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Shaft’s Long Shadow
Much the same way that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez mimicked 1970s B-movies in Grindhouse, the new Black Dynamite takes pains to evoke the classic blaxploitation film, down to the […]
More on Isaac Hayes
Here’s part of Chuck Eddy’s excellent take on Isaac Hayes: When people say Hayes’ early ’70s recordings anticipated — maybe even invented — disco, this is part of what they’re […]
Isaac Hayes notes
I wonder if it’s now possible to imagine how alien the wah-wah in “Theme from Shaft” once sounded? When I was 12 or 13, a friend and I spent an […]
