While I was watching a country music channel quite a few years back, I was captivated by Chris Isaak's video for "Somebody's Crying". It wasn't just the video that had me interested, although Issak is always very handsome, and he appeared to be very much so during the footage, but rather the song. I have been a fan of Isaak's ever since his work with David Lynch on the "Wild at Heart" Soundtrack. His "Wicked Game" is a pure and haunting classic. It is clearly washed in the songs of yesterday that inspired Isaak, such performers as Roy Orbison and Elvis.
Loving "Somebody's Crying", I started looking for the album it would appear on. I found out that it was an album entitled "Forever Blue". Along with expecting and awaiting its release date, I found out the story behind many of the songs that would be featured on the album.
At the time, Chris has broken up with his long time girlfriend. Loving the girl completely, his heart was broken and he decided, like most artists, to turn that pain into creation. When I finally was able to purchase "Forever Blue" I was not let down.
The agony that Isaak was feeling at the time is perfectly captured on this album. It is probably a feeling, unfortunately, felt by anyone who has had a broken heart. The songs on "Forever Blue" are not a cheery lot, but each one is beautiful and quite haunting in its own right and way.
The feeling of lonliness and wondering if the seperated lover feels that same pain is encapsuled in "Somebody's Crying". The haunting landscape of a lover scorned is laid perfectly bared by the truly beautiful "Changed Your Mind". Such pain is also the flipside of a certain anger which is brought to life in such tracks as "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" and "Go Walking Down There". There is a yearning plea for hope with "Don't Leave Me on My Own" and lastly a certain cheerful pessimism with "I Believe".
For those who have been left with a tortured heart and searching soul you can find that mood perfectly captured in Chris Isaak's "Forever Blue".
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