Ben voilà... c'est commak!
En 2005, Brian Setzer rendait hommage aux légendaires studios Sun Records avec un album spécifiquement dédié. Des morceaux connus, d'autres moins, mais un véritable travail de mémoire sur ce label qui a produit tant de héros du rock n' roll. C'est un volume 1 et on attend tous une suite présumée.. Quel artiste d'aujourd'hui, mis à part Brian, excellent guitariste et chanteur, certainement l'héritier en chef de ces pionniers, peut prétendre être capable d'un tel hommage? Personne, bien entendu...
Personne? Ben faut croire que cela a donné des idées à certain: en octobre 2011 est paru le nouvel album de Chris Isaak, intitulé Beyond The Sun, qui reprend, à sa façon, des titres (mais pas que) publiés chez Sun il y a bien longtemps.
Alors quelle est la différence? Sur le plan strictement musical, il n'y a pas, selon moi, photo. Même sans être un fan invertébré de Setzer, il est difficile de lui contester le titre toutes catégories: Rockabilly Riot Vol. 1 - A Tribute To Sun Records est bien meilleur. Mais il y a autre chose: Setzer ne passe pas sur les radios en France, alors que le Chris, lui, est diffusé. Et ça, ben ça me gonfle, les aminches. Evidemment.... Alors on va se consoler en constatant que cette diffusion s'accompagne souvent d'un commentaire sur Sun Records rappelant qui, quoi, quand et comment. Ce fameux devoir de mémoire?
Pour les ceuss que ça intéresse:
Chris Isaak: ‘Beyond The Sun’ - October 18 on Vanguard Records
CHRIS ISAAK GOES DEEP WITH AN LP OF CLASSIC RECORDINGS
FROM SUN STUDIOS, PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE ROOTS OF
ROCK ‘N ROLL
BEYOND THE SUN MARKS ISAAK’S VANGUARD RECORDS DEBUT
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 18, 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.”
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.
Beyond The Sun (Standard)
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
Beyond The Sun (Deluxe Edition)
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’ You Think It’s Time
11. That Lucky Old Sun
