![]() I came down to see him, and he said, "Hey, do you want to do something?" I said, "Yeah, but let me walk out and do the first thing with your band." And I walked out, and I played a song, and then I said, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. And so he has his fans packed to play, and I'm gonna be playing the next night or something. We played there all the time, and he plays there all the time. Isaak: Yes, he was playing at Saratoga Mountain Winery. Wait, now if I remember, the story is you guys were doing a show together or you were at the same festival, and he's like, "Hey, do you want to play a joke?" And didn't you come out and pretend to be him? And he's hilarious.īaltin: He told me the whole thing started as a joke. I'm gonna have you a nice set of boots made, custom boots, anything you want." I'm like, "Who does that?" I just went, "Okay, now I got to figure out something to get him." I think I have an idea too, but I just went, "Oh my God, he's so generous, so nice." He would sing on my set, come up and sing and I'd sing on his set. I wanna show you my boot maker, he's right over here." I said, "Okay." And I'm thinking, what's the deal? He brings me to this guy, and the guy says, he goes, "Chris, take your shoes off. He goes, "I wanna introduce you to my boot maker. And at the end of the tour, he takes me into where I'm sitting, he goes, "Chris, you have time? Let's have lunch." I go, "Yeah." Anytime I could hang out with him, you bet I will. That guy could not be more talented and he's a strange, funny, brilliant guy. We had just worked together a few times for a few minutes. Isaak: I didn't know what it was going to be like to tour with Lyle Lovett. You just toured with Lyle Lovett who I did a big piece with this year. But I listened to him at the end of his life singing and he brought so much to the songs that I just went "Wow." He continued to get better.īaltin: I think for a lot of people, they get better. Because I'm a fan of his since I was 15, and to listen to him, I went back the other day and I thought, "Usually when I listen to people's early recordings, I like their voice then." John Prine got better and better and that's so inspirational. And I'm so pissed that he is gone and that COVID took him away too soon. He looked like he was just loving life and what a great character, great guy, great writer. John Prine was like, every time I saw him he had a twinkle in his eye. ![]() ![]() I got to know him a little bit, Dave knew him pretty well, but how cool was John Prine to put up a Christmas tree and leave it up in the studio?īaltin: When you were in there, did you feel the John Prine vibes from the Christmas tree? Isn't that great? Just keep it up." And I can't tell you how big a fan of Johns Prine's I am. And it was a Christmas tree set up and decorated and I thought really Dave has really gone out his way and I said, "Wow that's pretty cool." And he goes "Oh no because that's only here." I said, "What?" He goes, "Take a look at it." And I walked over and he goes, "John Prine loves Christmas so much that he put up a Christmas tree in the middle of the year. But I went in and I thought, "Wow, how cool there's a Christmas tree." It was like June or something we were recording. Isaak: Okay, I'll tell you a story, went in the studio and I worked with Dave Cobb, we were friends before. And I'm a big believer in how environment affects writing, so I imagine Christmas in Nashville has a different feel. Christmas time makes it all tougher.īaltin: Slash and I talked about the vibe in Dave Cobb's studio but what we did not talk about was the Christmas vibe in there. I think the holidays are always tough on people because they imagine everybody else is having a wonderful time and here I'm feeling a blank, doing jail time or I have a car wreck or something. ![]() Isaak: To write a Christmas song about somebody calling up the person they love and hearing their kids in the background playing and saying, "I can't take this, I gotta get off the phone, I can't, I'm gonna break down." And wrapping presents for himself and eating dinner by himself at Christmas. ![]()
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