Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
HOT BUTTERED SOUL: EXPANDED EDITION
Release Date: 6th July-2009
Label: Stax/ Concord / UMC)
Format: 1CD & Digital Download
Cat no - 7231458
Universal Music and Stax Records presents the 40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION of the classic album that transformed Isaac Hayes into a true music icon…
Originally released at the end of the ‘60s, Hot Buttered Soul set the precedent for how soul would evolve in the 70’s – simultaneously establishing Isaac Hayes as a major music force.
Isaac Hayes's first album, Presenting Isaac Hayes, was a low-budget, jazz-imbued affair recorded on the spur of the moment with only bass and drums accompanying his piano and voice. This, his second, offered something altogether different: a husky, very masculine baritone rapping and crooning against a massive backdrop of strings and brass from the Memphis Symphony and the solid grooves of the Bar-Kays.
With this 1969 release, made up of four long tracks, Hayes revolutionized African-American popular music by leading it out of the era of the three-minute single and into concept album territory. A double-sided single of edited versions of "Walk on By" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" sold fairly well, but fans clamored for the full-length treatments and turned Hot Buttered Soul into a smash--the first-ever gold album for Stax Records.
Digitally remastered, featuring 2 bonus tracks, a booklet containing expanded liner notes and new rare photographs, Hot Buttered Soul: Expanded Edition is a ‘MUST’ for all music collectors as well as fans of soul, R&B, disco, Stax Records and Isaac Hayes himself!
Tracklisting
- Walk On By (12:03)
- Hyperbolicsyllableecsesquedalymistic (9:39)
- One Woman (5:11)
- By The Time I Get To Phoenix (18:42)
- Walk On By [single edit] (4:33) **
- By The Time I Get To Phoenix [single edit] (6:57) **
** Bonus Tracks