALBUM AT ANOTHER S.F. "SMART ASS" SIGNING
Friday, November 5, 2010
Joel Selvin
Closing down early rehearsals for recording sessions to a new album and dragging out the acoustic gear - including the brand new bull fiddle bassist Rowland Salley bought for the sessions - to do some last-minute busking in the Bookshop West Portal, Isaak and his crew were trying to help draw a crowd for another booksigning for "Smart Ass: The Music Journalism of Joel Selvin."
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"This book has all the answers you need," said Isaak, holding up a copy of "Smart Ass: The Music Journalism of Joel Selvin". "On the road, I sleep with it on my bosom. That's on the chest."
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"This book has all the answers you need," said Isaak, holding up a copy. "On the road, I sleep with it on my bosom. That's on the chest."
He also praised the collection of used magazine and newspaper articles for its diet advice.
"Tonight we're only doing songs we don't know," said Isaak, bent over the gooseneck mike on the bookstore's lectern.
With Isaak strumming a fine-looking acoustic guitar ("That cost him more than his first car," said drummer Kenney Dale Johnson) and Hershel Yatovitz softly riffing an arch-top electric through a practice amp, with keyboardist Scott Plunkett squeezing an accordion in the children's books section, the band ran through a bunch of the Sun Records songs and Elvis numbers they are planning to record and only now starting to learn.
Among the selections were old Elvis songs such as "I Forgot to Remember To Forget," "Trying To Get To You," and "(Now and Then) There's a Fool Such As I," along with Carl Perkins' "True Love" and some other tasty rockabilly and blues nuggets. Chris Isaak on harmonica -- yeah!
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