Blog: A Deeper Shade Of Soul

Isaac Hayes had the coolest voice I’ve ever heard - deep, sexy, velvety, totally commanding and thoroughly vulnerable. It was imposing as well; he may have sung about the bad motherfucker that was John Shaft, but I always thought of him as the truly bad mofo. After all, he was real and Shaft was fiction. But beyond the wonder of his voice (and his sublime 1969 album Hot Buttered Soul ), I’m most grateful to Isaac Hayes for the incredible soul classics he wrote with his songwriting partner, David Porter . “Hold [...]