Jami Gertz

March, 1986

"Sure, I don't drink, smoke or use drugs," says rock-'n'-roller Chris Isaak, "but that doesn't make me Pat Boone, does it? If Hitler didn't smoke or drink, you still wouldn't call him an all-German kind of guy, would you? Believe me, there's more to vice than smoking and drinking."Isaak's debut album, Silvertone, has elicited rave comparisons between this California-born surfer/singer/songwriter/guitarist and Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison and Elvis...