Chris Isaak

Stockton-bred, blue-color born yodeler, interviewer, recent inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…and pretty good cartoonist. Chris Isaak had a national hit in 1987 with the excellent orison to Orbison "Blue Hotel," but it's the moan on 1989's "Wicked Game" that sums up the particularly cinematic music of this roots rocker/balladeer whose work is now part of the fabric of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick's films. He plays with pop-roots star Shawn Colvin. - Richard von Busack sanjose.com