Black Moses [2 Vinyl LP]

Liner notes by Chester Higgins, Senior Editor, Jet Magazine: And so it came to pass that 28 years ago Isaac (Black Moses) Hayes was born in the town of Covington, Tenn., a snoozing little hamlet that is 38 miles, as a crow flies, from the ancient Cotton Kingdom of Memphis. He was the second born of Isaac, Sr. and Eula Hayes, and already on his black and sweating brow there was a mark of prophecy. His mother died at an early age and the male child Hayes never really knew his dad of whom he sadly recalled not long ago: "I haven't seen him since I was one-and-a-half years old." And so it fell the hard and beleaguered lot of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie (Bushia) Wade, Sr., to care for, nurture and suckle the budding young prophet and his sister, Willette Rankin, who is one year older. And though their heart and spirit were more than willing, the resources of the unschooled Wades were meager to an extreme. So despite welfare aid the family received during the early years of his l