Baja Sessions

Artist: Chris Isaak
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 093624632528
EAN: 0093624632528
ASIN: B000002N9X

Release Date: 1996-10-08

Baja Sessions

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Tracks:

Pretty Girls Don't Cry
Back On Your Side
Only The Lonely
South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way)
I Wonder
Wrong To Love You
Waiting For My Lucky Day
Yellow Bird
Two Hearts
Return To Me
Dancin'
Sweet Leilani
Think Of Tomorrow

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Chris Isaak's Baja Sessions was inspired by a surfing trip the singer took with his band to the Baja California section of Mexico. As the salt in their hair dried in the sun, the four musicians sat around with acoustic guitars and a small drum set, and played some tunes from Isaak's previous albums, some of his unrecorded originals, and some of his favorite old songs by the likes of Roy Orbison, Gene Autry, and Arthur Lyman. The quartet so enjoyed the laid-back, mostly acoustic, Spanish-tinged flavor of these vacation jams that when they got home to the Bay Area, they recreated them in the studio. Baja Sessions is like an Unplugged album, except the sun-drenched, south-of-the-border mood gives these remakes a far fresher twist than most such projects. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

200 Stars.......2007-05-13

This is a wonderful CD. I took it to work and we listen to it alot very one loves it. Every track is great which normally doesn't happen very often. Thank you for listening

Chris Isaak.......2007-04-03

I was introduced to Chris Isaak's song "I Wonder", by a friend. It is a haunting, lyrical piece, I think, and led me to order this CD. I really like most of the songs. Some are more country than "Baja", but most are pleasant to hear.

So Much to Like.......2006-10-10

I cannot remember how I happened to be looking at Chris Isaak's music, but I am so happy I did. He was on a TV special some time ago, and I liked and remembered him. As I looked over his albums and listened to some songs, BAJA SESSIONS stood out as something I would like.

It came the other day, and I have listened many times and am so pleased. I particularly like the south-of-the-border sound, the guitars, and drums with pleasant instrumental breaks. His voice is soft and soothing, and he is very good at the Roy-Orbison sound, which adds another fascinating dimension.

I like all of the songs, too, which is not always possible on some albums. "Only the Lonely", "South of the Border", "I Wonder", "Yellow Bird", "Return to Me", "Sweet Leilani", and well, I should be naming all of them, because they are all so enjoyable.

This may well be one of my favorite enduring albums.

one of my top ten favorite pop music albums.......2006-07-13

I once read in a review of a Creedence album that their music is "about as contrived as the weather." That's a good take on Isaac's Baja Sessions album. These songs are so honest, unpretensious, expressive, and well-performed that they seem to be something Isaak must have discovered, rather than written and recorded himself. As many other reviewers have observed here, he has one of the best voices in the history of popular music (personally, I think it's THE best). And I love the sense of place, the sense of location, the blend of southern Californian and Mexican cultures here. As with the blues and the Mississippi delta, or bluegrass with Kentucky and Apallachia, it's art that is expressive not just of the artist but of his culture as well, of the people around him rather than only of him, that is really worth something. The original material here is as good as the covers, which are done so well they seem as though Isaak might as well have written them, too.

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