Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul auf LP

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (* 20. August 1942 in Covington, Tennessee; † 10. August 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee) war ein US-amerikanischer Soulmusiker, Komponist und Schauspieler. Im Jahr 2002 wurde Hayes in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Mit seiner markanten Bassbariton-Stimme und seinem Sprechgesang war der Soulsänger ein Vorläufer des Rap und HipHop.

1971 gelang ihm der weltweite Durchbruch mit dem Titelsong zu dem Blaxploitation-Film Shaft. Er gewann den Oscar, den Golden Globe, zwei Grammys, den NAACP Award und den Edison Award. Das Soundtrackalbum erreichte Platin-Status, was einem afroamerikanischen Künstler noch nie zuvor gelungen war.

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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.
(concordmusicgroup. com)