Masterpiece. Epic. Opera for the broken-hearted. Hayes turns a polite breakup song into a slow-burning tragedy. He talks over the intro for nearly nine minutes, telling a story about picking up his dry cleaning and driving through California. It shouldn't work. It is utterly hypnotic. By the time he finally hits the chorus, you’ve already lived his entire life.
It was part of Stax Records' "instant catalog" of 27 albums released simultaneously to rebuild their library after a split with Atlantic Records. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul -1969- -EAC-FLAC-
Hot Buttered Soul contains only . That’s it. But those four tracks run for over 45 minutes. Masterpiece
A tongue-twister of a title that showcased Hayes' ability to fuse funk with a swinging, almost cabaret sensibility. It features a legendary piano riff that would later be sampled in modern hip-hop, cementing Hayes' legacy as a progenitor of the rap aesthetic. Hayes turns a polite breakup song into a
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