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How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music

By Emily Lordi · The New Yorker · October 2019

How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music

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"Emily Lordi on the legacy of Isaac Hayes’s album “Hot Buttered Soul” and how the artist revolutionized the genre of soul music."

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