構成数 | 4枚

合計収録時間 | 03:44:36

Personnel: Isaac Hayes (vocals, piano, electric piano, organ); Charles "Skip" Pitts (guitar, guitars); Michael Toles (guitar); Sidney Kirk (piano); Lester Snell (electric piano); Willie Hall (drums, tambourine); Gary Jones (congas, bongos); Ronnie Hudson. Audio Remasterer: Bob Fisher . Audio Remixers: Dave Purple; Russ Terrana Jr.; Ron Capone. Liner Note Authors: Chester Higgins; Jim James; Bill Dahl; Ashley Kahn. Editor: Daryl Williams. Photographers: Joel Brodsky; Bob Smith. Arrangers: Dale Warren; Isaac Hayes; Johnny Allen; Pat Lewis. Essential Albums, released in 2011, compiles the Stax label's remastered/expanded versions of Hot Buttered Soul (1969), Shaft (1969), and the double-disc Black Moses (1971), all of which were released individually in 2009. The first two albums are as essential as late-`60s and early-`70s soul gets, while the sprawling Black Moses is pretty close to it. All three topped Billboard's R&B Albums chart and represent Hayes' most creative and finest album-length work. When the set -- a sturdy box holding the three individual releases, with flimsy stickers slapped onto it -- came out, it retailed for roughly the same cost as the sum of the three reissues. ~ Andy Kellman

エディション | Remaster

録音 | ステレオ (---)