Baja Sessions | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Chris Isaak |
Cover: | Baja Sessions - Chris Isaak.jpg |
Released: | October 8, 1996 |
Recorded: | 1995–1996 |
Length: | 39:02 |
Label: | Reprise |
Producer: | Erik Jacobsen |
Prev Title: | Forever Blue |
Prev Year: | 1995 |
Next Title: | Speak of the Devil |
Next Year: | 1998 |
Baja Sessions is the sixth studio album by Chris Isaak, released in 1996, featuring largely acoustic arrangements. The album contains a large number of covers, many of which are classic songs (such as the Hawaiian-tinged "Sweet Leilani" and "South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)") which refer to, or are styled to suggest, tropical, laid-back settings. Though its title refers to Baja California, the album was recorded at San Francisco's Coast Recorders.
A 58-minute documentary was released featuring Isaak performing the songs as well as making amusing asides, surfing and generally mucking around.