Isaac Hayes

Only one song clocks in under ten minutes on this four-song release. A seminal album, Hot Buttered Soul cemented Isaac Hayes's image and his influence on the music industry. The music is stunning both instrumentally and vocally, and its relentless low-key grooves should strike fear in the hearts of poseurs everywhere. Includes the phenomenal "Walk On By."

"Good God!" writes My Morning Jacket's Jim James in the new liner notes for this
musk-and-weed-scented 1969 LP. "Life and love and music and all of humanity reflected in
my mind in the same bold eardrum-melting strokes." He's gushing over "By the Time I Get to
Phoenix," where Isaac Hayes turns the Jimmy Webb tune into an 18-minute epic, building
from endless organ drone to slo-mo orchestral catharsis. The album (reissued wi... More >