Isaac Hayes, Hot Buttered Soul (1969)
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Just four songs in total and three-quarters of the album written by other people – even though Isaac Hayes was one-half of a hit-writing/producing team himself. And yet this album is just it. It is the one. When Hayes died I was sad. Sad because too many people would eulogise him as The Chef – as if that was any kin…
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