AFTER ISAAC HAYES DID his first taping session as the ... Now a sample of the Chef’s wisdom is available on “Chef Aid: The South Park Album,” a CD that hits the stores today with songs ...

Craft Recordings has released an audiophile-friendly pressing of "Hot Buttered Soul," Isaac Hayes' genre-redefining 1969 soul album initially released via Stax Records. Though Hayes himself passed ...

The album was exquisite ... And it wouldn’t be an Isaac Hayes record without a 19-plus-minute track; on Shaft, it’s “Do Your Thing,” an empowerment anthem on which Hayes implores ...

Few men in music have had as much impact as Isaac Hayes. His iconic score for the Gordon Parks directed, Richard Roundtree star vehicle and blaxploitation classic Shaft not only won an Academy ...

"Album ReCue" celebrates 50th anniversaries: 1971 releases chosen by FUV hosts. Above, an archive of Alisa Ali's conversation with Darren DeVivo about his selection, Isaac Hayes's watershed Shaft ...

Isaac Hayes’s legacy remains elusive ... The forty-five-minute album, consisting of just four extended psychedelic-orchestral tracks, changed not only the sound of soul but also its scale.

Fifty years ago this month, Isaac Hayes changed the course of ... both in the film and as an album (which Hayes rerecorded in Memphis, extending many of the tunes). The driving force of the ...

The era and one of its ultimate recordings Isaac Hayes in a photo from 1970, the year after his genre-redefining album "Hot Buttered Soul" was released by Stax Records. "Hot Buttered Soul" was ...

Fifty years ago this month, Isaac Hayes changed the course of ... both in the film and as an album (which Hayes rerecorded in Memphis, extending many of the tunes). The driving force of the ...