Title: Black Moses - Blue Colored Vinyl Artist: Isaac Hayes Label: Universal Import Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 888072593404 Genre: Soul/R & B Release Date: 2024-11-08 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: CANADA - IMPORT, COLORED VINYL, BLUE
Blue Vinyl. For all the name Black Moses conjures, for all that it confers, it was not a name Isaac Hayes gave himself; that title was bestowed by a radio DJ sermonizing an intro to one of his songs. It was not a name Isaac Hayes - raised by his god-fearing grandparents in a former sharecropper's shed after his parents died before he turned two years old - thought was even appropriate. It seemed sacrilegious to him. But that name, it meant something that even Hayes had to acknowledge. He had ascended to a plane that no Black performer before him had ever reached before. He topped the R&B charts and, eventually, the pop charts without ever having to compromise who Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. Was. He had shown his people that James Brown's "I'm Black and I'm Proud" edict was possible. He dripped in gold chains inside his album gatefolds and drove cars literally trimmed in it. Unapologetically. Black Moses towers as Hayes' crowning solo achievement. It's 14 songs stand as a 90-plus-minute testament to Hayes' nonpareil greatness, songwriting ability, singing, and arranging. A monument to authenticity, Black Moses projects a self-confidence so mammoth it feels like receiving the stone tablets of swagger down from the mountain of cool.
Tracks: 1.1 Never Can Say Goodbye 1.2 (They Long to Be) Close to You 1.3 Nothing Takes the Place of You 1.4 Man's Temptation 1.5 Never Gonna Give You Up 1.6 Medley 1.7 - Ike's Rap II 1.8 - Help Me Love 1.9 Need to Belong to Someone 1.10 Good Love 6-9969 2.1 Medley 2.2 - Ike's Rap III 2.3 - Your Love Is So Doggone Good 2.4 For the Good Times 2.5 I'll Never Fall in Love Again 2.6 Part-Time Love 2.7 Medley 2.8 - Ike's Rap IV 2.9 - a Brand New Me 2.10 Going in Circles
