Part of the brilliant Universal Soul Legends series comes housed in a digipak with simple yet eye-catching artwork and includes brief sleeve notes. The track listing not only features some of the artist's biggest hits but also a handful of rarities and album tracks. This Isaac Hayes collection features a stunning 12 minute version of 'Walk on By' as well cool album tracks, hits, near-misses and his signature tune, 'Theme from Shaft'. Universal.
Recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Hot Buttered Soul was as revolutionary for soul music as anything by James Brown, Sly Stone or George Clinton. ...
WILL HERMES - 18/Aug/2009
"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 hu...
Pasquale Iannone - 21/Jul/2009
If audiences in 1969 were used to LPs built around 3-minute hit singles, the musical landscape of 2009 is one of dwindling record sales and endlessly ...
Nate Patrin - 29/Jun/2009
Think about how crazy this is for a moment: Stax loses Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays to a plane crash and the rights to their back catalog (and, later...
Greg Barbrick - 23/Jun/2009
Isaac Hayes’ classic Hot Buttered Soul was originally released in 1969. It remains one of the most original and successful R&B albums ever recorded. J...