Chocolate Chip Chocolate Chip lacks the trademark raps of Hayes classics such as "Theme from Shaft" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," but this 1975 album has... more
Ultimate Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It? Isaac Hayes' 1969 solo debut Hot Buttered Soul set a soulful tone for the decade that followed, influencing innumerable artists and turning on a... more
Greatest Love Songs It's no accident that the whole persona of Isacc Hayes has re-emerged into late 20th/early 21st century popular culture worldwide. From the imminent release... more
Isaac Hayes at Wattstax Recorded live in performance at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, August 20, 1972. The Wattstax show already featured moving speeches by the Reverend... more
Shaft: Music From The Soundtrack (1971 Film) The "Theme from Shaft" is now so ingrained in popular consciousness as the blaxploitation-movie track that it's hard to listen to it without... more
Hot Buttered Soul By 1969, black artists were following rock's lead and recording extended epics. At the forefront of such experimentation was big bad Isaac Hayes, coauthor... more