More than five decades after its groundbreaking, gold-selling release, Craft Recordings has released an audiophile-friendly pressing of "Hot Buttered Soul," Isaac Hayes' genre-redefining 1969 soul ...

Isaac Hayes in a photo from 1970, the year after his genre-redefining album "Hot Buttered Soul" was released by Stax Records.

Last fall, Craft Recordings issued a four CD compilation focusing on Isaac Hayes and his recordings for Stax, Volt, and Enterprise. Spanning the years 1962 to 1976, the set cut a wide swathe of ...

Had Isaac Hayes done nothing more than co-write "Soul Man," "When Something’s Wrong With My Baby," "I Thank You," and "Hold On, I’m Comin’," we would still speak of him with reverence. He ...

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 ...

AFTER ISAAC HAYES DID his first taping session as the Chef on Comedy Central's cult hit "South Park," he says with a deep laugh, "All I could think of was how I was going to apologize to my family ...

Fifty years ago this month, Isaac Hayes changed the course of movie music with his score for “Shaft.” Not only did Hayes, 29 at the time, become the first Black man to win a music Oscar for ...

"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 ...

His first album, "Presenting Isaac Hayes," was a poor seller, the result of an impromptu jam session. But after getting creative control, he delivered his next album, "Hot Buttered Soul" in 1969 ...

His first album, "Presenting Isaac Hayes," was a poor seller, the result of an impromptu jam session. But after getting creative control, he delivered his next album, "Hot Buttered Soul" in 1969 ...

According to Hayes, MGM approached Stax about music for the film, partly because the label had just released the album for “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” a low-budget indie with music ...