Isaac Hayes - Live at the Sahara Tahoe

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Free Music Review: The Black Moses of Soul at His Prime ! ! !
Hit: 5 Stars

Though best known as "Chef" from South Park now-a-days, people of my generation (and older) remember the sizzling cymbals conveying the opening of SHAFT... A black superstar who created a unique form of orchestral soul which I suspect was later hijacked in my city and evolved into the Sound of Philly - - While many other artists in the '70s represented black power, Issac Hayes represented a liberated straightforward form of black sexuality that maybe you'd get on an Ohio Players album, but definitely not from the glitzy pop world of Motown. - - Entering the stage on a motorcycle often wearing nothing but a costume of chains, his shaved head look alone defined the fashion of a generation.

The tunes on this album are funky as you'd expect in any Memphis Shoals production, yet represent a new wave of black music. Then hitmaker Issac Hayes combines the bluesy sensuality of Arthur Pryscock, the gutbucket of STAX, with a raw mixture of funk and pop laden with strings, vibraphone and other orchestrations. It is distinctly Hayes !

Far be it for me to suggest the use of chemically altering substanced, but for sure, if any tune brings memories of a certain sweet musty odor behind the closed doors of your bedroom, the gritty mind tripping "DO YOUR THING" from Shaft definitely has to be among them. From his "raps", to soul anthems, to covers of some great tunes from his CDs, whether's its Bacharach's Look of Love, or Ellie's Love Theme their is a funky sensuality that is pure Issac Hayes straight throught the album... I don't care what anybody says... Barry White had nothing on him... and Issac Hayes was bad, stretching out as an actor in the Black Action genre himself, he could fart and knock Luther Vandross off the planet.

Overall, this incredible CD captures Issac Hayes in his prime... Its pre-disco Orchestral Soul at its sizzling best and a funky mind trip back in time... If you don't dig this music, something is definitely wrong with you. A must have... check out his performance on WATTSTAX for sure !

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