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Solid Steel Show 2012-05-11 Coldcut, Bang On Session, Shut Up And Dance

4576 days ago
Core News“Solid Steel in association with Serato (11th May) Coldcut open with the strange and wonderful Connan Mockasin and slide effortlessly into classic Issac Hayes and the Trojan sounds of Vin Gordon. It’s more reggae from Donovan Carless and Roy Pant... more info

Charles 'Skip' Pitts

4586 days ago
Guardian MusicGuitarist behind the 'wacka wacka' sound on Isaac Hayes's Theme from ShaftThe film Shaft was notable for inaugurating the blaxploitation genre in Hollywood, winning an Oscar in 1972 for best original song. Composed by Isaac Hayes, Theme from Shaft ... more info

Charles 'Skip' Pitts, 'Shaft' guitarist, dies

4587 days ago
USA Today MusicCharles "Skip" Pitts, who played the distinctive guitar in Isaac Hayes' 'Theme From Shaft,' died Tuesday. more info

Isaac Hayes - Isaac Hayes' Guitarist Dies From Cancer

4587 days ago
ContactMusicIsaac Hayes longtime guitarist Charles Pitts has died after a long battle with cancer The musician also known as Skip passed away on Tuesday 01May12 in Memphis Tennessee He was 65 Pitts grew up in Washington D C and learned all about guita... more info

Andrew Love

4597 days ago
Guardian MusicSaxophonist with the Memphis Horns, who made an important contribution to the sound of 60s soulThe precise, rich brass riffs on such records as Wilson Pickett's In the Midnight Hour, Sam & Dave's Soul Man and Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness we... more info

Readers recommend: songs about chocolate – results

4607 days ago
Guardian MusicAn RR a day helps you work, rest and playChocolate makes for a rich metaphor. It's sweet, it melts, it's velvety and smooth – it's the most sexual of sweet stuffs. Its colour, too, lends it resonance – though only in the hands of black artists. S... more info

Soul Serenade: Sam & Dave, “When Something Is Wrong With My Baby”

4663 days ago
PopdoseIsaac Hayes and David Porter wrote a string of hits for Sam & Dave in the '60s. Ken Shane recalls perhaps the greatest of them all more info

J Blackfoot

4735 days ago
Guardian MusicSinger with the American vocal group the Soul ChildrenThe soul singer J Blackfoot, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 65, was a member of the Soul Children, a vocal quartet whose searing ballads of heartache and infidelity were among the last maj... more info

DJ Handi' Archive Picks: A Radio, A Groove, Seven Inches, And A Record Fair Comin' On.

4774 days ago
WFMU's Beware of the BlogOn Surface Noise, Joe McGasko presented a show decked with soul. Listen to this New Birth. song. After annoucing, he continued with late 1970's Isaac Hayes. Compare the lush instrumentation to modern, mechanzed grooves: Small Change returned to W... more info

Old School Wednesday ~ Geto Boys

4776 days ago
MVSWGeto Boys ~ “Mind Playing Tricks On Me” This is always one of my favorite Old School Wednesday posts. Geto Boys from back in 1991. Bushwick Bill’s verse makes this a Halloween joint, even though it wasn’t even close to Halloween… Samples Is... more info

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