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The "Isaac Hayes: Black Moses Gives Back" exhibit will run through July 31 at the Museum of Science and History (MoSH) in Memphis.
On February 23rd, Craft Recordings will release newly remastered editions of three classic albums from soul icon Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul, Shaft, and Black Moses. Each LP boasts audio ...
On one level, musically Black Moses demonstrates that Hayes was partially guilty for soul music’s transition from the syncopated, instrumentally rich tones of Motown and Stax’s 60s classics to ...
The "Isaac Hayes: Black Moses Gives Back" exhibit will run through July 31 at the Museum of Science and History (MoSH) in Memphis.
Description Movie poster with central illustration of Isaac Hayes, arms raised, holding a microphone. He is wearing gold chains across his waist and chest. Title information in white and black, above ...
Hayes’s subsequent recordings like The Isaac Hayes Movement (1970), …To Be Continued (1970) and the double-album Black Moses (1971) marked Soul music as something that was vital, personal, yet ...
Black Moses by Isaac Hayes: A blood-and-guts account of everything that goes into love and never comes back In our weekly celebration of albums, Jazz Monroe revisits a record that has the capacity ...
…Moses used much the same formula that had gilded Hayes’ three previous LPs, Hot Buttered Soul (1969), The Isaac Hayes Movement (1970) and …To Be Continued (1971), spreading Ike’s creamy ...
Isaac Hayes, the musician, composer and producer whose innovative sound changed the shape of pop music and whose shaved head, bejeweled outfits and regal demeanor embodied African American ...
Isaac Hayes died Sunday, August 10, ten days shy of his 66th birthday. He was a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
On 1971’s Black Moses, the pinnacle of Hayes’s maximalism, his band the Movement rallies behind the spectacle. It’s a heartbreak album, liberated from the formalities of taste to better ...