Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul
Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 2004
BY 1969 BLACK artists were following rock's lead and recording very long tracks. At the forefront of such experimentation was big bad Isaac Hayes, co-author of countless Stax classics and an artist in his own right.
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