Isaac Hayes wrote “Do Your Thing” for the soundtrack to Gordon Parks’ 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft. Hayes initially wanted to be cast in the movie but Parks sent footage for him to write music for and gave him a cameo. Parks and MGM liked the first few songs Hayes composedContinue Reading
Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. is an HBO original documentary about the record label that helped shape the course of American music in the ’60s and ’70s. Jamila Wignot is the producer and director of the four-part series which is a production of Laylow Pictures and White Horse Pictures in association withContinue Reading
Isaac Hayes’ soundtrack to Gordon Parks’ 1971 Shaft is being reissued in a deluxe version with liner notes from Questlove. The movie was one of the backbones to the blaxploitation film era. Hayes’ theme song for the film won an Academy award and proved to be the only competition toContinue Reading
Isaac Hayes’ Black Moses, Hot Buttered Soul and Shaft will be remastered and reissued on vinyl February 23rd from Craft Recordings. All three albums are classics from Hayes’ prime period of creativity and established him as a pro-Black soul pioneer. Black Moses will include a reproduction of the original posterContinue Reading