Standard Edition



1. Ring Of Fire
2. Trying To Get To You
3. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
4. Great Balls Of Fire
5. Can’t Help Falling In Love
6. Dixie Fried
7. How’s The World Treating You
8. It’s Now Or Never
9. Miss Pearl
10. Live It Up
11. I Walk The Line
12. So Long I’m Gone
13. She’s Not You
14. My Happiness

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005HGZVEM/?tag=imwan-20

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Deluxe Edition



Disc 1
1. Ring Of Fire
2. Trying To Get To You
3. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
4. Great Balls Of Fire
5. Can’t Help Falling In Love
6. Dixie Fried
7. How’s The World Treating You
8. It’s Now Or Never
9. Miss Pearl
10. Live It Up
11. I Walk The Line
12. So Long I’m Gone
13. She’s Not You
14. My Happiness

Disc 2
1. My Baby Left Me
2. Oh, Pretty Woman
3. Doin' The Best I Can
4. Your True Love
5. Crazy Arms
6. Lovely Loretta
7. Everybody's In The Mood
8. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry
9. Love Me
10. Doncha' Think It's Time
11. That Lucky Old Sun

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005KMX866/?tag=imwan-20

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Chris Isaak’s ‘Beyond The Sun’ Pays Tribute to the Roots of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Available October 18th!
Posted on August 9, 2011
Chris Isaak Goes Deep With an LP of Classic Recordings From Sun Records, Paying Tribute to the Roots of Rock ’n’ Roll
Beyond The Sun marks Isaak’s Vanguard Records debut

Available on October 18th this collection includes a standard CD plus a deluxe package with bonus tracks!

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 Studios and the visionary artists who got their starts there—including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis—all 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.

Both before and during the sessions, Isaak was inspired to pen some original tunes in the spirit of these sacred texts. One of them, the cranked-up rocker “Live It Up,” is being released as the first single. “When we were doing the record, I kept learning things,” says Chris. “For instance, nothing on those early records has a rock beat—it’s all shuffle and stripper beat. I wrote “Live It Up” to put a rock beat on the record, so that that beat too is represented.”

Click here for a free download of “Live it Up.”

Produced by Isaak, Beyond the Sun was recorded mostly at the historic Sun Studios in Memphis with his longtime band—bass player Rowland Salley and drummer Kenney Dale Johnson, who’ve been with him from the start, guitarist Hershel Yatovitz, pianist Scott Plunkett and percussionist Rafael Padilla. The album also features a guest performance by the Memphis legend, ‘Cowboy’ Jack Clement. Beyond The Sun will be released in a standard and deluxe package. The deluxe package includes 14 tracks plus 11 additional recordings. A 2 LP vinyl edition of the deluxe package will be available in November.

You can hear samples of tracks here:
http://soundcloud.com/vanguard-records/ ... un/s-7kKM0

Looking forward to this! When I visited Sun Studio earlier this year, they mentioned that Chris Isaak was the most recent artist who had recorded there.

Thx for the info; the deluxe edition will be an instant purchase for me.

I just discovered that the Australian Collectors Edition includes three additional bonus tracks -- "My Baby Don't Love Me No More" (an Isaak original), "Bonnie B" and "Great Balls of Fire - Westlake Version", while dropping "Lovely Loretta".

http://www.musicshop.com.au/chris-isaak ... on-cd.html

I finally got this YACA thing figured: "Your Alligator's Cute Ass!"

I've been listening to this one over and over...superb! Like Jay, we visited Sun Studios in the summer of 2010 and I can't recommend touring this place strongly enough. If you're in the area...DO IT!

A visit to Sun is sooooo necessary. Such a tiny space. Such a huge space.

The disc arrived today. Important correction -- "Lovely Loretta" is included, so it includes the entire content of the Deluxe Edition plus the 3 bonus tracks, all on a single black "retro vinyl" CD.

I sprang for the Deluxe version. Hope to get to it this evening.

Rick A.

Me likey this one!

Made a nice expanded 79:25 CD-R using the full expanded tracklisting from Aussie Collector's Edition, but deleting the second mix of "Great Balls of Fire", and adding (1) "It Wouldn't Be The Same Without You" from Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records, (2) "Blue Moon" from It's Now Or Never: The Tribute To Elvis and (3) "Love Me Tender" from the Elvis: Viva Las Vegas soundtrack.