Hot Buttered Soul

Hot Buttered Soul was Isaac Hayes' second studio album, released in 1969 and was a landmark in soul music.

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Isaac Hayes - 1969 - Soul music

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Hot Buttered Soul broke radically away from the standard three-minute song format, and instead consisted of just four tracks -- two pop song covers and two originals -- with lengths ranging from 5 to 18 minutes.

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Hayes demonstrated his great skill as an arranger with these slow-burning epics, starting with a cover of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David classic, "Walk on By". Second was "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic", an uptempo slice of funk with wah-wah guitar and rolling pianos. "One Woman", at just over five minutes the shortest track on the album, is said by some to be a quietly beautiful track about the difficulties of love. A epic reinterpretation of Jimmy Webb's country music gem, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", closes the album: After an eight-minute spoken introduction, the song slowly builds to a stunning climax of horns, strings, organs and vocals.

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Burt Bacharach - Hal David - Wah-wah - Jimmy Webb - Country music - Phoenix - Organ

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The album was notable for its use of innovative production techniques, and has deeply influenced a great deal of subsequent soul, hip hop and Motown music.

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Soul - Hip hop - Motown

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