Chris Isaak: Beyond the Sun | CD review

(Rhino/Wicked Game)Every musician has an album they've "always wanted to make", and this is Chris Isaak's: a 19-track behemoth of (mainly) Sun Records covers, executed so faithfully that they could have been mouldering in a Memphis vault for 50 years. Most of the album was even recorded in the Sun Studios. There's little divergence from the originals in this set (which also includes one new Isaak tune, Live It Up, a headlong rockabilly rush). On the contrary; Isaak practically replicates Presle...

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