Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul (CD) artist-mickey-hart Grammy-nominated producer Scott Hansen

Grammy-nominated producer Scott Hansen

The song calls out killings that have gone on in the name of authority and totalitarian rule as well as the instruments of repression of colonial Africa the police and the army

The forest rather than the trees

Falls 2 (1:12)

Big Women (5:00)

Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul (CD) artist-mickey-hart Grammy-nominated producer Scott HansenBefore Marvin Gaye stretched "What's Going On" across a full side, before Curtis Mayfield rewrote the rules of the concept album, Hayes was already doing something radical on this 1969 Stax release, turning "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" into an 18 minute meditation and making "Walk On By" virtually unrecognizable. The orchestral arrangements, the slow burn, the spoken word passages, all of it pointed somewhere soul music hadn't been before.