Released 18/10/2011
Chris Isaak's longstanding desire to musically salute his inspirations was fast-tracked when he read a 2000 interview with the great Sun Records producer Sam Phillips that appeared in the Oxford American. Near the end of the Q&A, Phillips was asked if any contemporary recording artists grabbed his attention. His response blew Chris away. "I don't keep up with the business like I used to," said Phillips, "but I love to listen to Chris Isaak. He's very talented, and his music is so damned honest. It's incredible." That pretty much sealed the deal for this Sun worshiper. The accurately titled Beyond the Sun, Chris Isaak's Vanguard Records debut is a self-described labor of love. Since he fell in love with his parents' 45s as a child in Stockton, California, this passionate writer/artist has been obsessed with the glory days of Memphis' Sun Studio and the visionary artists who got their starts thereincluding Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewisall of them discovered and nurtured by Sam Phillips. Now, at long last, Isaak magically recaptures the transformative brilliance of the classic sides cut by these greats at Sun with Phillips during the mid-'50s, while also getting down to the nitty-gritty of his own deeply rooted musical identity.
Disc 1: Ring Of Fire Trying To Get To You I Forgot To Remember To Forget Great Balls Of Fire Cant Help Falling In Love Dixie Fried Hows The World Treating You Now Or Never Miss Pearl Live It Up I Walk The Line So Long Im Gone Shes Not You My Happiness