A primary reason for the enduring significance of the ultimate Blaxploitation filmShaft is the film's score, composed by the legendary Isaac Hayes. He created music that sounded like nothing else of its day - making this album truly one of the most pivotal and influential soundtracks of all-time. And now Stax Records proudly presents this phenomenal piece of music in an all-new digitally re-mastered deluxe edition featuring a special bonus track! This re-issue also features expanded liner notes by noted mu...   [ read more ]

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One of the best-available Isaac Hayes compilation, Greatest Hit Singles bypasses a couple of his later disco hits, but the result is a more unified sound that helps illustrate why Hayes was so important to the development of '70s soul. Of course, a major part of his legacy consists of the epic-length suites that helped usher R&B into the album age, and that facet of his work is necessarily underrepresented here. But as a concise, easily digestible introduction to Hayes' work, {^Greates...   [ read more ]

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Isaac Haye's classic first album, remastered and reissued! Featuring single edits of "Walk On By" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", as well as rare photographs and expanded liner notes. Isaac Hayes's first album, Presenting Isaac Hayes, was a low-budget, jazz-imbued affair recorded on the spur of the moment with only bass and drums accompanying his piano and voice. This, his second, offered something altogether different: a husky, very masculine baritone rapping and crooning against a massive backdro...   [ read more ]

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