Hot Buttered Soul

Performer: Isaac Hayes
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Isaac Hayes (vocals); The Bar-Kays. Producers: Al Bell, Marvell Thomas, Allen Jones. Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino. This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. Personnel: Isaac Hayes (vocals, organ); Johnny Allen, Dale Warren (arranger); Harold Beane (guitar); Marvell Thomas (piano); Pat Lewis (background vocals); The Bar-Kays. Producers: Al Bell, Marvell Thomas, Allen Jones. Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee and United Sound Systems Studio, Detroit, Michigan in 1969. Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl. Personnel: Isaac Hayes (vocals, piano, keyboards); Marvell Thomas (keyboards); The Bar-Kays. A staff songwriter with the legendary Stax label, Isaac Hayes, with partner David Porter, composed material for many of the company's artists, including Sam And Dave, Carla Thomas and Johnnie Taylor. Frustrated with this backroom role, he began recording in his own right, and with Hot Buttered Soul, redefined the notion of soul music. Although the tracks were lengthy, there was no sense of self-indulgence, each one evolving over sensual rhythms and taut arrangements. Hayes' vocal anticipated the 'rap' genre of Barry White and Millie Jackson without slipping into self-parody, lending an air of sophistication to a highly influential collection.

Rolling Stone (p.86) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The album was a model of free-form soul and protodisco arranging that made an ace producer-songwriter into a pop star..." Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.108) - Ranked #46 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...Along with perhaps the greatest album cover of all time, you get endless Memphis soul grooves, slow and deep..." Paste (magazine) (p.61) - "One of the best and most grandiose albums ever recorded....It's the third cover, Jimmy Webb's 'By The Time I Get to Phoenix,' that blows minds with its 9-minute spoken intro and superlatively heraldic horns." Record Collector (magazine) (p.91) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[G]enuinely revolutionary, signalling a way in the way soul music was consumed -- no longer as the three-minute 45, but in album form."

Isaac Hayes is considered by many to be soul's voice of love. His landmark 1969 album, HOT BUTTERED SOUL, inspired other R&B artists (especially Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder) to broaden their musical horizons, while his early-'70s soundtrack work proved just as influential. His epic-length tracks, lush arrangements, and radical soul reinvention of familiar pop songs made him a unique figure in R&B, and his soundtrack for the film SHAFT cemented his iconic status. In the '90s, he experienced another wave of popularity as the voice of Chef in the animated series SOUTH PARK, a role tailor-made for him, until the show's constant jibes at his religion of Scientology drove him to quit. The consummate soul man died in 2008 at age 65.

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