After an eight-minute spoken introduction, the song slowly builds to a climax of horns, strings, organs and vocals. An extended reinterpretation of Jimmy Webb’s country music composition “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” closes the album. ![]() “One Woman”, at just over five minutes the shortest track on the album, focuses on the pangs of infidelity. The album begins with a cover of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David classic, “Walk On By.” Second was “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic”, an uptempo funk song with wah-wah guitar and rolling pianos. ![]() ![]() Since Bell had encouraged Hayes to record Presenting… in the first place, he readily agreed. Stax executive Al Bell decided to release a new, almost instant, back catalog of 27 albums and 30 singles at once, ordered all of Stax’s artists to record new material, and encouraged some of Stax’s prominent creative staff, including Hayes and Steve Cropper, to record solo albums.īurned by the retail flop of Presenting Isaac Hayes, Hayes told Bell that he would not cut a follow-up unless he was granted complete creative control. Hayes’ solo debut, Presenting Isaac Hayes, had been a poor seller for Stax Records, and Hayes was about to return to his behind-the-scenes role as a producer and songwriter at the venerable soul label when it suddenly lost its complete back catalog after splitting with Atlantic Records in May 1968. ![]() Released in 1969, it is recognized as a landmark in soul music. Hot Buttered Soul was Isaac Hayes’ second studio album.
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