LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Isaac Hayes’ epic 1971 album Black Moses, which captured the artist at the peak of his popularity, will be reissued on Stax Records on February 24, 2009. The release is a ...

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 ...

Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on ...

Hayes helped shape the sound of Memphis soul in the 1960s, and later co-wrote hits for Sam & Dave and Carla Thomas before making albums of his own. Originally broadcast in 1994. DAVIES: The movie ...

Somehow, the little country boy grew up to rattle chains. Isaac Hayes made music, of course, and plenty of it -- soulful and gritty ballads and that disco-heaving soundtrack "Shaft" -- but there was ...

The decision to truncate album tracks for the singles market set a pattern. Follow-up album The Isaac Hayes Movement opened with a just-short of 12-minute cover of “I Stand Accused,” originally a 1964 ...

DAVIES: The movie "Shaft" helped launched the blaxploitation genre of the '70s. The Academy Award-winning theme was composed and performed by Isaac Hayes. In the '60s, Hayes helped shape the sound of ...

Today, we lost a musical giant. Isaac Hayes died today, just ten days before his 66th birthday. He was found by his wife at home, unconscious on the floor, near a still running treadmill. Times would ...