Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul (CD) artist-mickey-hart John Henry

John Henry

"Anticipate" featuring Clairo picks up on the musical synergy between her and Leon that created 2024's Charm album

The forest rather than the trees

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

2019 at LOCKN’ Festival in Arrington

Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul (CD) artist-mickey-hart John HenryBefore 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.