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Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul Forget "Chef," "South Park," and all that Scientology bullshit.

Doug Jones enjoyed a rare opportunity as a teenager. He worked at a Philadelphia-area hotel that allowed him to meet many of the soul and R&B superstars of the 1970s.

This Friday evening, an old-fashioned battle of the bands will erupt on the lawn of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in downtown Detroit.

Memphis, Tennessee has produced some of music's greatest legends, from Muddy Waters to B.B. King to Isaac Hayes.

The Isaac Hayes soul classic `Hot Buttered Soul` is coming out soon on CD. The new reissue will feature liner notes from Jim James or My Morning Jacket who says a oeEverything is revealed when you open your mind to its secrets .

A new historical marker was unveiled earlier this month on a street corner in West Memphis.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Until Isaac Hayes released Hot Buttered Soul in 1969, soul music had been a singles-oriented genre.

The opening to "Too Many Prisoners " sounds like it could be taken right off an Isaac Hayes record , which is funny because Hayes is one of the few people not commonly listed as an Allen influence .

Thrifty Tunes 05.16.09: Isaac Hayes Posted by Paul Hollingsworth on 05.16.2009 Long before he was known as Chef and even before he wrote that Shaft tune, Isaac Hayes was breaking new musical ground as a soul music pioneer.

Do you like Soul Music? So do I. Ever wonder why they call it "Soul" music? Allow me to describe it in a way that only I can ... It's the difference between Little Richard and Pat Boone.

Legendary musicians came out to celebrate Arkansas Delta's musical heritage in West Memphis today.

I just got back from a ten-day road trip through the South, and my favorite city by far was Memphis.

A year after a similar compilation was released by Blue Note Records , Memphis-born Stax Records is honoring the producers, breakdancers and Hip Hop audience with The Soul of Hip-Hop . The onetime home to Sam & Dave , Booker T. & The M.G.'s and Isaac Hayes is releasing a 14 track collection, sporting the original, some out-of-print samples, used to ...

An overdue concept record badly missing a companion disc: Here is a batch of relatively obscure Stax sides all sampled in generally more successful hip-hop hits - with explanatory liner notes.

Juicy Fruit By 1971, Stax Records' Isaac Hayes had written and produced more than 200 soul classics for the likes of Sam & Dave and Carla Thomas, then retooled the genre with 1969's Hot Buttered Soul and Shaft two years later.

About to head out to take on another day. Whee! Beth Stirnaman is here in OC Weekly Central (Motel 6... Heard Mentality With all the worthy shows happening around town this weekend, a very worthy one for a very worthy cause has... Music Blahg Coachella: On Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah," and Sunset Timothy NorrisHe's our man.

Hot on the heals of their tribute to Isaac Hayes El Michels Affair's long awaited Enter The 37th Chamber rocks the bells next week.

Artist: Levasseur, Treasa Walking through the Motown Historical Museum in downtown Detroit a few years back, I got chills when I entered Studio A. The small room is where Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and The Supremes, and The Jackson Five, among others, recorded their hits.

Saxophonists Gerald Albright and Kirk Whalum will bring their "Sax for Stax" tour to the St.

A great album can be something bigger than the sum of its parts. When the late Isaac Hayes released Black Moses in 1971, it was surrounded by controversy, more so for the title and cover than the actual music.