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
Isaac Hayes is being recognized with a new four-CD collection called The Spirit Of Memphis (1962-1976). The set covers his career at Stax as a songwriter and producer and his rise as a solo superstar. A 60-page hardcover book holds the music, archival photos and liner notes written by RobertContinue Reading
Isaac Hayes’s Stax catalog has been remastered from the original analog tapes for hi-res format HDTracks and iTunes. Twelve of Hayes’ Stax albums including Black Moses, Shaft and Hot Buttered Soul. Award-winning engineer Dave Cooley was responsible for the project and mentioned the differences in the new remastered versions. “Every effortContinue Reading