Chris Isaak Live! Beyond The Sun

In this new PBS special, Chris Isaak performs in a personal tribute to the glory days of the legendary producer Sam Phillips and his Sun Studio in Memphis and the music created by his heroes (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and others).

Isaak recaptures the spirit of the original songs with his own brilliant band of stellar musicians, while revealing the heart and soul of his own deeply rooted musical identity. Chris Isaak Live! Beyond the Sun airs on WSBE Rhode Island PBS on June 2, 2012 at 7:30 P.M.

Chris Isaak Live! Beyond the Sun was taped on February 13, 2012, before a live audience of music fans on the soundstage of Austin City Limits, the home of the legendary PBS music series. The three-act program begins with some of Isaak’s most popular hits, moves on to his tribute to Sun Records and then wraps up with a combination of both. All in all, it’s a celebration of Isaak’s own stellar career with some of his best-known and favorite recordings.

Joining Isaak for this special evening is Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer and “The Queen of Rockabilly,” Wanda Jackson.



Chris Isaak Live! Beyond the Sun features these performances:
“I Want Your Love"
“Somebody’s Crying”
“Wicked Game”
“Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing”
“I’ll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin’)”
“Ring of Fire”
“Trying to Get to You” (with Wanda Jackson)
“It’s Now or Never”
“Crazy Arms”
“Your True Love”
“Miss Pearl”
“Great Balls of Fire”
“Blue Hotel”
“Fujiyama Mama” (with Wanda Jackson)
“Oh, Pretty Woman”
“Can’t Help Falling in Love”
“Big Wide Wonderful World”

A Lively Experiment on Rhode Island PBS (6/1 and 6/3)

Panel

Dyana Koelsch – moderator
Rob Horowitz – columnist, GoLocalProv.com
Dave Layman – corporate communications consultant, former TV news director/anchor
Scott MacKay - political analyst, Rhode Island Public Radio
Maureen Moakley – political science professor, URI


Topics

• Curt Schilling’s interview with The Providence Journal 
• Former Governor Donald Carcieri's silence throughout the Studio 38 controversy 
• Providence Mayor Angel Taveras's tentative agreement with city workers and retirees
• The State budget

A Lively Experiment airs on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1) Fridays at 8:30 P.M., with rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 7 P.M. on WSBE Learn (36.2), and Sundays at noon on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1).

WSBE Rhode Island PBS transmits standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) programming over the air on digital 36.1; on Rhode Island cable: Cox 08 / 1008HD, Verizon 08 / 508HD, and Full Channel 08; in Massachusetts: Comcast 819HD; on satellite: DirecTV 36, Dish Network 7776.

WSBE Learn transmits over the air on digital 36.2; on Cox 808; Verizon 478; Full Channel 109; and Comcast 294 or 312.

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The Tradesmen: Making an Art of Work

Richard Yeagley, a 20-something first-time documentary filmmaker, astutely observed at his young age the blue collar workforce was vanishing. He wondered why - when these are the men that makes things work. In his words:

“I was raised in a place called ‘Charm City’ – most know it as Baltimore. Growing up, I vividly remember the blue-collar nature of the individuals and the city itself. At this point in my life I no longer have a daily connection to the blue-collar worker, and I have lost touch with the very essence of my upbringing and the people who occupy my childhood and adolescent memories. 

“After graduating from college, moving away from my hometown, and entering the workforce, I began to notice a pervasive bias against work that required any form of manual labor and described as blue collar. In principle, this sentiment without any firsthand experience was unfair and disparaging towards tradesmen and their work. But why are such attitudes ubiquitous within our current cultural landscape? Where does the current cultural bias come from? Is it influenced by technological advances and novel opportunities in other occupations? Or opinions of limited financial prosperity in trade-work, and the potential for higher wages in other fields? Or is it inherent in the current educational curriculum and paradigm? I wanted to produce a documentary which sets out to explore the questions.”

The Tradesmen: Making an Art of Work is that exploratory social documentary. It will engage the viewer as they watch the vocational lives of several tradesmen and will discuss the issues encompassing the trades in contemporary America. The documentary is a real and unflinching look at the lives and work of the modern tradesman and is an exposition into the socioeconomic topics related to the modern blue-collar craftsman.

“The people who do not value and acknowledge the intellect inherent in this type of work are the individuals who have never performed this type of work on a large scale. Anyone who has ever monitored a skilled tradesman at work and immersed in the task at hand, would quickly realize that there is a skill set and know how that is accumulated through copious experience and intangible knowledge. 

“Moreover, since there has been this new movement towards so-called knowledge industries, there has been a pervasive disdain for any industry perceived to be industrial, and by extension – antiquated. Somehow, educators – and a majority of the population as a whole – feel that these types of ‘industrial’ jobs do not require a skill set worthy of teaching and acknowledging, and that are youth shall not be tracked or “nudged” into such professions. Essentially, parents and educators are reinforcing such negligence of intelligence in the work. 

“Furthermore, most Americans equate occupational desirability with social prestige and/or income, and since there is currently an ethos of undesirability within these jobs, there will irrefutably be condescension of the intelligence behind such work. In summation, the ‘college for all’ movement in the advanced world, and being that most trades do not require a college degree, has exacerbated this sentiment.”

WSBE Rhode Island PBS is proud to present The Tradesmen: Making an Art of Work on Thursday, May 31 at 10 P.M. You may also want to tune in an hour earlier - 9 P.M. - for Craft in America, a journey to the artists, origins, and techniques of American craft.

The documentary caught the interest of  John Hazen White, Jr., president of Taco, Inc., and he sponsored a screening last fall. Here is the film director's account of his experience at Taco.

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