“Hot Buttered Soul” by Isaac Hayes - album review
features in: Album Chart of 1969 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1960s ● 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die  |
Created as a fundraiser for the beleaguered Stax label, “Hot Buttered Soul” boasted a tight production across the 4 extended pieces, aided by the Bar-Kays rhythm section. The set opens soulfully with a fine cover of “Walk On By” (Dionne Warwick, 1964) and gets into a really cool laid-back groove with the improbably titled original “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic”. Side two's nowhere near as vital, with balladic covers of “One Woman” (Al Green, 1969) and “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” (Johnny Rivers, 1966). Made #1 in the R&B albums chart. Job done.
The Jukebox Rebel
08–Dec–2015
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [12:03]  Isaac Hayes - Walk On By (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) Soul |
| A2 | [09:38]  Isaac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic (Isaac Hayes, Alvertis Isbell) Disco / Funk |
| B1 | [05:10]  Isaac Hayes - One Woman (Charles Chalmers, Sandra Rhodes) Soul Ballad |
| B2 | [18:42]  Isaac Hayes - By The Time I Get To Phoenix (Jimmy Webb) Soul Ballad |
