Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes, along with partner David Porter, used to write and sometimes produce
flawlessly funky songs for Sam & Dave. So he can't be all bad. Now he's making music so
banal, so false, that it sounds like theme music and dialogue from some tired melodrama.
Hayes' new album continues his practice of taking familiar material and expanding it -- with
introductory spoken monologue, jazz-styled orchestral filler or mere repetition (... More >