Isaac Hayes Official Site: www.isaachayes.com
As I write these words, I cannot begin to tell you all how much the music of Isaac Hayes meant to me over the years and continues to mean to me. I'm so choked up right now about it all I can do is give you the link to my original post on what the Shaft Album meant to me as a child.
Blog post link: Shaft - Composed and Performed By Isaac Hayes
Thoughts: SOUL. SOUL. SOUL. SOUL. SOUL. SOUL. REAL SOUL MUSIC. From the heart to the heart. REAL SOUL MUSIC THAT WILL STOP YOU IN YOUR TRACKS, MAKE YOU SIT DOWN AND LISTEN.
Thoughts on Black Moses: Growing up in a Christian household we were told all about Moses, including in school and via the movies on TV. It seemed we were always presented with the same European image of Moses.
However, one day when I saw my Dad's record collection in the early 70s, and I saw this album called Black Moses, I was amazed. I would study this man's face for hours and think as a child, "Moses was a black man?" "Moses could also be black?" "Now HE looks like Moses to me!" I remember I told my dad that as a child.
One of the rare few images where you as an African American child saw a black man in a positive image and representing a Holy figure too? My mind was blown. Like seeing Richard Roundtree portray Shaft and hearing Isaac Hayes' incredible album score, these were sights and sounds that had a strong positive impacts on me while growing up.
More thoughts to come...
Peace,
~LT
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