CD 1 – 35:39

01. Ring of Fire (2:39)
02. Trying to Get to You (2:36)
03. I Forgot to Remember to Forget (2:11)
04. Great Balls of Fire (1:55)
05. Can’t Help Falling in Love (3:01)
06. Dixie Fried (2:16)
07. How’s the World Treating You (2:52)
08. It’s Now or Never (3:20)
09. Miss Pearl (2:08)							play
10. Live It Up (2:33)
11. I Walk the Line (2:27)
12. So Long I’m Gone (2:26)
13. She’s Not You (1:56)
14. My Happiness (3:13)

CD 2 – 28:36

01. My Baby Left Me (2:01)
02. Oh, Pretty Woman (2:52)
03. Doin’ the Best I Can (3:17)
04. Your True Love (1:57)
05. Crazy Arms (2:48)							play
06. Lovely Loretta (2:47)
07. Everybody’s in the Mood (2:16)
08. I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (2:05)
09. Love Me (2:45)
10. Doncha’ Think It’s Time (2:04)
11. That Lucky Old Sun (3:39)

Bass, Vocals – Rowland Salley
Drums, Vocals – Kenney Dale Johnson
Guitar, Vocals – Hershel Yatovitz
Musician [Additional] – David Woodford, Cowboy Jack Clement*, Lee Thornburg, Waddy Wachtel
Percussion – Rafael Padilla
Band – Chris Isaak, Hershel Yatovitz, Kenney Dale Johnson, Rafael Padilla, Rowland Salley, Scott Plunkett
Vocals [Additional] – Ashley Monroe, Craig Copeland, Jon Joyce, Michelle Branch, Richard Wells (3)
Vocals, Rhythm Guitar – Chris Isaak 

Some albums are so obvious it’s a wonder they didn’t exist before, and so it is with Chris Isaak's Beyond the Sun, a salute to the classic rock & roll label Sun Records. Ever since his first album, Isaak has exhibited an enormous debt to the titans who recorded at Sun, particularly Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley, whose work is showcased heavily here. Isaak doesn’t stick strictly to songs released on Sun -- he covers “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” which Presley did not release during his time on Sun -- but he doesn’t stick to the obvious, either, finding excellent songs from the likes of Warren Smith. Still, Elvis rules the roost, not only in terms of songs covered, but in approach. Isaak croons like the King, smoothing out the rough edges of Carl Perkins' “Dixie Fried” and Jerry Lee's “Great Balls of Fire,” smoothing them out enough to push them to a smoky, late-night torch song. Beyond the Sun plays it cool and plays it authentic -- these aren’t reinterpretations, but sincere homages -- and if this doesn’t have much grit, it has plenty of style and heart. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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01. Lonely With A Broken Heart 
02. Somebody’s Crying 
03. Want Your Love 
04. We Let Her Down 
05. Graduation Day 
06. Western Stars 
07. Speak of the Devil 
08. Wicked Games 
09. Best I Ever Had 
10. Worked It Out Wrong 
11. Two Hearts 
12. Take My Heart 
13. Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing 
14. San Francisco Days 
15. Move Along 
16. Dancin’ 
17. Blue Spanish Sky

Live at the Fillmore features retro-leaning pop crooner Chris Isaak performing a concert at the storied California venue. Backed by his longtime working band, the album is a nice showcase for both Isaak's melodic, romantic songs and his charming stage presence. In that sense you get to hear such popular Isaak numbers as "Somebody's Crying," "Wicked Game," and "San Francisco Days." Interestingly, Isaak also performs a few songs that, as he humorously points out, haven't made it onto album yet. While Live at the Fillmore is by no means a significant entry into his catalog, longtime fans will certainly enjoy this personable and enjoyable document of Isaak's live show. ---Matt Collar, RoviM.

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1. Cheater's Town  
2. We Let Her Down  
3. You Don't Cry Like I Do  
4. We've Got Tomorrow  
5. Breaking Apart (duet with Trisha Yearwood)  
6. Baby Baby  
7. Mr. Lonely Man  
8. I Lose My Heart (with Michelle Branch)  
9. Summer Holiday  
10. Best I Ever Had  
11. We Lost Our Way  
12. Very Pretty Girl  
13. Take My Heart  
14. Big Wide Wonderful World

Mr. Lucky is the first album Chris Isaak has released in seven years but it's hard to call it a comeback: it's been so long since Isaak had something approaching a crossover hit that it's hard to say that he's been away, that he has something to come back from -- he just appears every few years, such as in March of 2009, when Mr. Lucky appeared as part of a coordinated multimedia attack. In addition to this new album, Isaak has a new talk show on A&E -- like Elvis Costello's Spectacle but on basic cable -- and Mr. Lucky isn't strictly a soundtrack for the show, but it's fair to say that the show gives Mr. Lucky a larger potential audience than any Isaak album in a long time, probably since the last time he had a television show in the early-2000s sitcom The Chris Isaak Show. Given this bigger platform, it makes perfect sense that Mr. Lucky feels carefully considered: from its production to its construction, it's a deliberate attempt to modernize Isaak's retro obsessions without abandoning them. Usually, this modernization surfaces in echoey atmospherics partway between U2 and Coldplay, textures that suit his melodramatic Roy Orbison tributes. Mr. Lucky works because Isaak and crew don't overplay their hand -- he's never swallowed in waves of digital delay, the way Roy himself was on his swan song, Mystery Girl -- but tweak subtly, then alternate these coolly romantic mood pieces with swinging rockabilly, sly low-key grooves, duets with Trisha Yearwood and Michelle Branch, breezy pop that harks back to a time prior to the British Invasion, and a big, glitzy Vegas number to close the whole show. As a sensibility, it's no different than anything Isaak's done, so the difference is the execution, not just in the light, fresh touch of the production but the songs, which are his strongest in a long time -- and that's good enough to please his longtime fans as well as anybody whose interest might be piqued by the new show. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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